Tue Apr 14, 2009

Wahlberg, Franco join 'Date Night'

Variety
Actors added to Steve Carrell, Tina Fey film By MICHAEL FLEMING, TATIANA SIEGEL

Mark Wahlberg and James Franco are set to crash Steve Carell and Tina Fey's "Date Night."
Wahlberg and Franco have signed on for supporting roles in the Shawn Levy-helmed comedy for 20th Century Fox. Leighton Meester, Common, Taraji P. Henson and Kristen Wiig have also boarded the project.

Levy said that after landing a top-end ensemble for his upcoming "Night at the Museum" sequel, he aimed high in casting "Date Night" with the goal of populating all the supporting roles "with formidable actors." More...

Posted on Apr 14, 09 | 8:15 am | Permalink | Other

Mon Apr 06, 2009

Bale takes 'Prisoners' By Borys Kit and Steven Zeitchik

Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog
Hot Endeavor project "Prisoners" just got hotter.

Insiders say that Christian Bale has attached himself to the project, joining Mark Wahlberg on the thriller and making the package for Aaron Guzikowski's spec even more desirable. That follows word from Bryan Singer that he'd like to direct the pic, though there's no official confirmation from his reps yet that he's come on board. More...

Posted on Apr 06, 09 | 12:30 am | Permalink | Other

Thu Apr 02, 2009

Mark Wahlberg picks Pacquiao over Hatton

GMA News
Hollywood celebrity Mark Wahlberg believes Ricky Hatton is in for a tough match when he battles Filipino prized fighter Manny Pacquiao on May 2 (May 3 in Manila).

“You saw what (Pacquiao) did to (Oscar) De La Hoya, he’s going to do the same to (Ricky) Hatton," Wahlberg said in a video interview posted at Los Angeles Times.com.

Wahlberg credits Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer and coach, as the one who helped turn the Filipino boxing icon into the fighter that he is today. More...

Posted on Apr 02, 09 | 12:32 am | Permalink | Other

Fri Mar 27, 2009

Mark Wahlberg owes Penny Marshall By April MacIntyre (monstersandcritics.com)

Video: Extra
Marky Mark was saved by Laverne.

Long before movie stardom, rapper fame and those steamy Calvin Klein underwear ads, Mark Wahlberg was a high school drop out causing trouble on the streets of Boston.

He revealed to Extra the moment that changed his life and opened up about his teenage years, saying, “I made a lot of mistakes when I was younger…I got incarcerated when I was 17, got sent to an adult prison. That was not where I wanted to be.”

While Wahlberg was spending his time behind bars, his brother, Donnie, was climbing the music charts as a member of New Kids on The Block. Wahlberg admits, “I didn’t think [NKOTB] was a cool thing to be involved with. I was a street kid. I was into the hip hop thing. Wasn’t going to be singing love songs…Then I end up sitting in the TV room [in] Plymouth House of Correction trying to convince people that that’s my brother. [That] I could’ve done that. They’d tell me how dumb I was to have not taken that opportunity.” More...

Posted on Mar 27, 09 | 12:35 am | Permalink | Other

Sat Mar 21, 2009

Bryan Singer eyeing hot revenge thriller project starring Mark Wahlberg by Christine Spines

Entertainment Weekly
After the success of Taken and Gran Torino, Hollywood has been on a vigilante kick. And right now, Bryan Singer (along with studio execs all over town) has been seriously considering getting his revenge on with The Prisoners, a much-sought-after thriller script to which Mark Wahlberg is attached to star as a Boston dad who takes the law into his own hands when his young daughter is kidnapped. The screenplay, which has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, has been buzzed about as a calling card for its unknown writer, Aaron Guzikowski, and as a rare project targeted at adult audiences but with real commercial potential. When asked whether The Prisoners will be his next movie, Singer told EW: "I don't know yet. But I'm definitely intrigued. It's a great script. And I'd love to work with Mark."

Posted on Mar 21, 09 | 12:52 am | Permalink | Other

Mon Mar 09, 2009

Sharky's Machine

Variety
Informant makes Diehl deal
Company options 'Hooligans' novel, script by Michael Fleming

Informant Media has optioned "Hooligans," a novel by the late author William Diehl, whose books include "Sharky's Machine" and "Primal Fear."

