Sarah Polley | 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 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.

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.