Getting ready for Sheffield

Sheffield Doc Fest coming up!

Wrath of Gods starring Gerard Butler again available on Amazon

Wrath of Gods documentary is again available on Amazon.com

The 2009 re-release of the documentary Wrath of Gods (with Gerard Butler) is now available on Amazon.com. Buy a copy.

Wrath of Gods SOLD OUT – 1 copy on Amazon for $58 !!!

Wrath of Gods is sold out. Someone is selling a used copy on Amazon for $58.

The North American version of Wrath of Gods (with Gerard Butler) DVD is sold out. There are no more new copies left anywhere. I just found this on Amazon.com. Someone is offering one copy for $58. This version will not be produced again, but I am working on a final version, with subtitles in German and Spanish and never before seen footage. Still haven’t decided if it will go into production.

Location scouting

Location scouting in Iceland

Location scouting on the edge of Reykjavik at midnight. Love those white nights. The hope is that we’ll be able to make a short film here in the fall.

Location scouting in down-town Reykjavik

It’s not until you look sideways, till you turn of the main street and into the back alleys that you see the real city. There is a feature film to be made here and we found the perfect location for it, Shadowville, down-town Reykjavik.

Jody in the background

Mr. Butler signs an autograph before the premiere of Nim

It’s Sunday and my screening at CUT is over. I wanted to stay for the Horror day but Gerry had invited Martin and I to the premiere of Nim’s Island at the Chinese Theater on Sunset. At the end of the show it was quite interesting to see Gerry being swamped by fans and Jody Foster more or less ignored by all. The most surreal moment was when two nine year old girls walked past us and one of them proudly stated that she just got Gerard Butler’s autograph.

The Watchmen – Brighter Hell

A friend just sent me a link to this music video that I did back in 2000. This brings back a lot of memories. It was so cold out that the singer, Daniel Greaves, could not make it all the way through the song. He had to stop in the middle and get into the car with us to warm up. The Blizzard Award we won for this video was mostly thanks to two outstanding professionals, director of photography Brian Rougeau and editor David McGunnigal.

oh… it’s been a while since I thought about this one…

A trailer for a low-budget movie that I made in 2000. The film probably went to fourteen festivals in different countries and was even invited to Iran. It won some minor awards and ended up getting a very small release.

Final Version of the Poster

The designer (Armann Kojic) just sent me the final version of the poster. Now it’s just a question of making a deal with the right printing company. Hopefully we can start shipping the posters soon.

Wrath of Gods poster by Armann Kojic

Panorama of Canadian Feature Films

I just received an e-mail with the program listing from the Wrath Of Gods listing from the NSI FilmExchange festival. Here is what the wrote:

WRATH OF GODS

Saturday, March 3, 6:15 p.m.
Canada/Iceland, 2006, 71 min

Canadian theatrical premiere

Director/writer: Jon Gustafsson
Producers: Jon Gustafsson, Karolina Lewicka
Co-producers: Jón Ármann Steinsson, Gerard Butler
Cinematography: Jon Gustafsson, Gunnar Orn Heimisson, Sarah Moffat, Ósk Gunnlaugsdóttir, Wendy Ord
Cast: Sturla Gunnarsson, Paul Stephens, Wendy Ord, Gerard Butler, Eric Jordan, Michael Cowan, Andrew Berzins, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley

In July 2004 film director Sturla Gunnarsson arrived in Iceland to begin production on the movie Beowulf & Grendel. Delays in closing the funding for the picture, a Canada/Iceland co-production pushed the start of shooting to the beginning of September and before long the cast and crew found themselves coping with filming a movie outdoors in the stormiest autumn in Iceland in 60 years. The international crew and cast, which included Scottish actor Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera), Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking the Waves) and Canadian actress Sarah Polley (My Life Without Me), braved wind, rain, mud and cold, all the while wondering if perhaps the pagan blessing invoked at the start of filming had actually been a curse. Documentary filmmaker Jon Gustafsson was there, capturing it all with his own camera — the physical hardships, the anxiety caused by delayed financing and the formidable beauty of the windswept Icelandic coasts. A “making of” documentary that attests to the passion and folly of movie-making.

300

I just saw some preview materials for the movie 300. It looks very impressive and I would go see this film, even if GB wasn’t in it. I think this will be an amazing year for Gerry, and he deserves it. I remember back at the Toronto Festival when he was telling me about the different kind of “hardship” they had to go through for this one. This is all about to pay off for them. The film looks masculine and tough and visually compelling at the same time. Their promotion is genious as well. They seem to have taken everything that I was attempting with the internet campaign of B&G to a new level – and done a fantastic job of it. The difference is that I had $10 to do it, but Warner Brothers has realized that it is worth spending a lot of money on the web campaign.