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Viggo Mortensen And Caleb Landry Jones To Star In Two Wolves
Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones are to lead the cast of the Vietnam War film 'Two Wolves'.The duo have boarded the movie that is being directed by Alex Gibney – who is best known...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29 October 2021
Viggo Mortensen And Kristen Stewart Sign On For David Cronenberg's Next Film
Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart will star in 'Crimes of the Future' together.The two actors have signed up to appear in David Cronenberg's upcoming sci-fi thriller, which tells the story of a popular performance artist...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30 April 2021
Zac Efron And Russell Crowe In Talks For The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Zac Efron and Russell Crowe are in talks to star in 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever'.The new flick is director Peter Farrelly's follow-up to the Oscar-winning 'Green Book' and is based on the book 'The...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24 March 2021
Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell And Joel Edgerton Lead Thirteen Lives Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton have boarded the cast of 'Thirteen Lives'.The trio will star in Ron Howard's new film, which tells the story of the Than Luang cave rescue in 2018.The plot...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 March 2021
Viggo Mortensen Open To The Lord Of The Rings Return
Viggo Mortensen would be up for a return to 'The Lord of the Rings'.The 62-year-old actor played Aragorn in Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy based on J.R.R Tolkien's novel and admits that he would be keen...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16 February 2021
Viggo Mortensen Turned Down Wolverine Role
Viggo Mortensen turned down the role of Wolverine as he didn't want to play the role in "endless" movies.The 62-year-old actor was approached to play the clawed mutant superhero in the first 'X-Men' movie in...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 February 2021
Viggo Mortensen Hails Falling A 'Salute' To New York State
Viggo Mortensen has apologised to residents of Boonville in New York for Lance Henriksen's character in 'Falling' calling the town the "ugliest" in the state.In Mortensen's directional debut, his character John Peterson's father Willis Peterson...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 06 February 2021
Viggo Mortensen Wasn't Nervous About Directing
Viggo Mortensen insisted he wasn’t “any more nervous” on his first day directing ‘Falling’ than he is when he starts a new acting project.The 61-year-old actor has stepped behind the camera for the film –...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29 November 2020
Viggo Mortensen Didn't Copy Other Directors On Falling
Viggo Mortensen didn't try and copy others when directing his first movie.The 62-year-old actor makes his debut behind the camera in the drama film 'Falling' and revealed that he took his own approach to the...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23 November 2020
Viggo Mortensen Teaming Up With Green Book Director Peter Farrelly For Movie
Viggo Mortensen is set to reunite with 'Green Book' director Peter Farrelly on a new film.According to Variety, the 'Lord of the Rings' star is in talks to join an untitled flick based on the...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 June 2020
Dougray Scott Snubbed Lord Of The Rings Role
Dougray Scott turned down the chance to play Aragorn in 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy.The 'Sea Fever' star admitted that he was in line for the part, which eventually went to Viggo Mortensen, but...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21 April 2020
Squad Goals! 'Lord Of The Rings' Cast Stage Epic Reunion
The cast of Lord of the Rings held a mini reunion on Tuesday to fight a cave troll in a restaurant, using cutlery.Dominic Monaghan, who played Meriadoc Brandybuck in the franchise, shared a series of...
By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 01 February 2017
'The Two Faces Of January' Could Be The Finest Patricia Highsmith Adaptation Yet
American-born but Europe-based, the novelist Patricia Highsmith wrote 22 novels and eight collections of short stories, most of which deal with characters who are badly compromised morally. So it's natural that her work has been...
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16 May 2014
Viggo Mortensen Calls Lord Of The Rings Movies "Straight To Video, Sloppy" Films
Viggo Mortensen, the actor best known for playing Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings movies, says the second and third films in the franchise were "sloppy" movies and would have been straight-to-video had the...
