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Falling marks three-time Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen’s feature film debut — and he picked some very heavy subject matter to take on. In the drama, the legendary Lance Henriksen plays Willis, the very conservative (and homophobic) father of Mortensen’s John. When Willis moves from his rural farm to live in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Sverrir Gudnason, who broke out playing Björn Borg opposite Shia LeBeouf in Borg Vs. McEnroe last year and co-starred alongside Claire Foy in Sony’s The Girl In the Spider’s Web this fall, has signed with ICM Partners. The news comes as the Sweden-born actor is attached to star in Falling, which will serve…

Josephine Bornebusch (Welcome To Sweden) and Borg vs McEnroe and The Girl In The Spider’s Web star Sverrir Gudnason will star in six-part comedy-drama series Love Me (Älska Mig), from Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT). Bornebusch writes and directs the series, which will examine how friendship, grief and romance…

Almost as big a challenge as knocking off a four-time Wimbledon champion is actually centering an entire movie around a match where most probably already know the outcome. But that is exactly what director Janus Metz and screenwriter Ronnie Sandahl have done with Borg Vs. McEnroe, a recreation of the infamous 1980…

At the finals of Wimbledon in 1980, two men—a placid, methodical swede, Björn Borg, and a vocal, emotional American, John McEnroe—went head to head in a grudge-match that is still on the minds of every fan of the sport. The events that shaped these two men are played out in Janus Metz’s Borg/McEnroe, which opened the T…