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NewsNicolas Winding Refn wraps noir series ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’ for Netflix
Thriller marks director’s first project in native Denmark in 15 years.
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FeaturesNicolas Winding Refn
The director tells Screen how a ride home turned into the award-winning Drive.
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Winding Refn starts Scottish shoot for Valhalla Rising
Nicolas Winding Refn has started the Scotland-based shoot for his next film, Valhalla Rising.Alongside Mads Mikkelsen, the film will star Jamie Sives and Gary Lewis from Billy Elliot fame. The budget is about $7m.The famed Danish director is taking with him the organic working method from his Pusher films shooting ...
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FeaturesNicolas Winding Refn's 'The Neon Demon': Dressed To Kill
A tale of beauty obsession and obsessive beauties in the ruthless world of Los Angeles fashion, The Neon Demon is Nicolas Winding Refn’s first venture into horror. The Danish film-maker and producing partner Lene Borglum tell Wendy Mitchell about their Cannes Competition title
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Valhalla finally rises for Nicolas Winding Refn
Valhalla is finally rising. Nicolas Winding Refn's long-in-the-works Viking yarn Valhalla Rising, starring Mads Mikkelsen as One-Eye, is now fully financed and will begin shooting in Glasgow and on the Isle Of Skye in the summer.'We closed the gap this week and we're headed to start shooting in June,'producer Johnny ...
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Winding Refn lines up Viking tale Valhalla Rising
Pusher and FearX director Nicolas Winding Refn is lining up a new film about a mute Vikingcalled Valhalla Rising. Mads Mikkelsen will play theViking who escapes from imprisonment in Scotland who accidentally discoversAmerica on his journey home.The film is expected to be shotwith handheld camera and a relatively small film ...
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Nicolas Winding Refn starts Bronson shoot with Vertigo
Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn has started a six-week UK shoot for Bronson, his feature about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.Vertigo Films is producing in association with 4DH Films, EM Media, Str8jacket Creations and Aramid Entertainment.Vertigo's Rupert Preston and 4DH Film's Danny Hansford will produce. Executive producers are Nick Love, Allan ...
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NewsGaumont, Wild Bunch team on Refn’s Neon Demon
New picture described as a horror film with a young female cast; companies also collaborated on Only God Forgives.
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NewsSigns of Toronto thaw as IFC takes US on Valhalla Rising
In the first major deal at Toronto IFC Films has bought US rights to Nicolas Winding Refn’s Viking action-adventure Valhalla Rising.
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