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Jorn Rossing Jensen

Nordic Genre Invasion at Cannes

10-May-2013
Iron Sky and Dead Snow sequels feature as part of a six-strong coalition of Nordic and German production companies.
Mis. Label, Star Media buy Noble

7-May-2013
Danish and Norwegian distributors acquire Swedish firm.
Strange Little Cat wins CPH PIX

19-Apr-2013
German film from director Ramon Zürcher wins the top prize at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.
ABBA star to adapt witch novel

15-Apr-2013
ABBA musician Benny Andersson has launched a new production company with his son to adapt award-winning Swedish novel The Circle.
CPH PIX

15-Apr-2013
Photos from the opening night of the Copenhagen-based festival.
CPH PIX kicks off with Northwest; Munk wins Nordisk prize

11-Apr-2013
Copenhagen festival will screen 160 features.
Nordisk buys Norwegian cinema giant

4-Apr-2013
Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased all shares in Oslo Kino - Norway’s largest cinema chain - for $103m (NOK 600m) from the municipality of Oslo.
Sweden's Film i Vast scores record admissions

4-Apr-2013
Swedish and international features co-produced last year by Swedish regional film centre Film i Väst in Trollhättan took a record 21 million admissions - 40% up on the previous year.
CPH PIX reveals line-up

14-Mar-2013
Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is to be screened in full as part of the 5th CPH PIX-Copenhagen International Film Festival.
Admissions down 4.3% in Iceland

24-Feb-2013
Box office revenue in Iceland climbed 1.2% on 2011 but admissions took a dip. Skyfall topped the charts while Black’s Game proved the most popular domestic title.
Finnish cinema hits 30-year high

15-Feb-2013
Cinema admissions in Finland reached 8.5 million in 2012, the best result since 1983.
Nielsen flies to sci-fi Exodus

9-Feb-2013
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish-Danish producer Richard Georg Engström and Danish director Tommy Ipsen are at the EFM to promote their €4m English-language sci-fi project [pictured].
Purge, Almost 18 sweep Finnish awards

4-Feb-2013
Finnish Oscar submission, Purge, wins five in Helsinki.
Goteborg’s Dragon Award goes to Before Snowfall

3-Feb-2013
Other winners include Dog Flesh, Searching for Sugar Man, Northwest, A Hijacking, Wadjda, La Ravadeuse and Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart.
Copenhagen to offer $6.3m film fund

30-Jan-2013
The Danish capital of Copenhagen is to establish a regional film fund in a bid to attract foreign productions and place the city on the international movie map.
Scandinavian directors forge Creative Alliance

29-Jan-2013
Thomas Vinterberg and Lone Scherfig are among six top Scandinavian directors who have joined forces with US outfit Parts & Labor to develop English-language films for the international marketplace.
Swedish box office best since 1989

28-Jan-2013
Swedish cinemas registered the best annual result since the late 1980s with 18.4 million admissions in 2012, up 12% on 2011 (16.4 million), according to the Swedish Film Institute.
Babak Najafi wins lucrative Göteborg award

28-Jan-2013
Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival has awarded director Babak Najafi the Startsladden Award - one of the industry’s biggest prizes for a short film.
Goteborg to spotlight Norwegian features

25-Jan-2013
Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival, which opens tonight (Jan 25) with Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki, have improved services for the 1,500 film professionals expected for the showcase, which runs through Feb 4.
Eat Sleep Die and Call Girl sweep Sweden's Guldbagge awards

22-Jan-2013
Directors Gabriela Pichler and Mikael Marcimain took the lion’s share of the Guldbagge – Sweden’s national film prize – when the Swedish Film Institute presented the awards last night (Jan 21) at a televised gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus.
Gunnar Carlsson joins Anagram Produktion

16-Jan-2013
Swedish producer Gunnar Carlsson - former head of drama at Swedish pubcaster SVT – has been signed as film and drama chief at Anagram Produktion, the Lund-based production company instigated in 2003 by Swedish actor-comedians, writers, directors and producers Anders Jansson and Johan Wester.
Norway predicts box office boost after weak 2012

9-Jan-2013
The Norwegian Film Institute predicts a 33% boost to admissions over the next 12 months.
Göteborg unveils 2013 programme; reveals Dragon Award titles

8-Jan-2013
Eight new Nordic features will compete for the $150,000 (SEK 1m) Dragon Award – one of the film world’s largest prizes – at Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival.
Norwegian films down 24% at domestic box office

7-Jan-2013
Top five Norwegian and international films of 2012 revealed.
Royal Affair leads Denmark’s Bodil Award nominations

4-Jan-2013
Period drama up against Excuse Me, Teddy Bear, You and Me Forever, and A Hijacking for Best Film.
Call Girl leads Swedish film award nominations

3-Jan-2013
Swedish director Mikael Marcimain’s feature debut Call Girl has taken the lead in the race for the Guldbagge – the Swedish national film awards – collecting 11 nominations.
Danish box office records 30-year high

3-Jan-2013
Strong performances by The Hobbit, Skyfall and domestic productions generated more than 14 million admissions in Denmark in 2012.
Peter Aalbaek Jensen will step down as Zentropa CEO in February 2015

10-Dec-2012
His credits include Love Is All You Need, A Royal Affair and forthcoming Nymphomaniac.
Stockholm International Film Festival

21-Nov-2012
This year’s festival showcased more than 170 films from over 50 countries.
Icelandic Film Centre set for investment boost

21-Nov-2012
The IFC will receive nearly $4m extra investment annually if proposals are passed by Parliament.
Anima Vitae to open Malaysian studio

19-Nov-2012
Finnish animation studio Anima Vitae – the company behind Niko 2 – has signed a joint venture agreement with Malaysia’s Creative Media Point to start a new studio in Kuala Lumpur.
Cate Shortland’s Lore wins four Stockholm stallions

19-Nov-2012
Australian writer-director Cate Shortland picked up an armful of prizes at the 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival for her post-war drama Lore.
Bille August to adapt Lykke-Per

12-Nov-2012
Danish film-maker Bille August is to direct an adaptation of Henrik Pontoppidan’s masterpiece Lykke-Per.
Disney’s first Nordic release beats Skyfall

12-Nov-2012
Nils Gaup’s Journey to the Christmas Star, the first Norwegian release from the Walt Disney Company Nordic, managed to outmanoeuvre James Bond hit Skyfall.
Stockholm’s industry line-up draws record figures

8-Nov-2012
British film-maker Sophie Fiennes and 11 new films from the Nordic and Baltic regions are among the highlights of the industry line-up at this year’s Stockholm International Film Festival.
Dafoe, Audiard and Troell to be awarded in Stockholm

31-Oct-2012
23rd edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival runs Nov 7-18.
U2 drummer joins Binoche in cast of Poppe's Good Night

27-Oct-2012
Film shooting now in Dublin.
Call Girl to open 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival

17-Oct-2012
Marciman’s debut [pictured] among three new Swedish features to compete for the grand prix for Best Film at the festival, which runs Nov 7-18.
Hundred-Year-Old Man gets SFI backing and Disney distribution deal

