Latest in Baltasar Kormakur

The Berlin-based European Film Academy has been shaking up its promotional program around its annual European Film Awards this year, ahead of their 35th edition in Iceland's capital of Reykjavík on December 10. Last week, the Academy launched its public-facing inaugural Month of European Film, which…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has boarded Beast and Everest filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur's romantic drama Touch, which begins principal photography Sunday in London. Focus will release domestically, with Universal Pictures International handling overseas distribution (excluding Iceland). RVK Studios'…

EXCLUSIVE: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) are leading the cast of Against The Ice, a survival movie being produced by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) for Netflix. The pic is a passion project for Emmy nominee Coster-Waldau, who has penned the screenplay with co-writer Joe Derrick…

BREAKING: Idris Elba will star in Universal Pictures' Beast, a thriller based on an original idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Baltasar Kormakur will direct. Rampage scribe Ryan Engle wrote the script. Will Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions. Kormakur will produce through his RVK…

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has locked 17 more clients for the new management/production company. This comes as its lineup of ground floor partners has changed as Lucinda Moorhead, who left UTA to join Range, has decided she will instead stay with the agency and not join the upstart venture. On the heels of its…

Editor’s Note: Deadline's latest series, Reopening Hollywood, focuses on the incredibly complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Our goal is to examine numerous sides of the business and provide forum for leaders in Hollywood who have a vision for how produ…

Everest director Baltasar Kormákur is making a supernatural volcano drama for Netflix. The Icelandic auteur has co-created Katla with Trapped showrunner Sigurjón Kjartansson. The eight-part series is set in Iceland and begins one year after the violent eruption of the subglacial volcano Katla, which dramatically…

2 Guns director Baltasar Kormakur is returning to work with that pic’s star Mark Wahlberg for Paramount Players’ Arthur the King, which reportedly will shoot during the first half of 2020. The pic is based on the 2017 book Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord, who was the captain of…

It has taken 35 years for Tami Oldham's compelling survival-at-sea story to make it to the movies, but as I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), it was worth the wait. Sure we have seen similar kinds of stories like this, where one person must face the odds alone against Mother Nature, but when it…

EXCLUSIVE: Adrift helmer Baltasar Kormakur and Hugh Jackman are circling The Good Spy, Kai Bird's biography of CIA operative Robert Ames that Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation set up in 2014. Script is by F. Scott Frazier. Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes are producing along with Evan Hayes. Bird will act as a…

“We’re not gonna die out here.” Coming off one of the most ruthless  hurricane seasons in memory, here is the new trailer for Adrift, the survival-at-sea drama starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin from director Baltasar Kormákur. Landlubbers who blanch at the thought of facing a wave the size of an office…

Everest and Contraband director Baltasar Kormákur, along with his production company RVK Studios, have officially opened a large film studio near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, the first step towards the launch of Reykjavik Studios, a full-service production facility and ‘film village’. The studio is a 3,200 m² space…