Filming for Ridley Scott’s new movie, Promethius began today at the foot of Iceland’s Hekla volcano. Read the full story

A feature film first developed in Iceland is now gaining international attention. Titled Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, the feature is described as the most unflinching and honest exploration yet of Dean’s life in the years prior to his becoming a star and ill-fated legend. The film should be complete for the Spring/Summer 2011 festival circuit. Read the full story

Following a triumphant première last night in Reykjavik’s Haskolabio cinema, the brand new documentary Future of Hope is now on national release and will be shown in cinemas across Iceland. The British-Icelandic film was a labour of love and came perilously close to running out of cash before completion. Read the full story

The British company E1 Entertainment have bought the distribution rights to the recently released Icelandic film Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre. According to pressan.is, the negotiated purchase price is the highest that has ever been offered for an Icelandic film in Britain. Read the full story

Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland’s best known film director, has started work on a new high-budget Viking movie. This will be the most expensive film ever made in Iceland with an estimated budget of 60 million dollars. Read the full story

The documentary Heima about the Icelandic band Sigur Ros has been ranked the best documentary of all time by the film information website Internet Movie Database(IMDB). According to mbl.is the website is the most popular of its kind, grading films from one up to ten, and after a score of 8.7 Heima hails at the top of the ratings for documentary films. All together just over 2,400 people have given the film a grade, with around 1,360 of them grading the film 10 out of 10. Read the full story

A new website launched this week in the UK is looking set to take the movie world by storm.

Screenrush.co.uk offers visitors the chance to chat about movies, view trailers, book tickets, rent DVDs, as well as access Europe’s largest database of cast and crew information, biographies and reviews.

The website markets itself as a cross between YouTube, Odeon, Lovefilm and IMDb, and aims to be the most popular and most useful film website on the market.

The new site is operated by French media company AlloCine Group and has already attracted over half a million users during its beta testing stage.

Alexandra Ouzilleau, Managing Director of Screenrush.co.uk, commented: “Our goal with Screenrush.co.uk is to be one of the top five film sites in the UK by the end of the year – half a million users before the site has officially launched is a promising first step!

“With the added support of the cinema industry behind us, we hope to replicate the success we’ve had in France, where Allocine.fr is the number one cinema site with a 70% audience market share,” he added.

For more information visit www.screenrush.co.uk