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Interview with John Hillcoat, director of "The Road" 0 It's Thanksgiving Day, time to get the family together and see -- what? Piss, shit and fart jokes in "Old Dogs?" A multiply addicted and deranged Nicolas Cage abusing people as he tries to solve the mass murder of an immigrant family in "Bad Lieutenant?" Ninjas severing limbs, lopping off ...

Director David Cronenberg , who cast Viggo Mortensen as a Russian mob lieutenant in Eastern Promises , tells how his star would disappear from the London shoot on weekends, not revealing where he was going, and return Monday with photographs and objects, tattoo books, and snatches of Russian street slang he had gleaned during his stealth getaways ...

With a few cosmetic tweaks, Mount St. Helens provided the right devastation to serve as a backdrop for scenes in John Hillcoat's film "The Road.&rdquo Production crews spent a day in July 2008 filming scenes from the post-apocalypse movie on the east side of the Mount St.

Viggo Mortensen usually makes only one film per year, but when he was approached to do The Road in 2007 , he couldn't turn it down.

Is there a reason why really great novels seldom make great movies? OK, let's back up a bit.

Viggo Mortensen, 51, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, 13, are the co-stars of the post-apocalyptic drama The Road , and when they talked about the film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, they did it together.

Viggo Mortensen is an actor who is known for pushing the envelope with every screen role he takes.

At this point, it's far too easy and obvious to make the joke about what a "long road" it's been for John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road to finally arrive in theaters.

There's something so beautiful and captivating about the end of humanity, the last gasping breaths of life as we know it.

The Market Street Bridge near Follansbee will close Monday while a crew shoots scenes for a movie starring Denzel Washington.

FOR MOST Americans, the next few weeks constitute the holiday season. In the land known as Hollywood, though, it's the Oscar season.

"Ninja Assassin": A young ninja turns his back on the clan that raised him after it executes one of his friends.

This is not a movie for sissies! Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Road is a road movie on a landscape, barren after some unnamed cataclysmic event.

D oomsday sagas have never been far from our collective American imagination, but they've rarely been closer.

In an extensive interview in the Wall Street Journal , John Hillcoat and Cormac McCarthy talk about The Road and the fragmentation of culture.

From left to right, actors Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pose for the photographers prior to the UK fan party of their new film 'New Moon' in London, Wednesday Nov.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Hollywood feels fine. Global warming, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing terrorist threats and the economic meltdown have people in a gloomy, even end-of-days frame of mind.

Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds and Grinderman partner Warren Ellis have announced that they are set to release their soundtrack to the forthcoming film 'The Road' on January 4 next year.

Gwyneth Paltrow will join Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl, an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel about the first post-operative transsexual.

Viggo Mortensen has said that he is unsure if his Lord Of The Rings character will appear in The Hobbit .