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…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has abruptly halted an imminent production start on an untitled Alexander Payne-directed drama that was to star Mads Mikkelsen. Sources said filming was set to begin next week, until a rights issue brought the whole thing to a screeching halt.
I’m trying to get to the bottom of this — sounds like…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a deal to finance and release the next film by director Alexander Payne. Sources said the film doesn’t yet have a title, but that it is going to star Mads Mikkelsen, who is finalizing his deal. It was described to me as a father/daughter story about a Danish journalist who takes a road-trip…
With so much of the nation at record low temperatures this week, I’m not sure this is the most opportune time to release a movie called Arctic, but what the hell. If you are looking for a way to get out of the cold, what better idea than to escape to a movie about the coldest place on Earth and one man’s heroic…
With the Sundance Film Festival coming to a close, Oscar nominations out and Specialty distributors looking ahead, this weekend will have more new limited releases than the last few, post-holidays weekends. Bleecker Street is opening Joe Penna's Arctic starring Mads Mikkelsen as a man stranded near the North Pole…
Here’s the official U.S. trailer for Mads Mikkelsen survival drama-thriller Arctic, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Director Joe Penna will be doing a live chat with fans this morning.
In the well-received title, The Hunt and Doctor Strange star Mikkelsen plays a man stranded in the Arctic after…
The Canadian music producer known as Deadmau5 is making his first foray into film scoring with Polar, a noir-tinged project by director Jonas Akerlund that arrives next year from Netflix and Constantin Film.
The action film is an adaptation of Polar: Came From the Cold, the webcomic by writer-artist Victor Santos that…
Fresh off of its premiere in Venice, the first trailer for Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gatestarring Willem Dafoe as the legendary painter Vincent van Gogh has been released.
With Schnabel’s distinct The Diving Bell and the Butterfly style, At Eternity’s Gate follows the life of van Gogh, but is not a traditional…
Deadline's portrait and video studio at the Cannes Film Festival kicked off eight talent-filled days on the Croisette with visits by Arctic director Joe Penna and actors Mads Mikkelsen and Maria Thelma Smaradottir; Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella from HBO’s Fahrenheit 451; and Tahar Rahim from Treat Me Like…
Bleecker Street has acquired North American distribution rights and select international territories on Joe Penna's Arctic. The director’s feature-film debut stars Mads Mikkelsen and had its world premiere last night in an Official Selection Midnight berth here at the Cannes Film Festival.
The title follows a man…
Joe Penna never thought that seeing his debut feature in Cannes' Official Selection was "a remote possibility", but here he is with a primo spot as a Midnight Screening with a film starring Mads Mikkelsen. Arctic sees Mikkelsen's character stranded after a plane crash. As he is finally about to receive a long-awaited…
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