A Starz Home Entertainment sales flier appearing on DavisDVD.com has confirmed the initial batch of planned Starz (Anchor Bay) Blu-ray Disc titles, and offers release dates as well. Starz will kick off their Blu-ray era with a bang on October 2 with the release of...

Director Jon Gustafsson answers questions from the audience after the U.S. premiere of his film during a special gala of the Oxford International Film Festival. Oxford will get a taste of the cinematic arts this weekend with Oxford's first international film festival....

Who knew Gerard Butler was going to star in the biggest March movie opening ever? Nobody - which is why the debuting Oxford International Film Festival is the unlikely locale for the U.S. premiere of "Wrath of Gods" starring and co-produced by Butler. The documentary...

The Oxford International Film Festival will debut April 5-8 with 77 independent films screened over four days, including more than a dozen U.S., Ohio and world premieres. The festival is a first for Southwest Ohio. Among the highlights: [b]the U.S. premiere of "Wrath...

[b]Hot tickets for cool Canuck movies at NSI FilmExchange[/b] The traditional outdoor Snowscreen film night kicks off NSI Film Exchange Canadian Film Festival, Feb. 28 at The Forks. Snowscreen is free, but you'll need cold cash for most other fest events through March...

Maurice Richard/The Rocket and Bon Cop Bad Cop lead with most nominations (Toronto) January 9, 2007—The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced today the nominees for the 27th Annual Genie Awards. The 2007 presentation will take place Tuesday, February...

Quebec definitely seems to be the prolific cup from which the Canadian Genie Awards grabs its nominees. Last year, Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. rightfully dominated the awards, scoring 10 of their 12 nominations. This year, the French province is still reigning over...

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie and Bon Cop, Bad Cop, one of the top-grossing films in Canadian history, were nominated Tuesday for a Genie Award for best picture. In a field dominated by Quebec movie-makers, they are competing in the best picture category with three...

For those of you who are fans of Beowulf & Grendel or just dig Gerard Butler, we have recently been alerted that the film has now found its way into release DownUnder. Beowulf & Grendel Heads to New Zealand MoviesDownUnder is pleased to announce an agreement...

Albany woman spearheads effort to get film broader exposure in U.S. Albany — When it comes to the world of entertainment, Albany isn’t usually mentioned with metropolitan areas such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle or San Francisco. But...

Beowulf, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, was premiered last night. The movie, which cost around one billion Icelandic kronas was mostly filmed in Iceland using Icelandic actors. Producers are Friðrik Þór Friðriksson and Anna María Karlsdóttir, and actor Ingvar E....

Beowulf and Grendel, that was filmed in Iceland in 2004, premiered in Háskólabíó last night. The director Sturla Gunnarsson spoke with Fréttablaðið from Vancouver where he is filming a new television series. “Beowulf and Grendel was shot in Iceland in 47 days in the...

Bringing the first epic poem in the English language to the screen was an ambitious endeavour, so it required a director with a deep passion for the Scandinavian mythological tale to make a picture like Beowulf & Grendel, and who better than Icelandic-born...

Because he lived somewhere around the end of the first millennium A.D., the anonymous writer of the Danish heroic epic we know as ``Beowulf" probably wasn't concerned with movie rights. Too bad; in retrospect he gave away the store. Following upon Seamus Heaney's...

Odds are, unless you're a college English major, you haven't read Beowulf in years — if you read it at all. Which makes the sudden flourishing of the 1,000-year-old epic in popular entertainment all the more peculiar. An opera and three movies, including a big-budget...

Recently I had a great opportunity to sit down and have a heart to heart with the director of the 2005 feature "Beowulf and Grendel" which saw a 16 week run in Canada and is now making it's way into select American theaters. The experience was fantastic overall and I...

Filmed in Iceland and staring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, and Sarah Polley, Beowulf and Grendel (the latest adaptation of the classic tale) is set to hit DVD on September 26th for the suggested retail price of $29.98. The film is adapted from the Anglo-Saxon...

Besides Lionsgate, few indies charging ahead with hi-def releases When it comes to new formats -- and format wars, in particular -- independents are generally happy to let the studios spend the big money to develop the market. And as expected -- with mastering costs...

The Quebec-made romantic comedy Duo was a box-office disappointment in its opening June 16 weekend but rebounded somewhat in the week of June 23, taking a per-screen average of $1,486, up from $1,121, and claiming the number-one spot among domestic films. "The summer...

On Friday evening, David Ruiz, an usher at the Quad Cinema on 13th Street, marched over to a crowd of giddy women sipping Cokes and munching popcorn in the lobby to reprimand them for speaking too loudly. “Ladies, please,” said Mr. Ruiz. “There are other movies...

URBANSCAPES Photographer Camilo Vergara documents the changing topography of urban America and its unique neighborhoods through refections of its residents and artists. Wednesday at Two Boots Pioneer Theater. [b] BEOWULF & GRENDEL This saucy Icelandic update of...

Another repetition of pirates and producers looking for big booty Spoiler Alert: The end of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is a cliffhanger. That means after watching Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom still fighting pirates and ghosts, still...

"Beowulf," as college lit majors used to have to learn, is the first significant work written in English, or in what passes for English: a 3,000-line epic poem composed — in alliterative, unrhymed verse — probably during the first half of the eighth century. It's also...

The Beowulf story has endured numerous retellings in the modern era, through both complex interpretations for adults and illustrated books for children. Until independent director Sturla Gunnarsson took on a project to direct a film adaptation in Iceland, no serious...

The 32nd Seattle International Film Festival started May 25 and continues through next weekend. My 2nd annual Seattle International Film Festival started on Thursday and ends on Sunday. But I'm off to a speedy start. Since arriving here at about 12:45p today, I have...