All articles by Jorn Rossing Jensen – Page 8
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Norwegian Film Fund champions female film-makers
The Norwegian Film Fund has granted $1.6 million (Euros 1.2 m) production support for Norwegian director Eva Isaksen's House Of The Mad, partly from Signature W, a new subsidising scheme aimed at improving the working situation of women film-makers. 'We share the concern expressed in a recent report that the ...
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Astoria avoids bankruptcy
Swedish cinema chain Astoria Cinemas was saved from bankruptcy Friday (16 Mar), as a Stockholm court accepted a majority decision by 260 creditors to write off 75% of the company's debts, totalling $8.9 million (Euros 6.7m). Only two voted against the accord, including the main creditor, the Swedish Film Institute, ...
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New multiplex causes box office boom in Sweden
Three months after Sweden's Queen Silvia inaugurated Filmstaden Bergakungen - SF Bio's new $35.3 million (Euros 26.9m) multiplex with 2,260 seats in Goteborg, the country's second-largest city - Sweden's number-one exhibitor has registered a 42% increase in local cinema attendance. Already operating Filmstaden DownTown (eight auditoria) and Palladium (one), adding ...
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Swedish partners launch fund for five low-budget features per year
In collaboration with Swedish public broadcaster SVT, Swedish regional film centres Film i Vast and Filmpool Nord, the Swedish Film Institute has launched the Rookie film fund, which will finance five low-budget, (primarily) first features annually. Nordisk Film will handle both domestic release and international sales of the titles. Headquartered ...
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Finnish producer MR Matila Rohr on board for Georg
Finnish production outfit, MR Matila Rohr Productions, will co-produce Georg, a $2.76m (Euros 2.1m) biopic of Estonian singer Georg Ots, who in the 1960s was as popular as The Beatles behind the Iron Curtain - 'and in Finland, too,' added Finnish producer Ilkka Matila. Starring Marko Matvere and Anastasia Makejeva, ...
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Video-on-demand prompts Swedish major to merge
To prepare for the breakthrough of video-on-demand in the Scandinavian market, Swedish media giant Bonnier Entertainment - the owner of Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri - has merged its VOD service, SF Anytime, with sister company SF Bio, Scandinavia's largest exhibitor. 'It is a crucial time for video-on-demand, and SF Anytime ...
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Ane Dahl Torp receives inaugural Liv Ullmann prize
Norwegian actress Ane Dahl Torp received the first $16,300 (Euros 12,400) Liv Ullmann Honorary Prize at the Norwegian Film Ball, the gala event organised by the Norwegian Film Institute with the industry at the Oslo Plaza. Ullmann had cancelled her participation due to sickness.Educated at the Norwegian National Drama School ...
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Fallen Angels still ready to fly
Despite losing a director and $1.1m(Eu0.9) state fundingfor Fallen Angels - the second instalment of the Varg Veum project, a $12.9m (Euros 9.8m) package of two theatrical features andfour TV movies - Norway's SF Norge producer Guttorm Pettersonis certain production will proceed as planned.'We expect to name a new director ...
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Renny Harlin to make his first film in Finland in 20 years
Currently making Cleaner in the US with Samuel L Jackson and Ed Harris, Finnish Hollywood-director Renny Harlin will direct his first film in Finland for 20 years, a $15.8-18.8m (Euros 12m-14m) epic of Finnish historical legend CGE Mannerheim, a Swedish-speaking nobleman who served the Russian Tsar before returning in 1917 ...
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NonStop sells Mikkelsen-starrer Exit to France, Germany
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen's performance as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, and his role in Danish director Susanne Bier's Oscar-nominated After the Wedding, have certainly added to his international bankability, per ceo of Stockholm-based NonStop Sales, Michael Werner.Swedish director Peter Lindmark's Mikkelsen starrer, Exit, has now sold German-speaking countries (Galileo ...
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Stansfield and Crook join Quest For A Heart
UK singer Lisa Stansfield and actor Mackenzie Crook will lend their voices to Quest For A Heart, a $7.7m (Euros 6m) fully-animated feature shortly to wrap a five-year production schedule for Finland's MRP Matila Rohr Productions. Stansfield will also perform the theme song.'It will be the jewel of the crown,' ...
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Lordi ready to rock for Finnish horror film
Finnish monster hard-rock group Lordi, which won last year's Eurovision Song Contest, will star in a $5m horror movie from Finnish producer Markus Selin, of Solar Films, who has for the last four years delivered the number one local top-grossers on the Finnish charts.Selin will be in Berlin to discuss ...
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Skarsgaard to star in Scandinavia's most expensive film project
Swedish Hollywood-actor Stellan Skarsgaard will star in The Knight Templar - Svensk Filmindustri's $30.3m (Euro 22.8m) adaption of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson - currently lensing on locations in Morocco.Skarsgaard will perform as Arn's uncle in Scandinavia's so far most expensive film project - two features, ...
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Nordisk invests in Maipo with view to European expansion
Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased a major stake in Oslo-based production house Maipo Film & TV-Produksjon. Set up in 2000 by Norwegian producer Dag Alveberg, who has produced 15 features, Maipo has backed 10 films and a television series - including the Oscar-nominated Elling, by Petter Næss - to ...
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Louhimies' Man Exposed pulled from cinemas after script debate
A High Court in Helsinki has ordered Finnish production house Lasihelmi Filmi to withdraw Finnish director Aku Louhimies' feature, Man Exposed, from public distribution, supporting scriptwriter Veli-Pekka Hanninen's claim that producer Harri Rati violated his rights. Cinemas or others infringing the verdict will be subject to a $129,000 (Euros 100,000) ...
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Lights In The Dusk and Frozen City top Finland 's Jussis
Concluding his losers' trilogy, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk turned up as a winner, cashing in on three out of six nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film prizes - winning Best Film, Best Cinematography (Timo Salminen) and Best Set Design (Markku Patila). The previous instalments ...
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Red Road takes new Bergman prize at Goteborg
UK director Andrea Arnold's Red Road won the first Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award - which comes with a week's stay at the Bergman Week 2007 at Fårö, an engraved stone from Bergman's own beach, and a DVD set with 30 Bergman films - at the 30th Goteborg International Film ...
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Frozen City leads Finnish Jussis awards nominations
Finnish director Aku Louhimies' Frozen City won a top number of eight nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film awards - as the Filmiaura Association of local film professionals announced its choice of films considered for the prizes, which will be handed out at a gala in Helsinki on ...
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Liv Ullmann shelves plans for A Doll's House
Norwegian actress-director Liv Ullmann has decided to shelve her $10.7m (Euros 8.3m) star-studded adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play A Doll's House due to lack of support from the Norwegian Film Fund. 'My life will now go on without A Doll's House,' Ullmann said in a faxed statement (the France-based ...
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Swedish films' local market share slips 9% in 2006
In spite of the release of 36 new Swedish features in 2006, local productions sold only 3m cinema tickets - down 300,000 (9%) from 2005 - to control 20% of the theatrical market, against 22.6% the previous year, according to preliminary statistics from the Swedish Film Institute. International blockbusters, led ...