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Production / Iceland


51 articles available in total starting from 22/11/2002. Last article published on 31/08/2018.

Eurimages support for Rocketman from top Icelandic film-makers Kári and Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur will produce Dagur Kari's first Icelandic-language feature since 2003: "I have been a fan of his work since he started."  

11/01/2013 | Production | Iceland

Icelandic 'fisherman's son' trilogy will be condensed for feature

"His work is perfect to adapt for the big screen," said Icelandic producer Gudrún Udda Thorhannesdóttir of Jón Kalman Stefansson’s award-winning epic  

03/12/2012 | Production | Iceland

'Living with your parents can be trying, especially when they are dead'

Shooting in Reykjavik, Icelandic director Ágúst Gudmundsson's Spooks and Spirits - his first feature in eight years - is a black comedy about a house that is not easy to sell  

06/11/2012 | Production | Iceland

Little Big and Spellbound feel more At Home in Iceland and save €700,000

Swedish director Maximilian Hult follows Oblivion and Noah on locations in Iceland, where state incentives, longer shooting days and less travel have cut the budget by almost a third  

04/09/2012 | Production | Sweden/Iceland

Best year ever for shooting American films – in Iceland

One major US production replaces the other in the little country with a 319,575 population, which reimburses 20% of the costs and has other benefits to offer  

22/08/2012 | Production | Iceland

Still go-go in Fridriksson, now preparing Staying Alive

Icelandic Oscar-nominated director Fridrik Thór Fridriksson will shoot comedy-drama about a lesbian spinster who is obsessed with funerals  

22/05/2012 | Production | Iceland

Two Icelandic 'volcanoes' unite to shoot Rocket Man

After three films in three different languages, most recently the US-set The Good Heart (2009), Icelandic director Dagur Kári (pictured) will make his first Icelandic-language feature since Noi...  

11/01/2012 | Production | Iceland

The Vikings are still coming, with Working Title attached to the €42 million epic

When two years ago Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (photo) announced his plans to make a €42 million Viking epic (read the article), they were somehow derailed by rumours that Australian...  

03/06/2011 | Production | Iceland

Rúnarsson making “volcanic” feature debut with Zik Zak

Zik Zak Filmworks, behind Rúnar Rúnarsson’s 2006 Oscar-nominated short film The Last Farm, is currently filming the director’s feature debut, Volcano. Written by Rúnarsson, Volcano is the story of...  

11/10/2010 | Production | Iceland

Kormákur resurfacing from The Deep

Iceland's star writer/director/producer Baltasar Kormákur is wrapping shooting on his new domestic film The Deep (Djúpid) before turning to Hollywood for Contraband, the US remake of Reykjavik...  

04/10/2010 | Production | Iceland

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