The familiar vengeance payback genre has some goofy and entirely welcome top-spin applied to it in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice. The Danish film also features a version of Mads Mikkelsen — currently at a career peak — that we've never seen before, with his handsome face hidden behind an Ozark-style full…
EXCLUSIVE: English-language remake rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s Best International Film Oscar winner Another Round have been acquired after an auction. The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio and was won in a bid by his and Jennifer Davisson’s Appian Way, Endeavor Content and Brad…
Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round tonight added to its strong cocktail of prizes over the past several months, scooping the Best International Feature Film Oscar. The front-runner coming in, the director's latest marks his first win at the Academy Awards after his 2012 The Hunt was nominated in the same…
On Thursday, Magnet Releasing released the trailer for Riders of Justice, an action drama written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen.
The Danish-language film centers on Markus (Mads Mikkelsen), a soldier recently deployed to Afghanistan who is forced to return home to take care of his teenage daughter, following…
EXCLUSIVE: Following the news that Phoebe Waller-Bridge had landed the female lead in the next Indiana Jones movie, Lucasfilm has found Harrison Ford’s next co-star in Mads Mikkelsen, who is set to join the next installment. James Mangold is taking over directing reins from Steven Spielberg, who still is serving as a…
Nominated in both the International Feature Oscar and the Best Director Oscar categories, Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round is a life-affirming film that uses an experimentation with alcohol as a means to propel the drama. Throughout, there are elements of tragedy and comedy in a story Vinterberg has called an…
Fresh off its double Oscar nomination, the Mads Mikkelsen-starring Danish movie Another Round has been set for a June 25 release in the UK via Studiocanal.
The film had originally been dated for November 27, 2020 in the country but was postponed after the pandemic situation worsened. It will now resurface at a time…
With Oscar nominations for Best International Feature and Best Director, Another Round's Thomas Vinterberg today joined an elite, yet growing, group of overseas filmmakers to score simultaneous mentions in those categories. Speaking to Deadline from his home in Denmark just minutes after the announcement — and with…
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Voting for nominations for the 93rd annual Academy Awards finally starts today. And you thought this day would never come, right?
In the longest season in the modern history of Oscar campaigning, we have now completed six months since the traditional…
Lionsgate certainly is no stranger to wildly successful franchises developed from YA novels like Twilight, the Divergent series and The Hunger Games. So it is no surprise it would want to keep the cash cow going by launching yet another attempt at an ongoing dystopian movie series. Chaos Walking probably won’t do the…
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…
