Viggo Mortensen News

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.

Bang or whimper? Fire or ice? Happily, holiday moviegoers interested in pondering the end of the world can select scenarios far more elaborate than those simple, traditional choices.

Guy Dixon Published on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 5:29PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov.

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.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee have eaten bugs together. They've shivered through frigid winter air, fought off desperately hungry cannibals and walked side by side on the empty and dusty roads of some future, dystopian America.

Viggo Mortensen is a real-life Renaissance man whose abilities transcend his chiseled leading man looks.

London, Nov 7 : American actor Mickey Rourke is said to have turned the air blue during an interview after he used a cuss word in each and every sentence.

Join Back Stage on Monday, November 9 for a Los Angeles screening of the new film "The Road," starring Viggo Mortensen, who will hold a Q&A immediately afterward.

Don't let the relatively unknown director, John Hillcoat , and writer, Joe Penhall , scare you away- The Road is shaping up to be nothing less than a thoughtful and invigorating ride.

Forget Lord of Rings. Try Lord of the Idiots. The Toronto Film Festival opened on Thursday with an outcry against the fest's City to City program, which spotlights Tel Aviv this year.

Louise Lombard left BBC period drama behind to go to LA and a starring role in 'CSI'. Now she's back in Britain but still hunting murderers.

This is the fourth in a series of reports from the Telluride Film Festival . The event customarily held over the Labor Day weekend returned for its 36th season September 4-7. Coverage included a quick look at a film screened each night and highlights of some of the group discussions and celebrity appearances.

How badly do I hope this is all a clever publicity stunt so that Viggo Mortensen can begin a much-needed rapping career? Badly enough to write my congressmen about it.

Another one bites the dust? Viggo Mortensen recently dropped a bombshell about the future of his career, telling Men's Journal in an interview that he's going to quit acting altogether.

Caption: Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean Jameson Empire Film Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel - Press Room London, England .... VIGGO MORTENSEN stunned Oscar losers at the 2008 Academy Awards by suggesting they all perform a consolation jig in the aisles.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my thoughts on THE ROAD, which screened at the Telluride Film Festival along with a tribute to its star Viggo Mortensen.

On stage before a screening of "The Road,' Silver-Medallion recipient Viggo Mortensen recalled his first acting gig.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play father and son on a harrowing and hopeless journey in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's devastating novel "The Road," premiering Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.

A father and his son, survivors of the apocalypse, in "The Road." Often the end-of-the-world movie scenario spells the beginning of sky-high box-office. Look no further than Charlton Heston , Mel Gibson , and Will Smith .