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The Rome Film Festival has just one award, and this year Danish film director Janus Metz Pedersen took home the prize, the Bnl's People's Choice Award, for his new film Borg vs. McEnroe.

The pic tells the story of the famous 1980s rivalry between tennis greats John McEnroe (Shia Labeouf) and Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason). It had its world premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the opening-night film. Borg vs. McEnroe is set to open Thursday in Italy via distributor Lucky Red.

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Why We’re Obsessed With ‘The Last Match’

Tennis is having a good year off the court with the Oscar-worthy Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell, and Shia Labeouf earning rave reviews for his portrayal of John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, which opened the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Continuing the winning streak is Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Starring Wilson Bethel as Tim and Alex Mickiewicz as Sergei, rivals facing off in the semifinals at the U.S. Open, the play gets into the psyche of two players who stand to gain as much as they could potentially lose. But it’s not just for tennis fans -- Ziegler’s riveting story brings the drama and action of Arthur Ashe Stadium to the stage in...

Sverrir Gudnason is superb as the ice-cool Swede struggling to contain a cauldron of emotion – and Shia Labeouf’s not bad either as his voluble opponent

A tale of sporting rivalry is given a brooding, introspective Scandinavian twist by Janus Metz, hitherto best known for his award-winning documentary Armadillo. Stoic, seemingly unflappable Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and volatile, temperamental brat John McEnroe (Shia Labeouf) competed for the Wimbledon title in 1980. On paper, it was a clash of opposites. But in fact, this film argues that the two men had more in common than anyone suspected at the time. Ice-man Borg, the main focus of this film, was in fact a volcano; his obsession with detail, his superstitions, were all part of the meticulous control mechanism he constructed to prevent the eruptions of anger that so tarnished McEnroe’s early reputation.

Whether or not you know the outcome, this is a cracking watch.

While the major venues of the Key West Film Festival luckily made it through both Hurricanes Harvey and Irma with little damage, the rest of the community the festival calls home did not. To that end, the annual event — which bills itself as “Passion Meets Paradise” — is working towards assisting in rebuilding efforts around the Key West area.

In a new call for action, the festival’s Founder and Chairman A. Brooke Christian, recalls why Key West inspired the festival to begin with, sharing, “Six years ago, we committed to Key West to host our film festival because of the vibrancy and tenacity of its people. And in this time of great adversity, that strength and resilience is more powerful than ever. But recovery and rehabilitation will not come easily. It will require an incredible amount of assistance and outside support. I implore you to do what you can to help…...

Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Shia Labeouf as John McEnroe go head-to-head this autumn. Our critic plays umpire

Tennis addicts can rest easy – in the sense of staying up all night to watch tennis. Somewhere in the world an important tournament is under way and on subscription TV. The less seriously committed are faced with the long inter-slam drought between the Us and Australian Opens. Fortunately palliatives are at hand in the form of two movies, Battle of the Sexes and Borg vs McEnroe.

The first film is about the 1973 match between Billie Jean King and the self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig and former world No 1 Bobby Riggs; the second focuses on the 1980 Wimbledon final. They are linked by the way that in 2000 Donald Trump offered John McEnroe a million dollars to play either of the Williams sisters at one of his hotels. As McEnroe recounted in his 2002 autobiography Serious,...

The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing. The festival just started on Sept. 7 and runs until Sept. 17, but there have already been several celebrity sightings. Shia Labeouf and Sverrir Gudnason hit the red carpet on the first day of the festival to promote their film Borg/McEnroe, a film about the 1980 Wimbledon Championship match between tennis players Björn Borg and John McEnroe. Quantico's Priyanka Chopra was another early arrival and wore a pink Fendi ensemble to the premiere of Pahuna: The Little Visitors. The film, which she produced, is about three Nepalese children who get separated from their parents while entering Sikkim and their...

At the finals of Wimbledon in 1980, two men—a placid, methodical swede, Björn Borg, and a vocal, emotional American, John McEnroe—went head to head in a grudge-match that is still on the minds of every fan of the sport. The events that shaped these two men are played out in Janus Metz’s Borg/McEnroe, which opened the Toronto Film Festival last night and set the stage for a festival surprisingly heavy in tennis movies (Battle of the Sexes is the one another, but they’re a…...

