Bottoms up! Comedian and filmmaker Chris Rock is getting behind the camera for a remake of Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning film Another Round. Appian Way and Makeready are producing for Fifth Season. Meanwhile, Jennifer Davisson and Leonardo DiCaprio produce through Appian Way, with Brad Weston and Collin Creighton producing for Makeready. The project has a script written by Stuart Bloomberg, but the draft will get a rewrite from Rock and a co-writer.
Released in 2020, Vinterberg’s Another Round stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe as four high-school teachers who consume alcohol daily to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
Emerging from the shadow of the Oscar slap heard around the world, Rock’s next project is King: A Life, a cinematic biopic centering on the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Universal optioned the rights to adapt Jonathan Eig...
Released in 2020, Vinterberg’s Another Round stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe as four high-school teachers who consume alcohol daily to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
Emerging from the shadow of the Oscar slap heard around the world, Rock’s next project is King: A Life, a cinematic biopic centering on the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Universal optioned the rights to adapt Jonathan Eig...
- 1/29/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Chris Rock has made a deal to develop to direct Another Round, based on the 2020 Thomas Vinterberg-directed black comedy that won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film as well as the BAFTA.
The film is an Appian Way and Makeready production for Fifth Season. Jennifer Davisson and Leonardo DiCaprio are producing for Appian Way, and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton are producing for Makeready. Stuart Bloomberg wrote a draft and they will now bring in a new writer to work with Rock.
Rock has made directing a priority, and adds this to a Universal-based adaptation of King: A Life, the Jonathan Eig book about Martin Luther King Jr., along with an untitled script Rock is writing that has Peter Rice producing.
Rock stamped himself as a director with chops with Top Five, which he also wrote and which became the biggest deal at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival...
The film is an Appian Way and Makeready production for Fifth Season. Jennifer Davisson and Leonardo DiCaprio are producing for Appian Way, and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton are producing for Makeready. Stuart Bloomberg wrote a draft and they will now bring in a new writer to work with Rock.
Rock has made directing a priority, and adds this to a Universal-based adaptation of King: A Life, the Jonathan Eig book about Martin Luther King Jr., along with an untitled script Rock is writing that has Peter Rice producing.
Rock stamped himself as a director with chops with Top Five, which he also wrote and which became the biggest deal at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival...
- 1/29/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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Families Like Ours, the debut TV drama from Thomas Vinterberg, has begun principal photography as well as formally announcing its cast, with several stars of his Oscar and BAFTA winning feature Another Round set to appear.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Brothers, The Killing, Riders of Justice) Paprika Steen (Festen, Open Hearts, The First Lady), Helene Reingaard Neumann (Another Round, Kursk, Borgen), Magnus Millang (Another Round, Kursk, The Commune), Esben Smed (Follow The Money, Held for Ransom, The Kindness of Strangers), Amaryllis April August in her acting debut, Albert Rudbek Lindhardt (Another Round, Riders of Justice), Thomas Bo Larsen (Another Round, The Hunt, Festen), Asta August (Burn All My Letters, The Pact, A Song for Martin) and David Dencik (No Time To Die, Chernobyl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will star in the six-part series, from Zentropa and which StudioCanal is co-producing and distributing.
Families Like Ours, the debut TV drama from Thomas Vinterberg, has begun principal photography as well as formally announcing its cast, with several stars of his Oscar and BAFTA winning feature Another Round set to appear.
Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Brothers, The Killing, Riders of Justice) Paprika Steen (Festen, Open Hearts, The First Lady), Helene Reingaard Neumann (Another Round, Kursk, Borgen), Magnus Millang (Another Round, Kursk, The Commune), Esben Smed (Follow The Money, Held for Ransom, The Kindness of Strangers), Amaryllis April August in her acting debut, Albert Rudbek Lindhardt (Another Round, Riders of Justice), Thomas Bo Larsen (Another Round, The Hunt, Festen), Asta August (Burn All My Letters, The Pact, A Song for Martin) and David Dencik (No Time To Die, Chernobyl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will star in the six-part series, from Zentropa and which StudioCanal is co-producing and distributing.
- 10/3/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Another Round creator Thomas Vinterberg’s debut TV project has set cast and commenced principal photography.
Canal+ and TV2 Denmark’s six-parter, which first emerged two years ago and reunites Vinterberg with Lars Von Trier’s Another Round producer Zentropa and co-producer/distributor Studiocanal, is shooting on location in Copenhagen, Sweden, the Czech Republic, France and Romania.
Leading the cast are a number of Another Round actors and established Scandinavian talent including Nikolaj Lie Kaas (The Killing), Paprika Steen (The First Lady), Helene Reingaard Neumann (Borgen), Magnus Millang (Another Round), Esben Smed (The Kindness of Strangers), Amaryllis April August in her acting debut, Albert Rudbek Lindhardt (Another Round), Thomas Bo Larsen ( The Hunt), Asta August (The Pact) and David Dencik (Chernobyl).
The dystopian show follows Laura and takes place in summertime Denmark, where everything seems normal but is about to be disrupted. After a flood slowly takes over the land,...
Canal+ and TV2 Denmark’s six-parter, which first emerged two years ago and reunites Vinterberg with Lars Von Trier’s Another Round producer Zentropa and co-producer/distributor Studiocanal, is shooting on location in Copenhagen, Sweden, the Czech Republic, France and Romania.
Leading the cast are a number of Another Round actors and established Scandinavian talent including Nikolaj Lie Kaas (The Killing), Paprika Steen (The First Lady), Helene Reingaard Neumann (Borgen), Magnus Millang (Another Round), Esben Smed (The Kindness of Strangers), Amaryllis April August in her acting debut, Albert Rudbek Lindhardt (Another Round), Thomas Bo Larsen ( The Hunt), Asta August (The Pact) and David Dencik (Chernobyl).
The dystopian show follows Laura and takes place in summertime Denmark, where everything seems normal but is about to be disrupted. After a flood slowly takes over the land,...
