CNN's Screening Room depicts the situation of the Icelandic film industry in its December 23rd edition. Check out the segment, featuring interviews with directors Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Baltasar Kormákur and Baldvin Z, producer Ingvar Thórdarson and The Icelandic Film Centre's Director Laufey Gudjónsdóttir.…
Announcing a new feature, The ICN TV Interview. Iceland Cinema Now has teamed up with mbl.is, Iceland’s largest news site and the home of Morgunbladid daily on the web, to produce video interviews with Icelandic filmmakers. The idea is to run the interviews around the premieres of new films on both sites. Ragnar Bragason, director of Mr. Bjarnfredarson is the first one to go.
The numbers are in: Mr. Bjarnfredarson, the comedy/drama from Ragnar Bragason, has replaced James Cameron's Avatar at the top spot, to become Iceland's highest grossing opener on record. Accumulated three-day (Saturday-Monday) box office is IKR. 18.878.300 (€ 104.036) and reaches IKR. 20.413.700 (€ 112.497) with previews…
In spite of James Cameron's Avatar, Ragnar Bragason's Mr. Bjarnfredarson is set to become the biggest opener of any film in Iceland's box office history, as distributor Samfilm projects the three-day gross to cross Ikr. 20 million (€110.000), with around 17.500 admissions. Mr. Bjarnfredarson opened December…
The critics have a lot to say about Ragnar Bragason's Mr. Bjarnfredarson, which opened Saturday. On the whole they seem rather pleased but the praise is not without some reservations, as can be expected about the conclusion of a story that has captivated the nation for the past two years.…
Today, 17 of Iceland's 33 cinema screens are offering Ragnar Bragason's Mr. Bjarnfredarson, the widest release in Icelandic film history. Film is the final chapter in the darkly comic saga of three hapless men, which have captured Iceland's TV audience for the past two years in the most popular Icelandic…
Iceland Cinema Now wishes all it’s readers a happy Xmas and a prosperous new year. Since launch on October 1st, ICN has been visited by thousands of people from all over the world. We are grateful for this support and look forward to bringing you news, interviews, commentary etc. on…
Here’s a teaser for Valdís Óskarsdóttir’s forthcoming King’s Road, an ensemble comedy-drama set in a trailer trash neighborhood. After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems, hoping that his father can sort them out, but his homecoming isn’t quite what he had expected. Film is headed for an Easter premiere.
BUSINESS: As the year comes to an end, the local scene has been quiet on the surface, but behind the curtains the filmmaking community has been lobbying the authorities to reduce the drastic proposed 34% cut for film funding in the 2010 budget, a measure set to turn…
The Finnish public broadcaster YLE has bought the successful Channel 2 series The Night Shift, The Day Shift and The Prison Shift, Sagafilm the series' producer, announced today. The -Shift series have been creating a buzz lately abroad and have…