The official opening night film for the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival was “Borg/McEnroe.” Despite a unique tennis story and the kitsch factor of Shia Labeouf playing John McEnroe (perhaps a little too on the nose), the were hardly any buzz from Roy Thompson Hall which was filled mostly by festival sponsors. Instead, social media and the rest of the festival was ablaze over the Tiff premiere of “Call Me By Your Name” which earned rave reviews at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in January (you can read mine here).

Continue reading ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Steals Tiff 2017 Opening Night Buzz at The Playlist.

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off tonight with the world premiere of Borg/McEnroe, the Neon 2018 release that centers on the Wimbledon final of all Wimbledon finals in 1980 between Bjorn Borg going for his fifth men’s singles title there vs outspoken upstart John McEnroe. But at this packed festival it isn’t enough to have just one opening-night movie, there have to be at least two or three. So it was, with a number of films including the excellent On Chesil…...

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday night with Borg/McEnroe, a Swedish-made drama about the 1980 showdown at Wimbledon between brash American John McEnroe and cool Swede Bjorn Borg.

Director Janus Metz took to the Roy Thomson Hall stage to welcome his cast, led by Sverrir Gudnason, who plays Borg, Stellan Skarsgard and Shia Labeouf (McEnroe). Metz jokingly introduced Labeouf as "someone who has become very dear to me during this production, my friend, my brother, my secret lover, my bulldog, and my baby child."

The director also hailed his movie as a psychological thriller about "two people driving each...

Juan Martin del Potro just ruined the match-up everyone wanted to see at the 2017 Us Open—a semi-final pitting Rafa Nadal against Roger Federer. Despite both being in their thirties, their rivalry has never stopped. What’s intriguing, however, is how amiable it has always been (or seemed to be). With the quieter Pete Sampras and emotional Andre Agassi a generation earlier, the same was true despite their differing personalities and server versus returner billing. You could call the former a product of the latter and the latter a product of the explosive combat before them between “ice cold” Björn Borg and New York “superbrat” John McEnroe. The glaring difference of course is that their iconic war was augmented off-court by the media. It may have only really lasted two years, but the effect it had on the sport of tennis was permanent.

Danish director (of documentary Armadillo fame) Janus Metz...

It’s one of the greatest matches the tennis world has ever seen, held appropriately in The Cathedral, where devotees of the sport come to worship. Bjorn Borg versus John McEnroe, the rebel versus the gentleman, in a championship that shook off the notion that tennis was purely for the civilized. For one weekend in July of 1980, the world was riveted as two titans played a match that decades later stands as a towering spectacle.

Continue reading ‘Borg/McEnroe’: Tennis Drama Serves Up Volley Instead Of Smash [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.

It’s safe to say that “Borg/McEnroe,” which opened the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night, makes its ambitions clear from the start. The film from director Janus Metz opens with a title-card quote from Andre Agassi (who otherwise has nothing to do with this particular tennis story) that concludes, “Every match is a life in miniature.” Make that two lives in miniature, because “Borg/McEnroe” sets out to encapsulate the troubled journeys of tennis stars Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe within one epic match. That came in the 1980 Wimbledon final, when the emotionless Swede was going for a record.

Shia Labeouf is hardly a dead ringer for a young John McEnroe — he looks more like one of Royal Tenenbaum’s grandchildren than anything else — but it’s hard to imagine anyone more perfect for the part. As a rising superstar in the early ’80s, the hotheaded McEnroe was as famous for his mid-match tantrums as he was for his tennis. He was one of the most gifted natural talents the game had ever seen, but he would erupt at a moment’s notice, self-destructing on some of the world’s biggest stages.

The parallels between McEnroe and the volatile young actor who plays him in “Borg/McEnroe” are obvious enough to make themselves, but the saving grace of Janus Metz’s relentlessly self-serious sports drama is that the film doesn’t take its casting for granted — it refuses to rest on the meta-textual fun of watching one explosive celebrity play another.

It was "the IceBorg versus the SuperBrat," in the eyes of the world: the 1980 Wimbledon final pitting Björn Borg, a four-time champion who never lost his cool in a game, against John McEnroe, who seemingly couldn't keep his cool in a walk-in freezer with Isaac Hayes on his headphones. Janus Metz's Borg/McEnroe paints a very different picture, diving into both men's psyches to find them all but identical, differing only in their outward manifestations of relentless pressure. An acting-forward sports film capable of engaging viewers who don't know their 30-loves from their birdies or hat tricks, it has mainstream...