- 10/3/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Scandinavia’s TrustNordisk has picked up international sales rights to an upcoming Zentropa dramedy series about a struggling Danish agent to the stars.
The eight-part Agent, which has a budget of €5.7M (6M), comes from actor, director and writer Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Riders of Justice Department Q) and stars Esben Smed (Follow the Money) in the lead role. Leading Scandinavian producer Zentropa is attached to the show, which Danish channel TV2 has ordered for a Q4 2023 launch.
Smed plays Joe, a 35-year-old agent for Danish stars with global ambitions, who desperately tries to keep his head above water as personal problems keep piling up. In the midst of the chaos of his life, his daughter longs for his attention.
Sidse Babett Knudsen, Dar Salim, Ulrich Thomsen (The Marco Effect), Lars Ranthe (Another Round) and Magnus Millang (Another Round) will appear as caricatures of themselves,...
The eight-part Agent, which has a budget of €5.7M (6M), comes from actor, director and writer Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Riders of Justice Department Q) and stars Esben Smed (Follow the Money) in the lead role. Leading Scandinavian producer Zentropa is attached to the show, which Danish channel TV2 has ordered for a Q4 2023 launch.
Smed plays Joe, a 35-year-old agent for Danish stars with global ambitions, who desperately tries to keep his head above water as personal problems keep piling up. In the midst of the chaos of his life, his daughter longs for his attention.
Sidse Babett Knudsen, Dar Salim, Ulrich Thomsen (The Marco Effect), Lars Ranthe (Another Round) and Magnus Millang (Another Round) will appear as caricatures of themselves,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Zentropa produces the Danish-language dramedy about a talent agent in the entertainment industry.
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for the new series Agent from actor-turned-writer/director Nikolaj Lie Kaas.
Zentropa produces the Danish-language dramedy about a talent agent in the entertainment industry. The series has now started shooting, with Esben Smed (Follow The Money) in the lead role as Joe, an agent with a chaotic life.
The cast also includes Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen), Dar Salim (Darkland), Ulrich Thomsen (The Commune), and Another Round actors Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang, all playing caricatured versions of themselves.
Louise Vesth produces the 8x40’ series,...
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for the new series Agent from actor-turned-writer/director Nikolaj Lie Kaas.
Zentropa produces the Danish-language dramedy about a talent agent in the entertainment industry. The series has now started shooting, with Esben Smed (Follow The Money) in the lead role as Joe, an agent with a chaotic life.
The cast also includes Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen), Dar Salim (Darkland), Ulrich Thomsen (The Commune), and Another Round actors Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang, all playing caricatured versions of themselves.
Louise Vesth produces the 8x40’ series,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has set the launch date for “Borgen – Power & Glory,” the new version of the hit Danish political drama, for April 14 across the Nordics and on June 2 in the rest of the world.
Directed by Per Fly, “Borgen – Power & Glory” brings back Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who has just been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs when a drilling company suddenly discovers oil in Greenland. The event sparks an international struggle for power in the Arctic.
“The series deals with some of the biggest political issues of our time, as well the relevance of the Danish Realm in the modern world, the superpowers’ battle for control of the Arctic – and not least, the climate crisis,” said Netflix, which described “Power & Glory” as “a stand-alone continuation of the previous seasons of ‘Borgen.'”
The streamer added that “the main story focuses on the struggle for power and what power does to...
Directed by Per Fly, “Borgen – Power & Glory” brings back Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who has just been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs when a drilling company suddenly discovers oil in Greenland. The event sparks an international struggle for power in the Arctic.
“The series deals with some of the biggest political issues of our time, as well the relevance of the Danish Realm in the modern world, the superpowers’ battle for control of the Arctic – and not least, the climate crisis,” said Netflix, which described “Power & Glory” as “a stand-alone continuation of the previous seasons of ‘Borgen.'”
The streamer added that “the main story focuses on the struggle for power and what power does to...
- 3/15/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Borgen – Power & Glory, a fresh continuation of hit Danish political drama Borgen, has been set for release on Netflix April 14 in the Nordic markets and June 2 in the rest of the world. Netflix has also dropped first-look photos (see above and below).
From creator/writer and executive producer Adam Price, Borgen – Power & Glory again follows Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), her staff and the media tasked with covering her, this time in her role as Minister for Foreign Affairs. The series tackles major political issues including the relevance of the Danish Realm in the modern world, the superpowers’ battle for control of the Arctic — and not least, the climate crisis.
When a drilling company suddenly discovers oil in Greenland, it marks the beginning of an international struggle for power in the Arctic, and one in which Nyborg must repeatedly accept that despite Denmark’s ‘big brother’ relationship with Greenland, when...
From creator/writer and executive producer Adam Price, Borgen – Power & Glory again follows Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), her staff and the media tasked with covering her, this time in her role as Minister for Foreign Affairs. The series tackles major political issues including the relevance of the Danish Realm in the modern world, the superpowers’ battle for control of the Arctic — and not least, the climate crisis.
When a drilling company suddenly discovers oil in Greenland, it marks the beginning of an international struggle for power in the Arctic, and one in which Nyborg must repeatedly accept that despite Denmark’s ‘big brother’ relationship with Greenland, when...
- 3/15/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Fresh off its Oscar win for best international feature film, “Another Round” is getting the Hollywood treatment. The Danish dramedy about four friends who engage in an epic drinking binge will be remade in English.
Leonardo DiCaprio is being eyed to star in the film in the role originated by Mads Mikkelsen, but there’s no formal deal in place. DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way acquired rights following a bidding war that reportedly involved Jake Gyllenhaal’s production company Nine Stories, as well as Elizabeth Banks.
Thomas Vinterberg, who landed a surprise Oscar nomination for directing the Danish film, will executive produce the remake, along with Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing. Vinterberg also co-wrote “Another Round” with Tobias Lindholm. However, he won’t be directing or writing the upcoming version.
Endeavor Content and Makeready are financing the English-language movie.
“Another Round” centers on four friends who consume booze...
