All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 4
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Beta Cinema takes on Norwegian Film Fund-backed Orange Girl
Norwegian director Eva Dahr's The Orange Girl (Appelsinpiken), from Jostein Gaarder's novel, is one of six new Norwegian features the Norwegian Film Fund gave the go-ahead by channelling $9.1m (NOK 50.3 million) production funding into the projects, closing almost half of the $20.4m (NOK 112 million) budgets.At the European Film ...
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Tomas Alfredson's vampire film takes top Gothenburg prizes
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komme In) won two prizes in the Nordic competition at Sweden's Gothenburg International Film Festival.The romantic horror film based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel about a 12-year-boy who meets avampire girl picked up the Nordic Film Award's$15,700 prize ...
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Nordisk sets up new Norwegian distribution and sales operation
Danish major, Nordisk Film, has merged its distribution and sales operations into a new company, Nordisk Film Distribusjon Norway, which will become Norway's largest provider of consumer entertainment with an annual turnover of $110.3m (EUR73.3m).The move is part ofthe company's driveto further strengthen its position in the Norwegian market place.As ...
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NonStop picks up Sundance winner King Of Ping Pong
Swedish director Jens Jonsson's Sundance winner, The King Of Ping Pong, has been picked up for international distribution by Sweden 's NonStop Sales. Jonsson's feature debut, which took first prize in Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Competition and was also awarded for Best Cinematography (Askild Vik Edvardsen), opened Sweden 's Göteborg ...
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Swedish box office flat but local films increase market share
Swedish cinema attendance fell by 1% to 15.2 million admissions in 2007, although local productions managed to increase market share. Local films pulled in 3.2 million spectators last year, for a market share of 21.1%, compared to admissions of 2.9 million for a 18.8% market share in 2006. However, the ...
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As Goteborg kicks off, 200 people expected at Nordic Film Market
More than 200 international film professionals - producers, buyers, sellers and festival programmers - have registered for the Nordic Film Market, running between Jan 31-Feb 3 during Sweden's 31st Goteborg International Film Festival, which starts today.This year's programme includes 20 recent Nordic features and 12 works-in-progress, such as Danish director ...
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Sweden's Svensk names Tobias Lenner as CEO
Swedish major, Svensk Filmindustrihas appointed Tobias Lenner as CEO of the company's Swedish branch - a position also held by concern chief Rasmus Ramstad, who continues as head of the enterprise, and to whom Lenner will report.According to SF, the expansion during the last 10 years from being a local ...
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You, the Living wins big at Sweden's Guldbagge awards
Swedish director Roy Andersson's You, the Living (Du levande) won three Guldbagge awards - the Swedish national film prizes - as the Swedish Film Institute last night celebrated the 2007 film crop at a ceremony in Stockholm's Cirkus.Andersson's film - Sweden's official Oscar candidate, which didn't make it to the ...
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Trust and Nordisk to launch new joint sales operation in Berlin
Leading Scandinavian sales outfits, Trust Film Sales and Nordisk Film International Sales, will set up a joint sales operation, to be launched at the upcoming European Film Market during the Berlinale.Both companies have reserved stands at the market, but since they are next to each other, they will simply knock ...
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Gothenberg announces 450-film line-up
This year's Gothenberg International Film Festival (Jan 25-Feb 4) will comprise 450 films from 67 countries, with around 40 seminars, the Nordic Film Market andnumerous concerts.The festival will be bookended by two local films, both about brothers in conflict - Jens Jonsson's The Ping Pong King (Ping-pongkingen), competing in Sundance's ...
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Norway's local market share holds steady as admissions fall 10%
In 2007 Norwegian cinemas registered a 10% decline in admissions, to reach 10.8m, according to statistics from the Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Local productions accounted for 1.7m admissions, to maintain last year's market share of 16.4% which (except for 2003) is the largest since 1975.'The big international blockbusters ...
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Sweden's Svensk buys Sonet Film from Modern Times Group
Swedish major, Svensk Filmindustri (SF), has acquired local producer-distributor Sonet Film, including the brand name, from Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG), it was announced today.Co-founder and ceo Peter Possne, who earlier this year (Aug 10) scheduled Jan 1, 2008, as the date of his resignation, will be head of the ...
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Swedish government gives $3m for Bergman's legacy
The Swedish government has allocated $3.1m (Euros 2.1m) to secure the artistic legacy of Ingmar Bergman, equally sharing the grant between his work in cinema and on stage.The Ingmar Bergman Foundation will receive $900,000 (Euros 600,000) to preserve and digitise the Bergman archives - starting with the 45 packing cases ...
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Norwegian Fund backs projects including epic Max Manus
The Norwegian Film Fund's $3.1m backing hasgiven thegreen light for leading Norwegian producer John M Jacobsen's Max Manus, a WWII epic which will shoot from February. The fund also chipped in for two less expensive first features.From a screenplay by Thomas Nordseth based on Manus' own books, and produced by ...
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Renny Harlin's $15m Mannerheim to shoot in August 2008
Finnish actor Mikko Nousiainen, who starred in local blockbuster The Restless will play Finnish historical legend Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in a $14.7m (Euros 10m) biopic, which will mark the return to Finland of Finnish/Hollywood director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2: Die Harder).Principal photography for the film has been scheduled ...
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Finnish government boost cinema funding after producers' strike
Apologising that he actually gave them more money than they went to strike for, Finnish culture minister Stefan Wallin has complied with Finnish producers' demands of increasing state funds for film production. As recommended by the Finnish Parliament's education, culture and audit committees, Wallin confirmed that the revenue from the ...
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Swedish Film Institute plans to double specific grants
In a response to 'the rapid technological development, new audience patterns, and the concentration of power in the cinema market,' the Swedish Film Institute has devised a new plan of action to support the promotion and distribution of quality films in the newlandscape. The recent bankruptcies of quality film ...
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After strike, Hellstedt's Land Under Water gets Finnish backing
The Finnish Film Foundation has backed the first local feature film project after the producers' strike, chipping in $739,000 (Euros 500,000) production funding for Finnish director Lenka Hellstedt's Land Under Water (Maata meren alla). Current box-office figures suggest the importance of domestic product in the cinemas: last weekend, three Finnish ...
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Stockholm kicks off tonight with Josef Fares' Leo
As the world première of Swedish director Josef Fares' Leo opens the 18th Stockholm International Film Festival tonight - the first time a Swedish feature launches the fest - local audiences are facing an 11-day programme of more than 170 features, adding seminars, lectures, Face2Face discussions and workshops, all dedicated ...
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Norway's Kill Buljo sells to 26 territories for Imagination Worldwide
Norwegian directors Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen's $163,700 (Eu112,600) project Kill Buljo-The Movie has sold to 26 territories following the AFM, including the US, the UK, Australia (The Weinstein Company). The US-based sales agent Imagination Worldwide has also licensed the film to Brazil (Europa Filmes), Japan (New Select), Germany ...