Jacob Neiiendam
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2004: Danes strike a serious tone
The Danes struck a more serious tone in front of the camerain 2004, moving away from the tried-and-tested formula of contemporary familydrama with a touch of tragedy but plenty of heart and humour.
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SWEDEN 21 December
A slew of new releases hit the Swedish chart thisweekend, where Ocean's Twelve's all-star lineup unsurprisingly stole offwith the top spot.
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Cultural minorities split the Nordic markets
While minorities have longbeen a part of the daily lives in the Nordic region, they have had a hard timemaking an impression on the big screen.
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Refn's Pusher II dominates Danish Oscar nods
Nicolas Winding Refn's drama PusherII (With Blood on my Hands - Pusher II) bagged the most nominations forthe Danish Film Academy's ROBERT awards with 12 nods including best film,director, script and actor Mads Mikkelsen.
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SWEDEN 13 December
The new release of ThePolar Express only managed to swap places with Alexander on thirdplace at the Swedish box-office.
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Mandeville, Fuse to remake Danish comedy for Disney
David Hoberman's Mandeville Films has joined MikkelBondesen's Fuse Entertainment in remaking the Danish romantic comedy OhHappy Day.
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SWEDEN 7 December
Having OliverStone in town to promote Alexander didn't give the epic enough leverageto stay on top of the Swedish box-office chart, and it dropped heavily to thirdbehind Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and The Incredibles.The romanticcomedy retained a solid $4,832 screen average from its high 80 prints, but thisweek's ...
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DENMARK 7 December
Despite dropping some 37%Oliver Stone's Alexander epic managed to stay on top of the Danishbox-office chart in front of The Incredibles and Bridget Jones: TheEdge Of Reason, which swapped places on second and third.
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The Oyster Farmer
It isn't the most attractive picture that writer-director Reeves paints of theisolated oyster farmers of New South Wales- but this hard-drinking,male-dominated world is still not far enough from the world of CrocodileDundee to really offer something new to audiences' generalised depiction ofAustralia.
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SWEDEN 2 December
The critics might have givenOliver Stone's Alexander as cool a reception as in the States, but theepic nevertheless laid siege to the box-office across the region and conqueredthe top of the charts in Denmark, Sweden and Finland (it is released in Norwayon Dec 3).
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Norwegian-Pakistani Goodfellas gets greenlight
With a substantial $1.2m (NOK 7.5m) backing, the NorwegianFilm Fund has put the first Norwegian-Pakistani action movie on the fast trackfor veteran producer John M. Jacobsen's Filmkameratene.
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DENMARK 23 November
The Incredibles only had one weekat the top of the Danish box-office before BridgetJones: The Edge Of Reason came and out grossed it with its DKK 2.58mopening from 65 prints - Working Title's biggest and Universal's third biggestever opening behind Van Helsing and Jurassic Park: The Lost World.However,though Pixar's animated ...
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Cold Light dominates Icelandic Oscars
Iceland's official Oscar candidate, Hilmar Oddsson's ColdLight, swept the country's film awards, the EDDA, on Sunday night inReykjavik.
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TLA Releasing acquires NonStop's UNO
Nordic sales outfit NonStop Sales has sold two of itstitles, UNO and Slim Susie, to the US. Both deals were concludedat this month's AFM.
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FINLAND 18 November
Like thepopular preview screenings of TheIncredibles indicated on the chart last week, the Finns were ready towelcome the superfamily to the top of the box-office, where it grossed a strongEuro 216,922 over the weekend.It had aEuro 3,740 screen average from its 58 prints, and did not leave much room forthe ...
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Nordic Council to award annual film prize
Two years afterawarding a film prize for the first time at its 50th anniversary gala, theNordic Council has decided to make the Nordic Film Prize an annual event.
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Day And Night disqualified from Swedish awards
Danish writer-director Simon Staho's Swedish-languagearthouse hit Day And Night has hit a serious snag on its way to Sweden'snational film awards.