Baltasar Kormakur

Director of 2 Guns teaming up with Universal & Identity Thief producer to remake Filipino crime thriller On the Job

Variety reports that Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to crime thriller On the Job, based on the same real-life events as Erik Matti’s Filipino crime thriller that premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight earlier this year. According to the report, Baltasar Kormakur – who directed Denzel Washington & Mark Walhberg’s 2 Guns – is attached ….

Win one of three copies of the comedy White Night Wedding on DVD

Baltasar Kormakur, creator of modern arthouse classics 101 Reykjavik and The Sea, returns with a bracing adaptation of chekhov’s drama of marital discord, Ivanov in Iceland’s official entry for the 2009 best foreign language Oscar, White Night Wedding (Brúðguminn). The DVD was released this past Tuesday, on September 15th, and to celebrate, I am giving ….