A teenage boy has become what is thought to be the youngest person in Sweden to be convicted of copyright violation, after his school handed him over to police for illegally downloading films when he was just 15. Read the full story

The Hollywood movie star Tom Cruise will, in all likelihood, spend several weeks in Iceland next summer as part of filming for a hundred-million-dollar blockbuster. It is expected that a 200-strong film crew from Universal will accompany him. Read the full story

A Finnish film about illegal immigration has scooped the audience award at the Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF). Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, which premiered in the country on September 9, received the prestigious accolade at the award ceremony on Saturday, October 1. Read the full story

This Saturday will see the world’s largest ever international one-day short films festival take over the Icelandic capital as part of the Reykjavik International Film Festival. It may be big, but it is also undeniably cosy… Read the full story

The big budget movie Promethius, directed by Ridley Scott, will be partly filmed in Iceland next month. Read the full story

Inhale, the new film directed by Iceland’s Baltasar Kormakur, will be premiered in the USA this weekend. The director’s American dream continues, as he has also signed a deal with Universal for a remake of his popular film Reykjavik Rotterdam. Read the full story

The first in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Gudny Halldorsdottir’s Honour of the House Read the full story

It seems likely that the American remake of the Icelandic film Reykjavik Rotterdam will begin at the beginning of next year. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur confirmed in a telephone interview with Visir.is that Mark Wahlberg will star in the film and Kormakur will direct it himself. Read the full story