Shia Labeouf’s first public appearance since his July arrest, and subsequent racist meltdown, played more like a game of leisurely doubles than a pressure-cooker press conference. But there he was on Thursday, at the kick-off media huddle for the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival where his drama “Borg/McEnroe” serves as the opening gala screening. Donning what we’ll call a sporty running jacket, Labeouf appeared alongside his director, Janus Metz, and co-stars Sverrir Gudnason and Stellan Skarsgård to discuss the film, about the legendary 1980s tennis rivalry between brash American John McEnroe and the calm Swede Bjorn Borg. Also Read: Shia Labeouf Apologizes.

Shia Labeouf hasn’t been shy about his affection for tennis giant John McEnroe, so his starring part in Janus Metz’s Toronto International Film Festival opener “Borg/McEnroe” feels like a particularly special gift for the actor. Primarily fixed on the eponymous Wimbledon match played between McEnroe and all-time great Björn Borg (played by Sverrir Gudnason), the drama also finds room to explore how both men rose to their positions in the sport, aided by seemingly unshakable perceptions by the public (that McEnroe was crazy, that Borg was a machine without emotion).

From the start, Labeouf has voiced his pleasure at taking on the role, one that he sees so much of himself — and his own public perceptions — inside of. In an interview with Variety last October, Labeouf said, “[McEnroe and I have] everything in common. Passionate. Perfectionist. Narcissistic. I’m a bit of a caricature also. You look for parallels in your life,...

John McEnroe is a misunderstood guy, in sum an artist. This was actor Shia Labeouf’s assessment of the tennis champ he portrays in Borg/McEnroe, tonight’s opening-night film at the Toronto International Film Festival. It focuses on the epic showdown between McEnroe and Swedish tennis master Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) at Wimbledon in 1980. Watching McEnroe play was akin to “Amadeus — he’s like the Mozart character,” said Labeouf. A guy who didn’t process his genius, “he…...

Shia Labeouf says playing tennis star and hothead John McEnroe in the drama Borg/McEnroe was "quite cathartic."

"It expressed something I feel deeply," Laboeuf added as he promoted the opening night movie for the Toronto Film Festival, Borg/McEnroe, ahead of a world premiere on Thursday night. The troubled Hollywood actor plays McEnroe in the biopic about one of the greatest sports rivalries of all time, as Borg/McEnroe traces the long-running battle for supremacy in the tennis world between McEnroe and Swedish star Bjorn Borg in the 1970s and '80s.

Labeouf said McEnroe has been misunderstood by critics, including the...

Shia Labeouf is perfectly cast as superbrat tennis ace John McEnroe, but this replay of his 1980 Wimbledon final with Björn Borg fails to create drama

This tennis film feels like a two-hour baseline rally, and it’s not just the rackets that are made of wood. It is all about the allegedly fascinating psychological face-off between supercool Swede Björn Borg and the superbrat challenger from New York, John McEnroe – played respectively by Sverrir Gudnason and Shia Labeouf. It culminates in their first, titanic Wimbledon confrontation in the 1980 final. That really was an unbearably tense contest, but at the end of this film my nails remained salon-fresh. The awful truth was that for all their rivalry and wildly different styles, there wasn’t any needle between these two men personally, no tension, nothing outside the tennis court for us to get excited about.

Really, almost any other pairing of characters from...

Shia Labeouf, Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet open the Toronto International Film FestivalShia Labeouf, Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet open the Toronto International Film FestivalAdriana Floridia9/7/2017 12:56:00 Pm

Last night, the most exciting time of year to be a film lover in Toronto kicked off.

The Toronto International Film Festival started on Thursday night, and people from all around the world are in town to celebrate the event. The festival officially opened with Janus Metz' tennis drama Borg/McEnroe, which tells the true story of the rivalry between tennis players Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and John McEnroe (Shia Labeouf). Labeouf walked the red carpets at both The Princess of Wales Theatre and Roy Thompson Hall, alongside his co-stars which include Stellan Skarsgård. We were on the red carpet last night, check out some of the highlights below!

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One of the most talked about films of the year also premiered in Toronto last night.

Serena Williams is one of the most successful tennis players to ever pick up a racket, but her dominance inside the court hasn’t stopped her from experiencing discrimination outside of it. Williams — who welcomed her first child (a daughter!) with her fiancé, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, on Sept. 1 — tells Time about the sexism she has faced throughout her career and how she learns from any obstacle that comes her way.

