UPDATED with video: Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar hunt this year with Denmark's International Feature Oscar entry Another Round (Druk), starring Mads Mikkelsen. The drama has an intriguing premise: four weary high school teachers test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation…
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) has unveiled the line-up for its 50th edition, with the Mads Mikkelsen-starring Riders Of Justice set to open the fest.
You can see the full line-up below. The event has had to change its traditional format for 2021 due to ongoing pandemic disruption. It will now run as…
UPDATE, writethru:Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round swept the European Film Awards this evening, winning in each of its categories: Film, Director, Actor (Mads Mikkelsen) and Screenwriter (Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm). The drama that's Denmark's entry for the International Feature Oscar is also the biggest film at…
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar hunt with Denmark’s rep, Another Round (Druk), a film whose star, Mads Mikkelsen, calls "an embracement of life."
The drama has an intriguing premise: four weary high school teachers test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation opens our minds to…
At the center of Thomas Vinterberg's new film Another Round lies one of the eternal questions—does alcohol help open up the mind to stimulate or even liberate the imagination in helpful ways that might not have occurred otherwise, or is it, at the end of the day, a harmful depressant and mind-decayer, as well as a…
UPDATED with official confirmation:Warner Bros on Wednesday confirmed Deadline’s scoop from earlier this month that Mads Mikkelsen has been cast as Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3. He had been the top choice to replace Johnny Depp, who had played the role in the first two installments but exited…
Pop the champagne – the Danish Film Institute is sending Thomas Vinterberg'sAnother Round to the 2021 International Oscar race.
The pic stars Mads Mikkelsen as one of a group of high school teachers who test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. It was…
Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Armie Hammer (The Social Network) have been confirmed to star in writer-director Amma Asante's (Belle) The Billion Dollar Spy, which HanWay Films will launch sales on at the AFM.
Based on the true story of how a Soviet engineer and his CIA handler risked their lives to…
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round is continuing its trajectory as one to watch this season. The Mads Mikkelsen-starrer has been shortlisted by Denmark's Oscar Committee as one of three pictures that will vie to be the country's entry for the International Feature Film Academy Award. The other two…
The 2020 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its virtual audience award winners, with Thomas Vinterberg's Mads Mikkelsen-starring Danish comedyAnother Round scooping Best Film.
The awards replaced the typical jury-voted prizes, which didn't happen this year due to the pandemic forcing the majority of the fest…
Here you can see footage of Mads Mikkelsen back in his native Denmark for Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Riders Of Justice. He stars as a military man who returns home to his teenage daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. When he meets another passenger from the wrecked train, he concludes that it must…
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Hannibal) is leading the cast of Scandi pic Riders Of Justice, the latest feature from Oscar-Winning Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.
Jensen is a noted screenwriter with more than 30 feature credits; he has collaborated with the likes of Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig. As a director, he…
