Viggo Mortensen

(PacificCoastNews, BauerGriffin) The Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious in the world, started Wednesday, and it runs until May 27th. Twenty-two feature films will compete for the Palme d'Or, the highest prize awarded annually by the jury. The panel of judges this year includes Nanni Moretti, Jean Paul Gaultier, Diane Kruger, Ewan McGregor, and Alexander Payne among others. The 2012 festival, the 65th, includes a number of Hollywood-produced films, which is in stark contrast to year's...Read Full Story

On the Croisette with Amat Escalante’s “Heli” in Cannes competition, Mexico’s NDM (Nodream-Mantarraya) has acquired international rights to Lisandro Alonso’s “Untitled,” starring Viggo Mortensen. Pickup continues the international expansion of Mexico’s Mantarraya Prods., a production-distribution-sales house. Mostly shot in Denmark and Argentina, and ready for delivery next spring “Untitled” follows a Danish man (Mortensen) who... Read more »Read Full Story

Viggo Mortensen is set for his first French-language role in helmer-scribe David Oelhoffen’s “Loin des hommes” (Far From Men).Read Full Story

(Photos by dgroth) Appaloosa appaloosa – click on the image below for more information. Appaloosa – In Marshal Virgil Cole and deputy Everett Hitchs line of work, you shoot quick, you shoot clean, and you reload straightaway. No remorse. No looking back. No feelings. Feelings get you killed. Paired as rivals in A History of Violence, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as longtime friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in this...Read Full Story

Click Here to see more reviews about: Appaloosa [Blu-ray] Harris Industries – click on the image below for more information. Paired as rivals in A History of Violence, Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen stand together as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in a character-driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parkers novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Ren?e Zellweger adds...Read Full Story