“It isn’t always easy to be on this stage and play in a tournament and have someone make a comment about your body,” Williams says in an interview...

“Borg Vs. McEnroe” is kicking off the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on Thurdsay, Sept. 7. This film takes you back to the 1980 Wimbledon championship match between tennis players John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, known as the most epic face-off in tennis history. Shia Labeouf plays the tempered American McEnroe while Sverrir Gudnason plays […]...

Tennis thriller Borg/McEnroe, which will open the Toronto International Film Festival later this week, has also been picked as the opening-night film for the this year's Zurich International Film Festival.

Directed by Danish helmer Janus Metz Pedersen, the film stars Shia Labeouf and Sverrir Gudnason as legendary grass-court rivals John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, respectively. The focus of the film is their epic match at the Wimbledon finals on July 5, 1980.

Gudnason and Pedersen will attend Zurich for the film's Swiss premiere on Sept. 28. Ascot Elite will bow Borg/McEnroe in Switzerland in October.

The 2017 Zurich Film Festival...

"It's the perfect rivalry..." Bring on the outstanding tennis movies. A second official international trailer for the film Borg/McEnroe (also just titled simply Borg) has been revealed thanks to Little White Lies. The film recreates the iconic 1980 Wimbledon match between tennis champs and rivals Björn Borg and John McEnroe. Shia Labeouf plays John McEnroe, and Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason plays Björn Borg; also starring Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, and David Bamber. This continues to look better than expected (see the first full trailer), and I'm excited to get a chance to see this soon. It will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and hit theaters in Europe this fall, but still needs a Us release. Hopefully it will get a date soon. I love how intense this looks, I'm totally in for it, seems like it might surprise us all. Take a look. Here's the second international trailer for...

Chris here. We're very excited that the Toronto Film Festival is right around the corner, and last week's first announcement of the films in the lineup were just the beginning. One of the conspicuous gaps in last week's films was the fest opener - and now we know that film to be tennis biopic Borg/McEnroe.

This makes the second real-life period tennis film playing the fest, after the likely more lighthearted Battle of the Sexes. Here Shia Labeouf stars as the hot-tempered John McEnroe facing off against his rival Björn Borg, played by Sverrir Gudnason, during Wimbledon 1980. The opening slot hasn't had the best luck in recent years, with past films being the The Magnificent Seven remake, Demoliton, The Judge, and The Fifth Estate - bet you hadn't thought of those movies in a bit! Could Borg/McEnroe turn it around? Or, perhaps more importantly, is tennis the next sports movie obsession?...

Tennis drama stars Shia Labeouf and Sverrir Gudnason.

The world premiere of Borg/McEnroe will kick off the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival (7 Sept – 17 Sept).

The film, directed by Janus Metz and starring Shia Labeouf, Sverrir Gudnason and Stellan Skarsgård, will screen at the Roy Thomson Hall on September 7.

Piers Handling, director and CEO of Tiff, said in a statement: “Borg/McEnroe has a powerful tension about it that is on par with the electric energy of Toronto on opening night.”

Tennis drama Borg/McEnroe tells the story of the rivalry between the cool swede Bjorn Borg and hot headed American John McEnroe, which culminated in their epic 1980 Wimbledon final.

Sf Studios is handling international sales of the film.

Other titles at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival include Darkest Hour, which stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; real-life skating drama I, Tonya with Margot Robbie; The Mountain Between Us starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet and Thomas Edison...

Directed by Janus Metz, the tennis drama Borg/McEnroe relays the true, competitive story of the pro-sports rivalry between Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and his greatest adversary, John McEnroe (Shia Labeouf).

The world premiere of Borg/McEnroe will be the Opening Night Gala film at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival. The screening will be held at the Roy Thomson Hall on September 7. Directed by Janus Metz and written by Ronnie Sandahl, the film stars Shia Labeouf, Sverrir Gudnason and Stellan Skarsgård. Borg/McEnroe tells the story of the epic rivalry between Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg (Gudnason) and his greatest adversary, the brash American John McEnroe…...

The Toronto International Film Festival on Monday said Borg/McEnroe will open its 42nd edition with a world premiere Sept. 7.

Directed by Janus Metz, the film, set to be released by Neon in North America in 2018, stars Shia Labeouf, Sverrir Gudnason and Stellan Skarsgard.

