All articles by Jacob Wendt Jensen – Page 2
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Gosling, Waits on board for Dagur Kari's The Good Heart
Icelandic director Dagur Kari, who previously made festival this Noi Albinoi and Dark Horse, is gearing up for a December start of shoot for his next project The Good Heart.The film, which shoots in San Francisco and Iceland, stars Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits. Kagur wrote the story, about a ...
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Danish Film Institute supports $7.2mviking epic
Nicolas Winding Refn is getting ready to shoot Valhalla Rising with support from the Danish Film Institute. The national institute is guaranteeing $1.1m (Euros 0.8m) of its $7.2m (Euros 5.1m)budget. National star Mads Mikkelsen plays amute Viking who whileescaping from imprisonment in Scotland accidentally discovers America. The shoot is expected ...
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Denmark's Nordisk buys 50% of Swedish producer S/S Fladen
Copenhagen-based distributor Nordisk Film has formed a strategic partnership with Swedish production company S/S Fladen, acquiring 50% of the company. The deal is the latest in a string of alliances struck by Nordisk over the last two years after similar cooperations with Tre Vänner, Illusion Film, Hep Film and Bob ...
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NatFilm and Copenhagen plan to merge for new festival
Denmark 's two leading film festivals, NatFilm and the Copenhagen International Film Festival, are busy in negotiations about merging the two events. The fifth Copenhagen International Film Festival recently ended, and NatFilm will host its 19th edition in March 2008. After that, the events will merge into one festival, which ...
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Nordic films triumph at Copenhagen
More than half of the 11 features in competition at this years Copenhagen International Film Festival went home with an award. The main winners were Nordic films. Ake Sandgrens To Love Someone was the only film to win two awards taking home the script prize to Kim Fupz Aakesson and ...
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Newspaper veteran named new CEO of Danish Film Institute
The Danish Film Institute has announced that Henrik Bo Nielsen will take over as the new CEO of the instutute, as Henning Camre steps down from the post in June.Camre had strengthened the Danish industry's profile internationally, as well as backing local hits, in his decade at the job.Nielsen previously ...
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Fischer Christensen follows A Soap With Everyone's Dancing
Producer Meta Louise Foldager has raised $3.26m (Euros 2.4m) in financing for Pernille Fischer Christensen's Everybody's Dancing (Drenge og piger danser). The film is Fischer Christensen's follow-up to debut A Soap (En Soap), which won the 2006 Berlinale's Silver Bear and Best Debut awards as well as best film at ...
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A Soap surprise at the Bodil Awards
The best film at this year's Danish Bodil prizes may have been Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Soap, but in many ways the star of the night was a film financing programme. New Danish Talent was launched by the Danish Film Institute two years ago to supportDanish debut directors or younger ...
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New Danish Screen to get new head at end of 2007
The Danish Film Institute's New Danish Screen department will see big changes in 2007. Vinca Wiedemann has announced that she will not reapply for her position as head of the division, and will leave when her contract expires on Sept 1, 2007.The department has more new challenges and new initiatives ...
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Von Trier makes devil's pact with Anders Thomas Jensen on Antichrist
Lars von Trier recently took an unusual step to finish the script for his new horror film Antichrist. He phoned archrival and prolific writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen for help. Jensen has worked as a co-writer with Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig and directed three projects himself: Flickering Lights, The Green ...
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Soren Kragh-Jacobsen plans political thriller for Nimbus
Danish director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen will start shooting political thriller Det som ingen ved (literal translation: What No One Knows) on Feb 19. The eight-week shoot will take place in Denmark and Sweden. The project will star Anders W. Berthelsen, who starred in the director's Mifune as well as in another ...
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Denmark's Trust Film Sales expands into distribution
Zentropa's sister company Trust International Film Sales has set up Trust Film Distribution to handle releases for Zentropa projects as well as other titles.The new division is set up in time to release Anders Ronnow Klarlund's black social comedy How To Get Rid Of The Others nationwide today. In addition ...
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Denmark box office healthy despite drop in ticket sales for 2006
Danish market share is down 6% from 2005, with 800,000 less ticket sales for local films in 2006. While a 26% share may seem a disappointing result, it comes after a boom year for Danish admissions in 2005.In 2005, market share reached an all-time high of 32%, with 3.9m tickets ...
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Bier and Oplev lead Bodil prize nominations
Denmark 's two biggest box office successes of 2006 also proved to be the critical, darlings earning four nominations each for the Bodil prize to be handed out Feb 25. Susanne Bier's melodrama After The Wedding and Niels Ardens Oplev's traditional coming of age story We Shall Overcome tied at ...
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Denmark's Father sells well abroad
Usually family filmsfrom Denmark don't sell very well abroad, but the case of Father Never Gives Up is proving more successful. The film sold511,000 tickets last winter in Danish cinemas, beating competition from SusanneBier and Anders Thomas Jensen to become the best performing Danish film thatopened in 2005.The film has ...
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Partners vote Zentropa out of Filmfolket
Zentropa is nolonger part of Filmfolket, the newdistribution business opened last year. Filmfolket had been owned in equalparts by Nimbus Film, Zentropa and CEO Loke Havn, who worked at SandrewMetronome.According to PeterAalbaek Jensen, co-owner of Zentropa with Lars von Trier, Zentropa was votedout of the business in a 1-2 upset ...
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Nordisk buys 50% stake in DVD company Substanz
Nordisk Film recently bought 50% of production companySubstanz. The Copenhagen-based production company has specialized in transferringold documentary bits of Danish people's everyday lives to the DVD format. The concept hastaken off with the public, with Substanz selling 330,000 DVDs in Denmark and Norway in two years. The company isin the ...
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Mads Mikkelsen signs up for Danish Flame & Citron
Lars Bredo Rahbek, the producer behind the $7.6 (Euros 6m) Flame & Citron has signed up current Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen to play the lead character alongside co-star Thure Lindhardt. Nimbus Film is currently working on the last rounds of financing with 75 % of the film's budget in ...
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Mikkelsen to star in wartime thriller Flame & Citron
Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish star whose internationalprofile is set to soar when he is seen as the villain in Casino Royale later this month, has signed to play Citron in the$7.7m World War II thriller Flame & Citron.The Danish-language film will be directed by OleChristian Madsen, whose fourth feature Prague, ...
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Denmark's Flame And Citron gains momentum
Danish feature FlameAnd Citron has raised 75% of itsrelatively large $7.6m (45m Danish Kroner) and will head into production withdelivery set for 2008.Ole Christian Madsen willdirect the story of two colourful and important freedom fighters during WorldWar II. Lars K Andersen wrote the script.The director sees his newfilm as an ...