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Roeg to chair Copenhagen festival jury
Director Nicolas Roeg is to preside over the jury atthe third Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF). The festival, which will focus on European films thisyear, is scheduled to run from August 18-28.Roeg (Don't Look Now, Performance) is preparing aphilosophical thriller to be shot next year with Neve Campbell in a ...
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Copenhagen festival to focus on European film
TheCopenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 18-28) is to concentrateexclusively on screening European films. Thefestival's new programme chief Jacob Neiiendam plans to raise the percentage ofEuropean films playing at the event from 70% to 100%."Weare narrowing the concept geographically but at the same time expect to spreadour wings genre wise. Often ...
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...as Manderlay disappoints on debut launch
Lars Von Trier's Manderlay launched on its hometurf over the weekend, registering a disappointing 3,686 admissions in Danishcinemas. It was the first territory to launch the Cannes competition film.The sequel to Dogville was released on 26screens, which is considered a broad release in Denmark. By comparison, SinCity launched on 32 ...
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Trier confirms Kidman interest in USA trilogy - if it gets made
Lars von Trierhas confirmed he is considering casting both Nicole Kidman and Bryce DallasHoward in Wasington , the third film in his USA trilogy. The two actors haveboth played the same role of Grace in first Dogville (Kidman), and Cannescompetitor Manderlay (Howard). However, the project has been postponed ...
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Trust Film Sales whips up Storm sales
The promo of Swedishthriller Storm directed by MansMarlind and Bjorn Stein is selling quicker than most finished films on theTrust Film Sales counter. Thailand (Pacific Marketing), Mexico (Mandala), Brasil(California Films) and Estonia (Estin Film) have all fallen for Storm aftertwo screenings.Meanwhile,Greece's Rosebud and Italy's Theodora Film have picked up the ...
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Von Trier sets aside USA trilogy to renew his Dogme vows
Cannes favourite Lars VonTrier, in competition with the second part of his USA trilogy Manderlay, will shoot aDogme film in February next year before making part three, Wasington, which has nowbeen postponed until 2007.The film, his second Dogmeproduction produced by Trier's Zentropa, has been titled Direktoren For DetHele in Danish ...
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Nordisk to embark on Johnny pre-sales at Cannes
Copenhagen based Nordisk Film International Sales isto open pre-sales at Cannes for UK-Irish-Danish co-production Johnny Was. The violent thriller, set in the underworld of London,stars Vinnie Jones and will shoot in London and Ireland. The $4.4m film is produced by Affinity, Borderline,Revolver and Nordisk Film. It is directed by Mark ...
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Acclaimed Danish director prepares for Sleeps
AcclaimedDanish director Annette K. Olesen is about to start shooting her next film, anensemble piece called Den Der Sover which has the English working titleof The One Who Sleeps.Olesen'slast two films Minor Mishaps and In Your Hands both played in competitionat the Berlin International Film Festival.TheOne Who Sleeps is the ...
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Danes chew over Jensen's Apples
AndersThomas Jensen's black comedy Adam's Apples scored a record opening inDenmark over the weekend.Theprolific Danish writer and director's film was released on 69 copies around thecountry and sold 58,214 tickets. It's a record opening for 2005 and the bestopening for a local movie in two years, according to Nordisk Film. ...
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Von Trier, Scherfig team for Erik Nietzsche
LoneScherfig is set to direct Erik Nietzsche - the Early Years, based on asemi-autobiographical script written by Lars von Trier.Scherfig(Italian For Beginners) is expected to start filming the project inDenmark in 2006. She is currently preparing to shoot internationalco-production Good, which stars Hugh Jackman and Romola Garai, in Berlinthis summer.Billed ...
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Oscar winning short film director cranks up debut feature
Danishdirector Martin Strange-Hansen, who won the 2002 Oscar best short film award,has started shooting his feature debut, True Spirit.TrueSpirit isbilled as a comedy about a disaster prone magician (Ken Vedsegaard) who teamsup with an insurance agent Arne (Jesper Asholt) to become ghost busters. Accordingto producer Mie Andreasen, Strange-Hansen has a ...
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Ghobadi's Turtles flies off with NatFilm prize
Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly won theaudience prize at the 16th NATfilm festival in Denmark.The film, which is set in an Iraqi refugee camp priorto the US led invasion, is a follow up to Ghobadi's arthouse hit A Time ForDrunken Horses.The Critics Award went to the only documentary runningin competition, ...
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North by Northwest script scheme unveils line-up
Internationalscript development training programme North By Northwest has selected 70 youngwriters from across Europe to participate at this year's event. Themain programmes - Classics and Wizard of Oz (formerly titled Kids Stories) -consist of three script development and training workshops held over a 5month-period. Two thirds of the participants are ...
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Angels leads Danish box office charge
Danish films have made a major impression at thelocal box office in the first two months of 2005.Local filmssold over a million tickets in January and February - a figure normally reachedin May.A string of local hits have contributed to the upswing. OleChristian Madsen's Angels In Fast Motion (Nordkraft) - ...
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Von Trier turns his hand to sitcom writing
Palme D'Or winning directorLars von Trier is taking a short break from film production to write for aDanish TV sitcom.The Danish director hasagreed to pen an episode of Clown, a critically acclaimed sitcom fromtwo of Denmark's top stand-up comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam.The first draft of the scriptis ready ...
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Nordisk Film chief quits for top broadcasting job
Nordisk Film chief Kenneth D. Plummer has been named as the newhead of Danish national broadcaster Denmark Radio (DR).Plummer, 44, will take overin his new role on October 1, leaving Nordisk Film parent company EgmontEntertainment plenty of time to find a successor.One of the oldest filmcompanies in the world, Nordisk ...
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Dedicated Scandinavian film channel set for launch
A team of Scandinavian producers headed by NielsAalbaek Jensen is planning to launch a pay-TV film channel dedicated toScandinavian film.The channel will play no US films or commercials -just Scandinavian features, documentaries and short films. The new channel, which will be co-owned by theproducers and Aalbaek Jensen, is close to ...
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Hit Danish director readies supernatural Island
Nikolaj Arcel, the Danish director of local smash King'sGame, is to shoot action adventure The Island Of Lost Souls thisJune. Produced through Zentropa and Nimbus Film, Island Of LostSouls is a supernatural family film in the vein of Steven Spielberg'searlier work. Unusually for a Danish film, nearly 20% of its ...
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Denmark's NatFilm Festival to open with 11 hour epic
The 16th edition ofCopenhagen's NatFilm Festival (April 1-17) will kick off with a screening of Edgar Reitz's11-hour long Heimat 3 - A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings,the latest film in the director's trilogy about Germany.Starting on the dayof the fall of the Berlin Wall and ending on the eve of ...
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Von Trier drops the dead donkey
Lars Von Trier has bowed to pressure from animal rightsorganisations and cut scenes of a butchered donkey from his forthcoming Manderlay.Previously, actor John C. Reilly quit the set of the film in outrage at the killing.In a letter to the protesting animal rights organisationsvon Trier stated: "To have the dead ...