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Gerard Butler receives award for acting at Ischia Film Festival

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Gerard Butler has received the Actor of the Year Award award at the Ischia Film Festival in Italy. Butler received the prize during a ceremony attended by stars including Eli Roth and model Karolina Kurkova. The Scottish star had previously received the Best New Actor award in 2004 for his work on The Phantom of the Opera. That [...]

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Beowulf & Grendel location shooting by Dyrholaey in Iceland

BEOWULF SAILS SOUTH

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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 Gunnarsson and written by Andrew Rai Berzins.   The film opens in six US cities, including New [...]

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Ingvar Sigurdsson at press conference for Beowulf & Grendel

BEOWULF & GRENDEL SELLS OUT SARASOTA FESTIVAL

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Movie Beowulf (2007) Posted By: Michael / Source Related News : Action Movie News , Fantasy Films , Beowulf and Grendel, starring Gerard Butler, was a smash hit at the Sarasota Film Festival. B&G was the only film at the festival to be shown 3 times with all 3 dates being sold out prior to [...]

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Gerard Butler as Beowulf and Stellan Skarsgard as King Hrothgar

THE BLOOD OF A POEM

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“It’s good, bloody fun that stirs the intellect whenever it feels like it, and as a swashbuckler, the dead-game (Gerard) Butler outswings just about anyone in Troy or Kingdom of Heaven or Tristan & Isolde. Those overblown historical epics played just as loosely with history as this one does, but they didn’t boast a third [...]

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Sturla Gunnarsson on the set of Beowulf & Grendel in the Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

BEOWULF & GRENDEL ON MONSTERSANDCRITICS.COM

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“You have to be a little bit nuts to make any movie” says director Sturla Gunnarsson in an interview with Scott Rosenberg. MORE HERE The movie, filmed without CGI on location in Iceland, hosts a true international cast starring Scottish born Gerard Butler (‘Phantom of the Opera’), as Beowulf, Iceland’s leading actor Ingvar Sigurdsson (‘K-19: The [...]

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Beowulf & Grendel in Playback Magazine

GRENDEL EATS THE BOX

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Grendel Eats the Box by Marcus Robinson 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 Grendel (Ingvar Eggert Sigurosson), did solid [...]

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Stellan Skarsgard as King Hrothgar in Beowulf & Grendel

BEOWULF & GRENDEL BENEFIT FILM PREMIERE

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WORLD LITERACY OF CANADA and EQUINOXE FILMS presentthe Canadian Benefit Film Premiere of BEOWULF & GRENDELfrom award-winning director, STURLA GUNNARSSON. Icelandic-Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson has brought an ancient hero to life. Set against the dramatic background of an ocean-battered Iceland, Beowulf & Grendel is an international productionstarring Gerard Butler, Sarah Polley, Stellan Skarsgard and Ingvar Sigurdsson. [...]

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Sturla Gunnarsson on the set of Beowulf & Grendel

BEOWULF & GRENDEL World Premiere at the 2005 TIFF

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The Toronto International Film Festival announced today that BEOWULF & GRENDEL will be a part of their SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS program this year. Gerard Butler will attend the world premiere along with co-stars Sarah Polley, Ingvar Sigurdsson and Tony Curran as well as the director Sturla Gunnarsson. The festival takes place September 8-17, 2005 Click HERE to [...]

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Sarah Polley as Selma in Beowulf & Grendel

SHEER DEMENTED AMBITION

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“I find that the environment on the set is collectively probably the hardest that I’ve ever seen people have to work” said Sarah Polley who completed her filming on Beowulf & Grendel last week. “The only thing I can honestly compare it to is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen when I was eight, and that [...]

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Gerard Butler as Beowulf

NEW YORK TIMES PRAISES BUTLER

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September 12th, 2004. New York Times praises Gerard Butler’s performance in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and DEAR FRANKIE, saying that the ‘tall, broad sholdered and ruggedly attractive Butler brings out the Mae West in a woman’. The NY Times goes on to say that in the most sensational of melodramas, Gerard Butler creates a [...]

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Sturla Gunnarsson on the set of Beowulf & Grendel

SHOOTING HAS STARTED

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September 2004. Shooting has started on BEOWULF & GRENDEL, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Andrew Rai Berzins.  

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Gerard Butler to play Beowulf

GERARD BUTLER SIGNS TO PLAY BEOWULF in Epic Medieval Adventure BEOWULF & GRENDEL

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Toronto. The Film Works, Eurasia Motion Pictures, Goodweird Inc, Spice Factory and Bjolfskvida 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 BEOWULF & GRENDEL, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson (Rare Birds, Such A Long Journey), written by Andrew [...]

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  • WRATH OF GODS – DVD

    Gerard Butler in award winning documentary Wrath of Gods. Includes 2 hours of bonus materials including one hour exclusive interview with Gerard Butler. Available through Amazon.com and www.WrathOfGods.com

    Gerard Butler in an award winning documentary about filmmaking directed by Jon Gustafsson. Includes 2 hours of bonus materials including one hour exclusive interview with Gerard Butler. Available through Amazon.com and WrathOfGods.com
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    Gerard Butler in Beowulf & Grendel

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