Leonardo DiCaprio is being eyed to star in the film in the role originated by Mads Mikkelsen, but there’s no formal deal in place. DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way acquired rights following a bidding war that reportedly involved Jake Gyllenhaal’s production company Nine Stories, as well as Elizabeth Banks.
Thomas Vinterberg, who landed a surprise Oscar nomination for directing the Danish film, will executive produce the remake, along with Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing. Vinterberg also co-wrote “Another Round” with Tobias Lindholm. However, he won’t be directing or writing the upcoming version.
Endeavor Content and Makeready are financing the English-language movie.
“Another Round” centers on four friends who consume booze...
- 4/26/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
If you’ve heard about Another Round, the Oscar-nominated Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, you probably know about the Dance. It happens at the end of writer-director Thomas Vinterberg’s tragicomedy about four middle-aged high school teachers who attempt an experiment in magical drinking; entire features and paeans have already been written about it. Sitting on a park bench as his students whoop and holler near a pier, Mikkelsen’s history professor tentatively starts doing a two-step. Then he bursts into the sort of musical dance routine — leaping, twirling, sliding...
- 4/15/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
"Sings and sparkles!" Samuel Goldwyn Films has released a second official US trailer for the award-winning film Another Round, which now has two Oscar nominations for Best Director + Best International Film. It was originally selected for Cannes, but eventually premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this fall, and was one of my Top 10 of 2020. The film follows four teachers who embark on an experiment where they each sustain a certain level of alcohol intoxication during their everyday life, believing that all people in general would benefit from a bit higher Blood Alcohol Content. Of course, things start to get out of hand... Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, and Maria Bonnevie. This new trailer is pretty much a "look at all the awards we've received and these two Oscar nominations!" Which is all good by me if they want to show off, because this is a...
- 3/29/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jayro Bustamante on La Llorona, co-written with Lisandro Sanchez: “I wanted to give women that honor to be in the center of looking for justice in the film.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday, March 15, the nominations for the 93rd Oscars. Best International Feature Film nominees are from Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; From Hong Kong, Derek Tsang’s Better Days; From Romania, Alexander Nanau’s Collective; from Tunisia, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin, and from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?.
Jayro Bustamante: “I can understand victims. And I can feel empathy with them.”
The Oscar-shortlisted film from Chile, Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent snared a Best Documentary nomination. From Norway, Maria Sødahl’s Hope...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday, March 15, the nominations for the 93rd Oscars. Best International Feature Film nominees are from Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round; From Hong Kong, Derek Tsang’s Better Days; From Romania, Alexander Nanau’s Collective; from Tunisia, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin, and from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?.
Jayro Bustamante: “I can understand victims. And I can feel empathy with them.”
The Oscar-shortlisted film from Chile, Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent snared a Best Documentary nomination. From Norway, Maria Sødahl’s Hope...
- 3/17/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best International Feature
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Denmark has dominated the season with “Another Round,” even presenting itself as a film that can show up in other categories like best actor (Mads Mikkelsen). While “Honeyland” made history last year when it...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season
2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best International Feature
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Denmark has dominated the season with “Another Round,” even presenting itself as a film that can show up in other categories like best actor (Mads Mikkelsen). While “Honeyland” made history last year when it...
- 3/4/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season
2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been analyzed to...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season
2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been analyzed to...
- 2/24/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
“From the beginning it was merely a film about alcohol — actually, it was a pure celebration of alcohol,” explains “Another Round” co-writer and director Thomas Vinterberg about telling the story of four friends who test whether liquor will lift them out of their emotional doldrums. “But digging deeper into it, we realized there was more to it. We got more ambitious, and this project grew and developed into becoming a movie about life and being inspired … The word spirit means more than just alcohol.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Vinterberg above.
Mads Mikkelsen stars as Martin, who along with his longtime friends and fellow teachers Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) embarks on this experiment in day-drinking, and for a while the results are promising. But it’s not necessarily just their blood-alcohol levels that make them better teachers, husbands and parents. “I think...
Mads Mikkelsen stars as Martin, who along with his longtime friends and fellow teachers Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe) and Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) embarks on this experiment in day-drinking, and for a while the results are promising. But it’s not necessarily just their blood-alcohol levels that make them better teachers, husbands and parents. “I think...
- 2/18/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Another Round Review — Another Round (2020) Video Movie Review, a Samuel Goldwyn Films movie written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, co-written by Tobias Lindholm, and stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Susse Wold, Diêm Camille G., Martin Greis-Rosenthal, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Morten Thunbo, Dorte Højsted, [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Another Round (2020): Mads Mikkelsen…Do I Need To Say More?...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Another Round (2020): Mads Mikkelsen…Do I Need To Say More?...
- 1/25/2021
- by Alex Srednoselac
- Film-Book
Update: The Spanish Academy has announced that the 2021 Goya nominations will now be announced on Monday, Jan. 18.
In today’s Global Bulletin, historic snowfall in Madrid delays Spanish Academy Award nominations, Sky announces members of its Diversity Advisory Council, Netflix reveals casting for the next season of “Borgen,” documentary “Daisy Maskell – Insomnia and Me” on the way from BBC Three, Endemol Shine Germany teams with Rainer Laux on a new reality production label, “Covid vs The World” documentary gets History Channel premiere dates across Asia, and Gaumont’s “Lupin” becomes Netflix’s first French series to break the Top 10 in the U.S.
Awards
The 2021 Spanish Academy Goya Awards nominations, scheduled to be announced on Monday (Jan. 11), have been delayed after winter storm Filomena dropped 8”-12” of snow on Madrid, paralyzing the Spanish capital. The Academy has not yet stated when the nominations will take place, but record temperatures threaten...
In today’s Global Bulletin, historic snowfall in Madrid delays Spanish Academy Award nominations, Sky announces members of its Diversity Advisory Council, Netflix reveals casting for the next season of “Borgen,” documentary “Daisy Maskell – Insomnia and Me” on the way from BBC Three, Endemol Shine Germany teams with Rainer Laux on a new reality production label, “Covid vs The World” documentary gets History Channel premiere dates across Asia, and Gaumont’s “Lupin” becomes Netflix’s first French series to break the Top 10 in the U.S.
