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Peter Berg to direct high-minded drug cartel story ‘Hunt for El Chapo’
Universal Pictures Patrick Radden Keefe's New Yorker story “The Hunt for El Chapo” is a terrifying, bizarre, and occasionally funny look at modern drug trafficking. Delving into the lavish world of...
View Article‘Wild Tales’ filmmaker set to write ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ for Mark Wahlberg
As soon as I walked out of “Wild Tales” at Cannes, I started wondering who the first studio would be to hire the filmmaker to make a big American movie. From just one film, it is clear right away that...
View Article‘Deepwater Horizon’ looks like the real deal
Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes, and clips and puts it all in perspective. Get off the phone, Mark Wahlberg! Get off the phone! Even if your wife is Kate...
View ArticleThe Latest ‘Patriots Day’ Trailer Attempts To Pit Love Against Hate At The...
In the first teaser for director Peter Berg’s new movie about the Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day, much of the action (or lack thereof) centered on Mark Wahlberg’s character and the city itself....
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Peter Berg Wants To Spread A Message Of Love With ‘Patriots Day’
Getty Image On Monday afternoon, after a banquet thrown by publicist Peggy Siegal for the film Patriots Day at Manhattan’s Lotos Club, I had the chance to speak briefly with director Peter Berg about...
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‘Patriots Day’ Mixes Thrills With An Insidiously Tasteful Endorsement Of...
CBS Films Peter Berg has done a terrible thing. Not because he’s made a terrible movie — that would’ve been better — but because he’s made a movie just good enough that the valid criticisms of it are...
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A Clarification On The Miranda-Free Interrogations, And The ‘High Value...
CBS Films In my review of Patriots Day yesterday, I discussed a few points of the story that seemed slightly vague or ambiguous in the movie, such as the interrogation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow,...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg loses his sh-t over actors comparing themselves to soldiers
Movie press tours and premieres are an anachronism of an older media age, when the only way people heard about a movie was through carefully staged media roundtables and the resulting boring fluff...
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Peter Berg And Dwayne Johnson Have Discussed A Sequel To ‘The Rundown’
“GRRRRR, my real passion is cooking!” Lost in the long list of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s blockbuster action films and musclehead franchises is the 2003 action comedy, The Rundown, which was supposed...
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Peter Berg hoping to reunite with Dwayne Johnson on ‘The Rundown 2’
(CBR) Peter Berg wants to re-team with Dwayne Johnson for a sequel to “The Rundown”. While talking to Collider about his next movie “Lone Survivor”, the director fielded a few questions about his 2003...
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Peter Berg abandoning plans for new ‘Friday Night Lights’ movie
(CBR) “Clear eyes, full hearts, can”t do.” That”s Peter Berg”s new motto when it comes to continuing the beloved TV series “Friday Night Lights” as a feature film. In a recent interview with Collider,...
View ArticleTaylor Kitsch on ‘Lone Survivor’ and the importance of too many beers
Sitting on the list of HitFix’s best battles of 2013 is “Lone Survivor,” which features a 30-40 minute fire fight between SEALs and enemy insurgents. It is a long, intense, sequence and when we asked...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg talks about pressure on set for ‘Lone Survivor’
In the Peter Berg-directed “Lone Survivor,” Mark Wahlberg steps back into the role of a member of the armed services, this time as Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. Possibly making things more complicated...
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Review: Peter Berg’s ‘Lone Survivor’ offers spectacular combat but no substance
Universal Pictures I have no doubt that Peter Berg genuinely idolizes the US military. Every detail in “Lone Survivor” feels carefully considered and deeply felt. Berg’s script is lean and rings...
View ArticleWhat did ‘Black Hawk Down’ teach Eric Bana about ‘Lone Survivor?’
Although he may have been well known elsewhere at the time, Eric Bana’s first Hollywood film was “Black Hawk Down.” In the Ridley Scott movie, Bana played a member of the Delta Force team in...
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Ben Foster Ate Handfuls Of Dirt During ‘Lone Survivor’ Because He Said It...
Peter Berg directs Marky Mark in Lone Survivor, opening this week, which tells the story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, pinned down by the Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan during an operation in...
View ArticlePeter Berg and Marcus Luttrell discuss the ‘brutal violence’ of ‘Lone Survivor’
How do you go about sitting down and talking to someone about one of the hardest experiences in their life, even if the other person is willing to have the discussion? That was the question I faced...
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Lone Survivor Review: I Am Peter Berg’s Jingoist Erection
With Lone Survivor, director Peter Berg reminds me a bit of Cartman in the Faith+1 episode of South Park. Cartman changes the object of all the love songs from “girl” to “Jesus” to form a Christian...
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Weekend Box Office: Lone Survivor Opened A Case Of Butt Whippin
The Peter Berg-directed Lone Survivor took home an estimated $38.5 million in domestic box office this weekend, the second biggest debut for a January release ever, after Cloverfield‘s $40.1 million...
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Wylie Stateman explains the first-person sound experience of Oscar nominee...
Universal Pictures “Lone Survivor” sound editor Wylie Stateman picked up his seventh Oscar nomination to date last month, though despite wonderful work in films like “Cliffhanger,” “Inglourious...
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