AFM buyers go bananas for Nordisk
by Annika Pham
The American Film Market, which closed on November 5, was a busy market for Scandinavian giant Nordisk Film, both for its sales arm, which pre-sold the animated film Jungo Goes Bananas to six territories, and its distribution division, which inked a three year output deal with Summit Entertainment.
"The AFM was a success for Nordisk Film International Sales, with a record sale of movies compared to previous years," said the company's PR and Marketing Manager Nicolai Korsgaard. For him, although the focus at the AFM remains on US products, the trump cards for Nordisk were the two films by Ole Bornedal, Just Another Love Story [+see also:
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Head of Sales Tine Klint said that the Danish animated film Jungo Goes Bananas - Jungo III, co-directed by Flemming Quist Møller and Jørgen Lerdam, was a major hit with international buyers. The film was pre-sold to Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The Norwegian children's film Svein & the Rat [+see also:
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The Danish thriller Room 205 [+see also:
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During the AFM, Nordisk Film announced a major output deal with Summit Entertainment International covering all distribution windows on 20 Summit films until 2010. The agreement is for films produced, co-produced and/or acquired by Summit, excluding those on which Summit is sales agent.
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