Awards
The 2021 Spanish Academy Goya Awards nominations, scheduled to be announced on Monday (Jan. 11), have been delayed after winter storm Filomena dropped 8”-12” of snow on Madrid, paralyzing the Spanish capital. The Academy has not yet stated when the nominations will take place, but record temperatures threaten...
- 1/11/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has unveiled the cast for the new season of Borgen, the hit Danish political drama that is being relaunched on the streamer after almost a decade-long hiatus.
Borgen creator Adam Price is re-teaming with the series’ original stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, who will reprise their roles as Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg and television journalist Katrine Fonsmark, respectively, for the show’s fourth season.
Mikkel Boe Folsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen, actors from Netflix’s Danish sci-fi drama The Rain, have joined the Borgen cast, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Other ...
Borgen creator Adam Price is re-teaming with the series’ original stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, who will reprise their roles as Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg and television journalist Katrine Fonsmark, respectively, for the show’s fourth season.
Mikkel Boe Folsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen, actors from Netflix’s Danish sci-fi drama The Rain, have joined the Borgen cast, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Other ...
- 1/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix has unveiled the cast for the new season of Borgen, the hit Danish political drama that is being relaunched on the streamer after almost a decade-long hiatus.
Borgen creator Adam Price is re-teaming with the series’ original stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, who will reprise their roles as Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg and television journalist Katrine Fonsmark, respectively, for the show’s fourth season.
Mikkel Boe Folsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen, actors from Netflix’s Danish sci-fi drama The Rain, have joined the Borgen cast, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Other ...
Borgen creator Adam Price is re-teaming with the series’ original stars Sidse Babett Knudsen and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, who will reprise their roles as Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg and television journalist Katrine Fonsmark, respectively, for the show’s fourth season.
Mikkel Boe Folsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tonnesen, actors from Netflix’s Danish sci-fi drama The Rain, have joined the Borgen cast, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Other ...
- 1/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Now TV Hires Former Universal Exec
Now TV has hired former Universal Pictures International and TWC exec Jamie Schwartz as Director of Brand, Marketing and Merchandising. He will report into Marina Storti, Managing Director of Now TV, and will be responsible for core brand development and guardianship, marketing strategy and campaigns, media planning, as well as PR, social, editorial and in-product merchandising. Schwartz was most recently EVP of Marketing for Focus Features and before that worked at TWC and Momentum.
Cast Set For Netflix & Dr’s Borgen
In April Netflix and Dr, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, announced that the hit series Borgen was returning, reuniting creator Adam Price with lead actresses Sidse Babett Knudsen (Birgitte Nyborg) and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Katrine Fønsmark). Today, additional cast was announced, including Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Returning from the...
Now TV has hired former Universal Pictures International and TWC exec Jamie Schwartz as Director of Brand, Marketing and Merchandising. He will report into Marina Storti, Managing Director of Now TV, and will be responsible for core brand development and guardianship, marketing strategy and campaigns, media planning, as well as PR, social, editorial and in-product merchandising. Schwartz was most recently EVP of Marketing for Focus Features and before that worked at TWC and Momentum.
Cast Set For Netflix & Dr’s Borgen
In April Netflix and Dr, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, announced that the hit series Borgen was returning, reuniting creator Adam Price with lead actresses Sidse Babett Knudsen (Birgitte Nyborg) and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Katrine Fønsmark). Today, additional cast was announced, including Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt and Magnus Millang. Returning from the...
- 1/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
About 18 minutes into Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) starts to cry. They’re quiet tears, just brimming on his eyelids—I’m not sure they even fall—but he doesn’t try to hide them from his three concerned friends, who are gathered around a restaurant table to celebrate Nikolaj’s (Magnus Millang) 40th birthday. It struck me, watching this scene, how rare it is to see men cry at the beginning of movies. Typically, male tears have to be “earned”: they’re shed at a film’s climax, after immense emotional turmoil, and they’re loud. Mikkelsen allows Martin to be delicate and vulnerable right from the very start, something male characters, and male actors, are rarely allowed to be. Of course, as is the crux of Vinterberg’s film, Martin’s vulnerability is only possible because he just downed a shot of vodka.
Mikkelsen...
Mikkelsen...
- 12/16/2020
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
Photo: 'Another Round'/Nordisk Film 'Another Round' - Mads Mikkelsen, Uncorked Mads Mikkelsen is a hero. The actor, known best to American audiences as the Bond villain Le Chiffre or as NBC’s Hannibal, is perhaps his home country Denmark’s most valuable export. The actor is slated to appear in the Tom Holland/Daisy Ridley vehicle Chaos Walking, and has recently been selected to replace Johnny Depp in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. It’s safe to say Mikkelsen’s star is ascending. Unlike the frequently murderous characters the actor plays in American films, Mikkelsen is humble and gracious to a fault--he absolutely deserves his success. Mikkelsen is starring in two Danish films this year, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice and Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round. Related article: ‘Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy: 32 Facts on the Spell-Binding Fantasy Epic Related article: ‘The Life Ahead...
- 12/14/2020
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
The beguiling, intoxicating and sometimes dangerous nature of friendship and alcohol are the twin engines that drive Thomas Vinterberg's latest film, which does an admirable job of balancing the positive and negative aspects of both.
Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) and Peter (Lars Ranthe) are teachers at the same senior school who are all flirting with midlife crisis. History teacher Martin seems to have lost his mojo in the classroom and at home, where his encounters with his night-shift working wife Anika (Marie Bonnevie) are more practical than emotional. His colleaguesTommy and Peter are on the other side of failed marriages, while Nikolaj has just hit 40 and is trying to cope with the pressures his young family are applying to his relationship with Amalie (Helene Reingaard Neumann).
Just the right cocktail of ennui with life, then, to be up for the experiment when one.
Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) and Peter (Lars Ranthe) are teachers at the same senior school who are all flirting with midlife crisis. History teacher Martin seems to have lost his mojo in the classroom and at home, where his encounters with his night-shift working wife Anika (Marie Bonnevie) are more practical than emotional. His colleaguesTommy and Peter are on the other side of failed marriages, while Nikolaj has just hit 40 and is trying to cope with the pressures his young family are applying to his relationship with Amalie (Helene Reingaard Neumann).