"Borg/McEnroe has a powerful tension about it that is on par with the electric energy of Toronto on opening night,” Piers Handling, director and CEO of Tiff, said in a statement.

Labeouf plays tennis bad boy John McEnroe in the biopic about one of the greatest sports rivalries of all time, as Borg/McEnroe traces the...

Past attempts to capture the game have had mixed results, but Borg vs McEnroe – celebrating the epic 1980 Wimbledon final – and Battle of the Sexes, both due out later this year, could deliver match points

There are so many ways to make John McEnroe mad. You can give him a bad line call or a time violation, or remind him of the French Open title bout he lost to Ivan Lendl in 1984. Alternatively, you can make a film such as Borg vs McEnroe, which lionises him on screen and celebrates his heroic performance in the 1980 Wimbledon final. The film is not out until September and he is already calling fault. He is bemused by the concept and sceptical of the content. He dislikes the fact that it is being made at all. “I’ve never seen a good tennis movie,” the three-time former Wimbledon champion complained to Vanity Fair. “They all were terrible.

Shia Labeouf Photo: Marvin Lynchard/DoD News Features

"I am deeply ashamed of my behaviour and make no excuses for it," said Shia Labeouf in a statement yesterday after videos emerged of him hurling racist abuse at police officers who arrested him in Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday. "I am certain that my actions warrant a very sincere apology to the arresting officers and I am grateful for their restraint."

Labeouf, who plays the similarly troubled tennis star John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe, which will be released later this year, was arrested when in Savannah to film scenes for The Peanut Butter Falcon. Body-cam footage of the arrest shows him asking a police officer for a cigarette and becoming aggressive when he was not given one. He told the black officer that he had a president and an employer who didn't care about him so he wanted to arrest white people who did care,...

Actor caught on camera insulting black police officer.

Troubled actor Shia Labeouf took to social media on Wednesday to apologise for a racist outburst recorded on police video.

Labeouf was caught on camera insulting a black police offer following his arrest in Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday on suspicion of obstruction, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after he allegedly asked a passer-by for a cigarette.

Labeouf is heard in the video saying to the black officer: “You’re going to hell, straight to hell, bro.” When the officer’s white colleague asked Labeouf how he could make that statement based on the man’s colour, the actor replied, “It means a whole lot, bro.”

Moments later the actor, who was in the process of being fingerprinted by the officers, claimed he had been arrested because he was white.

Labeouf, who earned strong reviews in Andrea Arnold’s Cannes 2016 selection American Honey and stars as tennis legend John McEnroe in the...

Shia Labeouf’s career over the last several years has been overshadowed by his offscreen antics, and it doesn’t seem like that’s going to change anytime soon. The 31-year-old actor was arrested in Georgia earlier this morning on suspicion of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness, according to jail records from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Department (via The Hollywood Reporter). Labeouf was arrested around 4 a.m. Et. Bond is set at $7,000.

Read More: Why Shia Labeouf Needs a Career Reboot

The details surrounding the incident have not been disclosed, but it wouldn’t be the first time Labeouf was arrested for public drunkenness. He infamously disrupted a Broadway performance of “Cabaret” in fall 2014 by standing up and yelling at the actors on stage. The actor was escorted out of the show in handcuffs at intermission and was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct and one count of criminal trespassing.

"What do you want from tennis?" "To be the best." A full-length trailer has been unveiled for tennis match film Borg/McEnroe, profiling (and recreating) the iconic 1980 tennis match between Björn Borg and John McEnroe. The film seems to now be titled simply Borg, which is odd considering it seems to be about both players and not just Borg, but this trailer proves otherwise. Maybe the title is different in certain countries around the world? Shia Labeouf plays John McEnroe, and Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason plays Björn Borg; also starring Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, and David Bamber. This looks damn good, even better than expected. I'm impressed by the mix of English, French and Swedish in this trailer. Worth a look. Here's the first full-length trailer for Janus Metz Pedersen's Borg/McEnroe, direct from YouTube: And here's another new UK teaser trailer for Borg/McEnroe, also debuted this week...

Tennis fans know the inevitable letdown that comes with the final match of the U.S. Open every summer, but 2017 brings two exciting fall movies to fill the void: “Battle of the Sexes,” where Emma Stone will play the great Billie Jean King, and “Borg vs. McEnroe,” which stars Shia LeBeouf as the notorious bad boy of tennis in a stylish drama about one of the sport’s greatest rivalries.