14-Oct-2012
Felix Herngren directs the adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s bestseller, starring Robert Gustafsson [pictured].
Ostlund's Play wins Nordic Council Film Prize

9-Oct-2012
Ruben Ostlund and producer Erik Hemmendorff will receive the $61,000 award.
Mona Fastvold to make feature directorial debut with Sleepwalker

28-Sep-2012
Fastvold’s [pictured] film is one of five films to be supported by the Norwegian Film Institute.
Zentropa, TV2 gear up for series of Adler-Oslen adaptations

26-Sep-2012
Production to start next week on The Woman in the Cage, AKA Mercy, to be directed by Mikkel Nørgaard [pictured] and starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Carl Mørck.
Kormákur to film Independent People

25-Sep-2012
The Deep director will tackle Halldór Laxness’ novel about poor Icelandic farmers in the early 20th century.
Juliette Binoche joins cast of Erik Poppe's A Thousand Times Good Night

24-Sep-2012
Norwegian director’s drama, based on his own experiences as a war photographer, set to start shooting in October.
Purge enters Oscar race for Finland

19-Sep-2012
Antti Jokinen’s first Finnish film is currently number one at the local box office chart.
Swedish Film Institute backs eight new features with $5.8m

19-Sep-2012
Films backed include new projects from Måns Mårling & Björn Stein [pictured], Daniel Alfredson and Stig Björkman.
Kon-Tiki enters Oscar race for Norway

13-Sep-2012
Historical adventure story playing this week at Toronto.
Niels Arden Oplev to return to Denmark for next feature

12-Sep-2012
Director is currently shooting his first US feature Dead Man Down.
Echoes From The Dead starts shoot

6-Sep-2012
Daniel Alfredson’s mystery drama will shoot in Cuba and Sweden.
Five contenders revealed for Nordic Council's Film Prize

4-Sep-2012
Films competing for $58,000.
Swedish Film Institute backs Bergstrom's Miss Julie, Langseth's Hotel

2-Sep-2012
Other projects backed include Kicki Kjellin’s feature debut and co-productions with Spain and the Netherlands.
Film i Vast joins Nymphomaniac, Centenarian, Diana, Lindblom project

31-Aug-2012
Jessica Ask serves as Film i Vast production chief.
Motlys readies slate including Myren and Vogt debuts

31-Aug-2012
Norwegian producer Sigve Endresen, of Oslo-based production outfit Motlys, is building on the outfit’s recent success with the likes of TurnMe On, Goddammit; Oslo, August 31; and The Orheim Company with a busy slate.
Denward to leave Swedish Film Institute to join Svensk

30-Aug-2012
The Swedish Film Institute’s Head of Production Funding and Promotion Charlotte Denward will become the new production chief at Swedish major, Svensk Filmindustri, as of November 1.
Kon-Tiki scores record opening weekend admissions in Norway

27-Aug-2012
Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki – Norway’s most expensive feature so far, shot on a $15.7m (NOK 93m) budget – took a record number of 164,191 admissions during its opening weekend on 185 screens at all theatres in Norway.
Norwegian companies pioneer transmission of films to cinemas via internet not DCPs

24-Aug-2012
A subsidiary of Sweden’s Bonnier, Scandinavia’s largest media group, Norway’s No 1 distributor SF Norge has signed a two-year contract with UK’s Unique Digital and Bug Norway to transmit films to the theatres on the internet without the use of DCP hard discs.
I Belong, Kon-Tiki, The Angels' Share among Haugesund winners

23-Aug-2012
Haugesund festival wraps to industry acclaim.
Turn Me On, Goddammitt! wins best film at Norway's Amanda awards

20-Aug-2012
Babycall wins four prizes; Joachim Trier named best director for Oslo, August 31.
Special delivery DVD

16-Aug-2012
When Danish actress-writer-director Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis’ feature debut, This Life (aka The Hvidsten Group/Hvidsten-Gruppen) is released on DVD on Aug 20, the first disc will arrive at the Hvidsten Inn near Randers in Jutland by … parachute.
Iceland follows Oblivion and Noah shoots with Walter Mitty

15-Aug-2012
Country offers 20% rebate on local spend.
New Nordic Films market in Haugesund to welcome 343 professionals

15-Aug-2012
A record number of 343 film professionals from 28 countries, including 100 buyers and sellers, will today arrive at the Norwegian coastal city of Haugesund for New Nordic Films, the four-day market section preceding the Norwegian International Film Festival between August 18-23.
Dagur Kari to direct Nimbus' Tordenskiold epic

14-Aug-2012
Lars Bredo Rahbek of Denmark’s Nimbus Film to produce film about Norwegian nobleman and naval officer; Morten Tyldum already at work on rival project.
Rising Danish director Bjarup Riis takes over Karen Blixen biopic

14-Aug-2012
Tanne formerly had Bille August attached. The project is one of 16 being presented at New Nordic Films Market in Haugesund.
Haugesund to kick off 40th anniversary festival with hotly anticipated Kon-Tiki

13-Aug-2012
Other local productions to screen include Karlovy Vary winner The Almost Man, I Belong and documentary Bravehearts.
Liberian government to take legal action against doc director Mads Brugger

2-Aug-2012
Action centres around Brügger allegedly using a fake diplomat title in documentary The Ambassador.
Appetite for local fare in Norway down in 2012

19-Jul-2012
Norwegian films have lost 59.3% of their audience in the first half of 2012 in their home territory.
Dogme director Kragh-Jacobsen to shoot thriller starring The Killing's Sofie Grabol

3-Jul-2012
The Hunt and Submarino writer Tobias Lindholm has written thriller with Jonas T Bengtsson; principal photography on $3.7m project to get underway in late summer; The Match Factory handles sales.
Denmark's Filmbyen to sell off three empty properties

24-Jun-2012
‘Danish Hollywood’ outside Copenhagen will now find tenants from other industries.
Peter Franzén to direct Above Dark Waters

11-Jun-2012
Finnish actor Peter Franzén is to direct and star in the adaptation of his own novel, with backing from the Finnish Film Foundation.
Yellow Bird kicks off new Wallander film series

29-May-2012
The Troubled Man to get theatrical release in early 2013, with five more thrillers going straight to TV/home entertainment.
Tomas Alfredson buys film rights to The Brothers Lionheart

28-May-2012
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has bought the film rights for Astrid Lindgren’s novel The Brothers Lionheart.
Buska crowned by Kaurismaki

19-May-2012
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
Longstocking family returns to big screen

18-May-2012
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish producer Mirijam Johansson of Wanted Pictures today announces Efraim Longstocking and the Cannibal Princess.
Daniel Fridell to direct A Private Story

9-May-2012
The film about Swedish porn king Berth Milton Jr is being packaged by William Morris Endeavor and produced by Wanted Pictures and Revelin Studios.
Happy, Happy director Sewitsky plans Sonja Henie biopic

