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,...
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Beowulf & Grendel Coming to America
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...
BEOWULF SAILS SOUTH
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...
300- Spartan’s Fight as a Unit
Warner Bros has released the fifth video journal for their upcoming adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 over the weekend and it looks like the (male) tits. We have already seen how they train a Spartan and how they even dress a Spartan. What we haven't...
300 Video Journal #5 is Up!
[b][/b] Apple has revealed the fifth Video Journal for director Zack Snyder's 300, scheduled for a March 16, 2007 release. You can watch the clip in regular...
Warner Bros. Down with Downloading
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Warner Bros. has decided to join forces with long-time nemesis BitTorrent, announcing Tuesday that the studio has inked a...
300: March to Glory on PSP
Games developers are often accused of looking back to the past when developing their new game concepts, whether it be to last year's best-seller or the classic games of their childhood. But you'd be excused for thinking Eidos has topped all that with 300: March to...
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Eidos Sign Videogame Distribution Agreement for 300: March to Glory
North American and European Distribution for PSP(TM) System Game in 2007 BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2006--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a premier developer and licensor of entertainment content in the interactive space, and Eidos Interactive,...
Beowulf on Demand
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...
Epic adventure not for the squeamish
It's like Lord of the Rings: The Prepre-prequel. A mere 1,700 years in the making, the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf comes to the big screen. The stunning scenery, rugged warriors and unrestrained gore are reminiscent of the Rings trilogy, though the stories are...
‘300’ game gets PSP day-date
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment said that it will release "300: March to Glory" simultaneously next year with Warner Bros. Pictures' "300," marking the first time a PlayStation Portable game has been timed to the feature film on which it is based. Developers...
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Announces 300: MARCH TO GLORY PSP(TM) System Game Based On Upcoming Film
Developed By Collision Studios, First Time Film-Based Game Launches Simultaneously Only On The PSP(TM) System BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2006--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will unleash 300: MARCH TO GLORY, based on Warner Bros. Pictures'...
300 Marches to PSP
Warner Bros. is creating a game tie-in to the Frank Miller-inspired film. April 19, 2006 - Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced 300: March to Glory, a PSP game based on the film 300, which itself is based on a Frank Miller graphic novel. The movie...
300 marching on the PSP
Warner Brothers announced today they are hard at work on a PSP adaptation of their upcoming movie 300. Based on a Frank Miller graphic novel and starring Gerard Butler, 300 tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae. Players will take command of King Leonidas and...
Beowulf & Grendel Sells out Sarasota Festival
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....
Michael Fassbender and ‘300″
Michael, 28, from Dromin, Fossa, plays a lead role as a Spartan called Stelios in the film 300 which is based on the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army....
Beowulf director tells why his film lacks CGI
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...
Dressing Down for 300
How are they designing that sexy but historic wardrobe? Warner Bros. released a new video journal for 300, the movie adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel about ancient Sparta. In the clip, costume designer Michael Wilkinson talks about wardrobe design. One of...
300 – How to Dress a Spartan
Warner Bros has released the fourth video journal for their upcoming adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300. While the last video journal showed us the pain that the actors must go through in order to have a soldier's physique, the latest diary shows the...
Not-so-great Dane: Barbarian movie Beowulf & Grendel needs more punch
BEOWULF & GRENDEL Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson Written by Andrew Rai Berzins Playing at the Screening Room Cast Beowulf... Gerard Butler Selma... Sarah Polley Hrothgar... Stellan Skarsgard Grendel... Ingvar E. Sigurdsson Rating: HH1/2 (out of five) - - - College...
Gunnarsson’s epic poem
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...
300 MOVIE VIDEO JOURNAL
Warner Bros. has provided The Continuum with the latest in a series of video journals from 300, the upcoming film based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. In the clip, costume designer Michael Wilkinson discusses the creative process involved in creating a wardrobe...
Frank Millers 300 Video Blog #4 Is Online
This cool cat from Solace Cinema emailed us to let us know that he digs our site, but more importantly that he had the video diary #4 link for the new Frank Miller flick 300. So to him we say thank you and thank you some more. You can check out all 4 video blogs at...
Grendel eats the box
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...
Film relives bloody epic
In Beowulf & Grendel, the troll has reason to be angry. Trolls are bothersome at the best of times. At the worst of times, they can be downright deadly. That's what the sixth- century Danish king Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsgard) learns in the epic revenge tale,...