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Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg and American legend John McEnroe played each other 14 times on tour between the years 1978 and 1981. Each player won 7 times. Their rivalry was all the more fascinating due to their polarized demeanors: Borg was known for his zen-like cool on court, while McEnroe was an infamous firebrand, often yelling at umpires and wildly upsetting the balance of a game that reveres civility.

The Momsemble comedy goes indie with this Sundance farce from director Alethea Jones and writer Julie Rudd, which released a raucous first trailer today. It’s full of the kinds of shenanigans one might expect from a comedy about moms letting loose for an epic night: Flying poop, competitive bickering, clueless dads, and a trip to a weed dispensary. What could possibly go wrong?

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Toni Collette and Molly Shannon lead a feisty mom group that includes Bridget Everett (“Patti Cake$”) and Katie Aselton (“The Gift”). The rest of the cast is like a who’s who of indie comedy: Adam Scott, Rob Huebel, Paul Rudd, Paul Rust, and John Early round it out. There’s even a bartending Adam Levine thrown in there. In this short glimpse, we see Collette playing against type as Kate, the mom...

From RedBand.Ca, Sneak Peek restricted 'red band' footage from the Swedish biographical feature "Borg vs McEnroe", directed by Janus Metz, focusing on the rivalry between tennis players Björn Borg and John McEnroe @ the 1980 'Wimbledon Championships', starring Sverrir Gudnason, Shia Labeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny and Robert Emms:

Tennis players Björn Borg and John McEnroe met 14 times on the regular tour and 22 times in total, with their on-court rivalry highlighted by their contrasting temperaments and styles. Borg was known for his cool and emotionless demeanor on court, while McEnroe was famed for his court-side tantrums. Their rivalry extended between 1978 and 1981, with each player winning seven times against the other.

In 1980 McEnroe reached the men's singles final at 'Wimbledon' for the first time, where he faced Borg, who was aiming for an 'Open Era' record fifth consecutive Wimbledon title.

In a fourth set tie-breaker that lasted 20 minutes,...

Perhaps we can thank 7 Days in Hell, but tennis films seem to be all the rage this fall, albeit in a less comedic form than Andy Samberg’s spoof. While Emma Stone and Steve Carell will square off in Battle of the Sexes this September, the same month will see the international debut — and likely fall festival premiere — of another tennis drama, Borg vs. McEnroe.

Starring Sverrir Gudnason as Borg and Shia Labeouf as McEnroe, the film is directed by acclaimed Swedish helmer Janus Metz (Armadillo), and the first trailer has now landed. Judging from this first preview, it’s intriguing to see a sports drama such as this coming from a Swedish perspective rather than than the all-too-frequent American view we normally get.

Check out the trailer below.

Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Björn Borg,...

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Who knew it could be so epically intense off the court as it is on! With Wimbledon fever gripping the world by the short and curlies a brand new red band trailer has been released for the upcoming biographical drama Borg/McEnroe.

Related: First trailer for Borg/McEnroe

As with the first trailer, the red band version ups the ante on the tension front as both legendary tennis players Björn Borg and John McEnroe prepare themselves for the biggest match of their lives. Flitting between Swedish and English Borg, who is played by Sverrir Gudnason, is your quiet brooding type, one to keep his emotions calmly bottled up without even breaking into a smile. Whilst McEnroe, played by Shia LeBeouf, as we all know, has a more assertive manner, confidence over boils as well as his anger at a journalist at a standard press conference. The trailer...

Tennis seems to be all the rage these days. “Battle of the Sexes,” the story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), is hitting theaters soon, and coming right behind is “Borg Vs McEnroe,” centering on arguably the most famous rivalry in tennis history: Swedish player Björn Borg versus American John McEnroe.

Continue reading ‘Borg Vs. McEnroe’: Shia Labeouf Serves Up A New Trailer at The Playlist.

A lot of people have had their eye on Borg Vs. McEnroe simply to see Shia Labeouf play the notoriously colorful McEnroe! We don't get the full reveal in this trailer, but we get enough to keep me hooked into wanting to see this film.

Borg/McEnroe is a film about one of the world's greatest icons Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and talented John McEnroe and their legendary duel during the 1980's Wimbledon tournament. It's a story about two men who changed the face of tennis and who became legends and the price they had to pay.

Check out the latest trailer below and see the film September 2017. ...

