Heritage Theatre, 86 Main St. N. returns to its roots as a movie theatre Monday nights in June. Tickets cost $5 and can be purchased both in advance and from the box office by calling 905-874-2800. Films run at 8 p.m. June movie schedule: June 5: The 2006 Academy...

Union Station Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "Beowulf and Grendel" from Arclight Films. Pic is directed by Sturla Gunnarsonn ("Snakes and Ladders") from a script by Andrew Rai Berzins ("Chasing Cain"). The cast includes Gerard Butler as Beowulf and...

Toronto -- Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson's Beowulf & Grendel will have a U.S. theatrical release in six cities starting on June 16. The film, starring Gerard Butler, actress Sarah Polley and Stellan Skarsgard, is adapted from the ninth-century epic Beowulf,...

After slowly making its move across the globe, Beowulf & Grendel, a film that has a surprising amount of supporters thanks mostly in part to a little actor known as Gerard Butler, will finally cross into United States territory. We have received a brief little...

The Film Works, Eurasia Motion Pictures and Goodweird are pleased to announce an agreement with Union Station Media, a joint venture of Alliance Atlantis and Arclight Films International, for the U.S. theatrical release of Beowulf & Grendel, directed by Sturla...

It's amazing what a few centuries and a hit translation can do for an Old English saga. That would be Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon myth about a noble young warrior battling Grendel the man-eater. The epic, passed along by bards and finally written down in the 11th...

The talented team behind Beowulf and Grendel dropped us a line to tell us it has been a smash hit at the Sarasota Film Festival. B&G is the only film at the festival to be shown 3 times with all 3 dates being sold out prior to screening. Sturla is in attendance....

There’s no doubt about it — Sturla Gunnarsson is one of Canada’s most seasoned, critically acclaimed directors. He has won a number of prestigious awards, and recently took on a challenge he had been hoping to do for years: bring the legend of Beowulf to the big...

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...

Director Sturla Gunnarsson's Canada/U.K./Iceland copro Beowulf & Grendel has easily held the top spot in box office among Canadian films since its release on March 10. The epic tale about the legendary hero Beowulf (Gerard Butler) and his clash with killer troll...

Sturla Gunnarsson left his native Iceland when he was seven, but the land of ice, snow and magnificent cliffs has never been far from his heart. "I went back many times when I was a young person. And after I graduated from UBC, I worked on a fishing boat off the coast...

Sturla Gunnarsson is standing at a pay phone on a dirt road in a tiny village in Costa Rica talking about Vikings, fjords and monsters. The director of Beowulf & Grendel is enjoying a warm vacation after spending 45 days on the rainy, windy and very chilly coast...

Sarah Polley is the Swiss Army Knife of actors. She's actor/activist/scriptwriter/Genie-Award winning short film director currently making her feature film directorial debut in Away from Her, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. She was featured in The Young...

Sturla Gunnarsson drew on his Icelandic roots, Vancouver film studies, and a pagan ritual or two to reimagine an ancient epic into Beowulf & Grendel. Sturla Gunnarsson drew on his Icelandic roots, Vancouver film studies, and a pagan ritual or two to reimagine an...

Hofn, Iceland — I'm standing on a mountain pass, looking out over a glacial river delta on Iceland's south coast. Looming behind me is the Myrdalsjokull, an immense glacier shrouding an active volcano. It is the most beautiful, primordial landscape I've ever seen —...

With swords and monsters all the rage, an ancient literary hero is now a hot showbiz property It's revered as the first epic work of English literature, although it's written in what looks like a foreign language. And it has become the bane of English students...

BEOWULF & GRENDEL Troll-on-witch sex, it can be said with a heck of a lot of understatement, isn't a beautiful thing to behold. All the grunting and the body hair and surely the halitosis -- not to mention the dank and smelly caves -- hardly make for a romantic...

Making a film in Iceland in October was no picnic for Sturla Gunnarsson and his cast and crew, MICHAEL POSNER writes Director Sturla Gunnarsson has seen his share of tough feature-film shoots, from Diplomatic Immunity (1991), part of which was shot amid nightmarish...

Icelandic saga Beowulf and Grendel pits good against evil You can't go too wrong with a movie in which a 10-foot human monster gets his arm ripped off and sees the bloody fleshy stump nailed to the wall. But then again, that same movie also features Sarah Polley with...

Director Sturla Gunnarsson has travelled all over the world making movies since he grew up in Vancouver, but he'd never experienced anything like the conditions he faced while making the medieval epic Beowulf and Grendel on a primal stretch of Iceland's coastline. The...

[i]Alpha male actor who plays Beowulf relishes role of hero with chinks in armor [/i] Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson calls Gerard Butler the "manliest man acting today." It's a tall claim in a business bursting at the seams with six-pack abs and dancing pecs of...

The ladies are hungry for beowulf: Gerard Butler's insatiable fans are storming the border to catch their sixth-century stud Border alert! A certain Scottish studmuffin is responsible for a wave of hysteria set to soon wash over Toronto -- an ilk of enthusiasm usually...

We have recently been alerted that the upcoming film Beowulf & Grendel has finally secured a wide release in Canada on March 10th. Besides the release, the good people over at beowulf-grendel have alerted us to two new movie posters for the film as well. We have...

Editor -- While animation ("Animation brightens our collective imagination," Feb. 8) has its place in society, the thought that it will come to replace other forms of filmmaking boggles the mind. Sorry, but I want to see live human emotions on the screen, not their...

Beowulf & Grendel, a feature-film adaptation of the epic 8th-century Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, is a medieval adventure that tells the blood--soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll Grendel, who is threatening the kingdom of...