Dagur Kári's The Good Heart received the audience award at the recent Off Plus Camera Film Festival in Krakow Poland, and additionally a $10.000 award towards distribution (by Gutek Film) in Poland. The film is now out in the United States and the American critics' take can…
Edda-nominated short Epic Fail by Ragnar Agnarsson, was recently sold to Canal+ and will also participate in The Tribeca Film Festival (April 21st - May 2nd). Check out two shorts scenes from the film, starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, below.…
Production company Reveille (the makers of The Office and Ugly Betty are planning a US remake of The Night Shift TV series, aired by Iceland's Channel 2 in 2007. The company has signed a deal with Sony Pictures to distribute the series…
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…
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…
The Good Heart by Dagur Kári is now in competition at Les Arcs European Film Festival in France. The Zik Zak Filmworks film will premiere in Iceland early next year. Magnolia Pictures has bought US rights and Le Pacte will…
HBO has bought the US rights to Fridrik Thór Fridriksson's documentary The Sunshine Boy and plans to screen it April 2nd next year, followed by an extensive 70 cities release. Additionally, HBO - a subsidiary of Warner Brothers Entertainment - plans to mount a…
Ireland-based Icelandic screenwriter Marteinn Thórisson co-writes the script for Niko – The Way to the Stars, an animation feature now playing widely to great success throughout Europe and already heading for the 2m admissions mark. The film is nominated for the 2009 European Film Awards in the Animated Feature Film section. This is a family [...]
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to Dagur Kári’s The Good Heart, starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano. The film will be released within Magnolia’s Ultra VOD program next year, premiering on VOD platforms nationwide a month prior to its theatrical release. “We’re delighted to be working with Dagur, who…
Cinemavault has acquired international sales rights to Júlíus Kemp’s English-language horror film Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre. The Toronto-based company will commence sales at AFM next week on the story of a group of whale-watching tourists aboard…
