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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…

The 54th Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar has named Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz as jury president. Elkabetz co-helmed this year’s Golden Globe nominee Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem with her brother Shlomi. It ran last year in Directors’ Fortnight. Elkabetz’s jury will include director Katell…

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns, Contraband) is in final negotiations to direct Cascade, the eco-disaster pic that Ridley Scott and Steven Zaillian are producing at Fox. Loosely based on the 2003 BBC mockumentary The Day Britain Stopped, Cascade is about a global catastrophe that follows an international…

Universal Pictures is staying in the cold-weather business with Baltasar Kormákur. The studio has acquired Vikingr, a project based on the classic tales deriving from the Icelandic Sagas. Those stories document the larger-than-life heroes, adventures and battles of early Nordic settlers as well as daily life in the…

Woo-Hoo! ‘The Simpsons’ Lego Set Coming Next Year Lego said Monday that it will launch its first set based on The Simpsons next year. A spokesman for the privately held Danish toymaker wouldn’t single out which characters will be Lego-ized, but he said the company hopes the set will “appeal to fans of the Simpsons…

Baltasar Kormákur‘s breakout film 101 Reykjavik debuted in competition at Locarno in 2000. The director returns to the fest this year with actioner 2 Guns. The Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg film will be released Stateside on August 2 and have its international premiere in Locarno on August 7. The story follows…