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Changing of the Lars von Trier guard
Meta Louise Foldager hasbeen named as Lars von Trier's new producer after Vibeke Windeløv departed after adecade to pursue other projects. The 31year-old produced King's Gamedirected by Nikolaj Arceland Angels in Fast Motion directed byOle Christian Madsen. "In thecontext of Vibeke choosing something else thanproducing my films I would like ...
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Changing of the guard at Lars von Trier
Meta Louise Foldager hasbeen named as Lars von Trier's new producer after Vibeke Windeløv departed after adecade to pursue other projects. The 31year-old produced King's Gamedirected by Nikolaj Arceland Angels in Fast Motion directed byOle Christian Madsen. "In thecontext of Vibeke choosing something else thanproducing my films I would like ...
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Nils Malmros starts shooting Kaerestesorger
Director Nils Malmros has just started shooting one of the most expensive Danish films of all-time: the budget for Kaerestesorger is set at $4.3m (3.7m Euros), including a record backing from the Danish Film Institute.The director travelled widely with his 1981 picture Tree of Knowledge and nearlyalways draws on his ...
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Von Trier's producer call it quits
Vibeke Windeløv, Lars von Trier's producer for manyyears, has decided to bow out of producing his upcoming feature My Man the President. After working on severalof Von Trier's international film projects Windeløvat the age of 54 wants new challenges. She will remain a co-owner of Zentropa and may return to ...
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Zentropa sign deal with producer Regnar Grasten
Zentropa has invited a new partner into Filmbyen, Copenhagen. Local producer RegnarGrasten has moved his production facilities from DetDanske Filmstudie where many popular classics were made to Zentropa.Zentropa will produce Grasten'snext three films, one of which is a fourth sequel to the popular Anja & Viktor series, a Christmasfilm for ...
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Oscar-nominated Gaup hopes it's third time lucky
Oscar-nominee Nils Gaup will try his luck at abig Scandinavian film challenge for the third time in his career. The 50-year-old director is best known for Pathfinder, a film about his Lapp roots. In The Kautokeino Rebellion, planned for February, he will tell the story of the rebellion of theoppressed ...
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Danes fall for their own Bridget Jones
Denmark has fallen for its very own Bridget Jones - ahit film based on a newspaper column about a frustrated single girl eating toomuch ice cream and having too few boyfriendsNynne's Diary is ruling the Danish box-office charts selling 277,000 tickets in fourweeks and the film is still shown in ...
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Danes fall for their own Bridget Jones
Denmark has fallen for its very own Bridget Jones - ahit film based on a newspaper column about a frustrated single girl eating toomuch ice cream and having too few boyfriendsNynne's Diary is ruling the Danish box-office charts selling 277,000 tickets in fourweeks and the film is still shown in ...
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Danish box-office stronger than much of Europe
Denmark's box office is faring better than the rest of Europe. With many European countries seeing ticket sales dip 15-20%, Denmark is only down about 7% over last year, and with blockbusters such as Harry Potter and King Kong forthcoming, Danish box-office performance could be on par with last year ...
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Glawogger and Herzog share Copenhagen garlands
The top prize at this year's third Copenhagen Dox film festival was shared between Michael Glawogger'sWorkingman's Death and WernerHerzog's The White Diamond.The former deals with the consequences of globalisation while the latter tells the story of a British engineer with dreams of flying over the rainforest in a hot-air balloon.OdessaOdessa ...
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Fly's Manslaughter wins Nordic Council prize
Per Fly's Manslaughterhas won the prestigious NordicCouncil Film Prize 2005The third film in Fly's class trilogy, Manslaughter is still playing well in Denmark after six weeks of releaseand nearly 320.000 tickets sold. Itrecently played in competition at San Sebastian.The cash prize was awarded by the Nordic Council andcomes with a ...
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Danish film-makers take aim at Dogme, Trier
Two high profile Danishfilm-makers have embarked on new projects that appear to be attacks on thecountry's most famous film exports - Lars von Trier and the Dogme movement.Upcoming films from OleBornedal (I Am Dina) and Anders Thomas Jensen (Adam's Apples)both indirectly address Trier's position as the local king of art ...
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Trier turns to comedy with Manager
Lars von Trier has said hisnext film, The Manager Of It All, will be a comedy that he will shoot inFebruary next year.Speakingat a seminar at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Jutland, Trierrecently elaborated on the genre of the new dogme film."I hope to get the joy ofmaking films ...
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Copenhagen Screenings win seller approval
The Copenhagen International Film Festival's (Aug 18-28)new industry Screenings programme has been given the stamp of approval byScandinavian sellers.Trust Film Sales, NordiskFilm Sales and Angel Film have reported strong interest generated by the CopenhagenScreenings. Ten new Danish films wereshown to 30 international buyers over a two-day period during the festival ...
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Strong opening for Fly's Manslaughter
Danish director Per Fly Manslaughter had a strong opening in itslocal market over the weekend on the back of rave reviews. Manslaughter, the third in Fly's trilogy of class filmsthat includes The Bench andInheritance, opened number one in Denmark with over 38,000admissions, three times as many as the second placed ...
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Live And Become flies off with Copenhagen award
Romanian director RaduMihaileanu's Live And Become took the Golden Swan for best film and thebest script prize at this year's Copenhagen International Film Festival.Mihaileanu's Live AndBecome, about Ethiopian Jews rescued from Sudan by the Israelis in the1980s, opened the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival inFebruary.The Death of ...
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Giant recognised at Haugesund
Norwegian documentary Giant has walked off with most of the top prizesat the NorwegianInternational Film Festival in Haugesund, which wrapped today (August 26).Arne B. Rostad and Hallvard Bræin's film aboutNorwegian artist Erik Bye took home the top Andreas Award as well as theaudience and local critics prize.Bye, who died last ...
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Strings director wins backing for dark satire
Danish director Anders Ronnow-Klarlund has won backingfor his follow-up to festival title Strings,called John, Bodil, China and Melanie.The Danish Film Institute (DFI) has invested Euros500,000 in the project which will be produced by Zentropa Entertainment.Ronnow-Klarlund's fourth film is a satire set in a nottoo distant future. A quarter of the ...
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Copenhagen selects ten Euro films for competition
The third Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug18-28) has unveiled a ten strong line-up of European films for its maincompetition. Danish cinema is represented by by Murk, Jannik Johansen's thrillerfollow up to his caper comedy Rembrandt. German director Andreas Dresen follows up his festivalhit Grill Point with Willenbrock, the story of ...
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Winding Refn lines up Viking tale Valhalla Rising
Pusher and FearX director Nicolas Winding Refn is lining up a new film about a mute Vikingcalled Valhalla Rising. Mads Mikkelsen will play theViking who escapes from imprisonment in Scotland who accidentally discoversAmerica on his journey home.The film is expected to be shotwith handheld camera and a relatively small film ...