Bille August leikstýrir kvikimynd eftir sögu Ólafs Jóhanns og Balti framleiðir

I don’t know how many of you know this but some years ago the Assistant Director of Sony and the President of Sony Interactive Entertainment was an Icelander named Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. Not only was he a big shot in the electronic industry, helped develop the CD and launch the first Playstation, but he was also a big shot in the Icelandic literary scene, having written seven books to date and a couple of plays, none of which I’ve read. But people seem to like them and the books have been translated to several languages over the years.
One of his best selling books is A Journey Home has been in development for years, with the Merchant Ivory company behind it until Merchant died suddenly. Then it went in to the hands of Liv Ullman who wrote a new treatment and was slated to direct. Now it seems that Swedish Oscar winner Bille August is working on the project with Baltasar Kormakur producing.
August is of course world renowned for his films, with Pelle the Conqueror, House of the Spirits, Smilla’s Sense of Snow and even a few Young Indiana Jones episodes in his resume.
I don’t know much about the story but the little I’ve read about it online it seems to be about a woman living as a successful restaurateur in England finds out that she has only a year to live and decides to take the journey that she has postponed for over 20 years back home to Iceland.
August was in Iceland last week looking for pontential actors for the film so it seems that the ball is rolling.

New Rooster

 

A farmer goes out one day and buys a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The rooster struts over to the old rooster and says, "OK, old fart, time to retire."

The old rooster replies, "Come on, you can't handle ALL these chickens. Look what it's done to me. Can't you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?"

The young rooster says, "Beat it! You're washed up and I'm taking over."

The old rooster says "I'll tell you what, young stud, I'll race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop."

The young rooster laughs, "You know you don't stand a chance old man, so just to be fair, I'll give you a head start."

The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off after him. They round the front of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap. He's already about 5 inches behind the old rooster and gaining fast.

The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting on the front porch when he sees the roosters running by, one right behind the other. He grabs his shotgun and BOOM! -- he blows the young rooster to bits.

The farmer sadly shakes his head, "Damn...third gay rooster I've bought this month."

Prince of Persia: Sands Of Time , Jake og Gísli æfa sig fyrir hlutverk sín

Fri, 11 July 2008

Jake Gyllenhaal er að safan hári fyrir hlutverk sitt í Prince Dastan in Prince of Persia: Sands Of Time,

Hann er nú í Frakklandi að æfa sig fyrir kvikmyndina en ú henni leikur líka íslendingurinn

Gísli Örn Garðarsson

Now I know this is not the type of news we usually carry but since it involves an Icelandic actor I thought I’d might post it.

A couple of weeks ago news trickled through the grapevine that Icelandic actor Gísli Örn Garðarsson had been cast as the main villain in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced action adventure film Prince of Persia, based on the popular computer game franchise of the same name. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley among others and will be directed by Mike Newell. The film is an high action and adventure film based in the Middle East and follows the adventures of Prince Dastan and his fight against Hassasin who Gísli Örn will play. It was funny how the media wrote about this news over here claiming that this part was the biggest part for an Icelander in a film ever. I assume they meant a Hollywood film of this scale but they failed to mention Anita Briem’s role in the upcoming 3D adventure film Journey To The Center Of The Earth starring Brendan Fraser. Briem was also the lead actor in the Spanish produced horror film The Nun back in the day.
Gísli Örn might be familiar to some over here as one of the leads in the Icelandic drama “Börn” that premiered over here a couple of years ago and has been touring the festival circuit with great success. He is also the front man for the theater group Vesturport that have been doing great things with innovative theater productions all over the world, like the acrobatic version of Romeo and Juliet. Right now they are touring with a stage version of Lukas Moodyson’s “Tillsammans” that starred Gael Garcia Bernal for the first run in Iceland and Mexico.
Vesturport is also busy finishing their third feature film, called “Brim” (Undercurrent) based on their play which will premier later this year and will be scored by none other than Nick Cave. 

Eins og sjá má er hérn um að ræða stórmynd sem Jerry Bruckheimer er að framleiða fyrir  Disney fyrirtækið og er myndin gerð eftir samnefndum tölvuleik.

 

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'Hellboy II' Goes To Box Office Heaven; Eddie's 'Meet Dave' Goes To Its Grave

 

SATURDAY AM: Sources have just given me Friday's very early North American numbers, including West Coast late shows (which were very strong tonight). Universal's Hellboy II: The Golden Army opened to a feisty $13 million from 3,204 theaters with big support from African-American and Latino audiences. It's well on its way to making what is expected to be $32M-$33M over the weekend. Obviously, the studio's uber-marketing attempt to humanize the Guillermo del Toro pic's bizarro collection of characters from the Dark Horse comic book worked nicely. That's why Ron Perlman as Hellboy did promos on every NBC Uni media outlet imaginable. (Even on cable's Oxygen channel with Bravo's James Lipton interviewing him...) "We wanted to make him as audience friendly and accessible as possible," one Uni exec explained to me. The fact that Hellboy II looks to make 50% more than the 2004 first movie's $23.1M opening FSS is a real triumph for Universal Pictures, whose bosses Marc Shmuger, David Linde and Donna Langley swooped in and scooped up the sequel from Sony/Revolution Studios which did the original Hellboy I. (And the trio wanted it before del Toro's Oscar-nominated Pan's Labyrinth ever opened.) As one Uni exec exulted, "We took somebody's reject pile and made it into a franchise for us." 

At No. 2, Sony Pictures' holdover Hancock was down only -45% from its first place finish last Friday to earn $10.1M today from its 3,965 runs. It'll have a $30M-$32M weekend and a $163M cume.

In 3rd place, New Line / Warner Bros' Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D took the freeway to a $6.7 million debut Friday from just 2,811 venues for what should be only a $15M weekend but good enough for #3. "I think anytime dinosaurs exist in a movie, don't bet against it," one Hollywood marketing guru told me. (Talk about date-swapping: the Brendan Fraser starrer was supposed to debut in August when the actor's other summer movie The Mummy 3 was slated for July. Then Universal moved The Mummy to August, so Warner Bros moved Journey forward to July. Got that?)

Pixar/Disney's lonely droid Wall-E was No. 4 since it keeps going and going like the Energizer bunny, racking up another $5.5M Friday from 3,849 plays for what should be an $18M-$19M weekend and $163M cume.

And all the way back at No. 7 was 20th Century Fox's Meet Dave which even the studio didn't bother to hide was going to bomb big-time. The Eddie Murphy starrer opened to an embarrassing $1.7M Friday despite playing in 3,011 theaters for what is expected to be only a $5M-$6M weekend. It's not like this is the first moronic movie Eddie has starred in -- remember Norbit and Daddy Day Care which did big business? -- but this was "an incredibly difficult one to market," an insider explained to me. So was that other sci-fi Eddie pic, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, which tanked as well. The general concensus is that Meet Dave should have been aimed "at young kids from the get-go". Or just never made.

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