All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 13
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Soda takes Reconstruction for the UK
Hot newcomer Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction, which has picked up a slew of awards since winning the Camera D'Or and Label Regards Jeunes in Cannes, has been picked up for the UK by equally young outfit Soda Pictures. Reconstruction is the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards and recently secured the ...
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Inheritance has windfall in Lubeck
Per Fly's Danish drama Inheritance was awarded the main NDR Promotion Prize of Euro12,500 at the 45th Nordic Film Days in Lubeck, the world's largest showcase of Nordic and Baltic cinema.Norwegian films dominated all other categories. The audience award from Lubecker Nachrichten went to Gunnar Vikene's feature debut Falling Sky, ...
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Nielsen boards Bier's Brothers
Connie Nielsen has boarded Susanne Bier's highly anticipated Brothers, which starts shooting on Monday Nov 10. The 38-year-old Danish actress, who has recently enjoyed a successful Hollywood career, had her breakthrough in Gladiator, and has appeared in One Hour Photo and The Hunted.Nielsen will play alongside Danish actors Ulrich Thomsen ...
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Scherfig double bill hits MIFED
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is to follow on from her successful Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself with another two English language features.What Wayne Didn't Know and Waltzing Griselda will be shot simultaneously next summer in Scotland, and buyers attending MIFED will be the first to have a chance to read ...
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ICELAND
Scary Movie 3 enjoyed virtually complete domination at the box office - racking up a screen average more than three times its closest competitors, and pushing Kill Bill, Intolerable Cruelty, The Rundown and Spy Kids 3D down the chart. Though Calendar Girls opened on 6th, little else changed in ...
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SWEDEN
As the top of the Swedish chart remained all but unchanged for another weekend with the two local hits Evil and The Third Wave in front, the new release of Kjell-Aake Andersson's drama comedy Let's Play House (MammaPappaBarn) confirmed how difficult it has been a many of the new local ...
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DENMARK
Kill Bill Vol.1 stayed on top for another week despite its 34% drop from its opening weekend, and it kept newcomer Oliver Ussing's low-budget romantic comedy Rule Nr.1 from the top spot. The new local film didn't quite perform as distributor Sandrew Metronome had hoped based on their high 52 ...
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Non-English buzz films at Mifed 2003
In the first of a two part series we look at the hot non-English-language films and projects debuting at Mifed.Against The Wall(Germany)Word on the street: Fatih Akin's best yetThe word is good on the latest film from writer-director-actor FatihAkin, whose credits include Short Sharp Shock, In July and Solino.Against The ...
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Copenhagen fest names new programming chief
The Copenhagen International Film Festival, which had its first run earlier this autumn, has appointed 35-year-old Lone Korslund as its new head of programming. She replaces Michael Soeby, who decided to leave for personal reasons after putting together the first programme. Korslund has worked as a manager at a number ...
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ICELAND
Though the top of the Icelandic chart remained unchanged with Kill Bill Vol.1 and Intolerable Cruelty dominating, the new release of The Rundown caught up to third with a slightly better screen average on its 3 prints.However, two other new films disappointed, Thierry Schiel's Tristan And Isolde and Kevin Costner's ...
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DENMARK
As expected Constantin Film's release of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1 slaughtered last week's chart-topping children's film Brats, cutting it down 73.1%. Bill's 37 prints scooped 25,635 admissions, where as Brats' 104 prints took just 19,472, which was still enough for a second place in front of the Coen-brothers' Intolerable ...
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NORWAY
After two weeks at the top of the chart even Mother's Elling had to back down to the attack of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1, though it retained its position on the admissions chart (30,652 vs. 29,819) due to its high number of prints. However, Bill's impressive 806 admissions screen ...
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Asian films take top prizes at Norway's Bergen fest
The fourth edition of Norway's Bergen International Film Festival, which wrapped on Wednesday (Oct 22), saw Asian cinema secure the top honours.Yang Li's Chinese Blind Shaft took the main prize, while Sangsoo Im's South Korean A Good Lawyer's Wife won the critics' award. Sixteen films screened in competition.The main prize ...
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DENMARK
School holidays boosted SF Film's massive 105 print rollout of the new Danish children's film Moegunger (Brats), which didn't quite perform to expectations last weekend. During the week and over this weekend the film saw an impressive 221.5% increase to reach 232,154 admissions in its first 10 days. This ...
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SWEDEN
The resilience of Mikael Haafstroem's Evil was proved this weekend when the massive 109 print release of Anders Nilsson's action-thriller The Third Wave was unable to unseat it from the top spot. The Third Wave is the third instalment in the writer-director's trilogy following the box-office hits Zero Tolerance ...
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Copenhagen doc fest unveils first line-up
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox (Nov 7-17), has announced its programme of 83 films including such international hits as Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's American Splendor, Errol Morris' Fog Of War and Werner Herzog's Wheel Of Time.Four new Danish documentaries are also in the line-up: Lars von ...
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Danish-Swedish film promotion collaboration takes off
In a move to attract film production to the Oresund region - the land around the strait dividing Denmark and Sweden - the Oresund Film Commission has appointed Swede Natasha Banke and Danish producer Ulrik Bolt Joergensen to head a joint initiative between Copenhagen Capacity and Position Skaane. The regional ...