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Colin Farrell Says He Had Panic Attacks While Filming ‘Thirteen Lives’: “It Was Incredibly Nerve Racking”
When Colin Farrell heard that his Thirteen Lives co-star Viggo Mortensen wanted to do the film’s grueling underwater scenes himself rather than rely on a stunt double, he couldn’t resist diving in behind him. “I couldn’t have Viggo take all the glory,” Farrell joked to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday night at the premiere of […]
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Why Viggo Mortensen Recycled ‘Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’ Premiere Shirt for ‘Thirteen Lives’ Screening: “It Was Absolutely Intentional”
Viggo Mortensen turned up to Thursday night’s Thirteen Lives premiere in Westwood wearing the same shirt he donned for the London premiere of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King on Dec. 11, 2003. Make no mistake — the red carpet déjà vu moment was “absolutely intentional.” Under a midnight blue suit, Mortensen wore […]
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‘Thirteen Lives’ Review: Ron Howard’s Thai Cave Rescue Film Is Tense but Dutiful
Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell star as divers in Ron Howard's drama about the harrowing 2018 rescue of a Thai soccer team trapped in an underground cave.
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Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell Play Divers in Thai Cave Rescue in ‘Thirteen Lives’ Trailer
The first trailer for Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives, about the rescue mission to save 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooding Thai cave, has been released. Colin Farrell and Mortensen play divers John Volanthen and Richard Stanton, respectively. The two men were part of the 2018 rescue mission that found all 13 […]
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David Cronenberg To Receive Lifetime Honor at San Sebastian Film Festival
Canadian master of horror David Cronenberg will receive the Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival. Cronenberg will receive the award at a gala on September 21 in San Sebastian’s Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed by the screening of his latest movie, Crimes of the Future. The dystopian drama, which […]
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David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’ Goes to Mubi for Latin America, Turkey, India
Arthouse streaming platform MUBI is still having a busy Cannes. Two weeks after the 2022 Cannes festival wrapped, MUBI has closed a deal for David Cronenberg’s competition title Crimes of the Future, picking up rights in multiple territories from sales group Rocket Science. Rocket Science confirmed MUBI bought Crimes of the Future for Latin America, […]
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David Cronenberg on U.S. Politics: Canadians “Think Everybody in the U.S. Is Completely Insane”
“I hope to commit a few more cinematic crimes before I’m finished,” said David Cronenberg, unveiling his return to Cannes with Crimes of the Future, the competition title that premiered at the film festival on Monday. Despite, in his own words, being “older than the Cannes Film Festival” (Cronenberg is 77, Cannes celebrates its 75th […]
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Cannes: David Cronenberg “Very Touched” By ‘Crimes of the Future’ Audience Response at World Premiere
David Cronenberg and the stars of his latest movie, Crimes of the Future, got to bask in the glory of an extended Cannes Film Festival standing ovation. The director and members of the cast, which includes Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, were showered in 6 minutes of applause after the film screened at […]
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Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’: Film Review | Cannes 2022
Kristen Stewart and Scott Speedman also star in the Canadian auteur’s return to body horror and bizarre human evolution in a future where surgery is the new sex.
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Cannes: Why Greek Cinema Is Having a Moment
Viggo Mortensen stumbles from a crumbling white stone building. He limps, eyes downcast, past ghostly ruins, toward a glittering beach. At the water, he finally raises his head to face one of the defining images of Crimes of the Future — a massive wrecked ship turned on its side, barnacled over with rust, floating a few hundred feet […]
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Viggo Mortensen: Cannes Hasn’t Fully Given David Cronenberg “His Due”
17 years since he came to Cannes with his first David Cronenberg collaboration, the universally-acclaimed A History of Violence, in which he played a small-town diner owner whose mobster past returns to haunt him, Viggo Mortensen returns to the Palais with his fourth. Following 2007’s Eastern Promises (playing a heavily tattooed Russian gangster) and 2011’s […]
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Neon Debuts Full Trailer for David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future,’ Footage of Brett Morgen’s David Bowie Film
Neon closed out the morning program at CinemaCon on Tuesday by presenting a pair of official trailers for upcoming releases Crimes of the Future and its Sundance hit Fire of Love while also offering a first look and release date for Brett Morgen’s genre-bending work about late legend David Bowie, Moonage Daydream. Cronenberg took the […]
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