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After Melancholia, Magnolia Pictures signs Nymphomaniac for the US

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- At the European Film Market in Berlin, Danish international sales agency TrustNordisk also licensed Lars von Trier’s new film to Canada and Hungary

Danish director Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, which will be completed late this year, has been picked up by US distributor Magnolia Pictures, after Danish international sales agency TrustNordisk screened a promo at the European Film Market in Berlin.

“After the tremendous and never predictable experience of distributing von Trier’s Melancholia [+see also:
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, we couldn’t be more excited to be working with him again on the Nymphomaniac films – he is such a talented filmmaker,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles.

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Part of the Wagner/Cuban media group, Magnolia has also released Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
interview: Nikolaj Arcel
film profile
]
on the American market. Its upcoming catalogue comprises Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s prize-winning The Hunt.

TrustNordisk has previously licensed Nymphomaniac to most of Europe, including major territories UK/Ireland (Artificial Eye), Germany/Austria (Concorde), France (Les Films du Losange), CIS (Central Partnership), adding Brazil (California) and Australia/NZ (Transmission).

Originally planned as one feature, the film was to be edited for two versions, one hardcore, the other softer and less explicit. At the European Film Market, distribution was also secured in Canada (Mongrel Media) and Hungary (Vertigo).

Also at the European Film Market, TrustNordisk has signed the first contracts for Danish director Michael Noer’s drama, Northwest, which was taken for the UK (by Arrow Film), France (BAC Films Distribution) and Benelux (Wild Bunch).

Produced by Tomas Radoor and Rene Ezra for Nordisk Film Production, Noer’s second feature (after the award-winning R [+see also:
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) was selected for the Big Screen at Rotterdam and the Dragon competition in Göteborg, where it received the international critics’ FIPRESCI prize.

Starring newcomers Oscar and Gustav Dyekjær Giese, with Nicholas Westwood Kidd, Northwest will next open this year’s CPH PIX-Copenhagen International Film Festival on April 10, launching a programme of 150 titles between April 11-24.

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