Baltasar Kormákur's Contraband, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale and Giovanni Ribisi, opened in the US on Friday and has performed well over expectations. The film tops the box office this weekend with a $24.1m gross, making it the biggest opener ever for studio Working Title. This is the first…
The trailer for Baltasar Kormákur’s Contraband has arrived. The film, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi and Lukas Haas, will be out January 15th. This is a remake of Icelandic thriller Reykjavik Rotterdam, which had Kormákur in the starring role and also acting as producer.
Swiss distributor Frenetic Films has acquired the rights to the Icelandic thriller BLACK'S GAME, which started official presales in Toronto International Film Festival.…
Rúnar Rúnarsson won the Best Directing Award for his first feature film, Volcano, at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Rúnarsson shared the award with Constantin Popescu who directed the fim Principles of Life.…
Fresh from shooting Contraband with Mark Wahlberg in the US for Working Title and Universal, director Baltasar Kormákur has announced that Working Title has optioned the rights to produce his viking epic, Vikingr. Interviewed by Fréttabladid daily, Kormákur says he hopes to make the film within the next two years,…
Veteran director Ágúst Gudmundsson (The Seagull's Laughter) is to direct World War II thriller War Below Zero for Copenhagen's M&M Prods. and Germany's Barefoot Films and Egoli Tossell Film. Danish star Mads Mikkelsen and his German counterpart Til Schweiger are in talks for the leading roles.…
ICN is back and catching up on the fall releases of Icelandic films. 2010 was a busy year with a total of ten features and fifteen documentaries (eight full-length) screened at the cinemas. We've already reported on features Mamma Gógó, The Good Heart, King's…
Shooting has wrapped on Hafsteinn G. Sigurdsson's debut feature, Either Way (Á annan veg). Filmed in the summer in the mountains of the Northwest, it's described as a low-key road movie with an eighties setting. The drama comedy deals with two road builders who are stuck with each other in…
Documentary Future of Hope by Henry Bateman and Heather Millard will be released nationwide by Sena from September 3rd. Film focuses on sustainability in Iceland, looking at Iceland, in the aftermath of the economic crash, as a microcosm for the rest of the world and features new developments in renewable energy, organic farming, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Inhale, the US-produced film by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger, is out on DVD in Holland and the trailer (with Dutch subtitles) can be seen here. It’s not clear when the film will be released Stateside or in Europe. Cinematography and editing by fellow Icelanders Óttar Gudnason and Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir.