Just the right cocktail of ennui with life, then, to be up for the experiment when one.
- 12/13/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Update, writethru: Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round swept the European Film Awards this evening, winning in each of its categories: Film, Director, Actor (Mads Mikkelsen) and Screenwriter (Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm). The drama that’s Denmark’s entry for the International Feature Oscar is also the biggest film at the Danish box office this year and has continued to scoop prizes from San Sebastian to London.
The story of four weary high school teachers who test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation opens our minds to the world, takes them on a journey of self-discovery with both tragic and uplifting consequences.
On accepting the top prize during the virtual Efa ceremony, Vinterberg said, “None of my films ever could ever have been made without the support systems of my country and of European filmmaking in general. My first film was about child abuse, my second one about...
The story of four weary high school teachers who test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation opens our minds to the world, takes them on a journey of self-discovery with both tragic and uplifting consequences.
On accepting the top prize during the virtual Efa ceremony, Vinterberg said, “None of my films ever could ever have been made without the support systems of my country and of European filmmaking in general. My first film was about child abuse, my second one about...
- 12/12/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Alcohol is an integral part of many cultures around the world, but as explored in Thomas Vinterberg’s latest feature Another Round—which has been selected as the Danish Oscar submission—Denmark has a particularly bad drinking problem. In the opening scene, a group of rowdy teenagers take part in a ‘Lake Race’ a common real-life tradition that Vinterberg saw both of his two daughters partake in during high school. The teens challenge each other to race around a lake in groups while downing a case of beer. If one of them vomits, time is added to their score; if they all vomit in unison, time is deducted. But surely the adults are better behaved?
High school teachers Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), and Peter (Lars Ranthe) appear to be more mature than their students, but their midlife crises prompt them to embark on a rather juvenile ‘social experiment.
High school teachers Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), and Peter (Lars Ranthe) appear to be more mature than their students, but their midlife crises prompt them to embark on a rather juvenile ‘social experiment.
- 12/7/2020
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
76 Days
76 Days, from directors Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and an anonymous filmmaker,is a heartbreaking work of documentary vérité investigating the emerging Covid-19 outbreak at a single hospital in Wuhan, China, and their response from early February to April 2020, when Wuhan lifted their initial lockdown. Eschewing contextualizing features, 76 Days places viewers alongside doctors and nurses as they struggle to control the spiraling implications of Covid-19, dealing with an influx of scared patients, a virus they do not fully understand, and diminishing resources. Though 76 Days proves a hard watch, it’s a profoundly visceral look into how one hospital dealt with the raging virus. – Christian G.
76 Days
76 Days, from directors Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and an anonymous filmmaker,is a heartbreaking work of documentary vérité investigating the emerging Covid-19 outbreak at a single hospital in Wuhan, China, and their response from early February to April 2020, when Wuhan lifted their initial lockdown. Eschewing contextualizing features, 76 Days places viewers alongside doctors and nurses as they struggle to control the spiraling implications of Covid-19, dealing with an influx of scared patients, a virus they do not fully understand, and diminishing resources. Though 76 Days proves a hard watch, it’s a profoundly visceral look into how one hospital dealt with the raging virus. – Christian G.
- 12/4/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
At the center of Thomas Vinterberg’s new film Another Round lies one of the eternal questions—does alcohol help open up the mind to stimulate or even liberate the imagination in helpful ways that might not have occurred otherwise, or is it, at the end of the day, a harmful depressant and mind-decayer, as well as a door-opener to abuse and violence? The Danish writer-director puts the topic on the table in disarming fashion but, in the end, literally dances away from it to reaffirm the status quo without significantly illuminating the issue as seemingly promised at the outset. This Samuel Goldwyn release had been selected for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival competition but ended up making its world premiere—remotely—at the Toronto Film Festival in September, just prior to its release in Denmark. The country has selected it as its submission in the International Feature Oscar race.
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- 12/3/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Another Round (Druk) Samuel Goldwyn Company Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Thomas Vinterberg Writer: Thomas Vinterberg Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/11/20 Opens: December 4, 2020 If you limit yourself to two glasses of wine per day […]
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- 11/29/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Denmark has selected Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, starring Mads Mikkelsen, to represent the country at next year’s Oscar race in the international feature film category.
Mikkelsen stars alongside Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four high school teachers stuck in a midlife funk who decide to embark on a drinking experiment. Inspired by a philosopher who claims humans were born with too little booze in their blood, the four begin to day drink with a purpose: to maintain a constant blood alcohol level of at least 0.5 percent.
Another Round was a crowd-pleaser at the Toronto and ...
Mikkelsen stars alongside Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four high school teachers stuck in a midlife funk who decide to embark on a drinking experiment. Inspired by a philosopher who claims humans were born with too little booze in their blood, the four begin to day drink with a purpose: to maintain a constant blood alcohol level of at least 0.5 percent.
Another Round was a crowd-pleaser at the Toronto and ...
- 11/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Denmark has selected Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, starring Mads Mikkelsen, to represent the country at next year’s Oscar race in the international feature film category.
Mikkelsen stars alongside Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four high school teachers stuck in a midlife funk who decide to embark on a drinking experiment. Inspired by a philosopher who claims humans were born with too little booze in their blood, the four begin to day drink with a purpose: to maintain a constant blood alcohol level of at least 0.5 percent.
Another Round was a crowd-pleaser at the Toronto and ...
Mikkelsen stars alongside Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as four high school teachers stuck in a midlife funk who decide to embark on a drinking experiment. Inspired by a philosopher who claims humans were born with too little booze in their blood, the four begin to day drink with a purpose: to maintain a constant blood alcohol level of at least 0.5 percent.
Another Round was a crowd-pleaser at the Toronto and ...
- 11/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Another Round U.S. Trailer — Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the U.S. movie trailer for Another Round / Druk (2020). You can view here the international Another Round film trailer. Cast and crew Thomas Vinterberg‘s Another Round stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, Maria Bonnevie, Susse Wold, Diêm [...]
