Beowulf returns home and becomes king after his uncle and cousin are cut down by the Swedes.
Along with globe-trotting and parenting six, Jolie appeared on screen in the films Beowulf and A Mighty Heart.
His company has developed motion-capture software that doesn't require the "ping-pong-ball-bodysuit" worn by actors in movies like Beowulf.
Check out the very readable new verse translation of Beowulf from Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate.
Not meant to be, since Wiglaf probably won't survive the dreaded Frisians, who are about to engulf Beowulf's kingdom.
Beowulf comes to the rescue of the Danes--and boy, do they need it.
Beowulf wins this bout, but hasn't reckoned on tackling the monster's mum ( Angelina Jolie, also semi-tastefully au naturel).
Beowulf is voiced by Ray Winstone, whose motion-captured alter ego is a buff blonde who looks more like the young Sean Bean.
Beowulf shows up, boasting he can destroy Grendel with his bare hands.
Writing The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Dragon-Slayers was probably not what the unknown author of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf had in mind.
Despite the realism of having tasteful, turn-of-the-last-century furniture on Beowulf Boritt's cement-walled set, and Alejo Vietti's tasteful period costumes, the play remains quite surreal.
The poem describes the exploits of the Scandinavian warrior-prince Beowulf, who hails from the land of the Geats, located in what is now southern Sweden.
"Beowulf" is an excellent showcase for the advantages of computer-generated animation.
An elderly Beowulf puts on his armor for one last hurrah, invoking the age-old duty of all chief executives, male and female: Be a mensch .
So at the same time the DVD version of Beowulf outsold 30 Days of Night by almost 2:1, the Blu-ray 30 Days of Night bested Beowulf by almost 20-percent.
ENGADGET: Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending March 2nd, 2008
Eyes are notoriously difficult to capture properly in computer animation, as anyone who has seen Beowulf knows full well, but are absolutely integral in transforming an animation into something alive.
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"My last few shows have been based on old pieces of literature, " said Mr. Malloy, whose show "Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage" is simultaneously being mounted at ART in Boston.
Either way, from there the sales of HD DVDs really drop off, so much so that the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Crawford only sold 6.45-percent as many copies as Beowulf.
ENGADGET: Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending March 2nd, 2008
The 60-year-old writer equalled the record of his friend and rival, the late Ted Hughes, after his translation of Anglo Saxon epic poem Beowulf was named the best book of 1999 at a ceremony in The Brewery, near London's Barbican.
The rhythm and rhyme helped aid the memories of those who passed along the stories, a process that also gave us the beautiful imagery in the Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, the Vedas, the Bible, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and many others.
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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
If there's something irritatingly cocky about a Geat who strips naked to fight a supernatural being on equal terms (Zemeckis goes to "Austin Powers" lengths to hide Beowulf's manhood), his adversary is a curiously sympathetic figure resembling a refugee from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition.
Stars Shia LaBeouf (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Josh Duhamel (Life As We Know It), Tyrese Gibson (Four Brothers) and John Turturro (The Good Shepherd) have returned along with a host of new stars including Patrick Dempsey ("Grey's Anatomy"), Frances McDormand (Fargo) and John Malkovich (Beowulf).
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