All articles by Jacob Wendt Jensen
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NewsDenmark’s Terribly Happy submitted for foreign-language Oscar
Henrik Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy has been selected as the Danish contender for the foreign-language Oscar race.
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NewsSusanne Bier returns to Denmark to make The Revenge
Danish director Susanne Bier is returning to her homeland for her next project, provincial town drama, The Revenge (Haevnen).
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Meta Louise Foldager has succeeded Vibeke Windelov as Lars von Trier’s producer and explains the challenges she faced to Jacob Wendt Jensen.
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NewsDanish director Boe starts shooting fourth feature
Danish director Christoffer Boe has begun shooting his fourth feature, which has the working title Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen).
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Danish director Per Fly completes line-up for latest production
Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist and Marcin Dorosinski, the Polish actress, have completed the cast forThe Woman That Dreamed About A Man, the new international production from Danish director PerFly.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo drives Danish box office
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Niels Arden Oplev’s film, has single handedly driven ticket sales in Denmark over the first quarter of the year. The movie accounted for 20% ofall ticket sales in the first three months of 2009 and led to a 3% rise compared to the same ...
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Terribly Happy comes out on top at 2009 Bodil Awards
Terribly Happy directed by Henrik Ruben Genz was the main winner at the 61st edition of the Bodil Awards in Copenhagen on March 1, taking five awards including best Danish film. Terribly Happy also won best actor, actress, and actor in a supporting role while Jørgen Johansson won best director ...
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Zentropa gives birth to new animation outfit
Denmark's Zentropa has launched a new animation company, Rambuk, to be headed by director Stefan Fjeldmark.Most recently Fjeldmark has been working with Denmark's Fine and Mellow Productions in a non-animation role. Commenting on the appointment, Zentropa CEO, Peter Aalbaek Jensen described Fjeldmark as having 'a rare ability to combine his ...
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Allan Hansen is new CEO at Nordisk Film
Allan Hansen is the new CEO of Denmark's Nordisk Film.Hansen has worked in several departments at Nordisk Film since 1989 most recently as director of Nordisk's distribution wing.Hansen takes over from Michael Ritto who has been with the company for nearly three years and is credited with the company's successes ...
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Direction for Copenhagen Pix 2009 announced
The focus of the first edition of the Danish film festival Copenhagen Pix will be new industry trends and talents it was announced today. Copenhagen Pix will replace the NATFilm festival and the Copenhagen International Film festival, with its first editionon April 16 - 26 2009.The festival's full programme will ...
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Focus: Kristian Levring is back with Fear Me Not
Ten years on from the peak of the Dogme movement, Kristian Levring is back creating buzz with his latest feature, Fear Me Not. The Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde-inspired psychological drama was one of the stand-out hits at Toronto, where US rights were sold to IFC Films.Co-written and directed by ...
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Denmark's Nimbus Film on the defensive as jobs are cut
Leading Danish film company Nimbus Film is taking steps to respond to today's tougher financial climate in the film industry. Around a third of Nimbus staff will be cut from the company's Filmbyen offices, according to film magazine EKKO.As former CEO, Jørgen Ramskov, who will in future head up the ...
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Two films from Ole Bornedal set for US remakes
Two features from Danish director Ole Bornedal have been sold for US remakes.Mandate Pictures have secured rights to Just Another Love Story and The Substitute. Both films were shown at the Sundance Film Festival.Mandate Pictures will co-produce the remakes with Thura Film's Michael Obel whose work with Ole Bornedal goes ...
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Genz is Terribly Happy working outside the biz
'Don't ask me what genre Terribly Happy is, I wouldn't know,' says Henrik Ruben Genz cheerfully. It is a typical reaction from the Danish director of the Crystal Globe winner at last month's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. After all, this is a man who prides himself on his lack ...
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Winding Refn starts Scottish shoot for Valhalla Rising
Nicolas Winding Refn has started the Scotland-based shoot for his next film, Valhalla Rising.Alongside Mads Mikkelsen, the film will star Jamie Sives and Gary Lewis from Billy Elliot fame. The budget is about $7m.The famed Danish director is taking with him the organic working method from his Pusher films shooting ...
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Danish Film Institute offers production funding for mobile films
In a new industry innovation, the Danish Film Institute has allocated about $125,000 (600,000 Danish Kroner) for production of mini features for mobile phones. This marks the first large scale public funding for the mobile format, with these shorts earmarked to run 90 seconds to three minutes. Oscar winner Martin ...
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Madsen's $10m epic Flame & Citron opens as a hit in Denmark
More than 100,000 Danes invaded the cinemas this weekend to watch Ole Christian Madsen's war epic Flame & Citron. In its first three days of release, the two-hour-plus project welcomed more than 101,101 cinemagoers.The figures makes the film a contender to be the most popular Danish film at the 2008 ...
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Zentropa starts new fund to back challenging Danish films
Lars von Trier's Danish production outfit Zentropa has started a new fund to give up to $1.2m (Euros 800,000) to challenging local film projects.Lars von Trier will judge the proposed projects himself and the production funds will go to films where the director is working outside the usual language of ...
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The Art Of Crying named Best Danish Film
The Art Of Crying won two honours at the annual Bodil Awards last weekend in Copenhagen. Peter Schønau Fog's powerful drama won Best Danish Film and Jesper Asholt (Mifune) was named Best Actor for his mesmerizing performance of a father with incestuous tendencies. Fog had faced difficulty finding finance for ...
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Danish box office hits 3.2m admissions in 2007
Danish cinemagoers came out in support of local cinema in 2007, with the local market holding steady as it has roughly the past decade. About 3.2m tickets were bought for Danish films, representing 27% of the total admissions tally of 12.1m. For the year, overall ticket sales were down 3.5%, ...