All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen
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Swedish films take 40% market share in first quarter
Swedish cinema got off to 'an incredibly strong' start in 2009, according to the Swedish Film Institute's head of statistics Thomas Bryntesson. The preliminary figures for the first quarter of the year estimate a local market share of 40% with total ticket sales exceeding 4.6m, up 17% on 2008. Bryntesson ...
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Swedish film centre receives $1m in EU funding
Filmpool Stockholm-Mälardalen, a new regional film centre in the Swedish capital, has received $1m (Euro 755,000) in funding from the European Union’s regional developmentfund. The money aims to improve the competitiveness of the local industry.
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Finnish Film Foundation receives $6.7m funding boost
The Finnish Film Foundation will receive $6.7 million (Euro 5m) of state funding in addition to the 30% increase in production funding it received following last year's conflict with the industry. The new money was announced today (March 31) as part of a package to support the Finnish economy. Stefan ...
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Norwegian features take top prizes at Nordic Film Festival
Norwegian cinema left Normandy having won two top prizes at the Nordic Film Festival in Rouen, which wrapped on Sunday (March 29). Norwegian director Eva Sørhaug's feature debut, Cold Lunch (Lønsj), which was launched last year in the Critics' Week at Venice and has since toured the international festival circuit, ...
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Millennium trilogy goes theatrical after Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Following the recent success of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, all three films from Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy will now be released theatrically. The decision was announced by the project's main financier, Swedish public broadcaster SVT. Danish director Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ...
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Girl With Dragon Tattoo reaches 1.26m admissions in Scandinavia
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (aka Men Who Hate Women/Män som hatar kvinnor) is set to become the largest Scandinavian film success ever.After its third weekendof release,had reached 1.26 million admissions in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In Norway it opened only last Friday (March ...
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Renny Harlin's Finnish biopic Mannerheim delayed due to financing
Finnish Hollywood director Renny Harlin's comeback to local filmmaking, the $12.6m (Euros 10m) Mannerheim, which was scheduled to have its world première in Helsinki on Jan 15 next year, has been delayed and is now expected to open during the autumn 2010.The biopic of Finnish historical legend Carl Gustaf Emil ...
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Max Manus main winner at Norwegian film awards
Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Søndberg's Max Manus, cashed in on five out of its nine nominations for the Kanon Awards the Norwegian film industry's annual prizes. The World War II epic's wins included best producer, won by John M Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo; Thomas Nordseth-Tiller's win for best script; ...
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Nordisk hopes for pan-Scandinavian blockbuster with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Men Who Hate Women or Män som hatar kvinnor at home) - part one of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium thriller trilogy - could set box-office records with its hotly anticipated opening today in Sweden and Denmark.Danish major Nordisk ...
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Finnish Film Foundation helps fund Harlin's homecoming, Mannerheim
The Finnish Film Foundation (FFF) has awarded $567,000 (Eu450,000) of funding to Finnish director Renny Harlin's come-back to local filmmaking, the $12.6m (Eu10m) Mannerheim, which will be the largest feature film project ever staged in Finland. The bio-pic stars Finnish actor Mikko Nousiainen as Finland's Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Scripted ...
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Sweden's SF Bio installs 3D screens
Somewhat delayed, Sweden's leading cinema circuit, SF Bio - which programmes 242 screens all over the country - is ready to enter the digital era, having installed Real D equipment in eight auditoria in Stockholm (3), Gothenburg (2) and another three provincial cities. The premiere will be Disney's Oscar-nominated Bolt, ...
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Local films boost Scandinavian box office
Successful local films played a major part in a strong 2008 at the box office.Norwegian cinema admissions rose 10% in 2008 to reach 11.8 million, strongly helped by local fare which sold 2.7 million tickets - 50% more than in 2007.Local film's market share reached a record 22.5% of the ...
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The Visitor takes Nordic Film Prize at Gothenburg
Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää's The Visitor (Muukalainen) haswon the Nordic Film Prize - $12,800 (SEK 100,000) and a dragon statuette - at Sweden's Gothenburg International Film Festival. Valkeapää's cinematographer, Tuomo Hutri, received theNordic Vision Award.The 32nd edition of the festival - Scandinavia's largest film event - registered a record number ...
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Nordic Film Market lines up 200 delegates as Gothenburg film festival kicks off
200 international film professionals have registered for the 10th Nordic Film Market - the business arm of Sweden's Gothenburg International Film Festival. Project manager Cia Edström has prepared a showcase of 19 fresh Nordic productions open to foreign distributors, sales agents and festival programmers. Among the most recent are Nils ...
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Sweden's TV 4 takes first steps into theatrical distribution
Sweden's leading commercial broadcaster, TV4, will enter theatrical distribution with its production of Karin Svärd's drama-documentary, The Way Home-A Film About The Sin, The Guilt And The Shots In Knutby (Vägen Hem - En Film Om Synden, Skulden Och SkottenI Knutby). The film will be premièred on 35 digital screens ...
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The Home of Dark Butterflies frontrunner for Jussi awards.
Finnish director Dome Karukoski's The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti) took a total of 10 nominations for the Jussi awards, Finland's national film prize. The film tells the story of Juhani, who ends up at a boys' institution, the Island, after six years of wandering between foster homes. ...
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Everlasting Moments tops Guldbagge awards
Swedish veteran director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments picked up four awards, including best film, at the Guldbagge awards.The film, nominated in eight categories, won the prizes for best film, best actress (Maria Heiskanen), best actor (Mikael Persbrandt) andbest supporting actor (Jesper Christensen). It also wona best achievement kudo for composer ...
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Norwegian film institute backs three features with $3.9m
The Norwegian film institute has awarded $3.9m (NOK 27.5m) to three Norwegian productions including Erik Skjoldbjærg's next feature, Nokas. Nokas, Erik Skjoldbjærg's follow up to An Enemy of the People (En Folkefiende) has received $1.3m (NOK 9.5m) from the institute. The film depicts the 2004 robbery when armed robbers blocked ...
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Everlasting Moments tops nominations for Guldbagge awards
Swedish veteran director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments receivedthehighest number of nominations - eight - for the Guldbagge awards, Sweden's national film prize.The film isSweden's official candidate for the Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Feature and has already been nominated for a Golden Globe.Everlasting Moments will compete in the categories for Best ...
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Göthenberg Film Festival to open and close with local documentaries
Sweden 's Göthenberg International Film Festival will bookend its 32nd edition with two local documentaries: Nahid Persson Sarvestani's The Queen And I and Jesper Ganslandt-Martin Degrell's The Film I Am No Longer Talking About. Göthenberg International Film Festival is the Nordic countries' largest film festival, screening around 450 films to ...