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Gerard Butler receives award for acting at Ischia Film Festival

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:50:57 +0000

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 year he or course also worked on Beowulf & Grendel in Iceland.

Congratulations Mr. Butler

BEOWULF SAILS SOUTH

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:01:37 +0000

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 York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco, starting on June 16. Star Gerard Butler will be making extensive appearances to promote the release – and appease his fans.

“We’re very happy with this deal”, says producer Eric Jordan. “Equinoxe did a great job with the film in Canada. The Canadian release proved that people want to see this film on the big screen. U.S. fans mounted an intense Internet campaign to bring the film south, and when they started chartering buses to see it in Canada, Union Station took notice.”
Following a successful theatrical release of Beowulf & Grendel across Canada, Equinoxe Releasing is sending out a custom-boxed DVD of the film on July 18. In anticipation of the July release, Beowulf aficionados and Gerard Butler’s many, insatiable fans have already driven the DVD to the top 5 of the Amazon.ca’s bestseller list.
Beowulf & Grendel, starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård and Sarah Polley, is adapted from the seminal 9^thcentury epic poem Beowulf, which tells the bloody tale of the warrior Beowulf’s battle with Grendel, a great and murderous troll.

BEOWULF & GRENDEL SELLS OUT SARASOTA FESTIVAL

admin — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:54:33 +0000

Movie Beowulf (2007) Posted By: Michael / Source

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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 screening. Sturla was in attendance. This U.S. appearance comes as the film begins it’s 5th week in Canadian theatres.
Upcoming film festivals are Amsterdam April 19-26; Seattle, WA May 25-Jun 18; New Zealand July 13-Aug 6; Tampa Bay, FL Aug 1-5; Gimli, Manitoba Aug 1-5.

Read the full article on MOVIESONLINE.ca

THE BLOOD OF A POEM

admin — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:20:53 +0000

“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 of its bawdy, sly humor.” says Bill Gallo in The Village Voice

Read the full VILLAGE VOICE review

BEOWULF & GRENDEL ON MONSTERSANDCRITICS.COM

admin — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:10:52 +0000

“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 Widowmaker’) as Grendel, Swedish born Stellan Skarsgard (‘Dogville’) as king Hrothgar and Canadian born Sarah Polley (‘Away From Her’) as the pagan witch Selma.

Director Gunnarsson, dubbed Canada’s resident “Viking”, was born in Iceland, raised in Vancouver, and shot films in India, South Africa, Mexico, Central America, the United States and Canada.

GRENDEL EATS THE BOX

admin — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:49:19 +0000

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 business from March 17-26, taking in $155,658 for a total of $346,852.

Read the whole article HERE.

BEOWULF & GRENDEL BENEFIT FILM PREMIERE

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:45:31 +0000

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. Beowulf, a poem written in Anglo-Saxon, isbelieved to be one of the oldest extant works of English literature.Ironically, none of its characters is English. The plot centres on thewarrior Beowulf’s battle with Grendel, a great and murderous troll.

BEOWULF & GRENDEL World Premiere at the 2005 TIFF

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:49:03 +0000

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 read the TIFF press release.

SHEER DEMENTED AMBITION

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:44:18 +0000

“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 was, I think, three times harder than this, but nothing has come close till this in terms of sheer demented ambition”. Sarah goes on to describe Iceland as a magical place with beautiful landscape that keeps the hard working cast and crew sane. See the whole interview with Sarah in the documentary Wrath Of Gods.

NEW YORK TIMES PRAISES BUTLER

admin — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:39:57 +0000

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 figure of real pathos. Log in to www.nytimes.com to read the whole article.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/movies/moviesspecial/1DURB.html