Viggo Mortensen News

He's already been nominated for an Oscar, but new movie The Road is Viggo Mortensen's most challenging - and controversial - role yet.

From top left: Andrew Cooper/Miramax Films; Bob Marshak/Artisan Entertainment; Stephanie Branchu/20th Century Fox; New Line Productions From top left: Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill"; Terence Stamp in "The Limey"; Liam Neeson in "Taken"; Viggo Mortensen in "A History of Violence." The New York Post includes among its 10 best movie lines of 2009 a speech ...

Once described as a method actor in a leading man's body, Viggo Mortensen takes his craft seriously - but he's not dour, just thoughtful .

Photograph by: IMDB, IMDB There was so much promise to David Cronenberg's 2007 film Eastern Promises that it couldn't be contained in a single film: MTV News reported yesterday that the Canadian director has decided to make a sequel to the award- winning film.

Viggo Mortensen stars in A History of Violence, one of Jay Stone's favourite films of the decade.

PSYCHO: Thriller. Starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen and William H. Macy.

Actor makes an extraordinary commitment in 'The Road' Actor makes an extraordinary commitment in 'The Road' LOS ANGELES -- There's no real secret as to how Viggo Mortensen prepared for the role of the half-starved character known as Man in "The Road." To lose weight, he just stopped eating as much as normal.

As anyone familiar with the novel The Road already sees coming, the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer winner can be a difficult thing to behold.

Still, apart from marketing campaigns, I wonder why Tolstoy could wrap up War and Peace in one volume while many of these works seem to go on forever.

Although we are used to professional fakery, not all movie stunts are done with computers, green screen, or even stuntmen.

Review: 'Everybody's Fine' a pleasant surprise Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic Everybody's Fine RATING: Drama.

In this film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, Viggo Mortensen, right, and Kodi Smit-McPhee are shown in a scene from, The Road.

Viggo Mortensen doesn't talk with his hands so much as he batters the air. When he's making a point about the human need for compassion, he snatches two handfuls into his chest.

Director John Hillcoat and actor Viggo Mortensen have both made their names with dark, gritty films: Hillcoat with Nick Cave-scripted Western "The Proposition," Mortensen with a pair of David Cronenberg thrillers, "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises." It is tempting, then, to suggest that with "The Road," a bleak, post-apocalyptic ...

Acclaimed Actors Mariana Tosca, Christmas in the Clouds, Viggo Mortensen, Lord of the Rings, Appaloosa and Hidalgo and Kevin Nealon, Weeds have added their voice to a growing 150 organizations and dignitaries from America, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa asking President Obama and Secretary Salazar to halt the round-ups of America's ...

Initially scheduled to be released in 2008, " The Road " got detoured, heading back to the editing room when there were early creative glitches with the production.

The tools of movie magic: on the set of "The Road" "He looks like something the cat dragged onto the set," the director says of his star, and glancing over at the fellow in question you have to agree.

Fame Game On the Road, signs of the apocalypse hit home Director John Hillcoat, left, on the set of The Road with star Viggo Mortensen: Unlike most post-apocalyptic stories, says Hillcoat, a this is not science fiction.a Macall Polay Something about the story's bleakness resonated personally for both director John Hillcoat and star Viggo Mortensen ...

Viggo MortensenA may haveA galloped his way into our collectiveA pop-culture consciousness as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings , but he was alreadyA mesmerizing a full decade earlier in Sean Penn's The Indian Runner .

Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road makes strange fodder for a blockbuster film released over Thanksgiving weekend.