Grendel | BEOWULF & GRENDEL

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 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.

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.