Kon-Tiki (2012) follows Thor Heyerdahl’s daring 1947 voyage across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft. He sets sail with a small crew to prove his theory that South America, not Asia, populated ...

Thomas started developing the movie in 1996, at the suggestion of his friend Michael Douglas. Douglas urged him to get in touch with the Norwegian industrialist and publisher Johan Stenersen, who ...

The Norwegian Oscar candidate will kick off the Scandinavian film festival on October 31. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Norwegian box office hit – and the country’s candidate for the 2013 ...

Norway’s Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Of The Year is finally sailing in on DVD and Blu-ray. From Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company, KON-TIKI is available to own now ...

The real-life adventure tale, screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the country's most-expensive film ever. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The drama, which has been a box ...

The Norwegian movie “Kon-Tiki” may ring a bell — the story of explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who crossed the Pacific in 1947 on a balsa-wood raft, it was Oscar-nominated earlier this year for best ...

The Norwegian film Kon-Tiki may have lost the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year but it became the highest grossing film in Norway's history. Now an English-language version is being ...

In the year 1947, young explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his five-man crew set out to cross the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl‘s aim is to prove that Polynesia was originally colonised from South America 1500 ...

Many who grew up in the Dayton area remember seeing movies at the Kon-Tiki, a theater known for its distinctive architecture and South Pacific Polynesian-themed décor. The one-of-a-kind Trotwood ...