Mark Wahlberg Faces A Lifetime Of Debt In Great New Clip From Contraband

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Contraband is shaping up to be one of the best action crime dramas of next year, and we’ve already been seeing some great things from it, in the form of the first official trailer back in September, followed up by the first and second posters for the film, and most recently the second trailer just [...]

Michael Bay In Final Negotiations To Direct Transformers 4!

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It seems like news about Michael Bay has been coming in fast and strong in the past few days. Earlier this week, we heard that Bay was reconsidering his position on declining to return to the Transformers franchise for a fourth film, with none other than Steven Spielberg fully backing his possible return. Then yesterday, [...]

Dwayne Johnson And Mark Wahlberg Eyed For Michael Bay’s Next Film Pain And Gain

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After reporting just yesterday that Michael Bay is reconsidering his position on not returning to direct a fourth Transformers film, we’ve now got some great casting news to bring you concerning the smaller film that he wants to do before potentially returning to the franchise he’s spent the past few years working on. Variety are now [...]

New Trailer for Contraband Hits

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A second trailer for the new Mark Wahlberg film, Contraband, has been unveiled and it’s not a subtle affair. This trailer eschews the talking and plot which was preferred for the initial trailer we saw in favour of all out action, shouting, guns pointed and a nice looking explosion in super slow motion. Watch them [...]

Another Great Poster For Contraband With Mark Wahlberg

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We got the first poster part-way through last month for Mark Wahlberg’s follow-up to his brilliant last film, The Fighter, and it was pretty awesome, coming a couple of weeks after the official trailer (which I’m personally avoiding, to stay spoiler-free, but you’re more than welcome to feast your eyes on it here). The film’s second [...]

Awesome First Poster Arrives For Mark Wahlberg In Contraband Asking Your Limits

Contraband poster

Mark Wahlberg’s next film, Contraband, is definitely one to look forward to next year. I’m a big Wahlberg fan, so anything he’s in I know I’m going to love, and this project sounds like more brilliance from him. The first trailer landed at the end of last month, and I’ve heard that it’s looking pretty [...]

Official Trailer for Contraband

Contraband

Universal Pictures has released the first official trailer for Contraband, a remake of the Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (The Sea), Contraband stars Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Caleb Landry Jones, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons and Diego Luna. Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Jones), botches a drug [...]

A Sequel to Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Departed’ on the Way?

The Departed

In an interview with Leicester Square TV at the London Hong Kong Film Week, Infernal Affairs writer and director Alan Mak thinks that a second ‘The Departed’ movie could be on the way but no news yet as to whether Martin Scorsese would return to direct. Mak wrote the screenplay for the original movie, Infernal [...]

The Crow Loses Bradley Cooper

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It appears that Relativity’s remake of the 1989 comic The Crow is has come to a standstill. Up until now, Limitless’ Bradley Cooper was slated to play Eric Draven, a rock and roll guitarist who is brought back to life by a mysterious crow in order to avenge the brutal deaths of himself and his [...]

Mark Wahlberg Wants To Heft 2 Guns

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Mark Wahlberg, whose last outing The Fighter earned him his second Academy Award nomination, is currently in talks to star in an adaptation of Steven Grant’s graphic novel, 2 Guns, Variety report. The Fighter’s director, David O. Russell, was originally to helm the project, but has recently exited to focus on his next film, The [...]

Boardwalk Empire Season 2 Trailer

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The first season of Boardwalk Empire was released in America to rave reviews towards the end of last year, and I’d say there’s a good chance that it will do the same with its second season, which HBO have just released a new trailer for. Whilst America got it in September, Sky’s new channel, Sky [...]

Bradley Cooper To Replace Mark Wahlberg In The Silver Linings Playbook

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Bradley Cooper really seems to be absolutely on top of his game in recent years, going from movie to movie with great success and no sign of slowing down. Now, Deadline report he’ll be replacing Mark Wahlberg in the upcoming adaptation of Matthew Quick’s first novel, The Silver Linings Playbook. Wahlberg was to re-team with [...]

Jennifer Lawrence in Talks for David O. Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook

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Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) is in negotiations to take the lead female role in The Silver Linings Playbook, an able-bodied role that has attracted interest from such names as Anne Hathaway (Love and Other Drugs), Andrea Riseborough (Made in Dagenham), Blake Lively (The Town) and Rachel McAdams (Morning Glory). If the deal closes, Lawrence will star [...]

Win THE FIGHTER on DVD

The Fighter DVD 3D Packshot

To celebrate The Fighter’s triumphant arrival on DVD and Blu-ray June 20, we’ve got three DVD copies to give away! A powerful and uplifting drama, The Fighter tells the real life story of boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg, The Departed) and his trainer brother Dick Eklund (Christian Bale, The Dark Knight), chronicling the brothers’ [...]

Mark Wahlberg To Take Justin Bieber Under His Wing

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In what has to be one of the most unexpected pieces of movie news I’ve read in a while, Vulture are reporting that Mark Wahlberg is going to be starring alongside Justin Bieber in a film that they’ve pitched to Paramount. He didn’t give away too much in terms of details, but did say that [...]

J.K. Simmons Joins Contraband

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J.K. Simmons (Up in the Air) has signed on to star in Contraband, the currently-in-production remake of Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam. Simmons will star opposite Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Lukas Haas, Giovanni Ribisi, Diego Luna, Caleb Landry Jones, Robert Wahlberg and Jaqueline Fleming. A security guard (Wahlberg) with financial troubles considers a return to his smuggling ways when an associate offers a potentially lucrative opportunity. Baltasar [...]

Could Mark Wahlberg be Back in the Ring Soon?

Good news for those of you who enjoyed The Fighter. The further adventures of Mickey and his wayward brother Dickey could be on the way in the near future. Chatting to Mario Lopez (yes, that’s right – Saved by the Bell’s A.C Slater) during the red carpet ceremony at Sunday’s Oscar, Mark Wahlberg reveals  that [...]

Giovanni Ribisi Joins the Cast of Seth MacFarlane’s Ted

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Seth MacFarlane (the man who unleashed Peter Griffin on audiences around the world), is currently in pre-production with live-action feature, Ted. Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis are reported to be in final negotiations to appear, and now another name is in the mix. Coming Soon has revealed that Giovanni Ribisi (last seen trying to drive [...]

Exclusive New TV Spot for The Fighter

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Christian Bale has been rightly praised for his work in the David O. Russell Oscar contender The Fighter, and with the BAFTAs and Oscars just around the corner a new TV spot has been released focusing on the work of the man Bale. The actor is in good company for Russell’s film with Amy Adams, [...]

152 Oscar Nominees Have Lunch Together!

Oscars 2011 Luncheon

I would want to be nominated for an Oscar just sop that I could go along to this invite only do. All I have to do is create a masterpiece and then maybe I’ll get to get! Yesterday, 152 of the men and women who have been nominated for an Academy Award at the 2011 [...]