All articles by Jacob Neiiendam – Page 7
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Dear Wendy goes to Japan
After a two day bidding war,Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy hasbeen sold to Wise Policy of Japan by Denmark's Trust Film SalesWritten by Lars VonTrier, it is a contemporaryEnglish-language film set in the US about a group of young pacifists who becomeobsessed with guns. It is currently in post-production.
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Homeboy Hennie heads for Haugesund opening
Uno, the feature directing debut fromNorway's most prolific young actor Aksel Hennie, has been selected as theopening film for the upcoming Norwegian International Film Festival inHaugesund.Hennie, who has starred in a number of recent filmsincluding Jonny Vang and Buddy, also wrote the script and starsin Uno, which is described as ...
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NORWAY 11 May
StephenSommers' summer blockbuster had no problem scaring up the top of the Norwegianchart with its high 62 prints, but for an opening film its NOK29,929 screenaverage wasn't all that impressive. While the newcomer pushed most other titlesdown one place, Scooby Doo 2 actually moved up to fifth, while lastweek's new ...
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Kitchen Stories follow up wins Norwegian backing
The Norwegian Film Fund has injected $706,000 into BentHamer's English-language debut Factotum based on the novel by CharlesBukowski, as well as $1.2m into newcomer Ove Raymond Gyldenaas' local youthcomedy Tommy's Inferno.The reason why Hamer's follow-up to the multiple-awardwinning Kitchen Stories receives less than a feature debut is that Factotumis a ...
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DENMARK 4 May
As noneof the new releases at the Danish box-office chart really impressed on theiropening weekend, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.2 stayed on top ofthe chart despite dropping 40%. Starsky & Hutch, which opened muchbetter in the neighboring Nordic countries, was a close competitor for the topspot, but its screen average ...
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SWEDEN 4 May
Nothingmuch happened at the Swedish chart this week, as positions one through fiveremained unchanged with Kill Bill Vol.2 as a strong leader with a solid$3,217 screen average on its 39 prints.The newrelease of Angelina Jolie's serial killer outing Taking Lives did lessimpressively with just its $1,949 screen average on 17 ...
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Steen's debut gets Karlovy Vary premiere
Aftermath, the feature directing debut from acclaimed Danishactress turned filmmaker Paprika Steen, has been singled out for a competitionentry slot at the upcoming film festival in Karlovy Vary.The 39th editionof the Czech festival runs from July 2-10 and last year had several popularNordic films on its program including award-winners Buddy ...
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Danish film studio is put up for sale
The Danish Ministry of Culture has decided to sell off The Danish FilmStudio, which is situated in the northern rim of Copenhagen.The studio has been in the red since 1997, with the Danish FilmInstitute covering the loss every year.The state originally bought the former ASA-studio back in 1972 in orderto ...
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Dillon, Tomei to star in Bukowski adaptation
Matt Dillon and Marisa Tomei are to star in Norwegianwriter-director-producer Bent Hamer'sadaptation of Charles Bukowski's Factotum,Hamer, who charmed audiences and critics alike at last year's Canneswith Kitchen Stories, will shoot his English-language debut inMinneapolis from June with a mixed Norwegian and US crew.The script was written with co-producer Jim Stark ...
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SWEDEN 28 April
Tarantino's KillBill Vol.2 effortlessly cut into the top of the Swedish box-office pushinglast week's strong opener Starsky & Hutch to second with double thescreen average, $7.456 on its less 39 prints.However, Scanbox'srelease of the Oscar-winning drama, Monster, actually managed a slightlybetter screen average ($7.650) on its just 10 prints, which ...
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DENMARK 26 April
The second volumeof Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill had what it took to oust the hitanimated Terkel In Trouble from the top of the Danish chart, with amuscular 746 admission screen average on its 28 prints.While Terkeltook second spot, the local action comedy The Good Cop dropped no lessthan 47% in ...
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Green Butchers director prepares follow-up feature
Award winning Green Butchers writer and director Anders Thomas Jensen is readying his next feature, an as yet untitled comedy drama.Veteran producer Tivi Magnusson is currently in the final stages of financing the film, which has been nicknamed AT3. It will be the third installment in the Danish director's trilogy ...
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DENMARK 20 April
The new release of stuntman-turned-filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen's action comedy The Good Cop fared better with audiences than critics, but with an admission screen average of 476 on its high 60 prints, it was unable to topple Nordisk Film's hit animated film Terkel In Trouble from the top spot.Olsen's previous ...
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SWEDEN 20 April
After three weeks at the top of the Swedish box-office chart even Mel Gibson's Passion had to give in to the unholy teaming of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson and their revival of 70s cool in Starsky & Hutch as it sped into pole position with a strong $5,253 screen ...
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North by Northwest script scheme unveils international line-up
In its eighth year of business, the international scriptdevelopment programme, North by Northwest, has announced it most extensiveline-up yet.Participants come from all over Europe from the UK,Scandinavia and Germany to Spain and France for their three training courses,Classics, Kids Stories and Seven Samurai.Thanks to strong word-of-mouth from the more than ...
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Metallica doc scoops top Danish festival prize
Copenhagen's NatFilm Festival wrapped in the Danish capital over the weekend, and awarded its audience prize to Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster.Tomas Alfredsson's Swedish drama Four Shades Of Brown was singled out by the critics jury.The NatFilm Festival remains the biggest film event in Denmark ...
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NORWAY
Even though a slew of new films were released a week ago, Mel Gibson's Passion easily stayed on top of the Norwegian box-office chart in its third week.Meanwhile Erich Hortnagl's local psychological thriller A Cry In The Woods (Den Som Frykter Ulven), based on a best-selling Karin Fossum novel, on ...
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Nordisk Film parent sees profits soar in 2003
Danish media group Egmont - parent company of NordiskFilm - had its best ever year in 2003, posting a pre-tax profit of Euros 59m -up from Euros 20m in 2002.However, Nordisk Film revenues dropped back to Euros 345mcompared to 2002's Euros 432m.In August 2002 the company merged its two sister ...
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DENMARK
The fact that Viggo Mortensen is half Danish paid off this weekend as he easily raced Hidalgo into the top spot in front of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.Despite only having 19 prints, Hidalgo's impressive screen average was more than twice that of the sequel's high 50 prints.Surprisingly the directing debut ...
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Happy Day for Danish gospel comedy
MFA has acquired the German and Austrian rights to Hella Joof's as yet unfinished Danish gospel comedy drama Oh Happy Day from Nordisk Film International Sales. Earlier this year Ascot Elite picked up Swiss rights to the film.The buy was made based on a 10-minute promo, as the film won't ...