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 May 2014
Kirsten Dunst: 'I Could Handle Hitchcock'
Kirsten Dunst insists she could've handled working with Alfred Hitchcock. The 32-year-old actress has been referred to as a ''classic Hitchcock blonde'' a number of times throughout her career, and although the legendary director of...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 May 2014
Viggo Mortensen: Superhero Role Would Be 'Fun'
Viggo Mortensen wants to star in a superhero movie. The 55-year-old actor - who is set to star alongside 'Spider-Man' actress Kirsten Dunst in the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel 'The Two Faces of...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 May 2014
Kirsten Dunst Burnt By Viggo Mortensen On Set
Kirsten Dunst was burnt by Viggo Mortensen during filming for 'The Two Faces of January'.The 32-year-old actress plays the 'Lord of the Rings' stars' wife in the crime thriller, and she's admitted that while they...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 May 2014
Robert Pattinson Joins Maps To The Stars
Robert Pattinson has joined 'Maps to the Stars'.The 'Twilight Saga' actor is set to reunite with David Cronenberg, who he worked with on last year's 'Cosmopolis', and will return to his role of billionaire Eric...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 April 2013
Viggo Mortensen Planning Directing Debut
Actor Viggo Mortensen is preparing to step behind the camera to focus on his directorial debut.The Lord of the Rings star has worked with some of Hollywood's leading filmmakers including David Cronenberg and Peter Jackson,...
By WENN on 25 March 2013
Hot Tickets! Us Movie Releases: Will Tom Cruise Make Or Break 'Jack Reacher'? Is 'This Is 40' As Good As 'Knocked Up'?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is riding high in the US box office charts (way higher than its nearest competitor, Rise of the Guardians) this week and it’s unlikely that will change, though there are...
By Hayley Avron in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21 December 2012
Kristen Stewart Never Scheduled For 'On The Road' Premiere
Kristen Stewart 's 'people' are going to have a hard time over the coming weeks, keeping a lid on the inevitable rumors about her career and her personal life. In the wake of her infidelity...
By WENN on 10 August 2012
Teen Choice Awards 2012: Kristen Stewart Leads The Way
Kristen Stewart looks set to take home a haul of awards at this year's Teen Choice Awards 2012. The Twilight star, along with her on-screen and off-screen boyfriend Robert Pattinson, has been nominated for three...
By Lew Irwin on 15 June 2012
David Cronenberg Wants Pattinson And Mortensen Film
David Cronenberg wants to cast Robert Pattinson and Viggo Mortensen in a film together. The director has worked with Viggo on a number of films, and with Robert for the first time on 'Cosmopolis', and...
By Bang Showbiz on 14 June 2012
George Clooney And Denzel Washington Are 'Men On Fire'
George Clooney, Colin Firth and Denzel Washington have been named as the sexiest men over 50. The actors are among 21 hunks to make AARP magazine's 'Men on Fire' list of older heartthrobs. Other stars...
By Bang Showbiz on 24 May 2012
Cannes Road's End For On The Road
The film version of Jack Kerouac's famous beat-generation novel On the Road has finally made it to the screen after a decades-long journey. The film received its worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today...
By Lew Irwin on 23 May 2012
Cannes Lineup: Brad Pitt's Crime Thriller Tops The Bill
This year's Cannes Film Festival will showcase movies starring some of America's biggest names, including Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Kristen Stewart. Brad Pitt makes an appearance in Killing Them Softly, from the New Zealand...
By Lew Irwin on 20 April 2012
Keira Knightley Says English Love Spanking
Keira Knightley believes English people are obsessed with spanking.The actress played Sabina Spielrein who has a relationship with her therapist Carl Jung in 'A Dangerous Method' and in one scene she had to be slapped...
By Bang Showbiz on 03 April 2012
Billy Bob Thornton Out Of The Furnace?
Billy Bob Thornton is to play a villain in 'Out of the Furnace'. The actor will join Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana and Casey Affleck for the movie, about a man who tracks down his brother's...
By Bang Showbiz on 23 March 2012
Michael Fassbender Vomited On By Fan
Michael Fassbender was left ''bemused'' when a fan vomited on him.The 'Shame' actor reportedly ''played it cool'' when a star-struck woman got so excited at meeting him in a London bar, she threw up on...
By Bang Showbiz on 02 March 2012
Jason Isaacs Loved Working With Chocolate Man Mortensen
Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs can't wait to work with Viggo Mortensen again - because he loved the intense actor's chocolate treats.Isaacs insists the Lord of the Rings star's super-serious reputation is undeserved because he's...
By WENN on 01 March 2012
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