All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 5
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SWEDEN 28 July
The newrelease of Jerry Bruckheimer's KingArthur, which stars Hollywood's favorite Swede Stellan Skarsgaard as thevillain, easily cut into the top spot on the Swedish chart this weekend. With astrong $6,643 screen average on its 95 prints, Arthur dethroned Spider-Man 2 after three weeks at the top.Meanwhilelocal newcomer Anette Winblad's coolly ...
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DENMARK 27 July
Despitean unimpressive DKK17,704 screen average in its third week on release, Spider-Man 2's 84 prints kept it infront of the new comic book hero, Hellboy.The latter scared up a DKK18,630 average for its 40 prints, considerably betterthan Raising Helen's DKK13,878, and Godsend's DKK18,298 but not Elephant's DKK24,335.However,none of the three ...
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NORWAY 21 July
Despitethree new releases this week, Spider-Man 2 and Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkaban continued to rule supreme over the Norwegianbox-office. Spider-Man 2 took a solid NOK37.316 screen average on itshigh 84 prints despite dropping 52% since last weekend. That was, however,beaten by the fastfood-bashing feature documentary Supersize Me, whichon ...
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FINLAND 21 July
Thealluring Stepford Wives had little chance of toppling Spider-Man 2from the top of the Finnish chart with an print release compared to the webbedhero's 60 prints.Notmuch else changed in the weekend, which saw films on release gross a total ofEuros231,254 - almost exactly the same as last year's Euros 231, ...
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SWEDEN 14 July
Columbia TriStar's successful July 7 release of Spider-Man 2finally toppled Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban from the topspot of the Swedish chart.The second film in the Spiderman series improved the first films' fiveday results with 6%, and had a massive $9,618 screen average on its high 118prints.The Day ...
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DENMARK 13 July
Spanish-German co-production FoodOf Love (Manjar Amor) saw a strong limited performance in Denmark thisweek. The drama, which stars veteran British actress Juliet Stevenson and KevinBishop (L'Auberge Espagnole), landed in 18th place off just two prints.The film's screen average of $2,400 ranked as sixth best of the weekend on apar with ...
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Children's Story captivates Karlovy Vary
Andrea Frazzi and Antonio Frazzi's AChildren's Story (Certi Bambini) wonthe top prize, the Crystal Globe, on Saturday night (July 10) at the 39thedition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.The Italian drama follows a young boy, Rosario, who liveswith his sick grandmother but grows up on the streets in a world ...
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Karlovy Vary maintains its youth appeal
With both the wet Czech summer and loss of the nationalfootball team playing in the Euro 2004, the 39th edition of the Karlovy VaryFilm Festival got off to a good start on July 2, as audiences could commit tothe films without distraction.Early fears that Sunday night's Championship final wouldovershadow the ...
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Czechs launch new documentary market
The Czech International Documentary Film Festival inJihlava is to launch the first ever market for Eastern and Central Europeandocumentaries, it was announced during this week's Karlovy Vary Film Festival.Called East Silver, the launch comes as documentaries arereaching new heights of popularity, particularly in the theatrical market.Acollaboration with the Institute for ...
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Buddy, Beautiful Country lead Amanda nods
Two local films have dominated the nominations for the 20thNorwegian film and TV awards, the Amandas, which will be handed out during theHaugesund Film Festival on Aug 27.Hans Petter Moland's international refugee drama BeautifulCountry and Morten Tyldum's romantic comedy Buddy receivednominations for best film and best script, and Buddy's Anders ...
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Copenhagen festival names Szabo as jury chief
Acclaimed Hungarian director Istvan Szabo will be presidingover the competition jury at the second Copenhagen International Film Festival,which unfolds in the Danish capital between Aug 19-29.The 66-year old filmmaker (Being Julia) is joined by Scottish director David Mackenzie (YoungAdam), US-Israeli director Eytan Fox (WalkOn Water) and Romanian actress MaiaMorgenstern (The ...
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Nordic Film & TV Fund secures backing till 2009
Thefuture of the 14 year-old Nordic Film & TV Fund has been secured by a newagreement between the Nordic ministers of culture. The deal, which was signedin Reykjavik last week, runs until the end of 2009.The foundation of the Fund was shaken earlier this year whenthe four private Nordic TV-stations ...
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NORWAY 24 June
In Harry Potter's second week ruling overthe Norwegian chart, it remained untouchable by any of the four new releases.JohnnyDepp-starrer Secret Window fared bestmaking it into fourth, but its just 16 prints, which averaged NOK27,666, wereno match for The Day After Tomorrowand Troy's high 63 and 53 prints.Familyfare Agent Cody Banks ...
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SWEDEN 24 June
Thenational football team didn't completely prevent Swedes from attending thethird Harry Potter film, which easilystayed on top of the chart with a $5,346 screen average on its massive 163prints.With theschool holidays beginning Scooby-Doo 2made a comeback to the top 10 after 13 weeks on release by moving into fifth.However,not much ...
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Moland's Teacher set for November start
Acclaimed Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland'sadaptation of Teacher Pedersen (Gymnaslaerer Pedersen) has set a Nov1 start date, following a substantial$1.5m (NOK10,1m) award from the Norwegian Film Fund.Moland is one of Norway's most acclaimed filmmakers,and his most recent feature The Beautiful Country screened in competition at Berlin this year.Produced by Orjan ...
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Danish film-makers win multi-million backing
The Danish Film Institute has confirmed backing for sevennew Danish features, several of which are already in post-production.Among the films previously announced are Henrik Ruben Genzand Fine & Mellow's Chinaman, DagurKari and Nimbus Film's Grown Up People (Voksne Mennesker) and veteran Henning Carlsen's Fly BirdieFly (Springet), a co-production between Dagmar ...
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Boe on fast track to shoot Allegro
Christoffer Boe, theacclaimed young Danish writer-director whose feature debut Reconstruction haswon a number of international awards, has been put on the fast track to shoothis new film Allegro this autumn with $1.2m (DKK7.3m) from the Danish Film Institute.It follows a world famouspianist who returns home for a concert in Copenhagen, ...
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SF Film moves toward Danish production
The Danish arm of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri, SF Film,has taken the first step towards its long-held ambition of developing its ownprojects by acquiring the film rights to two novels, newcomer Sara Blaedel'scrime story Green Dust and Per HelgeSoerensen's satirical Spin."Our aim is obviously to make a difference in Danish ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils European focused competition
The 39th edition of theCzech Republic's Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July2-10) has lined up animpressive number of new European titles for its competition programme with astrong presence from Eastern Europe plus titles from India, Japan and Iran.A few films had already beenannounced, such as Marek Najbrt's black comedy Champions (Mistri) ...
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Hafstrom's Derailed lined up for London, NY shoot
Derailed, the English-language debut from the Oscar-nominatedSwede Mikael Hafstrom, is being lined up to shoot in London and New York City,the director told Screendaily.Dimension Films is backingthe film which is scheduled to start shooting in September with Clive Owen inthe lead role."We will be shootinginteriors at a London studio, we ...