4-May-2012
Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky, whose 2010 feature debut Happy, Happy won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, is currently casting her next feature, a $10 million biopic of skating princess Sonja Henie who became a Hollywood star.
Headhunters director heads to the sea for Tordenskjold

24-Apr-2012
Morten Tyldum to direct $12.2m historical drama, produced by Norway’s Filmkameratene with Denmark’s Zentropa
Lukas Moodysson to shoot 'happy film' about neglected adolescents

16-Apr-2012
TrustNordisk to handle sales of graphic novel adaptation about three 12-13-year-old girls roaming the streets of 1980s Stockholm; Moodysson wants feature to be “a happy film full of hope and vitality.”
CPH PIX launches with Dreyer show, Iron Sky

11-Apr-2012
Local productions screening include Carlsen’s Memory of My Melancholy Whores.
A Royal Affair reigns supreme on opening weekend

3-Apr-2012
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair has had one of the strongest weekend openings ever for a local film, securing 91,578 admissions (including previews) from 101 Danish screens.
Norwegian Film Institute backs new films from Bent Hamer, Erik Poppe

2-Apr-2012
Six features backed for $9.3m.
Underworld duo Marlind and Stein return to Sweden for Collected Swedish Cults

27-Mar-2012
Svensk adapting Anders Fager’s book.
A trip back in time to celebrate A Royal Affair

22-Mar-2012
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair, which won two Silver Bears at the recent Berlinale, was launched by an 18th-century-style gala at the Bio City Theatre in Aarhus.
Sweden's Tre Vanner sets up in Norway with Fossum books deal

19-Mar-2012
Tre Vanner to open offices in Oslo as it expands Norwegian projects.
This Life continues raid on Danish box office

12-Mar-2012
The World War 2 set film has taken $3.3m at the box office over its first two weekends, making it the most successful launch of a local film in Denmark since Clown - The Movie in 2010.
Melancholia wins best film at Danish Bodil awards

5-Mar-2012
A Funny Man wins four prizes.
Jens Jonsson to direct third film in Easy Money trilogy

29-Feb-2012
Swedish writer-director Jens Jonsson, whose 2008 feature The King of Ping Pong won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, will direct the third and final instalment in the EasyMoney (Snabba Cash) thriller trilogy.
Volcano leads winners at Iceland’s Edda awards

20-Feb-2012
Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s feature debut Volano scooped five prizes at the Edda awards
Melancholia wins big at Denmark's Robert Awards

6-Feb-2012
Melancholia collected 10 prizes, including best film, director and actress at the Danish Film Academy Awards, held Feb 5.
Iben Akerlie to star in Knut Hamsun adaptation Victoria

3-Feb-2012
The film will start shooting for director Torun Lian later this month.
Scandinavian box office 2011: Norway shows largest gains in Europe; Finland slips as local films lose market share

2-Feb-2012
While Norwegian cinemas last year delivered the largest growth of the theatrical market in Europe, with admissions 5.7% up on 2010, and Swedish attendance went up by 3.7%, both Denmark and Finland registered a decline in ticket sales by 3% and 6.6%, respectively, according to 2011 statistics published by national film bodies.
Swedish Film Institute backs new films from Andersson, Hallstrom, Odell

31-Jan-2012
Andersson (pictured) continues his Living trilogy with A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.
Kaurismaki's Le Havre lands top Jussi awards

30-Jan-2012
Le Havre took Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at last night’s gala ceremony in Helsinki
Swedish film budget to earmark funding for non-theatrical films

29-Jan-2012
New policies welcomed but experts say more funding is needed.
Goteborg to welcome record numbers of industry attendees for Nordic Film Market

26-Jan-2012
Festival to screen 429 films; industry highlights include works in progress screenings, such as Jan Troell’s Truth and Consequence [pictured[.
Sandberg, Ronning to follow Kon-tiki with Beatles

23-Jan-2012
Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning, who recently made Norway’s most expensive feature film, Kon-Tiki, are now ready to rock’n’roll.
Sweden's next crime hits include Nobel's Last Will, Hamilton

20-Jan-2012
Swedish Film Institute presents first 14 local releases of 2012.
UK documentary filmmaker tries to stop release of Zentropa's Into The White

17-Jan-2012
UK director-producer Alexander Joyce has threatened to get a court injunction stopping the January 27 world premiere Zentropa’s latest feature, Norwegian director Peter Næss’ Into the White.
Goteborg to welcome Michael Winterbottom, Alexander Payne

10-Jan-2012
Swedish festival to host Arabian programme; eight Nordic films compete for lucrative Dragon prize.
After boom local share in 2011, Norway's 2012 launches include war epic Into The White

10-Jan-2012
Other local productions include Company Orheim, 1980s coming-of-age story.
Icelandic government confirms new funding for film

9-Jan-2012
After cutting public funding of Icelandic cinema by 35% in the last two years, due to the financial crisis, the Icelandic Ministries of Culture and Finance have now signed a new agreement with the industry outlining a 62% increase of state support from now till 2015, when it will amount to $5.7 million (ISK 700 million).
Norlin takes over Stockholm's production grant

3-Jan-2012
Lisa Aschan had been originally awarded the $700,000 prize.
Zentropa, TV2 to produce Jussi Adler-Olsen detective series

21-Dec-2011
Danish director Mikkel Nørgaard will direct the first part of the franchise, The Woman In The Cage.
Denmark's Fine & Mellow joins forces with Eyeworks

12-Dec-2011
Joint venture will be based in Copenhagen.
Danish industry debates theatrical windows for local films

8-Dec-2011
Danish Cinemas is currently re-negotiating the agreement with the Danish Distributors’ Association defining the hold-back period between theatrical and DVD-VOD windows.
Two crew members missing after giant wave hits shoot of Norwegian feature

28-Nov-2011
While shooting high sea Sunday afternoon at Egersund on the Norwegian west coast, for Norwegian director Paul Magnus Lundø’s feature debut, The Veil of Twilight (Skumringslandet), a three-member photo unit was hit by a giant wave and washed into the waters.
Malabar picks up US rights to Swedish thriller Nobel's Last Will

16-Nov-2011
Yellow Bird produces the Liza Marklund adaptation.
Twilight Breaking Dawn cleared for younger audiences in Sweden

15-Nov-2011
First instalment of Breaking Dawn now gets +11 rating instad of +15 rating.
Finnish Film Foundation to speed up process for film funding

11-Nov-2011
New scheme has four features in the works.
Vinterberg starts shooting The Hunt starring Mads Mikkelsen

31-Oct-2011
Shoot will run Nov 4-Dec 21 in Denmark.
Per Fly plans biopic of Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund

24-Oct-2011
Edda Magnusson to star; Lena Rehnberg to produce for StellaNova.
Stockholm to present 173 films starting with Tinker Tailor

19-Oct-2011
26% of the films in the festival catalogue have female directors, 43% also a female producer.
August's Beyond wins Nordic Council Film Prize

17-Oct-2011
Pernilla August’s feature debut wins prize with $65,000 cash.
Stockholm International Film Festival to support women directors

