viggo mortensen
Do You Prefer Your Anti-Nazi Oscar Bait With Daniel Craig or Viggo Mortensen?
1:55AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your radically truncated guide to what’s new, noteworthy and/or foolhardy enough to open on the last weekend of the year at the movies. More »
How Did Viggo Mortensen’s 2008 Oscar Boom Go Bust?
4:44AM STV | Four months ago we suggested that Viggo Mortensen had three chances in 2008 to repeat as an Oscar nominee. As the last of those chances expires today, all we can say is, “Maybe next year?”
Play Along in the ‘Road’ Release-Date Sweepstakes!
6:41AM STV | Word has it that the Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road is soon to land on the Weinstein Company shelf, thus vanquishing 1/3 of Viggo Mortensen’s 2008 Oscar dream and reviving rumours of TWC’s solvency a mere day after Harvey flaked out on a Midtown crowd that couldn’t wait to hear his plans for pulling a 2009 release slate out of his hat. At the least, the post-apocalyptic drama — once expected by Nov. 14 — was moved back to December shortly after the Weinsteins reclaimed the distribution duties from MGM, it still faces hassles with the Scott Rudin-less The Reader, and one blogger writes today of his test screening of a film isn’t even close to finished (spoilers follow): More »
Is Busy Viggo Mortensen First in Line For Oscar Tuxedo Sizing?
5:00AM STV | In the spirit of reader participation, we’ll leave it to you to determine the good and bad news among this year’s crop of Viggo Mortensen films. For starters: Can the 2007 Oscar nominee climb his way back into Academy hearts with nary a nude, bloody bathhouse throwdown in three movies? Sure, suggests one observer, who points out that beyond roles in the Western Appaloosa and the Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road, Viggo has a fail-safe ace in the hole to unveil this December. Sort of, anyway; assuming it can overcome its distributor’s ongoing cash woes, Good is apparently just the kind of Holocaust film for which Oscar voters swoon. Still, disadvantages persist: More »
Ian McKellen Surfaces on Web with ‘Hobbit’ News and Not-Needed Castmate Sexuality Updates
2:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though the Warner Bros. ax has yet to fall around New Line headquarters and the Tolkien family still wants its cash for The Lord of the Rings saga, Sir Ian McKellen took to his blog (We know! We’re as stunned as you are) Wednesday to confirm he’s “keeping [his] diary open for 2009″ to reprise his role as Gandalf in The Hobbit. But that’s only the half of McKellen’s big gay update, which also includes hot nose-tweaking action and yawning confirmations of his LOTR co-stars’ heterosexuality: I did feel the need to tweak (New Line co-founder Michael Lynne’s) nose once, when he seemed to be trying to diddle the cast of LOTR out of their well-earned share of the profits. It was at a party in Berlin after the opening of The Return of the King. I said “That’s for all the trouble you’ve been causing!” I don’t know who was more surprised: Michael, that I had taken his nose in my finger and thumb and twisted it gently, or me for having dared do it! At least one of us enjoyed it. More »
The Only Actor Race That Matters: How They Look Shirtless
8:57AM Seth | While we’ve attempted to handicap the Oscars acting races as best as we know how, we’ve failed to factor in one crucial angle: how yumcakes the male nominees look without a shirt on! Luckily, TheSword.com (site mildly NSFW) has come through, compiling A Shirtless Gallery of all the sexy thespians up for gold. It’s a seemingly wonderful idea that takes a turn for the not-so-wonderful when they veer into Hoffman/Holbrook/Wilkinson territory. More »
The Best Actor Nominees Are Some Of The Worst Dressers In Town
4:02AM Molly Friedman | Except for (maybe) George Clooney, the nominees for Best Actor at this year’s Oscars aren’t known for playing it safe on the red carpet. From Daniel Day-Lewis’s preference for tiny suits to Viggo Mortensen’s disdain for anything bland, we’re not accustomed to seeing plain penguin tuxes from this group. But judging from their track records, they all have ways of showing their true colors without actually wearing them all at once. So we reviewed their greatest hits and greatest misses to figure out which way they should swing on Sunday. More »
