the copenhagen post | april 12-18
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12 - 18 April 2013 | Vol 16 Issue 15 Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk
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IMAGINE you’re selling a car. To someone you trust. � ey give you their word and you give them the keys, which they promptly pass on
to a third party who you don’t know and who won’t acknowledge you as the owner.
� is is what happened to Jon Love, but it was a � lm script, not a car. � e movie in question is ‘Det Grå Guld’, which was released by SF Film at cin-emas across the country on March 27. � e Scottish screenwriter claims that
he has not been properly paid for his work, receiving just a third of the agreed £15,000 fee, but he concedes that the situation is complicated.
“At least morally, I am the owner of that script,” he told � e Copenhagen Post.
Love, who lives and works in Glas-gow, originally developed the script, entitled ‘Harvey and Joan’, through a script development programme run by the Danish Film Institute. He said he was introduced to Søren Juul Petersen, the owner of the Zeitgeist � lm company, during the programme, who o� ered to pick up the script.
“Petersen initially o� ered me £25,000, and the whole thing was wrapped up in a one-and-a-half page contract,” Love said.
Petersen then set about raising the
No love lost between screenwriter and � lm producerwas a bit di� erent.
“My new contract, unlike the pre-vious one, was now many pages longer and full of strangulated legalese,” Love explained. “I suspect that by this point SF were already in the mix, probably as co-producers.”
� e new contract stipulated that Love would receive a total of £15,000 in three instalments of £5,000, to be paid on the � rst day of shooting, the last day, and on completion of the edit. However, Love says he has only re-ceived £5,000, and that was only after relentless pestering.
“Still to this day, that’s been the only payment I have ever received for the nearly � ve years of work that I spent on
Det Grå Guld continues on page 6
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Scottish writer of ‘Det Grå Guld’ claims he has only been partially paid for his work
necessary production funds while Love developed the script, he explained. � e intent, he said, was to shoot the � lm in Scotland with Scottish actors under a Danish director.
But soon after, Petersen dropped the project, citing an inability to raise funds. Six months later, Love said, Petersen contacted him to say that the � lm could proceed – only if Love agreed to the � lm being translated into Danish, as well as an 80 percent pay cut.
“I wasn’t happy, but really wanted the � lm to be made, so I eventually agreed to a 40 percent cut,” Love said. “I was promised that the script wouldn’t change, except in as much as was neces-sary to take account of social and cul-tural di� erences.”
� is time, however, his contract
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LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
Learn Danish - it’s a skill for work, for study and for life
GUIDE
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...
coctails & clubhappy hour & dj’s 10 pm fridays & saturdays
...
www.karrierebar.com
12 - 18 April 2013 | Vol 16 Issue 15 Denmark’s only English-language newspaper | cphpost.dk
JUST
IN C
RE
ME
R
IMAGINE you’re selling a car. To someone you trust. � ey give you their word and you give them the keys, which they promptly pass on
to a third party who you don’t know and who won’t acknowledge you as the owner.
� is is what happened to Jon Love, but it was a � lm script, not a car. � e movie in question is ‘Det Grå Guld’, which was released by SF Film at cin-emas across the country on March 27. � e Scottish screenwriter claims that
he has not been properly paid for his work, receiving just a third of the agreed £15,000 fee, but he concedes that the situation is complicated.
“At least morally, I am the owner of that script,” he told � e Copenhagen Post.
Love, who lives and works in Glas-gow, originally developed the script, entitled ‘Harvey and Joan’, through a script development programme run by the Danish Film Institute. He said he was introduced to Søren Juul Petersen, the owner of the Zeitgeist � lm company, during the programme, who o� ered to pick up the script.
“Petersen initially o� ered me £25,000, and the whole thing was wrapped up in a one-and-a-half page contract,” Love said.
Petersen then set about raising the
No love lost between screenwriter and � lm producerwas a bit di� erent.
“My new contract, unlike the pre-vious one, was now many pages longer and full of strangulated legalese,” Love explained. “I suspect that by this point SF were already in the mix, probably as co-producers.”
� e new contract stipulated that Love would receive a total of £15,000 in three instalments of £5,000, to be paid on the � rst day of shooting, the last day, and on completion of the edit. However, Love says he has only re-ceived £5,000, and that was only after relentless pestering.
“Still to this day, that’s been the only payment I have ever received for the nearly � ve years of work that I spent on
Det Grå Guld continues on page 6
MP’s comments on Maoris make international waves
City Hall makes plans to spend excess money
75
Language schoolssupplement inside
Scottish writer of ‘Det Grå Guld’ claims he has only been partially paid for his work
necessary production funds while Love developed the script, he explained. � e intent, he said, was to shoot the � lm in Scotland with Scottish actors under a Danish director.
But soon after, Petersen dropped the project, citing an inability to raise funds. Six months later, Love said, Petersen contacted him to say that the � lm could proceed – only if Love agreed to the � lm being translated into Danish, as well as an 80 percent pay cut.
“I wasn’t happy, but really wanted the � lm to be made, so I eventually agreed to a 40 percent cut,” Love said. “I was promised that the script wouldn’t change, except in as much as was neces-sary to take account of social and cul-tural di� erences.”
� is time, however, his contract
JESSICA HANLEY &SIGRID NEERGAARD
Sign up for info meeting on 30 April on www.cbs.dk/emba
Do BRIC mARketS DefIne gloBAl ConSumptIon?
leARn how to leAD In a new world wIth CBS exeCutive MBa
COMMUNITY
Meet the rebels from Somerset whose cider rebellion might end up toppling the Somersby empire
13
NEWS
Average waiting time for citizenship has exploded to well over 400 days under new government
3
“I felt in danger”
7
Danish citizen recently returned from the Central African Republic recounts his harrowing experience
O� -� eld losses
15
� ree quarters of the Superliga clubs are in the red, although the situation is not unique to Denmark
9 771398 100009
Price: 25 DKK
NEWS
BUSINESS
As lockout prepares to enter its third week, we spoke to teachers at Copenhagen International School
Still locked out4
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