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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…

Even in a world as volatile as the film industry, Thomas Vinterberg has had some serious ups and downs. After becoming the toast of Cannes in 1998 with his Dogme film Festen, the Danish director fell sharply from grace with the follow-up It's All About Love and endured several commercial flops before returning to…

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…

Thomas Vinterberg achieved that rare honor with this year’s Oscar nominations, not only receiving one for Denmark’s Best International Film entry, Another Round, but also one for him as Best Director category — the only nominee there for a film not also competing for Best Picture. This is something true icons…

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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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…

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…