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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Everest director Baltasar Kormakur is stepping in front of the camera for the first time in eight years to take The Oath. The multi-hyphenate returns to acting with the psychological thriller he co-scripted with Olafur Egilsson and is also helming and producing. He'll play a father who sets off on a mission…

EXCLUSIVE: Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest recently crossed $200M at the worldwide box office, a personal record. But the helmer notoriously likes to keep one foot in his home country of Iceland while also toiling away on Hollywood projects. In a departure for the director of The Deep and 2 Guns, he’s now set to produce…

The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. rights to the crime drama Trapped, an Icelandic TV series created by Everest director Baltasar Kormakur and which is premiering its debut episode at the Toronto Film Festival later this evening. Kormakur, who directed two of the episodes, is in Toronto for the unveiling, and the…

Set for its world premiere tonight as the opener of the Venice Film Festival, Everest is the kind of big-screen adventure picture Hollywood used to make regularly but seems to have forgotten about in the rush to comic book movies. This true story based on the ill-fated 1996 expeditions to the peak of the imposing…

SPOILER ALERT: While Everest is based upon real events which made headlines around the world in 1996 and spawned numerous accounts, the following includes details that may be unfamiliar to those who didn’t follow the original news. Mounting Working Title's Everest, which opens the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday…

The first trailer for Baltasar Kormákur’s adventure thriller Everest dropped back in June. That one introduced us to the main climbers as they set out to conquer the world’s highest mountain, “without doubt the most dangerous place on Earth,” Jason Clarke’s Rob Hall character says in the new trailer above. This one…