All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 8
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NewsAppetite for local fare in Norway down in 2012
Norwegian films have lost 59.3% of their audience in the first half of 2012 in their home territory.
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NewsDogme director Kragh-Jacobsen to shoot thriller starring The Killing's Sofie Grabol
The Hunt and Submarino writer Tobias Lindholm has written thriller with Jonas T Bengtsson; principal photography on $3.7m project to get underway in late summer; The Match Factory handles sales.
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NewsDenmark's Filmbyen to sell off three empty properties
‘Danish Hollywood’ outside Copenhagen will now find tenants from other industries.
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NewsPeter Franzén to direct Above Dark Waters
Finnish actor Peter Franzén is to direct and star in the adaptation of his own novel, with backing from the Finnish Film Foundation.
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NewsYellow Bird kicks off new Wallander film series
The Troubled Man to get theatrical release in early 2013, with five more thrillers going straight to TV/home entertainment.
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NewsTomas Alfredson buys film rights to The Brothers Lionheart
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has bought the film rights for Astrid Lindgren’s novel The Brothers Lionheart.
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NewsBuska crowned by Kaurismaki
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
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NewsLongstocking family returns to big screen
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish producer Mirijam Johansson of Wanted Pictures today announces Efraim Longstocking and the Cannibal Princess.
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NewsDaniel Fridell to direct A Private Story
The film about Swedish porn king Berth Milton Jr is being packaged by William Morris Endeavor and produced by Wanted Pictures and Revelin Studios.
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NewsHappy, Happy director Sewitsky plans Sonja Henie biopic
Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky, whose 2010 feature debut Happy, Happy won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, is currently casting her next feature, a $10 million biopic of skating princess Sonja Henie who became a Hollywood star.
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NewsHeadhunters director heads to the sea for Tordenskjold
Morten Tyldum to direct $12.2m historical drama, produced by Norway’s Filmkameratene with Denmark’s Zentropa
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NewsLukas Moodysson to shoot 'happy film' about neglected adolescents
TrustNordisk to handle sales of graphic novel adaptation about three 12-13-year-old girls roaming the streets of 1980s Stockholm; Moodysson wants feature to be “a happy film full of hope and vitality.”
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NewsCPH PIX launches with Dreyer show, Iron Sky
Local productions screening include Carlsen’s Memory of My Melancholy Whores.
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NewsA Royal Affair reigns supreme on opening weekend
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair has had one of the strongest weekend openings ever for a local film, securing 91,578 admissions (including previews) from 101 Danish screens.
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NewsNorwegian Film Institute backs new films from Bent Hamer, Erik Poppe
Six features backed for $9.3m.
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NewsUnderworld duo Marlind and Stein return to Sweden for Collected Swedish Cults
Svensk adapting Anders Fager’s book.
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FeaturesA trip back in time to celebrate A Royal Affair
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair, which won two Silver Bears at the recent Berlinale, was launched by an 18th-century-style gala at the Bio City Theatre in Aarhus.
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NewsSweden's Tre Vanner sets up in Norway with Fossum books deal
Tre Vanner to open offices in Oslo as it expands Norwegian projects.
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NewsThis Life continues raid on Danish box office
The World War 2 set film has taken $3.3m at the box office over its first two weekends, making it the most successful launch of a local film in Denmark since Clown - The Movie in 2010.
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