Baltasar Kormákur
‘Trapped’: TIFF Review
Everest director Baltasar Kormakur moves into small-screen Nordic Noir territory with this deep-frozen murder mystery set in a snowbound coastal town.
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Venice: ‘Everest’ Stars, Director Talk Isolation, Responsibility of Filming Real-Life Mountain Saga
“There’s a difference between pain and injury,” director Baltasar Kormakur said at a press conference ahead of the movie's world premiere.
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‘Everest’ Director Talks “Losing Your Shit” While Shooting at the Highest Place on Earth
Baltasar Kormakur hauled his A-list cast and crew up Mount Everest for "authenticity" purposes when making the disaster epic, which opens the Venice Film Festival today.
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Toronto: NBC’s ‘Heroes Reborn,’ Hulu’s ‘Casual’ Comedy to Get World Premieres
Netflix's Keith Richards doc and Baltasar Kormakur's 'Trapped' thriller series will also bow at the festival, with the creators attending.
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All-Star Disaster Epic ‘Everest’ Screening at CineEurope
The full feature, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin, will screen to attendees ahead of its September release.
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‘Virgin Mountain’: Berlin Review
Icelandic director Dagur Kári’s fourth feature is a quirky, compassionate, warmly funny portrait of a gigantic social misfit with an even bigger heart
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‘2 Guns’ Filmmaker Sells Viking Movie to Universal
Baltasar Kormákur co-wrote the script and will direct
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MIPTV: Baltasar Kormakur’s Crime Series ‘Trapped’ Gets Series Order
The crime drama from Kormakur's Icelandic TV shingle RVK looks at a grisly murder in an isolated town cut off from the rest of the world.
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Jake Gyllenhaal Starrer ‘Everest’ Gets $1 Million in Funding From South Tirol
The autonomous region in northern Italy backs the true-life adventure tale from "2 Guns" director Baltasar Kormakur, which Working Title is producing.
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MIPCOM: ‘2 Guns’ Director Relaunches Icelandic Production Shingle
RVK Studios, based in Reykjavik, is pitched as a full-service film and TV production and special effects house.
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‘2 Guns’ Director, Icelandic Industry Shocked by Cuts to Local Film Fund
Iceland plans to slash the budget of its national film fund by around 40 percent.
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No Obvious Front Runners in European Film Award Contenders
Ari Folman's "The Congress" and Juan Antonio Bayona's "The Impossible" are among the titles up for Europe's top film honor.
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