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- 11/12/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
If the latest rumors about Mads Mikkelsen’s future casting decisions have you reaching for an alcoholic beverage, his upcoming Another Round may be more to your taste. Quite literally: Mikkelsen here plays a high school teacher who tests a theory with three colleagues that their life will improve if they main a constant blood alcohol level. Delightful chaos, at least a few bad decisions, and a nasty hangover are inevitable as these friends attempt to escape from their midlife crises by raising spirits.
The latest from Thomas Vinterberg—whose recent work has endearingly ricocheted between lush period romances (Far From the Madding Crowd) and submarine dramas (The Command)—seems to have far more on its mind than simply offering an opportunity to watch Mikkelsen dance while sloshed based on today’s new trailer.
Also starring Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, and Susse Wold, and co-written by regular...
The latest from Thomas Vinterberg—whose recent work has endearingly ricocheted between lush period romances (Far From the Madding Crowd) and submarine dramas (The Command)—seems to have far more on its mind than simply offering an opportunity to watch Mikkelsen dance while sloshed based on today’s new trailer.
Also starring Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, and Susse Wold, and co-written by regular...
- 11/12/2020
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
"I haven't felt this good in ages. I think there's more to this." Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled an official US trailer for the fantastic film Another Round, the latest Thomas Vinterberg feature that made a splash on the festival circuit this fall. It was originally selected for Cannes, but eventually premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this fall. It's easily one of my favorite films of the year! Another Round, originally known as Druk in Danish, follows four teachers who embark on an experiment where they each sustain a certain level of alcohol intoxication during their everyday life, believing that all people in general would benefit from a bit higher Blood Alcohol Content. But, of course, they eventually take things too far... As always. The film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang, and Maria Bonnevie. I wrote a glowing review commenting on the layers of...
- 11/10/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round is continuing its trajectory as one to watch this season. The Mads Mikkelsen-starrer has been shortlisted by Denmark’s Oscar Committee as one of three pictures that will vie to be the country’s entry for the International Feature Film Academy Award. The other two films are Rotterdam prizewinner A Perfectly Normal Family by Malou Reymann and Venice Critics’ Week title Shorta from Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid. The official selection will be announced on November 18.
Another Round on Sunday scooped the Virtual Audience Award for Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival. It had previously received the official selection label for Cannes’ 2020 edition and had its international premiere during the Toronto Film Festival. At San Sebastian, it won the Silver Shell for Best Actor.
At the Danish box office, the drama has sold over 500K tickets since release on...
Another Round on Sunday scooped the Virtual Audience Award for Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival. It had previously received the official selection label for Cannes’ 2020 edition and had its international premiere during the Toronto Film Festival. At San Sebastian, it won the Silver Shell for Best Actor.
At the Danish box office, the drama has sold over 500K tickets since release on...
- 10/19/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
What if maintaining a constant amount of alcohol in your blood could open your mind, boost creativity, and generally improve your life? That’s the premise of Thomas Vinterberg’s new movie, which he presented Monday at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon.
“Another Round” (“Druk”) is one of 23 films originally selected for Cannes that are being screened at Lumière, whose director is also Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux. The film picked up best actor in San Sebastian for its four leads, including Mads Mikkelsen, whose last film with Vinterberg also won him best actor, this time in Cannes.
“Another Round” tells the story of four middle-aged friends who have lost their appetite for life and decide to experiment living with a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
“It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film about living,” said Vinterberg, adding how the...
“Another Round” (“Druk”) is one of 23 films originally selected for Cannes that are being screened at Lumière, whose director is also Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux. The film picked up best actor in San Sebastian for its four leads, including Mads Mikkelsen, whose last film with Vinterberg also won him best actor, this time in Cannes.
“Another Round” tells the story of four middle-aged friends who have lost their appetite for life and decide to experiment living with a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
“It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film about living,” said Vinterberg, adding how the...
- 10/14/2020
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
With a mix of in-person, drive-in, and digital screenings, most of the fall film festivals soldiered on during the pandemic, reimagining what a normal year may look like. While Venice International Film Festival kept things most status quo with physical screenings only, Toronto International Film Festival and the ongoing New York Film Festival switched up their formula and today we’re taking a look at our favorite premieres in this strange, historic year.
Unlike the other two festivals, NYFF heavily features festival favorites from throughout the year we’ve already reviewed, plus look for more coverage in the two weeks remaining in the festival here as NYC drive-in and nationwide virtual screenings continue.
Check out our Venice, TIFF, and NYFF highlights below, along with a complete rundown of our reviews, and see full film festival coverage here.
The Best
76 Days
76 Days, from directors Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and an anonymous filmmaker,...
Unlike the other two festivals, NYFF heavily features festival favorites from throughout the year we’ve already reviewed, plus look for more coverage in the two weeks remaining in the festival here as NYC drive-in and nationwide virtual screenings continue.
Check out our Venice, TIFF, and NYFF highlights below, along with a complete rundown of our reviews, and see full film festival coverage here.
The Best
76 Days
76 Days, from directors Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and an anonymous filmmaker,...
- 9/28/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Beginning Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Georgian film Beginning, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili, won the Golden Shell for best film at San Sebastian Film Festival last weekend, along. Originally slated to feature at Cannes, the film which charts the attack on a Jehovah Witness community in a small town by an extremist group, also won the Silver Shells for best director, screenplay and best actress (Ia Sukhitashvili).
The male ensemble cast of Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe - shared the Silver Shell for best actor.
In the New Directors section, Last Days Of Spring, directed by Isabel Lamberti, took the top award, while the Horizontes Latinos prize went to Fernanda Valadez for Identifying Features. Documentary Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan - Julien Tempole's film about The Pogues frontman - won the Special Jury Prize,...
The male ensemble cast of Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe - shared the Silver Shell for best actor.
In the New Directors section, Last Days Of Spring, directed by Isabel Lamberti, took the top award, while the Horizontes Latinos prize went to Fernanda Valadez for Identifying Features. Documentary Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan - Julien Tempole's film about The Pogues frontman - won the Special Jury Prize,...
