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395 articles available in total starting from 19/09/2002. Last article published on 14/01/2026.

Kormákur directs US remake for Working Title

Icelandic star producer/filmmaker/actor Baltasar Kormákur will direct for London-based Working Title the US remake of Reykjavik-Rotterdam, to star Mark Wahlberg. The original Icelandic film, by...  

13/10/2009 | Production | Iceland

Reykjavik-Rotterdam shooting for Hollywood

Iceland’s entry for this year’s Academy Awards nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category is Óskar Jónasson’s Reykjavik-Rotterdam, starring Baltasar Kormákur and Ingvar E. Sigurdsson....  

29/09/2009 | Oscars 2010 | Iceland

Record audiences for Reykjavik

Iceland might be experiencing bleak times, but its capital is nonetheless buzzing with activity and energy, as a record number of admissions (22,000) were registered at the 6th Reykjavik...  

28/09/2009 | Festivals | Iceland

Icelandic Massacre sells to the UK

Julius Kemp’s genre film Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (RWWM) that opened in Iceland last weekend, has been picked up for UK distribution by E1. The deal was brokered by UK co-producers Sam...  

10/09/2009 | Market | Iceland

Kate Winslet lends voice to Fridrik Thór Fridriksson

The UK star actress Kate Winslet has agreed to lend her voice for the narration of the documentary film about autism The Sunshine Boy, directed by veteran Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thór...  

08/09/2009 | Production | Iceland

Film tax credit increased to 20%

The Icelandic government approved early April the increase of the existing 14% filming tax credit to 20%, to make Iceland more competitive with other international shooting locations. Producers of...  

21/04/2009 | Production | Iceland

Sena acquired by Capacent Group

Iceland’s leading distributor of domestic films, Sena Film, has been acquired by Jon Dirik Jonsson and Magnus Bjarnason, owners of Nordic consultancy and research group Capacent. Sena’s previous...  

09/04/2009 | Distribution | Iceland

Caoz making CGI versions of two Icelandic sagas

Caoz, the only digital and animation studio in Iceland, has two major projects in the making, both inspired by ancient Icelandic sagas. The most ambitious, Thor: The Edda Chronicles, is...  

13/03/2009 | Production | Iceland

Kormákur readies epic Viking project

Iceland’s star filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur is in advance preparation on his biggest project ever, the $50-$70m English-language Vikingr, most of which will be shot in Iceland. Speaking to...  

20/02/2009 | Production | Iceland

White Night Wedding sweeps up at Eddas

Baltasar Kormákur’s White Night Wedding and Oskar Jónasson’s Reykjavik Rotterdam, in which Kormákur stars, respectively swept up seven and five Eddas, Iceland’s annual film and television awards,...  

18/11/2008 | Awards | Iceland

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