Face coverings continue to top the list of must-have accessories for 2021, especially with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Feb. 10 recommendation to combine a cloth mask with a medical mask for maximum COVID-19 protection.
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Viggo Mortensen says he’s interested in checking out the upcoming “Lord Of The Rings” series for Amazon Prime Video.
Director J.A. Bayona, the filmmaker behind “The Orphanage,” “The Impossible” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, will bring the beloved J. R. R. Tolkien stories to the small screen, titled “Rings”, almost a decade after the last “Lord Of The Rings” feature film.
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Face coverings continue to top the list of must-have accessories for 2021, especially with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Feb. 10 recommendation to combine a cloth mask with a medical mask for maximum COVID-19 protection.
Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City has been targeted by a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown, fuelling speculation a remake is going to be announced.Aap – the lead developer of the project – confirmed to Eurogamer that they had received a DMCA from Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of GTA developers Rockstar Games.The project is currently unavailable on Github, and instead there is a DMCA request, which states: “This repository is currently disabled due to a DMCA takedown
The contentiously-received 2019 Best Picture Oscar-winner “Green Book” had its fair share of dispiriting controversies and embarrassing dramas surrounding its release, including claims of historical accuracy, and various, deeply tone-deaf and insensitive gaffes from those involved in the film.
Framing Britney Spears, takes a look at the singer’s chequered career and the #FreeBritney movement that has rallied against her ongoing conservatorship.The documentary has led to an outpouring of support for the singer, as well as renewed criticism for how Justin Timberlake treated Spears, his ex-girlfriend of three years.But the film has also seen Craig Ferguson winning praise, after a resurfaced clip from 2007 showed the former Late Late Show host refusing to mock Spears for shaving her head
Craig Ferguson may be no Chris Crocker, but the Peabody-winning television host recently went viral for defending Britney Spears during an opening monologue from 2007.
chronicling the pop star’s tumultuous life. At the time, the embattled “Baby One More Time” singer infamously attacked paparazzi with an umbrella while sporting a shaved head.
Viggo Mortensen has revealed how his young son shut down X-Men director Bryan Singer in a meeting about taking on the role of Wolverine. The Lord of the Rings star has often spoken about turning down the part of Wolverine in Singer’s 2000 blockbuster X-Men, but the actor gave further details surrounding his decision during a recent appearance on MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“X-Men”‘s Wolverine almost took a different route when Viggo Mortensen was nearly cast in the role.
Viggo Mortensen is opening up about his decision to turn down the role of Wolverine in the X-Men franchise and what happened in his meeting with director Bryan Singer.
Lord Of The Rings actor Viggo Mortensen has revealed why he turned down the opportunity to play Wolverine in the X-Men franchise.Mortensen, who met with director Bryan Singer about potentially taking on the role of Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men, has explained what put him off playing the adamantium clawed superhero.“The thing that bothered me at the time was just the commitment of endless movies of that same character over and over,” he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast.“I was nervous about that.
An Oscar nomination is a huge feather in the cap of any filmmaker. Even though many would never gauge their success based on awards recognition, there’s a reason why directors are always excited when they get nominated for a trophy.
Despite having appeared in one of the biggest franchises of the ’00s, Viggo Mortensen has never appeared in a superhero movie (though the fantastic “A History of Violence” is based on a comicbook). That being said, it’s not for a lack of offers.
The list of actors cut out of Terrence Malick’s classic 1998 “The Thin Red Line” war movie is long and legendary (we’ve dedicated entire features to digging up nuggets of stories over the years). And actor Viggo Mortensen—cut out of early roles in films like Woody Allen’s “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” and Jonathan Demme‘s “Swing Shift”—knows a thing or two about being left on the cutting room floor.
Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen will make his feature directorial debut with Falling which makes its premiere in theaters, digital and on demand today. Mortensen went all-in with his feature debut because also wrote, starred in and composed the score for Falling to show us that he’s not just a one-trick pony (but was there any doubt?)
Viggo Mortensen is speaking out against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
An Oscar nomination is a huge feather in the cap of any filmmaker. Even though many would never gauge their success based on awards recognition, there’s a reason why directors are always excited when they get nominated for a trophy.
horror project he’s involved in with film director David Cronenberg.The Green Book actor, who has been promoting his directorial debut Falling, said in a new interview that he hopes to shoot the new works this summer – and that it will be a return to Cronenberg’s past as a horror filmmaker.Asked by GQ to reflect on working with Cronenberg again in Falling (Cronenberg plays a proctologist, and the filmmaker directed Mortensen in A History Of Violence and Eastern Promises), the actor went on to
David Cronenberg has worked with some incredible actors over the course of his decades-long career. However, if you really want to get film fans excited, mention a project that has Cronenberg directing Viggo Mortensen.