- 9/28/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Georgian-French drama Beginning (Dasatskisi) was the big winner at the San Sebastian Film Festival, winning the top prize Golden Shell at last night’s awards ceremony.
The buzzed-about arthouse film from first-timer Dea Kulumbegashvili also won Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay awards. We debuted first footage for the film earlier this month.
Kulumbegashvili wrote the script with Rati Oneli. Starring are Ia sukhitashvili (best actress winner), Rati Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Producers are Ilan Amouyal, Rati Oneli and David Zerat. Music comes from Dheepan and Ema composer Nicolas Jaar. Wild Bunch handles sales.
The film charts the story of a persecuted family of Jehovah’s Witness missionaries from the perspective of a wife and mother. Following a shocking act of arson on the place of worship she and her husband have established in a remote village outside of Tbilisi, Yana (Sukhitashvili) finds herself descending into a spiral of confusion and doubt,...
The buzzed-about arthouse film from first-timer Dea Kulumbegashvili also won Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay awards. We debuted first footage for the film earlier this month.
Kulumbegashvili wrote the script with Rati Oneli. Starring are Ia sukhitashvili (best actress winner), Rati Oneli and Kakha Kintsurashvili. Producers are Ilan Amouyal, Rati Oneli and David Zerat. Music comes from Dheepan and Ema composer Nicolas Jaar. Wild Bunch handles sales.
The film charts the story of a persecuted family of Jehovah’s Witness missionaries from the perspective of a wife and mother. Following a shocking act of arson on the place of worship she and her husband have established in a remote village outside of Tbilisi, Yana (Sukhitashvili) finds herself descending into a spiral of confusion and doubt,...
- 9/27/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
13 films were in the running for prizes in this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival competition, but it doesn’t appear to have been much of a contest at all. In a stunning sweep, Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s debut feature “Beginning” took four of the jury’s seven prizes, including Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actress for star Ia Sukhitashvili, and finally the Golden Shell for Best Film.
It’s a remarkable haul for a harrowing, avant-garde film that has taken critics by surprise this fall festival season, also landing the Fipresci critics’ prize in Toronto last week. The Franco-Georgian production centers on a close-knit community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in remote rural Georgia, and tracks the growing psychological torment of its leader’s wife (played by Sukhitashvili) in the wake of an extremist attack on their place of worship.
A challenging film to economically distil, it has prompted...
It’s a remarkable haul for a harrowing, avant-garde film that has taken critics by surprise this fall festival season, also landing the Fipresci critics’ prize in Toronto last week. The Franco-Georgian production centers on a close-knit community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in remote rural Georgia, and tracks the growing psychological torment of its leader’s wife (played by Sukhitashvili) in the wake of an extremist attack on their place of worship.
A challenging film to economically distil, it has prompted...
- 9/26/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The film also won best director, best actress and best screenplay.
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
The film also won best director, best actress and best screenplay.
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning has won the Golden Shell for best film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The film has also been awarded the prizes for best director, best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, and best screenplay for Kulumbegashvili and co-writer Rati Oneli by a competition jury headed by Luca Guadagnino.
It is the first time a Georgian film has won the Golden Shell.
The Silver Shell for best actor was shared by the four stars of Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round - Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen,...
- 9/26/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
StudioCanal has debuted a new trailer for the Danish drama from Thomas Vinterberg ‘Another Round’ starring Mads Mikkelsen.
There is an obscure philosophical theory that humans should have been born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood; that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing problems and increasing creativity.
Intrigued, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on a risky experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday.
Initial results are positive, but as the units are knocked back and stakes are raised, it becomes increasingly clear that some bold acts carry severe consequences.
Directed by Danish auteur Thomas Vinterberg, the film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang.
Also in trailers – New trailer drops for Jim Cummings’ werewolf thriller ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’
The movie will Premiere at...
There is an obscure philosophical theory that humans should have been born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood; that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing problems and increasing creativity.
Intrigued, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on a risky experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday.
Initial results are positive, but as the units are knocked back and stakes are raised, it becomes increasingly clear that some bold acts carry severe consequences.
Directed by Danish auteur Thomas Vinterberg, the film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang.
Also in trailers – New trailer drops for Jim Cummings’ werewolf thriller ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’
The movie will Premiere at...
- 9/21/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
That esteemed contemporary sage Homer Simpson once observed that alcohol was “the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” The idea behind that joke permeates “Another Round” (“Druk”), the latest from director Thomas Vinterberg (“Far From the Madding Crowd”), a film that centers on drinking to excess but winds up being more about mid-life crises and less a jeremiad about the evils of demon rum.
Working from an incisive and insightful screenplay he wrote with Tobias Lindholm, Vinterberg crafts another drama that presents the best and worst of human nature as paths to be explored. His characters don’t necessarily choose the right one, and sometimes we’re left to wonder which selection they’ve made, but Vinterberg — in marked contrast to his fellow Dogme 95 filmmaker Lars von Trier — at least concedes that redemption might exist.
Mads Mikkelsen stars as Martin, a middle-aged schoolteacher in a middle-aged...
Working from an incisive and insightful screenplay he wrote with Tobias Lindholm, Vinterberg crafts another drama that presents the best and worst of human nature as paths to be explored. His characters don’t necessarily choose the right one, and sometimes we’re left to wonder which selection they’ve made, but Vinterberg — in marked contrast to his fellow Dogme 95 filmmaker Lars von Trier — at least concedes that redemption might exist.
Mads Mikkelsen stars as Martin, a middle-aged schoolteacher in a middle-aged...
- 9/20/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
If you find yourself needing to latch onto an obscure scientific theory to reinvigorate your energy level and live your life as more than a sleepwalking zombie, you’re probably not ready to actually confront the real problem. We know this to be true of the quartet at the center of Thomas Vinterberg’s effective, cathartic drama Druk (known in English as Another Round), since our first impression of Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe), Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), and especially Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) is that they have lost their spark. Sexually, intellectually, physically, emotionally—whatever spark you can describe in words, they’ve lost it. Call it a mid-life crisis if you want. Call it evidence for needing a therapist like it is. Or, as they decide, retrieve that long-lost courage at the bottom of a bottle.
