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.

Lights Out!

Just posted the “lights out” part of the 1 hour interview with Gerry on YouTube. We did this interview in the middle of the night, a couple of days before the end of the Beowulf & Grendel shoot. I am usually very much ‘in control’ when doing interviews, but this time I couldn’t help myself. It’s hard to explain how absurd this was, especially after having gone through months of hardship up there in the mountains. Gerry had been putting the interview off for a few weeks but when we finally got going the generators broke down in the middle of it. By the way, I just read about a new YouTube trick. You just add &fmt=18 after the URL to play the video in higher resolution (have to be on www.youtube.com for this to work)

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.