14-Oct-2011
One female director will receive $0.8m, a distribution deal with NonStop Entertainment and will have their film premiered at next year’s festival.
Summit plans English-language remake of Norwegian thriller Headhunters

11-Oct-2011
Swedish film and TV production outfit Yellow Bird has sold the English-language film rights for Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s thriller Headhunters (Hodejegerne) to US company Summit Entertainment.
Lars von Trier says he'll stop interviews, public statements after French controversy

5-Oct-2011
After police interrogation following his proclamations at the press conference for Melancholia at Cannes, Danish director Lars von Trier says he will now concentrate on his film work.
Norway launches fund to support production in developing countries

26-Sep-2011
Argentine director Lucia Puenzo, whose XXY won the Critics’ Week prize in Cannes, is among the 250 filmmakers who have submitted projects to a new Norwegian film fund, the South Fund, which will support film production in developing countries.
Madsen's Superclasico enters Oscar race for Denmark

23-Sep-2011
Danish veteran director Ole Christian Madsen’s Superclasico has been chosen as the Danish submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.
Expanded Helsinki International Film Festival underway

16-Sep-2011
24th Helsinki International Film Festival includes 120 features and 80 shorts; selected titles will be screened free online
Finland selects Le Havre as Oscar contender

14-Sep-2011
Aki Kaurismaki’s Cannes competition title Le Havre will be Finland’s official contender for the Foreign Language Oscar.
Swedish Film Institute backs Easy Money sequel

13-Sep-2011
Babar Najafi’s Easy Money II and Danish-Swedish director Kathrine Windfeld’s Hamilton-In the Interest Of The Nation to receive backing from the Swedish Film Institute.
Pernilla August's Beyond to be Sweden's Foreign Language Oscar entry

7-Sep-2011
August’s acclaimed directorial debut stars Millenium actress Noomi Rapace
The Resident director Jokinen moves onto Purge

1-Sep-2011
Estonia-set drama is based on Finnish author’s award-winning novel.
Troll Hunter producer's next among buzz films at Haugesund festival

26-Aug-2011
The Help, Oslo, August 31st among winners at last night’s Norwegian Internationall Film Festival awards ceremony
Naked ambition

25-Aug-2011
With all eyes on Scandinavia to find the next lucrative international franchise, Norway is stepping into the frame.
Haugesund’s hot tickets

25-Aug-2011
The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug 17-26) offers international attendees a window on some of the hottest new projects from the region. Jorn Rossing Jensen reports
Northern exposure

25-Aug-2011
Some of the world’s most electric foreign-language titles are being made by Norwegian film-makers right now. Screen profiles a selection of new films and spotlights a trio of rising directors.
Welcome to the future

25-Aug-2011
Norway is the first country in the world to have digitised all of its film theatres. Jorn Rossing Jensen looks at the impact it is having on cinema-going in the territory
Troll Hunter producer on board for TV project about Operation Gunnerside

24-Aug-2011
Partners are Norway’s Filmkameratene and Denmark’s Sebasto Film, in collaboration with the UK’s Headline Pictures.
Beyond in contention for Nordic Council Film Prize

23-Aug-2011
Swedish actress award-winning actress Pernilla August’s feature directorial debut, Beyond (Svinalängorna), which has already scooped top prizes in Venice, Lübeck and Sao Paolo, is among five nominees for the Nordic Council Film Prize, announced on Tuesday (23) by the Norwegian International Film Festival.
Norway's SF Norge to shut in-house production arm

23-Aug-2011
SF Norge, Norway’s leading distributor, has decided to close its in-house production arm — just as Norway’s NRK-TV starts airing its most recent television series, Captain Sabertooth & Pinky, later this week.
Frandsen joins Per Holst's Asta Film

22-Aug-2011
Slate includes Two Lives and Max Embarrassing 2.
King Of Devil's Island wins Amanda prize for Best Feature

22-Aug-2011
Norwegian director Marius Holst’s King of Devil’s Island (Kongen af Bastøy), which took 275,170 admissions domestically for Euforia Film, won the Amanda – Norway’s national film prize - for Best Feature.
Nordic Co-Production Forum presents 21 projects including new films from Boe, Mika Kaurismaki

18-Aug-2011
The fifth Nordic Co-Production and Film Financing Forum, which started today (Aug 18) at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, will present 21 film projects at different stages of development with budgets totalling $119 million.
Norwegian production booming, could reach 34 features this year

18-Aug-2011
Oslo, August 31st and Headhunters both headed to Toronto.
Zwart partners with Max Manus team to form Motion Blur Films

8-Aug-2011
Harald Zwart founds the new production company with Norwegian directors Sondberg, Ronning and Horn.
Simple Simon, She Monkeys talents working on Bitch Hug

12-Jul-2011
Swedish actress Linda Molin, of She Monkeys (Apflickorna) fame, will star in the new drama comedy by Swedish director Andreas Öhmann, whose feature debut Simple Simon (I rymden finns inga känslor) was a huge box office hit locally.
Hardwicke to direct Noomi Rapace in Anita Lindblom story

29-Jun-2011
Ola Rapace also stars as boxer Bosse Hogberg.
Sandrew Metronome Finland sells to Future Film

29-Jun-2011
With the sale of Sandrew Metronome Finland to Finnish distributor Future Film, Norway’s largest media concern Schibsted has put a full stop to its involvement in film distribution, and to one of Scandinavia’s leading players, which was once in production and exhibition, too.
Norwegian Film Institute backs new films from Olso director Trier

27-Jun-2011
Norwegian director Joachim Trier, whose Oslo, August 31st was launched in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and Oslo-based production outfit, Motlys, have received slate funding for their next two, maybe three projects together, from the Norwegian Film Institute.
Bille August returns to Denmark to direct The Passion Of Marie

8-Jun-2011
Two-time Palm d’Or winner to direct in Denmark for first time in more than 30 years.
Strong Danish cast confirmed for Bier's Love

8-Jun-2011
Trust Nordisk handling sales on Susanne Bier’s $8m latest scheduled for an Aug 2012 release
Zentropa makes a loss for third year in a row

8-Jun-2011
In spite of an Oscar-winning feature, Susanne Bier’s In a Better World (Hævnen), and a local blockbuster, Mikkel Nørgaard’s Clown (Klovn The Movie), Danish production outfit, Zentropa Entertainments, posted a $3.4 million (DKK 17.1 million) deficit in 2010.
TrustNordisk takes on Jackpot, to follow up on Headhunters’ success

6-Jun-2011
Magnus Martens directs based on Jo Nesbo’s story.
TrustNordisk's Cannes deals led by 9 buys for A Royal Affair

1-Jun-2011
Clinching more than 50 deals with almost 40 distributors worldwide, Danish international sales company, TrustNordisk, saw this year’s Cannes International Film festival as ”the best market for years”.
Renny Harlin drops out of $20m Mannerheim

31-May-2011
Producer Markus Selin expected to announce another director soon.
Swedish Film Institute backs new films including Hassel 12

