The next generation of Scandinavian filmmakers is emerging from the long shadow of the Dogme movement to make Hollywood-style crowd-pleasers. Blond ambition : The next generation of Scandinavian filmmakers is emerging from the long shadow of the Dogme movement to make...

1. Can you explain why you felt the violence was deemed necessary for the film? - Lady Claire This one puzzles me. I'm not sure how familiar Lady Claire is with the original poem. The section of the story dealing with Beowulf's battle with Grendel (our "monster") is...

A Comprehensive Look at the (Brief) List of Cinematic Adaptations of the English Language's Most Enduring Epic Poem From the cover of the graphic novel by Gareth Hinds. Literally hundreds of “muscle-man” films exist that are attributed to the great, masculine myths of...

When Don Owen's Nobody Waved Goodbye premiered in 1964, critics said it offered such a stifling picture of Toronto that even Torontonians were put off by the city. Seems strange then that the Toronto International Film Festival would choose it as part of a...

On the southern coast an international group of moviemakers and world famous actors are working on themost expensive movie ever made here. The film is caledBeowulf and Grendel and is inspired by ancient norse stories, with ealborate scenography, costumes, and fighting...

Sturla Gunnarsson moved to Canada at the age of six but has returned to make his dream of making a film in Iceland come true. When Sturla is asked whether he speaks his mother tongue he answers, in icelandic: “Not a word!” The interview then takes place in icelandic....

HOLLYWOOD star Gerard Butler yesterday told of his terror after being hit by hurricane winds in Iceland while filming his latest movie. The Phantom of the Opera star revealed that production of Beowulf & Grendel was almost scrapped after four actors were blown off...

He is the original action hero, a fearless Norse warrior who slew a vicious troll and helped inspire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. And he is coming to a cinema near you. The race to turn Beowulf, the hero of the first great poem written in English, into a box-office...

He is the original action hero, a fearless Norse warrior who slew a murderous troll and helped inspire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. And he is coming to a multiplex near you. The race to turn Beowulf, the hero of the first great written English poem, into a box-office...

s Gerald Butle worth 900 million krour? Visitors to Skógar have up until now usually come in small groups and go there for the stunning Skógarfoss waterfall or visiting the Skógar Folk Museum. These days, however, hovering around the waterfall you will find hundreds...

Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him, son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands. M&C talked to Andrew Berzins, who adapted the poem Beowulf for the forthcoming Beowulf and Grendel movie. He chats about the problems of adapting such a poem, the relevancy of...

Chances are most Canadians know very little about the ancient or even modern history of the North Atlantic island called Iceland. But a Toronto-based, Iceland-born movie director is hoping change all of that next year as he brings an early chapter of Iceland's ancient...

We have the very first look at Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera) as Beowulf, from the forthcoming Beowulf and Grendel. You can see two still in the gallery for the movie, here. The second one show Beowulf fighting off some theives. We also had a peek at some more...

We have the first looks at Beowulf and Grendel currently being filmed in Iceland. You can check out some images of the Viking ship replica on the Ice Lagoon on the south coast of Iceland, director Sturla Gunnarsson and actors onboard Islendingur and Irish monk Brendan...

Hollywood's never-ending quest for epic material has taken it back to "the first horror story" - Beowulf, the Old English poem of monster versus man. Two film versions of the eighth-century Saxon work are under way as studios rush to capitalise on the fascination with...

May 17, 2004, Toronto. The Film Works, Eurasia Motion Pictures, Goodweird Inc, Spice Factory and Bjólfskvi›a are pleased to announce that Gerard Butler (Timeline, Phantom of the Opera) has signed to play the lead role of Beowulf in the part-fable, part-horror story...

[color=darkred]GB.Net Note - This is [b]NOT[/b] the project [i][b] Beowulf & Grendel[/i][/b] that Gerard is appearing in.[/color] LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - One of the oldest poems in English literature is being turned into a Hollywood movie. "Beowulf,"...

ON AUGUST 16, 2004, SHOOTING WILL BEGIN ON BEOWULF AND GRENDEL, WRITTEN BY ANDREW BERZINS AND DIRECTED BY STURLA GUNNARSSON PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ICELAND, IN AREAS THAT HAVE REMAINED UNTOUCHED SINCE THE TIME OF THE WRITING OF THE...

Scottish actor Gerard Butler has signed to play the lead in the Canada/U.K./Iceland co-production Beowulf & Grendel, reports Variety. Butler starred in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Timeline, and stars in the upcoming Phantom of the Opera. Part...

A team of Canadian filmmakers is off to Iceland this summer to slay a medieval monster, as director Sturla Gunnarsson heads up an adaptation of the epic poem Beowulf. "We're making it," says Gunnarsson, who grew up in Vancouver and has filmed a handful of his movies...

TORONTO -- Scottish thesp Gerard Butler has signed to play the lead in the Canada/U.K./Iceland co-production "Beowulf & Grendel." Butler ("Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life," "Timeline") has just returned from Cannes, where he was promoting Joel...

BEOWULF-MAN Vancouver-raised, Toronto-based director Sturla Gunnarsson has found an actor to play Beowulf in an upcoming film based on the epic medieval poem. Scottish actor Gerard Butler (Timeline, the upcoming Phantom of the Opera) will join the cast of Beowulf and...

Plans are under way for two movie versions of the epic poem "Beowulf," Daily Variety said Friday. A live-action version starring Gerard Butler ("Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera"), and being produced by a group of Canadian, Icelandic and British...

Eight new Nordic films have been chosen to take part in the Nordic Competition at the Göteborg Film Festival. The award consists of an award sum of 150 000 SEK and the statuette Filmdraken (the Film dragon) by Swedish artist Ernst Billgren. Göteborg Film Festival will...

Gerard Butler certainly has his opinions. The "Phantom of the Opera" star blabbed that he originally hated the script for his upcoming film "Beowulf and Grendel," derived from the 11th-century Old English epic. "Actually, I thought the script was a piece of [bleep],"...