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Hot Toronto Trailer: ‘Everybody Has A Plan’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 3:06pm PDTTags: Toronto Film Festival, Viggo Mortensen

This festival entry starring Viggo Mortensen is directed and co-written by Ana Piterbarg. It premieres tomorrow.

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Hot Trailer: ‘A Dangerous Method’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 6:34am PDTTags: A Dangerous Method, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Movie Trailer, Sony Pictures Classics, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Mike Fleming

A new international trailer is up for A Dangerous Method, the drama involving psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Sony Pictures Classics releases the film later this year. It stars Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel.

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Luke Evans To Play Bard in ‘The Hobbit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 16, 2011 @ 3:21pm PDTTags: Luke Evans, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans has bagged the role of Bard in The Hobbit, a last major part that Peter Jackson hadn’t cast in a production that’s underway in New Zealand. Bard the Grim is  a skilled archer, and the heir of … Read More »

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CANNES: Weinstein Company Near Deal For ‘Wettest County’ While Distribs Fret Over Buying Pics Sight-Unseen

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 16, 2011 @ 3:28am PDTTags: Amy Adams, CAA, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cassian Elwes, Charlie Hunnam, Eric Bana, Garrett Hedlund, Jack Kerouac, Joe Carnahan, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Ryan Kavanaugh, The Wettest County in the World, Viggo Mortensen, Walter Salles
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company, already on a Cannes acquisition spree, has emerged as the clear frontrunner for  domestic distribution rights on The Wettest County in the World, after another all-night bargaining session between Harvey Weinstein’s acquisition team and CAA. I’m … Read More »

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Fox International Acquires Worldwide Rights To Viggo Mortensen-Starrer ‘Everybody Has A Plan’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 11:23am PDTTags: Acquisition, Fox International Productions, Sanford Panitch, Viggo Mortensen, Worldwide Rights
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES, CA May 5, 2011 – Sanford Panitch, President of Fox International Productions, announced today that Fox International Productions has brokered a deal for the worldwide rights to EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN starring Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of

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GK Films Hires Focus Exec Kahli Small

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 2, 2011 @ 7:00am PDTTags: Colin Farrell, David Cronenberg, George Clooney, GK Films, Graham King, Johnny Depp, Kahli Small, Keira Knightley, Martin Scorsese, Peter Morgan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tim Headington, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

Graham King’s GK Films has hired Focus Features exec Kahli Small to be executive vice president of production and development. She will report directly to King and will work out of GK’s Santa Monica headquarters. Kahli is a seven-year vet … Read More »

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‘Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski Passes JJ Abrams To Become King Of First-Timers

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 5, 2011 @ 4:10pm PDTTags: Adam Horowitz, Carl Rinsch, Charlize Theron, Chris Nolan, Disney, Edward Kitsis, Guillermo Del Toro, JJ Abrams, Joseph Kosinski, Kristen Stewart, Rupert Sanders, Sam Mendes, Sean Bailey, Tom Cruise, Travis Beacham, Tron: Legacy, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

Before it got released on DVD today, Tron: Legacy managed to play in theaters long enough to establish Joseph Kosinski as the highest-grossing first-time director of a live-action film in Hollywood history. The film’s $399 million global gross recently eclipsed … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Kristen Stewart Closing ‘Snow White’ Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Kristen Stewart, Snow White and the Huntsman, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

Deadline was first to tell you in January that despite Universal Pictures’ testing of young actresses, Twilight Saga’s Kristen Stewart had materialized as a likely candidate to play the lead role in  the Rupert Sanders-directed Snow White and the … Read More »

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Update: Relativity Confirms Julia Roberts In Snow White Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 8, 2011 @ 5:12pm PSTTags: Baz Luhrmann, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Kristen Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movie Deals, Movies, Rupert Sanders, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tarsem Singh, The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, Universal Pictures, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Relativity confirmed they’ve signed Julia Roberts, and have set a June 29, 2012 release date. That puts The Brothers Grimm: Snow White six months ahead of the preliminary release plan for Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman. … Read More »

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Will Kristen Stewart Follow Viggo Mortensen Into ‘Snow White And The Huntsman?’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 7:43pm PSTTags: Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, Michael Fassbender, Movies, Noomi Rapace, Snow White and the Huntsman, Twilight Saga, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: With word circulating that Viggo Mortensen is in talks to play one of the title characters in the Rupert Sanders-directed Snow White and the Huntsman for Universal Pictures, will Twilight Saga‘s Kristen Stewart end up with playing Snow White? … Read More »

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Javier Bardem Wanted For ‘The Dark Tower’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 5:00pm PSTTags: Akiva Goldsman, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Brian Grazer, Christian Bale, Erica Huggins, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Peter Jackson, Ron Howard, Sergio Leone, Stephen King, Terrence Malick, Viggo Mortensen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After Javier Bardem’s terrifying Oscar-winning turn as the assassin in No Country For Old Men, is there any doubt he’d fit as the gunslinger Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower, the mammoth adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series … Read More »

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Amy Adams Joins Viggo Mortensen For ‘On The Road’ Trip

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 3:23pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Kerouac, Jose Rivera, Viggo Mortensen, Walter Salles
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has been working for 30 years to turn Jack Kerouac’s seminal Beat Generation novel On the Road into a movie. It is starting to look like … Read More »

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