26-May-2011
Four features get backing of $2.5m.
Winding Refn readies Bangkok shoot for Only God Forgives

25-May-2011
From Best Director in Cannes to Thai western in Bangkok - Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has his dance card full, to start with Only God Forgives, the first joint project of Wild Bunch and Gaumont.
NonStop takes on 8 from Cannes, including Kilimanjaro

24-May-2011
Market pickups include Blackthorn and Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.
Galli, Ulfsather take leads in Lackberg adaptations

5-May-2011
The Fjallbacka Murders project will star Claudia Galli (pictured) and Richard Ulfsather.
Two Gates of Sleep takes top prize at CPH PIX

3-May-2011
Other winners include The Solitude of Prime Numbers, and composer Gaute Storas for Elias and the Hunt for the Gold of the Sea.
Hermann named CEO of Copenhagen Film Festivals

18-Apr-2011
He replaces Jorgen Ramskou who recently joined radio company 24/7.
Copenhagen's CPH PIX kicks off with The Trip

14-Apr-2011
Nordisk Film Prize goes to Anders Frithiof August.
Hagen, Skarsgard set to star in big UK-Danish production Kon-Tiki

12-Apr-2011
Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning will direct the film for Denmark’s Nordisk and the UK’s Recorded Picture Company.
Nimbus plans English-language adaptations of The Pact, Worms of Carmine Street

11-Apr-2011
One project is about a younger man’s stormy relationship with writer Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen).
Rupert Grint starts shooting Norwegian WWII epic Comrade

6-Apr-2011
Norway’s Petter Næss directs the story based on true story of German pilot and British soldiers who became unlikely friends in Norway in 1940.
Oslo Municipal acquires Sandrew Metronome Norge

22-Mar-2011
Norway’s largest public cinema circuit Oslo Municipal Cinemas (Oslo Kino) has signed a deal with Norway’s Schibsted Media Group to buy Sandrew Metronome Norge, the country’s leading distributor which captured 19.5% share of market share in 2010.
CPH PIX to offer 400 screenings during 18-day event

18-Mar-2011
The third CPH PIX - the Copenhagen International Film Festival - has now grown to 18 days (Apr 14-May 1).
Sandrew Metronome to shut down Swedish theatrical distribution business

10-Mar-2011
Sandrew Metronome Sweden has announced that it will close down its Swedish theatrical distribution. The company’s last release will be Mikael Håfström’s Anthony Hopkins starrer The Rite (Ritualen) [pictured].
Knut Hamsun's Victoria being adapted for new $6m film

7-Mar-2011
Norwegian director Torun Lian, whose 2004 feature The Colour of Milk (Ikke naken ikke kledt) won her a dozen international awards, will have a crack at Victoria, Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun’s love story from 1898.
Norwegian helmers Morten Tyldum and André Øvredal sign US deals

4-Mar-2011
Directors of Headhunters and The Troll Hunter working with US producers for new projects.
Finnish hit Niko getting a $10m sequel

2-Mar-2011
Niko - the Finnish, CGI-animated young reindeer – will ride again, trying to repeat Finland’s biggest iinternational success.
Swedish Film Institute backs new feature about Politskovskaya's assassination

24-Feb-2011
Marina Goldovskaya’s fictional feature debut, A Bitter Taste of Freedom, will be made with Swedish director Malcolm Dixelius.
Mikael Persbrandt cast as Carl Hamilton for Guillou trilogy

24-Feb-2011
Danish director Katrine Windfeld will helm first part of the trilogy, In The Interest Of The Nation.
Shoot starts for first Scandinavian live action 3D feature

23-Feb-2011
Kids Christmas adventure film started shooting in Norway in January.
R leads winners at Denmark's Bodil awards

21-Feb-2011
Other winners at Danish critics’ 64th annual awards include Susanne Bier’s In A Better World and Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino.
Arcel's A Royal Affair to roll with Mikkelsen, Wikander

18-Feb-2011
Zentropa readies Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s 18th century palace love story, which has been four years in preparation.
Hallstrom plans first Swedish feature in 24 years

7-Feb-2011
Svensk/Sonet will produce thriller The Hypnotist, based on bestselling crime novel.
Lapland Odyssey, Rare Exports lead Jussi winners

7-Feb-2011
Finnish director Dome Karukoski’s local blockbuster, Lapland Odyssey (Napapiirin sankarit) [pictured], scooped four prizes in the heavy categories – Best Feature, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, the Audience Prize – as the Filmiaura, the Finnish Film Professionals’ Association, Sunday announced their annual Jussi awards at a televised Helsinki gala.
Prison drama R sweeps Danish Robert Awards

7-Feb-2011
A low-budget film about life in a Danish prison, R, by writer-directors Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer, swept the Danish Robert Awards at Sunday’s gala ceremony in Copenhagen’s Cirkusbygningen.
Goteborg's Dragon Award goes to She Monkeys

7-Feb-2011
Derek Cianfrance wins Bergman International Debut Award.
Norway's Jacobsen starts Theresienstadt epic

31-Jan-2011
Norwegian Film Iinstitute has supported the project with $1.6 million (NOK 9.5 million) as part of a $14.2 million (NOK 83 million) package which has sparked off seven new productions totalling $39.5 million.
Goteborg opens with lucrative Dragon competition

28-Jan-2011
Audience expected to exceed 200,000 at the largest Scandinavian showcase.
Goteborg to screen 442 films, announces increased prize money

12-Jan-2011
Unspooling between Jan 28-Feb 7, Scandinavia’s largest festival introduces a $145,000 (SEK 1m) Dragon prize for Best Nordic Film
Norwegian production booms with 41 productions for 2011

11-Jan-2011
”We will see some very interesting films, but also total flops and companies that suffer financially,” said the Norwegian Film Institute’s production chief
Local films set records in Norway, Finland

7-Jan-2011
For the third consecutive year, Norwegian features sold more than 2.5 million or more tickets domestically, to control a record 23% of the market (against 20.6% in 2009).
New distributors launch in Sweden, Norway

5-Jan-2011
Triangelfilm head Mattias Nohrborg returns with Tri Art; Norway’s Star Media moves into theatrical under Pal Krem.
Nordisk buys back catalogue of Sandrew Metronome

4-Jan-2011
Danish major, Nordisk Film, has added 130 Danish titles to its library, purchasing the back catalogue of Sandrew Metronome Denmark, the Danish arm of the Norwegian-owned distributor which is going out of business.
Danish producer Foldager sets up her own production company

14-Dec-2010
She is still in post on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and will also work on new projects with Michael Winterbottom and Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Swedish Film Institute MD steps down

8-Dec-2010
Cissi Elwin Frenkel is stepping down to become chief editor of a newspaper.
Patrik Eklund starts shooting debut feature Flimmer

1-Dec-2010
Swedish director Patrik Eklund, whose shorts have been Oscar nominated and awarded in Cannes, has started his first feature, Flimmer, on locations at Luleå in northern Sweden.
Sandrew Metronome's reorganisation includes closing of Danish theatrical business