Shia LeBeouf stars as tennis great John McEnroe in the biopic “Borg vs McEnroe.” Check out the teaser above. The sports drama will focus on one of the biggest rivalries in tennis of all time between McEnroe and Swedish player Björn Borg in the late 1970s and and early 1980s. Sverrir Gudnason will play Borg, while Stellan Skarsgard plays his coach, Lennart Bergelin. Also Read: Shia LeBeouf Grants Fan's Wish, Whacks Him in Face (Video) Danish director Janus Metz directs — his war documentary “Armadillo” won the grand prize at Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2010. All in all, Borg and McEnroe faced off 14 times between 1978 and.

Sometimes, trailers for superhero movies will make a point of not showing certain things that people want to see that superhero do, and this trailer for tennis drama Borg Vs McEnroe pulls that exact same trick by refusing to show Shia Labeouf unleashing a proper tirade as the famously short-tempered John McEnroe. Casting Labeouf to play McEnroe is brilliantly on-the-nose, and we know he can pull off a brilliant, red-faced rant because we’ve seen him do it in real life, but this trailer wisely saves most of that for the real movie. Labeouf aside, Borg Vs McEnroe also stars Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg, and Stellan Skarsgård as Borg’s coach, Lennart Bergelin.

Borg Vs McEnroe will be in theaters in September.

A new trailer is here for Borg vs. McEnroe, the Swedish-made movie about the famous 1980 tennis match between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

Today marks the 140th anniversary of Wimbledon, the world’s premiere tennis tournament, which makes it a great occasion to promote “Borg Vs McEnroe.” The tennis drama is gearing up to hit cinematic courts this fall, and it certainly looks like it’s going to be some compelling stuff.

Shia Labeouf stars as John McEnroe with Sverrir Gudnason as Björn Borg, in the Janus Metz Pedersen (“Armadillo,” “True Detective” season 2) directed tale about the famous 1980 showdown between the two players, which is regarded as one of the greatest tennis matches ever.

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La La Anthony is a fierce friend! The 38-year-old appeared on Sunday night’s Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen where she was quickly asked about two of her most famous celebrity pals – Serena Williams and Beyonce.

When one caller asked about tennis pro John McEnroe’s recent controversial comments about Serena’s skill level, La La noted that she was not impressed.

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“Oh, I thought it was bulls**t,” she said. “You don’t come for my friend like that. I didn’t like that at all. I mean, she is the best tennis player in the world, I don’t care male, female, or other, nobody can see Serena Williams.”

“He kind of doubled down on her,” Cohen agreed.

“Yeah, and then he tried to come back and retract. I mean, he’s cool...

Serena Williams is "awesome at a lot of things," according to her fiance, Alexis Ohanian -- and one of those things is sure to be her soon-to-be mom duties.

The Reddit co-founder spoke glowingly of Williams, with whom he is expecting his first child, during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box on Friday.

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"She's awesome at a lot of things, and she's well on her way to being an awesome mom," Ohanian said.

The 34-year-old entrepreneur also revealed he will be taking six weeks of leave when the new baby arrives.

"At Reddit, it's really important for us to support men and women when they are welcoming a new member to the family," he said. "And so we have a pretty generous parental leave policy. I'll be taking off for six weeks myself and trying to do the best job possible as a first-time dad."

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John McEnroe has more to say about Serena Williams.

The former tennis pro opened up about his comments ranking Williams as "No. 700" on the men's circuit -- and the result backlash -- during a Tuesday appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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"It didn't go over big with my daughters," McEnroe admitted, before explaining the questioning that led to his much-criticized statement.

"We were talking to someone on NPR radio and she said something to the effect, she was asking about Serena, and I said, 'Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player that ever lived and I think she's absolutely tremendous,'" he recalled. "She followed up with, 'Why do you have to say female tennis player? Isn't she the greatest tennis player that ever lived?' And I just said, 'Well wait, whoa...

Stephen Colbert isn’t serving softballs to tennis legend John McEnroe. On Tuesday, the “Late Show” host called out his guest over comments McEnroe made during a recent NPR interview, when the ex-player and current analyst said Serena Williams would be ranked “like No. 700 in the world” if she played against men. The CBS studio audience booed the former champ, who then quipped: “It didn’t go over big with my daughters either.” Also Read: Pregnant Serena Williams Goes Nude for Vanity Fair, Twitter Responds McEnroe did follow-up — in both interviews — by clarifying that Williams is “the greatest female tennis player that.