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…

EXCLUSIVE: Marcella producer Buccaneer Media and Baltasar Kormakur's RVK Studios have pacted to co-produce The Reykjavik Confessions. An English-language dramatization of one of Iceland's most mysterious murder investigations, it has John Brownlow (The Miniaturist, Fleming) attached to write. The story is based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: After yesterday's news that Tobey Maguire will make his feature directorial debut on the adaptation of Jo Nesbo's Blood On Snow, here's another project based on one of the hot Norwegian author's works with big names involved. We've learned that Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are adapting…

EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky Distribution is taking The Oath. The indie outfit has acquired rights to the Icelandic thriller by Everest helmer Baltasar Kormakur and is planning a U.S. theatrical release this summer. The film, which premiered as a Special Presentation in Toronto, was the No. 1 local box office draw in…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms is near a deal to produce and distribute Adrift, the Baltasar Kormákur-directed true story of survival at sea that has Shailene Woodley in negotiations. The division of STX Entertainment is acquiring world rights to the twentysomething net budget film that begins production in June. STX will…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a busy couple days in the Baltasar Kormakur business. Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr yesterday reported that the Everest helmer’s potential next project, Adrift, is coming together, and now here’s word of multiple sales on the filmmaker’s most recent Icelandic feature, The Oath. The thriller is the…

EXCLUSIVE: While movie business transactions have been sluggish since Thanksgiving, it looks like there will be a last rush of deal-making before the holidays set in. The hot package that has buyers salivating right this moment: Several distributors are engaged on Adrift, a drama spec by Aaron & Jordan Kandell that…

Trapped, the crime drama created by Everest helmer and Icelandic multihyphenate Baltasar Kormakur, has been given a second season order by Iceland’s national broadcaster RUV. The news comes as a busy Kormakur is fresh off the Toronto premiere of his feature thriller The Oath, and as he preps his first comedy TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Everest helmer Baltasar Kormákur has stepped back in front of the camera for the first time in eight years to star in The Oath. He also directs, produces and co-scripted the Icelandic psychological thriller that’s premiering on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival as a Special Presentation (check out the…