26-Nov-2010
Pan-Scandinavian distributor also cancels contract with Warner Bros for Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
After co-production deal signed, two German-Norwegian features underway

24-Nov-2010
Two German-Norwegian features will shortly roll on Norwegian locations, following Norway’s ratification of the European treaty on co-productions, including German directors Georg Maas’ Two Lives (Zwei Leben/To liv) and Matthias Glasner’s
Beyond wins top prize at Nordic Film Days, Lubeck

8-Nov-2010
Swedish actress Pernilla August’s feature directorial debut, Beyond (Svinalängorna), won the NDR top prize at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck – the largest festival of Scandinavian films outside the Nordic countries - which ended yesterday (Nov 7).
Danish government to invest $400m in cinema

28-Oct-2010
The money will be invested over the next four years following an agreement signed yesterday (October 25)
Vinterberg's Submarino wins Nordic Council Film Prize

20-Oct-2010
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino was today awarded the Nordic Council Film Prize – Scandinavia’s largest film award, which comes with a $65,000 cheque to be shared between the director, scriptwriter Tobias Lindholm and producer Morten Kaufmann of Nimbus Film.
Norwegian fund to back non-Western films

12-Oct-2010
Backed by the Norwegian Foreign and Culture Ministries, Films from the South (Film fra Sør) – Oslo’s international film festival, which has since 1991 presented an annual programme of 100 features and documentaries from Asia, Africa and Latin America – has set up a fund to support film production in the non-western part of the world.
Lubeck to show 140 films from Scandinavia, Baltics

7-Oct-2010
Selections include Shameless and Home For Christmas.
Aberg returns with The Stig-Helmer Story

7-Oct-2010
After 11 years off-screen, Swedish writer-director-actor Lasse Åberg – whose comedies have generated over SEK 300 million ($45 million) domestic box office – is back behind and in front of the camera.
Norway's digital rollout to be complete ahead of schedule

3-Oct-2010
Norway’s complete, national digital roll out – the first in the world, including 414 screens all over the country – will be ready before next summer, a year ahead of the original schedule.
Persson raises $50,000 in crowd funding for Pirate bay documentary

30-Sep-2010
Swedish producer Martin Persson has raised more than $50,000 to date in crowd funding for Simon Klose’s documentary TBK AFK–The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard.
Denmark picks Bier's In a Better World for Oscar race

24-Sep-2010
Danish director Susanne Bier will have a second chance at the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, after the Danish Oscar committee yesterday [23] decided to submit her eleventh feature, In A Better World (Hævnen), as Denmark’s candidate for the nominations this year. Bier’s After the Wedding (Efter Brylluppet) was the Danish ticket in 2007.
Norway selects Angel for Oscar race

22-Sep-2010
Maria Vonnevie stars as a heroin addict who wants a better life for her daughter.
Finland selects Steam Of Life as foreign Oscar submission

20-Sep-2010
It is the first time the country has selected a documentary as its foreign Oscar contender
Simple Simon to represent Sweden in Oscar race

7-Sep-2010
Swedish director Andreas Öhman’s feature debut, Simple Simon (I rymden finns inga känslor), has entered the race for an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature.
Arne Dahl's Swedish detectives readied for film-TV project

6-Sep-2010
Sweden’s A-team – the local equivalent of CSI, a highly-trained special unit of detectives, created by Swedish writer Arne Dahl – is ready for the screen.
Richard Hober returns to film with Antibes

27-Aug-2010
After five years working in the theatre, Swedish writer-director Richard Hober will return to the screen, having started started principal photography for A One-Way to Antibes (En enkel till Antibes), starring Swedish actor-singer Sven-Bertil Taube, at Luleå in northern Sweden.
Nordic Council Film Prize nominees include Vinterberg, Kari

25-Aug-2010
Other nominees are Berghall/Hotakainen, Johnsen, Saleh.
Finland's Markus Selin lines up six more Vares thrillers

23-Aug-2010
At least two of the features, which will be shot back to back, will be theatrical releases.
Upperdog leads winners of Norwegian awards

23-Aug-2010
Lena Endre receives Haugesund’s honorary award.
Unfinished Lars von Trier film Dimension headed to DVD

19-Aug-2010
Twenty-five minutes of the film shot more than 30 years ago will be on DVD later this month; von Trier had shelved it in late 1990s.
Vinca Wiedemann joins Zentropa as producer

18-Aug-2010
Former film consultant with the Danish Film Institute, Vinca Wiedemann, hans joined Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen’s production outfit, Zentropa Entertainments.
Record industry attendees head to New Nordic Films in Haugesund

17-Aug-2010
The market, co-production and film financing forum (Aug 18-21) also boasts 13 world premieres in market programme.
Lars Grarup joins Nordisk Film as development director

10-Aug-2010
In his new role the former media director of Danish public broadcaster DR will initiate feature film projects as well as boosting TV drama.
Denmark to have 30% digital conversion by end of year

14-Jul-2010
The 3D format came off to a flying start in 2010, when US director James Cameron’s Avatar sold 1.2 million tickets.
The Writing On The Wall to launch second Varg Veum series

6-Jul-2010
The latest film is the first of six new thrillers featuring the Norwegian dectective.
Susanne Bier plans new romantic comedy with Zentropa

28-Jun-2010
Anders Thomas Jensen is co-writing the film about a hairdresser/cancer survivor who falls in love en route to her daughter’s wedding.
Anita Killi to shoot first feature for Zentropa Norway

22-Jun-2010
Zentropa is also developing Unni Straume’s Faith.
Regional releasing

22-Jun-2010
Nordisk is one of several major companies releasing across the Nordic region.
Polar bear still on top of the world

22-Jun-2010
Set up more than a century ago, Denmark’s Nordisk Film is a major regional producer and buyer of films. Now the company is looking to build on high-profile successes such as the Millennium trilogy.
Reaching outside Norway

21-Jun-2010
With strong state support, Norway has ambitious goals to attract international partners.
Iceland: industry on the brink

21-Jun-2010
Film has been hit hard by the financial crisis, and there may be worse to come.
Finland: animated strength

21-Jun-2010
The territory is making its mark in Europe and banking on its strength in animation.
A better tomorrow?