The sale includes both the novel and a script that Diehl wrote before he died. Novel is the story of a band of rogue cops who reassemble to settle an old score in a Southern coastal town that is changing as it legalizes gambling.

Informant Media's Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce with AEI's Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong. Simpson, Diehl's longtime screenwriting partner, is refining the script. Informant Media most recently completed "Crazy Heart," which stars Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Butcher's Run Films and MTV Films.

Separately, Diehl's "Sharky's Machine" is set up for remake at Warner Bros., with Phil Joanou attached to direct and Mark Wahlberg exec producing.

AEI, which reps the Diehl estate, also recently optioned his 1990 novel "27" to Breaking Ball Films, whose Scott Abramovich is writing the script. AEI is producing a screen version of the Diehl novel "Eureka" with Neil Canton and Danny Davids.

Posted on Mar 09, 09 | 12:50 am | Permalink | Other

Fri Mar 06, 2009

Mark Wahlberg takes 'Prisoners'

Variety
Endeavor seeks director for project By DAVE MCNARY

Mark Wahlberg will star in kidnap thriller "Prisoners," a spec penned by tyro writer Aaron Guzikowski.

Story centers on a Boston man who turns vigilante after his daughter and her best friend are kidnapped. Madhouse Entertainment, which manages Guzikowski, is producing.

Endeavor, which reps Wahlberg and Guzikowski, is seeking to attach a director before taking the package out to studios.

Wahlberg committed recently to another project at an early stage as Sony Pictures acquired "The B Team," a spec pitch package for an Adam McKay-directed action comedy that will team him with Will Ferrell as cops (Daily Variety, Feb. 27). Chris Henchy and McKay will write the script. More...

Posted on Mar 06, 09 | 9:22 am | Permalink | Other

Wed Feb 25, 2009

Mark at the Northern Trust Pro-Am at Riviera Country Club


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J. M. Heller/Wireimage

Posted on Feb 25, 09 | 11:05 pm | Permalink | Other

Golf Channel: Playing Lessons with Mark Wahlberg & Fred Couples

Golf Channel
Monday
3/2/2009
10:00 - 10:30 PM
Fred Couples & Mark Wahlberg

Rerun:
Tuesday
3/3/2009
01:00 - 01:30 AM

Posted on Feb 25, 09 | 10:38 pm | Permalink | Other

Mark for B Team with Will Ferrell?

Variety
Several studios were bidding Tuesday on "B Team," a McKay-directed action comedy that casts Ferrell and Wahlberg as cops, with Chris Henchy writing the script.

Henchy co-wrote the upcoming Ferrell-starrer "Land of the Lost," and he is co-executive producer of "Entourage," the HBO show on which Wahlberg is executive producer.

Even though "B Team" and "The Adjustment Bureau" come with pricey packages -- buyers essentially commit to make the movies -- both pictures are expected to have studio homes before the week is over.

Posted on Feb 25, 09 | 10:33 pm | Permalink | Other

Fri Feb 06, 2009

Mark hit by golf ball

NY Daily News
image Wireimage/JohnShearer

Mark Wahlberg may have played a football hero in the film “Invincible,” but he’s not so successful when it comes to golf.

The “Entourage” producer was injured during the Callaway Golf Foundation charity tournament in Pacific Palisades, Calif., when a golf ball flew into his knee on the ninth hole. Wahlberg manfully shook off the pain and completed the course, but was seen later that afternoon at a winner’s reception ruefully rubbing his sore spot.

Thankfully, other players, including Gabriel Aubrey, Tim Allen and Ray Romano, escaped the course unscathed.

Posted on Feb 06, 09 | 10:44 pm | Permalink | Other

Mon Feb 02, 2009

Mark Wahlberg Plans a Catholic Wedding

People
If Mark Wahlberg and longtime girlfriend Rhea Durham tie the knot in Southern California, don't expect his entourage to be in attendance.

"If we do it here [in L.A.], it'll probably just be us and the kids," Wahlberg, 37, told reporters at Monday's Callaway Golf Foundation Challenge at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., benefiting the Entertainment Industry Foundation's cancer research programs.

"If we do it in Boston, I would say there'd be a lot more family members, so there'll be some fighting," he joked. More...

Posted on Feb 02, 09 | 10:28 pm | Permalink | Other

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