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Novelist Cormac McCarthy sets up grim stakes early on in his post-apocalyptic parable The Road .

For most 13-year-old boys, having Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings play your dad in the epic science-fiction movie The Road would be a dream come true, but Kodi Smit-McPhee may be one of the few kids on the planet who didn't know anything about Viggo Mortensen until recently.

Because you really don't have to see New Moon for the fourth time in less than a week, Hollywood is pulling out all the trimmings this Thanksgiving.

In The Road, the long awaited adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Viggo Mortensen plays a man attempting to find security for both he and his son in a post-apocalyptic world.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee portray a father and son who must hide from cannibals in a trek across the post-apocalyptic Eastern United States in the film "The Road," based on the book by Cormac McCarthy.

TACOMA, Wash. -- 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." Production crews spent a day in July 2008 filming scenes from the post-apocalypse movie on the east side of the Mount St.

"Me and Orson Welles" - In Richard Linklater's adaptation of the historical fiction novel by Robert Kaplow, our view of the great, charismatic director and thespian isn't straight on, but sideways.

In a change of pace, I have already seen one of the week's upcoming movies ahead of time: " Ninja Assassin ." As per my expectations, the film places a lesser emphasis on plot and a higher one on intense action sequences.

In 2006, an incalculable number of retrousse-nosed snobs - most possessing little understanding or appreciation of speculative fiction - were justly charmed by Cormac McCarthy's YA novel, The Road .

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.