In 2011, he also starred alongside Sam Shepard in Mateo Gil's feature "Blackthorn", which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Later the same year he starred in Morten Tyldum's "Headhunters". The film went on to be the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all-time and received very positive reviews including a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Coster-Waldau starred in the 2013 horror film "Mama" alongside Jessica Chastain, which then debuted at number one in the US box office and grossed over $140 million worldwide. He went on to play Sykes, a military weapons expert in the science fiction action thriller film "Oblivion". The same year he co-starred with Juliette Binoche in Erik Poppe's drama "A Thousand Times Good Night". In 2014, he starred in Susanne Bier's Danish thriller "A Second Chance" as Andreas, a police officer forced to make a difficult choice. In 2016, Coster-Waldau appeared in the action-fantasy film "Gods of Egypt" as Horus.