Don’t go calling them alcoholics, though (at least not yet). The...
Don’t go calling them alcoholics, though (at least not yet). The...
- 9/19/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
‘Another Round’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish High-School Teacher Who Become a Drunk…On Purpose
The Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg came up in the Dogme 95 movement, and he’s sort of like Lars von Trier if von Trier, beneath the radical flourishes, had become a conventional-minded director of mildly outré TV movies. (Netflix should snap him up.) In a Vinterberg film, there’s the hook, which is often provocative, and then there’s the execution, which tends to be overly telegraphed and a touch plodding and not fully psychologically convincing. Yet even after 20 years, Vinterberg is still wedded to the Dogme mannerisms — the no-frills camerawork, the improvvy austerity — that now have all the aesthetic frisson of a polished piece of Scandinavian bedroom furniture. His latest film, “Another Round,” might be described as , a “socially relevant” trifle that keeps undercutting itself.
It’s about four middle-aged friends who are teachers at the same high school, and it centers on Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), who was once a...
It’s about four middle-aged friends who are teachers at the same high school, and it centers on Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), who was once a...
- 9/14/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“Another Round” wastes no time confronting the danger and allure of alcohol as a singular contradiction: It begins with the joyful beer-swigging exploits of energetic teens, followed by an abrupt cut to black, and a jarring silence pierced by the lonely slosh of a single beverage. From there, Thomas Vinterberg’s absorbing dark comedy turns into , with Mads Mikkelsen’s fierce and unsettling performance vibrating at its center. Teaming up for the first time since their similarly unnerving character study “The Hunt” in 2012, the Danish actor and director join forces for a wily character study that enhances the one-note premise through the sheer gusto of its execution.
The alcohol guzzled throughout “Another Round” begins as a form of salvation, takes a deadly turn, and ends on an open question. Mikkelsen embodies that uneasy journey as Martin, a jaded high school history teacher, utterly deflated as he enters middle age. Married...
The alcohol guzzled throughout “Another Round” begins as a form of salvation, takes a deadly turn, and ends on an open question. Mikkelsen embodies that uneasy journey as Martin, a jaded high school history teacher, utterly deflated as he enters middle age. Married...
- 9/13/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The film premieres at TIFF on Saturday.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round from TrustNordisk.
The deal is announced before the film’s world premiere as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. After Toronto, the film screens in competition at San Sebastian and then also screens at the BFI London Film Festival. The film was also selected for the Cannes Label 2020.
The deal was negotiated between Peter Goldwyn, president at Samuel Goldwyn Films, and TrustNordisk MD Susan Wendt. Nordisk will launch the film in Danish cinemas on...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round from TrustNordisk.
The deal is announced before the film’s world premiere as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. After Toronto, the film screens in competition at San Sebastian and then also screens at the BFI London Film Festival. The film was also selected for the Cannes Label 2020.
The deal was negotiated between Peter Goldwyn, president at Samuel Goldwyn Films, and TrustNordisk MD Susan Wendt. Nordisk will launch the film in Danish cinemas on...
- 9/9/2020
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Samuel Goldwyn Films has ordered Another Round.
The indie distributor has picked up U.S. rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s hotly-anticipated new comedic drama ahead of the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.
Mads Mikkelsen leads a cast that includes Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang.
The four play 40-something high-school teachers who decide to test a theory that they will work and live better if they maintain a constant level of alcohol in their blood. After initial positive results, they decide to take their experiment to the extremes.
After Toronto, Another Round will tour the fall ...
The indie distributor has picked up U.S. rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s hotly-anticipated new comedic drama ahead of the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.
Mads Mikkelsen leads a cast that includes Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang.
The four play 40-something high-school teachers who decide to test a theory that they will work and live better if they maintain a constant level of alcohol in their blood. After initial positive results, they decide to take their experiment to the extremes.
After Toronto, Another Round will tour the fall ...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has ordered Another Round.
The indie distributor has picked up U.S. rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s hotly-anticipated new comedic drama ahead of the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.
Mads Mikkelsen leads a cast that includes Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang.
The four play 40-something high-school teachers who decide to test a theory that they will work and live better if they maintain a constant level of alcohol in their blood. After initial positive results, they decide to take their experiment to the extremes.
After Toronto, Another Round will tour the fall ...
The indie distributor has picked up U.S. rights to Thomas Vinterberg’s hotly-anticipated new comedic drama ahead of the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday.
Mads Mikkelsen leads a cast that includes Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang.
The four play 40-something high-school teachers who decide to test a theory that they will work and live better if they maintain a constant level of alcohol in their blood. After initial positive results, they decide to take their experiment to the extremes.
After Toronto, Another Round will tour the fall ...
TrustNordisk secures sales in Spain, Italy, Israel, and Romania.
TrustNordisk has closed further deals in Europe and the Middle East for Thomas Vinterberg’s Cannes selection Another Round.
The latest territories sold are Spain (Bteam Pictures), Italy (Movies Inspired), Israel (United King) and Romania (Bad Unicorn).
It follows a series of deals agreed during the Cannes Marché du Film Online, after being selected for the Cannes 2020 label and ahead of its planned physical world premiere in Toronto’s streamlined festival in September. The Danish release is set for September 24.
Written by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, the Danish film centres on...
TrustNordisk has closed further deals in Europe and the Middle East for Thomas Vinterberg’s Cannes selection Another Round.
The latest territories sold are Spain (Bteam Pictures), Italy (Movies Inspired), Israel (United King) and Romania (Bad Unicorn).
It follows a series of deals agreed during the Cannes Marché du Film Online, after being selected for the Cannes 2020 label and ahead of its planned physical world premiere in Toronto’s streamlined festival in September. The Danish release is set for September 24.
Written by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, the Danish film centres on...
- 7/1/2020
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