Monday, October 20

• Payne Shoots Down Bad Reviews

  The video game-based Max Payne took firm command of the U.S. Box office this weekend to the tune of a cool $18 million, despite overwhelmingly negative reviews. As of this morning, Rotten Tomatoes listed Payne at 17 percent from 76 critics.

  The success begs the question of whether Payne's conquest is attributable to the popularity of the video game, the drawing power of star Mark Wahlberg or a combination of the two?

  Surprisingly, the top seven movies and nine of the top ten at the box office currently score "Rotten" ratings from the aforementioned critical aggregate site.

  As we head towards the 2008 Oscar season, a time in which releases are traditionally driven by critical praise, has America collectively decided to ignore the critical masses?
  

  
  

  Posted 10/20/2008 by Jeff

  Related: Mark Wahlberg | Max Payne

Saturday, July 26

• Mark Wahlberg Talks Max Payne at Comic-Con

  

  Max Payne star Mark Wahlberg took a moment out of his Comic-Con schedule to talk about the upcoming movie and how it will vindicate his reputation, having been tarnished by the poorly received The Happening.
  

   

  
  

  Posted 07/26/2008 by reelz

  Related: Mark Wahlberg | Max Payne

Thursday, April 3

• Exclusive Max Payne Talk with Mila Kunis
  

  The hottie star of That '70s Show and the voice of The Family Guy's Meg Griffin is about to make the transition from the small to big screen in a big way.
  
  The actress stars in this month's very buzzed Forgetting Sarah Marshall as the object of Peter Bretter's (Jason Segel) post-breakup affection. She is also currently shooting an adaptation of the popular video game Max Payne in which she will play Mona Sax opposite Mark Wahlberg as Payne.
  
  ReelzChannel.com spoke exclusively with Kunis recently and we got her to dish a bit on the highly-anticipated video game movie. Check out our full Mila Kunis Max Payne interview and then be sure to check out the rest of our exclusive interview with Kunis next week.
  
  
  
  

  Posted 04/03/2008 by Jeff

  Related: Mark Wahlberg | Mila Kunis | Max Payne | Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Saturday, November 10

• Movie newz: Max Payne and End Zone

  Mark Wahlberg is negotiating to star in a live-action adaptation of the videogame Max Payne, about a cop haunted by the loss of his family (is there any other kind?) investigating strange murders and fighting fierce foes. John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) will direct.

  Josh Hartnett and Sam Rockwell will be starring in the adapation of the Don DeLillo novel End Zone about a Texas college football. Hartnett plays the star runningback and Rockwell the school publicist. George Ratliff (Joshua) will direct.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 11/10/2007 by Heather

  Related: Josh Hartnett | Mark Wahlberg | End Zone

Monday, October 22

• Ryan Gosling drops out of The Lovely Bones

  According to Variety, all is not well in the land of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones.

  Actor Ryan Gosling, who was to play the role of grieving father Jack Salmon, dropped out on Friday--after gaining 20 lbs and growing a beard for the movie, which begins shooting today in Pennsylvania. Mark Wahlberg stepped over the weekend to take his place.

  Gosling's 11th hour decision is being attributed to 'creative differences.' That does not sound good.

  
  
  Next Showing: The Lovely Bones begins shooting today.
  

  Gosling at the Toronto Film Festival

  Talking about his current movie Lars and the Real Girl

  Posted 10/22/2007 by Heather

  Related: Mark Wahlberg | Ryan Gosling | The Lovely Bones

Friday, September 21

• Pitt, Wahlberg step into boxing ring together

  We always knew that Brad Pitt secretly wanted to be a Bostonian. And now he will get his chance at the accent that proves to be most actors' Waterloo.

  Pitt has just signed to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter, a drama about Boston boxer/world lightweight champion "Irish" Mickey Ward. Wahlberg will play Ward, and Pitt will play his half-brother/boxer Dicky Eglund.

  Matt Damon was supposed to play Eglund, but ceded the role to Pitt when his schedule became too crowded with other projects. Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain, Pi) will direct.

  Just remember this, Mr. Pitt: Not everyone from Boston sounds like a Kennedy. In fact, only Kennedys do. Now good luck, and may the road rise to meet you.

  Source: Variety.

  
  
  

  Brad Pitt can currently be seen in...

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Posted 09/21/2007 by Heather

  Related: Brad Pitt | Mark Wahlberg | Darren Aronofsky | The Fighter

Wednesday, July 18

• M. Night is Happening

  Super-secretive thrill-monger M. Night Shyamalan is at it again. The writer-director is putting together his next movie, The Happening, a thriller about a man (Mark Wahlberg) who tries to save his family when a natural disaster threatens to end the world.

  John Leguizamo and Spencer Breslin (brother of Little Miss Sunshine cutie Abigail) have recently joined the cast.

  As anyone who watches Entourage knows, Shyamalan is notoriously hush-hush about his projects (neurotic paranoia might be a better description). Thus, not much else is known about the movie--other than it begins filming next month in Philadelphia (of course).

  
  

  Posted 07/18/2007 by Heather

  Related: John Leguizamo | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | Spencer Breslin | Zooey Deschanel

Thursday, March 29

• Shyamalan has a Sixth Sense about Marky Mark

  Egomaniac and king of the thrillers M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) has just announced plans to have Oscar-nominee Mark Wahlberg star in his upcoming "paranoia thriller" The Happening.

  In it, Wahlberg will play a man who takes his "family on the run after an apocalyptic threat to humanity." It is set to start filming in Philadelphia in August.

  Twentieth Century Fox is planning a global opening of The Happening on "the scariest day of the summer" - Friday the 13th of June, 2008.

  Scary stuff, indeed. Although it can't be scarier than this.

   

  
  
  Next Showing: The Happening, which hasn't filmed yet, opens on 6/13/08.
  

  Reelz Clip

  Wahlberg can currently be seen in Shooter.

  Posted 03/29/2007 by Heather

  Related: M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg

Monday, March 19

• Wahlberg takes on the Spartans

  Ok, the phrase "Academy Award Nominee Mark Wahlberg" is gonna take a little getting used to. While not as strange-sounding as "Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter Ben Affleck," it's still something most of us never thought we'd hear. Indeed, Wahlberg's come a long way since we first saw him dancing around in his underpants 15 years ago. Check out our interview with the star of Shooter here.
  
  
  

  Reelz Clip

  Mike Richards talks to the stars of Shooter.

  Posted 03/19/2007 by Thomas

  Related: Mark Wahlberg | Shooter