Emmy puts cherry on cake for Yellow Bird’s Millennium
The Millenium [+see also:
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film profile] trilogy – the most successful film project so far to come out of Scandinavia – won an International Emmy for Best TV mini series, when the International of Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honoured the best television programmes produced and initially aired outside the US.
At the New York City gala Monday (November 21), CEO Mikael Wallén, producers Søren Stærmose and Susann Billberg, of Swedish production outfit Yellow Bird Production, with programme director Annie Wegelius and executive producer Gunnar Carlsson, of Swedish public broadcaster SVT, cashed in on one of the three Emmy nominations for the series, but missed Best Actress (Noomi Rapace for her role as Lisbeth Salander) and Best Actor (Michael Nyqvist, for journalist Mikael Blomqvist).
”The Emmy – the most important television prize in the world - shows that Sweden has the potential to assert itself in the international competition. It will put the spotlight on Swedish drama production and improve our prospects for the future,” said Wallén and Wegelius. Yellow Bird produced the three features/six TV episodes of Millennium with, among others, Danish major Nordisk Film Production A/S and Germany’s Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).
Originally only the first part of the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (aka Men Who Hate Women) [+see also:
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interview: Niels Arden Oplev
interview: Søren Stærmose
film profile], was scheduled for theatrical release, but the audience reception also rerouted Swedish director Daniel Alfredson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest to the big screen. Launched in more than 50 countries, the three films took more than €163 million box office.
At this year’s CineEurope (previously known as CineExpo) industry convention in Amsterdam (June 30) Stærmose’s production received European Box-Office Achievement Award. The last time a Swedish TV film received an Emmy was in 1998 when Swedish director Lars Molin won, not for a tattooed girl, but for The Tattooed Widow, also from SVT.
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