21-Jun-2010
Despite their international profile, Danish films are struggling for market share at home, and financing is under pressure.
Bornedal on board for Slaughterhouse Dybbol

18-Jun-2010
Danish director Ole Bornedal, of Nightwatch (Nattevagten) fame, will direct Slaughterhouse Dybbøl (Slagtebænk Dybbøl), a DKK 90m ($14.9m) double feature based on Danish author Tom Buk-Swienty’s award-winning book.
Norwegian Film Institute backs projects by Sorensen, Poppe, Johnsen

17-Jun-2010
Swedish leading stand-up comedian (and novelist, playwright, screenwriter) Jonas Gardell will star in People in the Sun (Mennesker i solen), a Norwegian production of his own doomsday comedy, which will start principal photography on August 9.
Norwegian Film Institute backs 3D Magic Mountain sequel

4-Jun-2010
The Norwegian Film Institute has allocated $4.5m (NOK 29m) for two features and four television series, including Arne Lindtner Næss’ 3D-production, Magic Mountain 2 (Blåfjell 2), and Ole Endresen’s King Curling(Kong Curling).
Nordisk signs output deal with Rehnberg's StellaNova

1-Jun-2010
First films under the deal include The Blood Spilt, new comedy from Peter Magnusson and biopic of Monica Zetterlund.
Animation studio A.Film will lay off six staffers in October

1-Jun-2010
The move will come after the Danish studio has delivered The Olsen Gang Gets Polished.
Birgitta Holmar to leave Sandrew Metronome in reorganisation

25-May-2010
Managing director Birgitta Holmar, of Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sweden, will leave the company after five years; Kim Vestergaard will run the Swedish company “for the present.”
Fincher prepares to direct US remake of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

5-May-2010
David Fincher has arrived in Stockholm, where his production designer has already spent three weeks location scouting.
French-Italian thriller Amer takes top prize at Copenhagen's CPH PIX

26-Apr-2010
Audience award went to Copti and Shani’s Ajami.
Zac Efron to star in US remake of Snabba Cash

16-Apr-2010
The Swedish thriller, based on Jens Lapidus’ Stockholm Noir, is being remade in the US by Warner Bros
Bille August to direct Karen Blixen biopic

13-Apr-2010
The script for the biopic, entitled Tanne, will be penned by Danish playwright Peter Asmussen
Swedish hit Easy Money inspires two sequels; US remake deal being discussed

30-Mar-2010
Director, producer and cast to reunite for at least two new films based on Jens Lapidus’ Stockholm Noir Trilogy.
Sandrew Metronome faces cost reductions

29-Mar-2010
Schibsted brings about ”strategic change and reorganisation” but all existing productions and distribution agreements will continue as usual.
Yellow Bird, Nordisk follow Millennium trilogy with six Liza Marklund adaptations

23-Mar-2010
Six films planned from novels by Swedish bestselling crime author Liza Marklund.
Sara Johnsen's Upperdog take Grand Priz in Rouen

22-Mar-2010
The Norwegian director scoops the festival’s Grand Prix, making it the second year in a row the country has won the award.
Antichrist sweeps the board at Denmark's Bodil Awards

22-Mar-2010
Lars von Trier’s controversial film scoops five awards at Denmark’s oldest film awards.
Danish box-office results strongest since 1982

22-Mar-2010
Results up 6% from 2008, but local productions had a weak year.
CPH PIX reveals celebration of Serge Gainsbourg

18-Mar-2010
The festival will open with Joann Sfar’s film and dedicate a sidebar to the late French actor and singer.
Upperdog, North lead winners at Norway's Canon Awards

17-Mar-2010
Sara Johnsen’s Upperdog and Rune Denstad Langlo’s North lead Norway’s Kanon Award winners as the Kosmorama-Trondheim International Film Festival closes.
Nordisk Film to double 3D screens, reach all Scandinavian audiences

11-Mar-2010
Danish major Nordisk Film reveals plans for more 3D theatres and an increased focus on films aimed at local audiences
Nordisk Film appoints Christian Lund as digital director

8-Mar-2010
Kino.dk managing director to oversee digital strategy at Nordisk
Danish Film Insitute invests in Casino

8-Mar-2010
Jan Rahbek’s 3D animated feature Carlo’s Casino is due to begin shooting this month
Shoot date set for Renny Harlin's Mannerheim

8-Mar-2010
Renny Harlin’s long awaited Finnish project Mannerheim gets shoot date and location change
Norweigan director brings back odorama

4-Mar-2010
Smell-o-vision is making a come back, thanks to Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola
Denmark's Miso Film to produce six thriller package

28-Feb-2010
Denmark’s Miso Film is making its second series of six 90 minute films with an all star Danish cast and directors
Iceland's Edda Awards dominated by Ragnar Bragason

28-Feb-2010
At Iceland’s Edda Awards ceremony on Saturday, Icelandic director Ragnar Bragason cashed in on 12 out of 24 nominations: his feature, Mr Bjarnfredarson (Bjarnfredarson), won six national film prizes, and another six went to his television series, The Prison Shift (Fangavaktin), which the movie is based on.
Norwegian Film Institute supports Twigson, Nesbo adaptation

26-Feb-2010
Norwegian Film Institute allocates nearly $4m to new projects, including the lastest Twigson installment.
Max Manus directors team up again on Kon-Tiki feature

25-Feb-2010
Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning to make movie about Thor Heyerdhal’s 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
Norway's Film & Kino appoints Unique to handle digital roll-out

23-Feb-2010
Norwegian cinema association set to start digital conversion of theatres in the late spring.
Sweden's SF takes rights to unwritten Denise Rudberg novels

23-Feb-2010
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri signs up film rights for unwritten books by popular novelist Denise Rudberg (pictured).
Finnish Film Foundation supports Kaurismaki, Moomins

17-Feb-2010
Aki Kaurismaki’s new project Le Havre and Maria Lindberg’s animated Moomins project are among nine features to receive $7.1m (€7.1m) from the Finiish Film Foundation.
NonStop takes Scandinavian rights to Polanski doc

10-Feb-2010
Swedish distributor picks up Scandinavian rights to Marina Zenovich’s documentary.
Mr Bjarnfredarson picks up 11 nominations for Iceland's Eddas

8-Feb-2010
Mr Bjarnfredarson leads the nominations for Iceland’s Edda Awards, which are due to take place on February 27.
Danish feature R wins top prize at Goteborg film festival

8-Feb-2010
Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer’s feature debut, R, win Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film in Gothenburg.
Letters To Father Jacob takes best film at Finland's Jussi Awards

1-Feb-2010
Klaus Härö’s Letters To Father scoops four prizes at Finland’s national film awards.
Nordic Film Market expects 300 guests as Gothenburg festival opens

29-Jan-2010
The Nordic Film Market has attracted more than 300 industry figures including buyers and sellers, producers and distributors for its next edition, which runs February 4 -7.
The Millennium trilogy drives admissions hike in Sweden

29-Jan-2010
Stieg Larsson thrillers drove cinema admission in Sweden last year.
Dragon Tattoo takes best film at Sweden's Guldbagge awards

26-Jan-2010
Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Kvinnor) picked up best feature and best actress prizes at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards last night (January 25).
Icelandic cinema admissions rise by 7%

13-Jan-2010
Cinema admissions in Iceland rose by 7% to 1.7m during 2009, with total box office receipts up 12% to $12m (ISK1.5bn).
Jose Gonzalez, Brotherhood among Nordic Film Prize nominees

13-Jan-2010
Fredrik Egerstand and Mikel Cee Karlsson’s The Extraordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez, Nicolo Donator’s Brotherhood (pictured) and Sara Johnsen’s Upperdog are among the eight contender for this year’s Nordic Film Prize.
Dragon Tattoo scores four Guldbagge nominations

8-Jan-2010
Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Vvinnor) has scored four nominations for the Guldbagge, Sweden’s national film prize.
Precious to open 20th Stockholm film festival

