Review: Beowulf and Grendel Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson Starring Gerard Butler, Stellen Skarsgard, Sarah Polley and Igvar E Sigurdsson Opens Friday, 10 March All right, so you've heard about this famous Beowulf poem of bygone days, about the Danes and Geats and...
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Grendel? Hah! Try battling the wind
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...
The hulking warrior prince with a heart
[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
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...
Eaten alive
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...
Meteor hits 300
Not many movies set in ancient Greece get shot in Montreal in the dead of winter. And yet that's exactly where and when Warner Bros. sent director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) to make 300, a somewhat true retelling of an epic battle from 480 BC, adapted from the...
‘Beowulf and Grendel’
Starring Gerard Butler, Sarah Polley, Stellan Skarsgård and Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson We are about to swamped with Beowulf films, in the same way we were inundated with Robin Hood outings a while back and other cluster films...
Frank Miller Spotlight @ NYCC
"Hello there." was the decidedly low key opening to the latest round of Frank Miller and Charles Brownstein's self described dog and pony show of questions, answers and general verbal abuse, held this past weekend at the New York Comic-Con. The format had Brownstein...
Behind the Scenes at 300
Filed under: Action & Adventure, Casting, Fandom, Tech Stuff, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek If you are one of those comic book fans that finds yourself entirely put off by the entire Alan Moore vs. The Movie Industry debacle or the perceived downward...
Frank Miller Talks About 300
Exclusive Video Interview: Frank Miller on Sin City 2 and 300 http://iesb.net/videointerviews/frankmillernyqt.php Thanks to zinedina for the heads up on the video!
Beowulf & Grendel Go to Canada
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...
Keeping it real
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...
Lost in Iceland: freezing rain, blinding sandstorms, dead sheep, erupting volcanoes and the making of Beowulf & Grendel.
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...
Gerard Butler: not just another hunk
[b]GB.NET NOTE:[/b] We post and link to this blog entry simply because we take it for the tongue-in-cheek humor that it is. Remember, the Herald article was embellished and in some cases people were misquoted, so we are laughing with the author of the absurdity...
New Beowulf & Grendel Poster
If you haven't ever noticed, upcoming actor Gerard Butler has one hell of a fan base. Don't believe me? Take a look at this poll we held some months back. Due to the large, well, attraction to Gerard Butler, we knew it would be foolish of us to pass up the chance to...
300- How To Train a Spartan
Warner Bros has recently released the third video journal for their upcoming adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300. If you have watched the two first trailers before this, you probably had noticed how ripped the actors are who play the Spartan warriors....
The good Germans
Berlin is being kinder to Hollywood fare these days -- but A-list stars certainly help. Clint Eastwood's Warner Bros. Pictures drama "Letters From Iwo Jima," which will have its European premiere at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival, is not the only...
300 ONE-ON-ONE WITH GERARD BUTLER
In January of 2006, CBR News trekked up to a rather cold Montreal for a personal set visit for the film 300. As the only press on the set that day, we were given incredible access to the stars and producers of the film. All this week, we'll bring you those interviews...
300 ONE-ON-ONE WITH GERARD BUTLER
In January of 2006, CBR News trekked up to a rather cold Montreal for a personal set visit for the film 300. As the only press on the set that day, we were given incredible access to the stars and producers of the film. All this week, we'll bring you those interviews...
300 ONE-ON-ONE WITH GERARD BUTLER
In January of 2006, CBR News trekked up to a rather cold Montreal for a personal set visit for the film 300. As the only press on the set that day, we were given incredible access to the stars and producers of the film. All this week, we'll bring you those interviews...
300 ONE-ON-ONE WITH GERARD BUTLER
In January of 2006, CBR News trekked up to a rather cold Montreal for a personal set visit for the film 300. As the only press on the set that day, we were given incredible access to the stars and producers of the film. All this week, we'll bring you those interviews...
Miller joins guestlist at WonderCon
Frank Miller will be showing up at next weekend's WonderCon in SF. Also, a correction: Marie Severin will not be attending -- however lots of other folks will! Legendary comics writer/creator Frank Miller will join what has become a spectacular line-up of guests at...
Beowulf needs a U.S. distributor
Where to start with such an epic adventure? I almost hesitate to even attempt a recap of the tale, but I’ll go for it. If you’ve ever taken an English class in your collegiate life, then you’ve studied the epic tale of “Beowulf.” Hopefully you paid attention; if you...
Bond gets a hottie and a phantom for company in BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a bit of casting news on a flick called BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL, an indie thriller directed by Mike Barker, who helmed BEST LAID PLANS. The flick is about a suburban family whose lives start to unravel when their 5 year old daughter is...
300 Mixes History, Fantasy
Zack Snyder, director of the film version of Frank Miller's stylized graphic novel 300, told SCI FI Wire that the filmmakers found a way to add a touch of fantasy to the tale, based on the true story of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Fantasy enters the picture...