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Sweden considers film censorship reform
Sweden's culture minister Marita Ulvskog is close to achieving her aim of revising the country's film classification system by adding "abusive sexual humiliation" as one of the criteria for banning a film from public screening or video distribution. The ongoing censorship debate heated up two years ago when Alexa Wolf's ...
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Oslo Cinemas reverse film rental decision
Norway's largest cinema operator has been forced into a U-turn over its refusal to accept recently-implemented national film rental rates.In an unprecedented move, Oslo Cinemas opted out of a new film rental agreement (Screendaily Jan 9), choosing instead to negotiate terms on a film-by-film basis with each distributor. Norway's ...
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Court supports Telenor in Canal Plus case
Norwegian legal authorities have ruled that telecommunications giant Telenor is not obliged to complete its takeover of Nordic pay-TV operator Canal Digital from Canal Plus before a distribution agreement is cleared by the EU Commission. However, Canal Plus has announced that will now take the dispute to arbitrators. Following ...
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Mexican film picks up Trosmo's Aurora
Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien from Mexico picked up top honours, the Aurora award, at this year's Tromso International Film Festival (January 15 - 20).The winner of the prize is guaranteed theatrical release in Norway. The Euros 9500 award, founded by the Norwegian Film Institute, goes to the Norwegian ...
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Gothenburg secures premieres, Berlin previews
A host of international premieres, along with at least two titles destined to go on to Berlin, will get an airing this month at Scandinavia's largest film event, the Gothenburg International Film Festival.Titles in the Nordic competition section include Muraren, a portrait of Swedish actor Thommy Berggren by veteran director ...
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Cool & Crazy launch for new Norwegian distributor
Aage Hoffart, until recently head of marketing at Scandinavia's most established independent film distributor, has launched his own company in competition with his former employer.After 14 years with Norway's leading independent distributor Europafilm, Hoffart has unveiled his own distribution entity, Oro Film, with financial backing from private investment company Diopter.Oro ...
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Norway's state production co becomes media fund
Norwegian private investment company Diopter has acquired a majority stake in the state-owned production entity Norsk Film as part of its creation of a new media investment fund.The 77.6% stake in Norsk Film includes the name of the company, up to 20 films in various stages of development and ...
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Oslo Cinemas reject new film rental agreement
Norway's largest exhibitor, Oslo Cinemas, cancelled the opening of Spy Game this week because of a disagreement with distributor Egmont Columbia TriStar on the film's rental terms. More Hollywood titles could follow.Norwegian distributors and exhibitors recently approved a renewal of the Film Rental Agreement after the old agreement expired on ...
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Telenor, Canal Plus dispute payments in court
Norwegian telecommunications giant Telenor and Vivendi Universal's TV and film division Canal Plus are battling in court over the payment for an agreement the two companies reached last summer. Canal Plus is demanding immediate payment of Euros 237m for the sale of its 50% stake in Nordic pay-TV operator Canal ...
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Maipo opens new chapter on literary adaptations
The Norwegian production outfit Maipo Film hit gold with its first feature film production Elling with more than 740,000 local admissions - the highest figure in 25 years - and is now planning a run of literary adaptations.Veteran producer and head of Maipo Film, Dag Alveberg now has several other ...
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Norway's distributors re-negotiate rental rates
Norwegian film distributors are attempting to increase local rental rates for their future releases. The current level of film rental charges is regulated by a Film Rental Agreement between local distributors and exhibitors. The current agreement, however, expires on January 1, and is now undergoing active re-negotiation. Early talks ...
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Telenor buys Canal Plus nordic pay-TV interests
Norwegian telecommunications giant Telenor has taken outright control of loss-making Nordic pay-TV operator Canal Digital.It did so by buying out the 50 % stake in the joint venture held by Vivendi Universal's TV and film division Canal Plus. It is paying Euros 300m, of which Euros63m is deferred.The two companies, ...
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Domestic favourites tipped for Norwegian Oscars
Local box office hits predominate the nominations for the 2001 Norwegian Amanda Awards, Norway's equivalent of the Academy Awards.Pal Jackman's thirtysomething romantic comedy Detector produced by Norway's Christiania Film, which got three nods, and Norsk Film's documentary Cool and Crazy by Knut Erik Jensen about a male choir in a ...
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Norway appoints outsider to head up new Film Fund
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has taken the local film community by surprise with its decision to appoint Stein Slyngstad, an economist with next to no experience of working in the industry, as director of the new Norwegian Film Fund, which comes into being on July 1.The 40-year-old economist has ...
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Local boy Jensen picks up Norway's Aamot honours
Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen has received the Norwegian Aamot Award in Oslo, Norway. The annual award given by Norway's theatre managers and distributors was bestowed on Jensen for "his ability to capture the life and history of Norway's northernmost regions in a poetical way".Jensen is the director of the ...
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Norwegian festival snubs its own Cannes entry
The Norwegian short film festival in Grimstad (June 14-19) is coming under fire locally for having snubbed Norway's only official Cannes competition entry this year, Jens Lien's one minute short Natural Glasses. Festival officials have answered the criticism by urging the directors of the films refused to still bring their ...
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Norway shuts door on Swedish exhibitor SF
Sweden's largest exhibitor, Svensk Filmindustri (SF), the exhibition arm of the media giant Bonnier Group, has been refused a licence to establish a multiplex in Norway's third largest city, Trondheim, by local authorities. The main argument of local politicians is that cinemas run by the municipality better serve the local ...
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Norsk's last film gets blockbuster roll-out
The last feature to roll out from the now disbanded Norwegian state production outfit Norsk Film will benefit from the highest p&a budget ever for a local film.Thomas Robsahm's $3.4m The Greatest Thing, about a rural femme fatale who simultaneously marries three men only to run away from all of ...
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Norway backs Most People...
Production outfit Motlys has been granted $760,000 from the Norwegian Film Institute for portmanteau project Most People Live In China - a single feature film with eight directors and six screenwriters attached. The directors and writers involved are a combination of well-known names and newcomers.Each segment of the $942,000 film ...
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Norway backs Music For Weddings And Funerals
Four new productions: two feature films and two documentaries, have been greenlighted by Norway's Audiovisual Production Fund. Christiania Film, the company that started in the local film business last year with the suprise box office hit Detector, was granted $1.2m for director Unni Straume's new project: Music For Weddings And ...
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