21-Oct-2009
Lee Daniel’s Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire will open the 20th Stockholm International Film Festival, which runs November 18 - 29.
Swedish Film Institute backs Pernilla August's debut feature

7-Oct-2009
Award-winning Swedish actress Pernilla August is making her directorial debut with an adaptation of Susanna Alakoski’s bestselling novel, Svinalängorna
Music Box takes US rights to Swedish smash Dragon Tattoo

5-Oct-2009
Chicago-based Music Box Films has picked up US rights to Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s international sensation The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Norway sends in Max Manus for Oscar battle

29-Sep-2009
Norway has selected local blockbuster Max Manus, directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning, as its contender for the foreign-language Oscar.
Nordisk Film quits family films as it shuts Norwegian arm

28-Sep-2009
Danish production company Nordisk Film is closing its Norwegian division due to changes in the country’s film financing structure.
Girl Who Played With Fire reports strong opening in Scandinavia

22-Sep-2009
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden), the second film adaptation from Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, opened strongly in Scandinavia reaching 474,000 admissions.
Swedish Film Institute appoints Suzanne Glansborg as film commissioner

17-Sep-2009
Suzanne Glansborg, the former head of acquisitions with Canal Plus, has been appointed as film commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute.
Sweden selects Ruben Ostlund's Involuntary as Oscar entry

15-Sep-2009
Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary (De Ofrivilliga) has bagged Sweden’s entry for best foreign film for next year’s Academy Awards.
Yellow Bird seeks to replicate Millennium success with new book deal

10-Sep-2009
Yellow Bird, the Swedish production company behind the Millennium trilogy, has secured rights to six books in Liza Marklund’s Annika Bengtzon series.
Max Manus wins seven Amanda Awards as Haugesund ends

28-Aug-2009
General consensus was that New Nordic Films, the market at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, offered 22 Nordic features of unusually high quality.
Sweden and Norway see record cinema admissions

3-Aug-2009
Cinema attendance in Sweden reached its highest level in the first half of the year for five years. Admissions reached 7.6 million – up 26.8% compared to last year.
Dutch court blocks users from The Pirate Bay

31-Jul-2009
A Dutch court has ruled that access to controversial file-sharing site Pirate Bay will be cut off in the Netherlands. It will be banned for a two month trial.
Swedish Film Institute appoints Lars Lindström as commissioner

21-Jul-2009
Swedish producer-director-writer Lars G Lindström is joining the Swedish Film Institute as a commissioner.
‘Anonymous’ file-sharing presents the next big challenge

9-Jul-2009
Jorn Rossing Jensen looks at how copyright infringers are looking to get round piracy laws in Sweden
Norwegian cinemas sign digital roll-out deal with US studios

24-Jun-2009
The Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino, has signed a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with five Hollywood studios, to help finance the world’s first non-commercial national digital expansion.
Sweden unveils plans to scrap state film censor

18-Jun-2009
Sweden is planning to scrap its film censorship body under plans revealed in a government research paper this week.
Swedish producers groups merge to boost lobbying power

5-Jun-2009
The Swedish Film Producers Association (SFP), Swedish TV Producers Association and the Commercial Film Producers of Sweden (SRP) have merged in a bid to boost their lobbying power.
Gaming firm Unibet saves $14.2m Mannerheim

4-Jun-2009
The production of $14.2m (€10m) Mannerheim, the most expensive Finnish feature, is back on track after securing new funding from a gaming company.
Dragon Tattoo continues to dominate European box office

4-Jun-2009
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (aka Men Who Hate Women) – the first feature in Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy – continues its raid on the international charts.
Norway's Norsk Filmstudio and Chimney Pot merge

28-May-2009
Major Norwegian production and facility houses Norsk Filmstudio (NF) and The Chimney Pot (TCP) will join forces in what they call “North Europe’s most modern and innovative full-service studio”.
Swedish director Lisa Ohlin joins Simon And The Oaks

27-May-2009
Swedish director Lisa Ohlin will helm Simon And The Oaks (Simon Och Ekarne) after Björn Runge walked out on the project earlier this year.
Sara Johnsen's Upperdog to open Norwegian Film Festival

20-May-2009
The 37th Norwegian International Film Festival (NIFF) in Haugesund will open on August 23 with local title Upperdog.
Principal photography starts on Norwegian WW2 thriller Deceit

18-May-2009
Norwegian director Håkon Gundersen has started principal photography for World War 2 thriller Deceit (Svik) in Budapest, Hungary.
Max Manus scriptwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller dies aged 28

13-May-2009
Norwegian scriptwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, who wrote Max Manus – Norway’s biggest cinema success since 1975 – died Tuesday (May 12) after a long illness. He was 28 years old.
Nordisk Film & TV to support regional releases

13-May-2009
Oslo-based Nordisk Film & TV Fund is launching scheme to support the distribution of Nordic films in the region.
Filmkameratene hunts projectionist accused of piracy

11-May-2009
Filmkameratene, Norwegian production outfit, is closing in on a cinema projectionist who is alleged to have illegally filmed local blockbuster, Max Manus, and distributed it on the internet.
Swedish Film Institute backs three features with $1.5m

11-May-2009
Fast Cash (Snabba Cash), the first part of Swedish lawyer-author Jens Lapidus’ best-selling Stockholm Noir trilogy, is on the way to the big screen.
Sweden’s Gotland Island bids to become film production centre

11-May-2009
The Swedish island of Gotland – the home of the late Ingmar Bergman – has renewed its efforts to become a centre for film production in the city of Fårösund.
Norway joins European co-production convention

8-May-2009
Norway is set to join the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production.
Swedish TV show to be remade for the big screen

7-May-2009
Skärgårdsdoktorn (The Archipelago Doctor), one of Sweden’s most popular TV shows during the Nineties, is being revived as a film.
Norwegian Film Institute supports Chopin

5-May-2009
Norway’s Storm Studios will co-produce Chopin, a $6.6m (NOK 43m) fully-animated feature from UK’s BreakThru Films, which will be released for composer’s 200th anniversary in 2010.
Sweden launches summer campaign for local releases

5-May-2009
The Swedish Film Institute is backing local films with a $310,000 (SEK 2.5m) support campaign this summer.
Iceland boost funding incentive to 20%

30 April 2009
Iceland has increased its production incentive scheme from 14% to 20% to encourage the film and TV industries to shoot in the country.
Norwegian Film Institute backs Terje Rangnes' debut

27-Apr-2009
Norwegian director Terje Rangnes’ feature debut, An Ordinary Day at Work (En Helt Vanlig Dag På Jobben), about the daily life of an unscrupulous journalist, will be backed by $1.4m (NOK 9m) from the Norwegian Film Institute.
Swedish director Runge jumps from Simon And The Oaks

21-Apr-2009
Swedish award-winning director Björn Runge has walked out on the $5m (SEK 45m) production of Simon And The Oaks (Simon Och Ekarna), claiming the film’s producers were limiting his freedom.

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