All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 5
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NewsCPH PIX kicks off with Northwest; Munk wins Nordisk prize
Copenhagen festival will screen 160 features.
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NewsNordisk buys Norwegian cinema giant
Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased all shares in Oslo Kino - Norway’s largest cinema chain - for $103m (NOK 600m) from the municipality of Oslo.
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NewsSweden's Film i Vast scores record admissions
Swedish and international features co-produced last year by Swedish regional film centre Film i Väst in Trollhättan took a record 21 million admissions - 40% up on the previous year.
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NewsCPH PIX reveals line-up
Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is to be screened in full as part of the 5th CPH PIX-Copenhagen International Film Festival.
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NewsAdmissions down 4.3% in Iceland
Box office revenue in Iceland climbed 1.2% on 2011 but admissions took a dip. Skyfall topped the charts while Black’s Game proved the most popular domestic title.
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NewsFinnish cinema hits 30-year high
Cinema admissions in Finland reached 8.5 million in 2012, the best result since 1983.
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NewsNielsen flies to sci-fi Exodus
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish-Danish producer Richard Georg Engström and Danish director Tommy Ipsen are at the EFM to promote their €4m English-language sci-fi project [pictured].
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NewsGoteborg’s Dragon Award goes to Before Snowfall
Other winners include Dog Flesh, Searching for Sugar Man, Northwest, A Hijacking, Wadjda, La Ravadeuse and Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart.
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NewsCopenhagen to offer $6.3m film fund
The Danish capital of Copenhagen is to establish a regional film fund in a bid to attract foreign productions and place the city on the international movie map.
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NewsScandinavian directors forge Creative Alliance
Thomas Vinterberg and Lone Scherfig are among six top Scandinavian directors who have joined forces with US outfit Parts & Labor to develop English-language films for the international marketplace.
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NewsSwedish box office best since 1989
Swedish cinemas registered the best annual result since the late 1980s with 18.4 million admissions in 2012, up 12% on 2011 (16.4 million), according to the Swedish Film Institute.
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NewsBabak Najafi wins lucrative Göteborg award
Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival has awarded director Babak Najafi the Startsladden Award - one of the industry’s biggest prizes for a short film.
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NewsGoteborg to spotlight Norwegian features
Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival, which opens tonight (Jan 25) with Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki, have improved services for the 1,500 film professionals expected for the showcase, which runs through Feb 4.
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NewsEat Sleep Die and Call Girl sweep Sweden's Guldbagge awards
Directors Gabriela Pichler and Mikael Marcimain took the lion’s share of the Guldbagge – Sweden’s national film prize – when the Swedish Film Institute presented the awards last night (Jan 21) at a televised gala in Stockholm’s Cirkus.
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NewsGunnar Carlsson joins Anagram Produktion
Swedish producer Gunnar Carlsson - former head of drama at Swedish pubcaster SVT – has been signed as film and drama chief at Anagram Produktion, the Lund-based production company instigated in 2003 by Swedish actor-comedians, writers, directors and producers Anders Jansson and Johan Wester.
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NewsNorway predicts box office boost after weak 2012
The Norwegian Film Institute predicts a 33% boost to admissions over the next 12 months.
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NewsGöteborg unveils 2013 programme; reveals Dragon Award titles
Eight new Nordic features will compete for the $150,000 (SEK 1m) Dragon Award – one of the film world’s largest prizes – at Sweden’s 36th Göteborg International Film Festival.
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NewsNorwegian films down 24% at domestic box office
Top five Norwegian and international films of 2012 revealed.
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NewsRoyal Affair leads Denmark’s Bodil Award nominations
Period drama up against Excuse Me, Teddy Bear, You and Me Forever, and A Hijacking for Best Film.