Baltasar Kormákur Net Worth is
$2 Million

Mini Biography

Baltasar Kormákur can be an professional, producer and movie director whose function spans theater, films and television. Delivered in Reykjavik, Iceland, he graduated as an professional from Iceland’s Country wide Academy of Great Arts in 1990. He was instantly signed on with the Country wide Theater of Iceland, where he proved helpful among the leading youthful performing performers until 1997. Over the last 2 yrs of his project he also aimed several ambitious functions, after having created and directed very popular, 3rd party stage productions alongside his tasks with the Country wide Theater. In 2000, he published, aimed, acted in and created the feature film “101 Reykjavik,” which became a global hit and gained the Finding Award in the Toronto International Film Event. Subsequently, Variety chosen him among the “10 Directors to view,” along with Alejandro González Iñárritu, Lukas Moodysson, Christopher Nolan and additional newcomers at that time. Immediately after, Kormákur began Blueeyes Productions and since that time has managed his concentrate on feature film composing, generating, and directing. His movies “THE OCEAN,” “JUST A LITTLE VISIT TO Heaven,” “Jar Town” and “White Night time Wedding” possess all been extremely effective in Iceland, and received numerous international honours. Kormákur’s “The Deep,” which eerily catches the tragic real-life tale from the lone survivor of the capsized vessel from the frigid Icelandic coastline, premiered on the 2012 Toronto International Film Celebration and continued to be Iceland’s Oscar nominee and was shortlisted for the spanish Academy Prize. It opened up in Iceland on Sept 21, 2012 and got in over 50% from the country’s boxoffice receipts that weekend and gained a record amount of Edda Honours, 11 in every, including Greatest Film of the entire year, Best Movie director and Best Professional in a respected Role. Kormákur also offers directed features in america, including “Inhale,” an unbiased film made by the LA structured 26 Movies, starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard and “Contraband,” starring Tag Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Kate Beckinsale, which got initial place at the united states box workplace during its starting weekend, early January 2012. General Images released “Contraband,” that was a remake of Oskar Johansson’s “Reykjavik Rotterdam,” that starred Kormákur and he created with Agnes Johansen through his Blueeyes Productions, along with Functioning Title Movies. Kormákur’s following film may be the thriller “2 Weapons,” starring Denzel Washington and Tag Wahlberg, which General Pictures will discharge in August 2013. Various other projects are the HBO pilot “The Missionary,” a spy thriller he’ll direct and Tag Wahlberg, Steve Levinson and Malcolm Gladwell will generate; “Everest,” the cautionary story and true to life adventure in the hill in 1996 when eight climbers passed away in the period of two times, due to some horrific mishaps and poor decisions. Working Name Movies and Emmett/Furla Productions will generate “Everest” with Kormákur. Also, “Viking,” a large budget action experience occur the globe of the famous Norse warriors, that may film in Iceland. Kormákur optioned Iceland’s much loved, Nobel Prize-winning publication Independent Visitors to develop as an attribute film and can make the American remake of “Jar Town” along with CEO of Lava Carry Movies, David Linde. He’s also generating the Icelandic episode “Rocketman,” which acclaimed Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari is usually directing. He also partnered with CCP Video games, the world’s leading impartial developer of substantial multiplayer games to create the EVE Universe video game to television. The brand new series will need its inspiration from your thousands of people who have remaining their mark around the EVE World via stories posted to the web site. The RVK Studios group, in cooperation with CCP, will generate a genuine concept and story occur the EVE Universe, another background of rival societies caught beyond a wormhole inside a dystopian sci-fi globe. Most of Kormákur’s movies are created under his Blueeyes Productions, which also contains a tv arm, RVK Studios, and a link with Dadi Einarsson as well as the Icelandic VFX firm Framestore.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Baltasar Kormákur
Profession	Actor, Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Theatre Director, Television Director, Television producer
Education	Iceland Academy of the Arts
Nationality	Icelandic
Spouse	Lilja Pálmadóttir
Children	Baltasar Breki Samper
Parents	Baltasar Samper
Awards	Crystal Globe, Variety Piazza Grande Award
Nominations	European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year, People's Choice Award for Best European Film, Prix du Public UBS
Movies	Everest, 2 Guns, Contraband, The Deep, The Oath, 101 Reykjavík, Jar City, Reykjavík-Rotterdam, A Little Trip to Heaven, White Night Wedding, The Sea, Angels of the Universe, Inhale, Devil's Island, Virgin Mountain, No Such Thing, Me and Morrison, Stormy Weather, The Split, Investigation into the Invisible World, Agnes, Pop in Reykjavík, Regína, The Missionary, A Fairy of Our Time
TV Shows	Trapped, Dream Hunters