Ronda Rousey Will Team Up With ‘The Raid’ Star Iko Uwais For A Peter Berg Film
Getty Image Fresh off her incredible 14-second victory at UFC 184, Ronda Rousey said she would be taking some time off to film a movie before getting back into the fight game. Now, we have news...
View ArticlePeter Berg Is Producing A Feature-Length Documentary About Rihanna
Getty Image After saddling her with some sweet dialogue about fried chicken and how her daddy always tole her the aliens was gon’ come in Battleship, Peter “Join The Army, Motherf*cker” Berg is trying...
View ArticleThe Olympic Channel’s Five Rings Films Series Continues With Peter Berg’s...
The Olympic Channel just premiered the second installment of their Five Rings Films series, The People’s Fighters, which is helmed by acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and produced...
View ArticleInside The Rise Of Cuba’s Rich Olympic Boxing Tradition
Olympic Channel Director Peter Berg’s latest documentary, The People’s Fighters (which is available to stream on the Olympic Channel), opens with five Cuban boxing legends — including four Olympic gold...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg Is A Bipolar Superspy In ‘Mile 22,’ An Intriguingly Convoluted...
STX Films Mile 22 feels a lot like director Peter Berg saw the Raid movies and thought, “Hey cool, I could do something like that.” And, on his first break from depicting real people in three movies...
View ArticleA Delightful Chat With ‘Mile 22’ Director Peter Berg About On-Screen...
STX Films Throughout his career, I’ve gone back and forth about Peter Berg, from loving his work (The Kingdom) to being slightly put off by what feels like a tacit endorsement of authoritarianism...
View ArticleThe Olympic Channel’s Five Rings Films Series Continues With Peter Berg’s...
The Olympic Channel just premiered the second installment of their Five Rings Films series, The People’s Fighters, which is helmed by acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and produced...
View ArticleInside The Rise Of Cuba’s Rich Olympic Boxing Tradition
Olympic Channel Director Peter Berg’s latest documentary, The People’s Fighters (which is available to stream on the Olympic Channel), opens with five Cuban boxing legends — including four Olympic gold...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg Is A Bipolar Superspy In ‘Mile 22,’ An Intriguingly Convoluted...
STX Films Mile 22 feels a lot like director Peter Berg saw the Raid movies and thought, “Hey cool, I could do something like that.” And, on his first break from depicting real people in three movies...
View ArticleA Delightful Chat With ‘Mile 22’ Director Peter Berg About On-Screen...
STX Films Throughout his career, I’ve gone back and forth about Peter Berg, from loving his work (The Kingdom) to being slightly put off by what feels like a tacit endorsement of authoritarianism...
View ArticleThe ‘Spenser Confidential’ Trailer Shows Mark Wahlberg Taking Over A Classic...
It’s been almost two decades since TV and movies did anything with Spenser, the private eye created by mystery novelist Robert B. Parker and most famously played onscreen by Robert Urich in the classic...
View ArticleJohn Hodgman Says There Was Almost A ‘Dune’ Film Adaptation Written By Him...
Universal While all things considered Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece Dune hasn’t gotten too many big screen adaptations as of yet, the lengthy tale of spice, war, and worms has come pretty close....
View ArticleNow There’s Going To Be A Pickleball Documentary, You Monsters
Getty Image Fresh off the news that Stephen Colbert will be hosting a celebrity pickleball tournament, The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on a documentary film about the new … fast-growing sport? In...
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...
View ArticleBen 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...
View ArticleLone 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...
View ArticleWeekend 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...
View ArticleWylie Stateman explains the first-person sound experience of Oscar nominee...
“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 Basterds” and “Django...
View ArticleHBO Greenlights Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Ballers’ Series Starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’...
Mark Wahlberg has produced Entourage and Boardwalk Empire for HBO. One is an amazing show, and the other is Entourage. So, presumably figuring they’ve got a 50/50 shot at success, HBO has given the go...
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