Jitters, the debut feature of ad/promo director Baldvin Z, is now shooting in Reykjavík. Based on two books by writer/actress Ingibjörg Reynisdóttir, the film is about Gabriel, a confused sixteen year old who’s trying to figure out who he is and where he stands in an ever changing and complicated…
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…
The comedy Jóhannes by Thorsteinn Gunnar Bjarnason (debut feature), starring Icelandic comedy icon Laddi (Thórhallur Sigurdsson), premieres on October 16th. The film depicts the middle aged art teacher of the title, who leads a dull life until he meets a young and very beautiful woman by accident. Meeting her starts a series of hilarious events [...]
Bjarnfredarson, a movie opening at Christmas, will be the culmination of the hugely popular “Shift” series (The Night Shift, The Day Shift), who’s last season (The Jail Shift) is now running on Stöd 2 TV. Here’s the teaser with english subtitles. Check out Ben Hopkins’ review on The Night Shift here and The Day Shift [...]
Working Title Films plans a remake of the Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam, with Baltasar Kormákur as director and Mark Wahlberg as star. Kormákur produced and starred in the original, which got five Edda Awards last year and is Iceland’s foreign-language film submission for the upcoming Oscars. Kormákur’s thriller Inhale, starring Dermot…
The Reykjavik edition of Nordisk Panorama, the shorts and documentary film festival now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, selected Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Anna as best Nordic short. The project is his graduation film from The Danish Film School. The documentary award went to Det Röde Kapel (Red Chapel) from Danish…
Family comedy The Big Rescue by Bragi Thór Hinriksson premiered on Thursday and has had a spectacular weekend nationwide with more than 8.000 admissions. This is one of the biggest openings of an Icelandic film on record. The movie, based on popular children’s show Algjör Sveppi, stars Sverrir Thór Sverrisson…
The family adventure comedy The Big Rescue (Algjör Sveppi og leitin að Villa) by Bragi Thór Hinriksson premieres on September 25th. Based on popular TV show “Algjör Sveppi”, starring comedian Sverrir Thór Sverrisson, the film is described as an action-packed adventure for the whole family. The production company is Hinriksson’s MPFactory with distributor/exhibitor Samfilm co-producing.
Júlíus Kemp’s Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre premiered in Iceland on September 3rd. It’s a gory thriller about a brutal and bloody battle between whalers hellbent on major mischief and hapless whale watchers who get in their way. Further info is here.
