This time last year, Mads Mikkelsen was about to become the toast of Cannes. The Danish actor was on the Croisette starring in Thomas Vinterberg's "The Hunt," a stunning morality play, and went on to win the Best Actor prize at the festival for his role in that. "The Hunt" is still yet to open in th...
Read More »Ahead of its first Cannes market screening, Chicago-based Music Box Films has picked up all US and Canadian rights to Arnaud des Pallières' competition title "Michael Kohlhaas," starring Mads Mikkelsen and adapted from the 1811 Heinrich von Kleist classic Romantic novel. Films du Losange is selling ...
Read More »While he's probably still best known to North American audiences as that creepy guy who squared off against James Bond in "Casino Royale," Mads Mikkelsen, perhaps Denmark's biggest star, has made his most serious Hollywood inroads yet as part of NBC's "Hannibal." Believe it or not, the show -- if no...
Read More »While yesterday's announcement of the 2013 Cannes lineup has inspired fevered anticipation of this year's upcoming films, many of last year's most celebrated films have yet to see any theatrical release stateside, and Thomas Vinterberg's critically acclaimed drama "The Hunt," is one of the most nota...
Read More »If you had any doubts that Bryan Fuller could not only revitalize two of Thomas Harris' most memorable characters, Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, in a meaningful way and also do it with his signature flair fully in tact, put them to rest right now. NBC's "Hannibal" (premiering on Thursday, Apr...
Read More »What's noteworthy, looking at the trailer for NBC's upcoming "Silence of the Lambs" prequel series "Hannibal," is how dark the thing is.
Read More »"Game Of Thrones," "Mad Men," "Arrested Development"..."Hannibal"? Could the ailing, struggling, embarrassing NBC finally have a show that people will want to talk about this spring? And more importantly, that people will want to watch? Well, the more we see of the show, the answer could very well b...
Read More »Bryan Fuller's last project, a reimagining of "The Munsters" entitled "Mockingbird Lane," turned into an expensive mess for NBC, the pilot eventually airing as a stand-alone movie last October before any chances of it going to series were officially snuffed out. But the ...
Read More »Here's a little casting roundup of some leading men who have come aboard new projects in the past few days...
Read More »Cable networks are free to drop in all the sex and violence that their national broadcast competition can't, which certainly makes it a challenge when competing for viewers. But even so, NBC is hoping they can push the envelope by bringing Hannibal Lecter to the small screen. And they've got...
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