All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 6
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Principal photography wraps in Finland for Lordi film
Finnish director Pete Riski has wrapped principal photography for Dark Floors, the $5.6m (Euros 4.2m) horror movie starring Finnish monster rock group Lordi, the 2006 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Except for the concluding bluescreen shots in Helsinki, Dark Floors was lensed entirely in a former factory for Nokia ...
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Norwegian animation Elias to launch in local versions
Norwegian directors Espen Fyksen and Lise I Osvoll's fully-animated Elias and the Royal Yacht, which has taken 230,000 admissions locally, will be launched in Sweden on Sept 28 - in a local version, with a star cast, and backed by strong marketing and merchandising campaigns. Denmark and Finland will follow. ...
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Jean-Claude Carriere to take center stage at Copenhagen
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who has worked on Belle Du Jour, The Tin Drum, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, will receive the Copenhagen International Film Festival's Life Achievement Award in September. 'Screenwriters always end up in the shadow of the director, but we would like to do our bit ...
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Reprise enjoys triple win at Norwegian film awards
Norwegian director Joachim Trier's feature debut, Reprise, became a triple winner of the Amanda awards, the Norwegian national film prizes.The honours were handed out at a TV2-televised ceremony from Haugesund's Festiviteten Concert Hall, preceding the opening of the 35th Norwegian International Film Festival. Reprise cashed in on four nominations, ...
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Zentropa plans feature about Danish terrorist group
Zentropa is planning a feature film to tell the story of the Blekinge Street Gang, the Danish terrorist group which will also be the subject of two TV projects.Since last year Zentropa has been preparing Blekinge Street, anoriginal story based on the real-life events 20 years ago scripted byLars Kjeldgaard ...
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16 films feature at Nordic Co-Production Forum
16 new Scandinavian and German feature film projects, with budgetsbetween $1.2 and $9m (Euros 0.9m-7m), will be presented at the second NordicCo-Production Forum, which takes place between Aug 22-23 as part of theNew Nordic Films market during the Norwegian International FilmFestival in Haugesund. Total production volume exceeds $68m (Euros 50m.)Last ...
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Norwegian festival's New Nordic Films market to offer 30 features
Unspoling between Aug 17-24 in Haugesund, the 35th Norwegian International Film Festival will be opened by Norwegian culture minister Trond Giske and the world premiere of Norwegian director Petter Naess' Gone by the Woman.It will show a programme focusing on Nordic and European cinema, with two-thirds of the selection having ...
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Posne to leave post as CEO of Sonet Film
After 23 years as CEO of Sonet Film, the leading Swedish producer-distributor owned by Modern Times Group, Peter Posne is leaving the company. As of Jan 1, 2008, he will be replaced by head of legal affairs and deputy manager Mathias Berggren.Originally Posne set up Sonet to import and distribute ...
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Svenska Bio strikes deal to acquire Astoria Cinemas
Swedish insolvent cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas - once the country's second-largest theatre chain - has been sold to Svenska Bio, which is 49% controlled by Svensk Filmindustri (SF), a sister company of market leader SF Bio. After the deal, with Svenska Bio, Bonnier-owned SF and SF Bio account for almost ...
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Svenska Bio strikes deal to acquire Astoria Cinemas
Swedish insolvent cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas - once the country's second-largest theatre chain - has been sold to Svenska Bio, which is 49% controlled by Svensk Filmindustri (SF), a sister company of market leader SF Bio. After the deal, with Svenska Bio, Bonnier-owned SF and SF Bio account for almost ...
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New Abu Dhabi festival to offer film financing with top awards
The Black Pearl - the grand prix of the new Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF), unspooling for the first time in Abu Dhabi Oct 14-19 - will come with production grants for the winners' next films. 'The festival is determined to plant its flag right away,' said festival director ...
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SVT pulls out most expensive Nordic feature, $30m Arn
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has pulled out of Svensk Filmindustri's Arn-The Knight Templar, the two-film adaptation of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson, which - with a $30.3m (Euros 22.8m) budget - will become the most expensive feature production in the Nordic countries. 'Unfortunately Svensk Filmindustri cannot ...
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Ahead of Locarno premiere, Vexille sells to 75 territories including US
As the androids in Japanese director Fumihiko Sori's animated sci-fi thriller Vexille invade the Piazza Grande for tonight's opening of the Locarno International Film Festival 2008, the $10m CGI feature has already been sold to 75 countries, including the US. According to vp international sales and licensing Aki Harimoto, of ...
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Arcel prepares new feature about Danish royals for Zentropa
Danish director Nicolaj Arcel, whose Island of Lost Souls sold 195,000 tickets domestically, is preparing a feature film about the relationship between Danish King Christian VII, Queen Caroline Mathilde and German-born physician-in-ordinary Johann Friedrich Struensee, who was executed in 1772 - 235 years ago.Over the years several projects have been ...
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Swedish admissions up but local productions down 3.8% in 2006
Swedish cinemas struck back in 2006, having lost 11% both in attendance and gross box office receipts the year before: admissions reached 15.3 million and ticket sales $181 million (Eu131 million), up 5% and 7%, respectively. However, according to the annual report on the film industry published by the Swedish ...
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Trust takes on sales of Szumowska's 33 Scenes Of Life
Denmark's Trust Film Sales will handle international sales of Polish director Malgosia Szumowska's 33 Scenes of Life, currently shooting at Krakow, Poland. Denmark's Zentropa Entertainments is co-producing. 'I worked with Szumowska on Visions of Europe-25 Countries 1 Film, where she delivered the Polish entry, and we agreed we would continue ...
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Norwegian admissions slip in 2007, but local market share rises
Admissions declined in Norway, but local market share went up during the first six months of 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Theatres sold 5.1m tickets during the period, down 13% on 2006, still 1.4% better than in 2005. Local fare accounted for 20.6% ...
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Sweden's Film i Vast to host $96m level of international features
Swedish regional film centre, Film i Vast in Trollhattan, will this year co-produce and facilitate local or international features at a total volume of $96m (Euros 70.5m), with Denmark's Zentropa Entertainments accounting for $13.3m (Euros 9.8m) of the business. Film i Vast's own investment reaches $8.3m (Euros 6m).'Zentropa has an ...
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Robert Young starts Norwegian shoot for Wide Blue Yonder
This week the Norwegian city of Haugesund - home of the Norwegian International Film Festival - was invaded by stars outside the festival season, as UK director Robert Young started principal photography for his new feature, Wide Blue Yonder, with British actors Brian Cox and and James Fox in the ...
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Sweden's Astoria Cinemas files for bankruptcy
Last curtain fell for Swedish cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas - once the country's second-largest theatre chain - as part-owner and managing director (since June 8) Jonny Jergander filed for bankruptcy less than two months after distributor-exhibitor Triangelfilm, the main force behind the set-up, also went bust. 'We are all losers. ...