Fri Dec 30, 2005

Four Brothers DVD sales/rental

Coming Soon
Paramount Home Entertainment's Four Brothers stormed to the top of the DVD sales and rental charts for the week ending December 25. The John Singleton-directed thriller narrowly beat last week's sales topper, Universal's The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which slipped to No. 2 on VideoScan's First Alert sales chart.

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In rental stores, first-place finisher Four Brothers generated an estimated $8.8 million in revenue, or nearly 12% of its theatrical gross of $74.5 million.

Posted on Dec 30, 05 | 8:03 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Fri Dec 23, 2005

Four Brothers DVD Region 2 on Jan 30

DVD Times
Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Four Brothers for 30th January 2006 priced at £19.99. From acclaimed director John Singleton comes a gritty, urban tale about four adopted brothers from delinquent backgrounds, bound together by their love of the mom who adopted and raised them. After she is brutally murdered, the brothers reunite to avenge her death.

Features include:
Anamorphic Widescreen
English, Dutch & Turkish DD5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English, English HOH, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Commentary by director John Singleton
The Look of Four Brothers
Crafting Four Brothers
Behind the Brotherhood
Mercer House Shootout
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailer

Posted on Dec 23, 05 | 4:41 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Fri Dec 09, 2005

Reminder Mark at Celeb basketball game Dec 10!

Nov 29th original post
2005 NBA Entertainment League Charity Basketball Game benefiting the STAPLES Center Foundation and the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in conjunction with Paramount Pictures Four Brothers DVD Release Party.

Follows the Clippers v Suns game. Mark is not scheduled to play but is supposed to be there. It is his movie's DVD release party after all.

Preorder the Four Brothers on DVD (Region 1) - released Dec. 20th. If you preorder it from Amazon you get a sneak peak at one of the extras with a bit of Mark talking.

Posted on Dec 09, 05 | 5:41 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Mon Dec 05, 2005

Four Brothers DVD Review By Ed Hulse

Video Business
In this disc's featurettes, director John Singleton and screenwriters Paul Lovett and David Elliott identify themselves as fans of horse operas, stating explicitly that they wanted Four Brothers to be an urban Western. What's puzzling is that they never mention the film's ostensible inspiration, The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), which also features a quartet of siblings avenging a parent's murder. The character played by Mark Wahlberg in Singleton's film is clearly patterned after that played by John Wayne in Katie Elder, but you'd never know that from Brothers' featurettes—which, we will admit, are extremely well done. Produced by Light Source & Imagery's Jon Barbour, Gary Khammar and Selina Lin, Brother's featurettes are relatively brief (mostly around 10 minutes) and edited tightly, with no superfluous material. "The Look of Four Brothers," which sheds light on the creative process that produced the film's visual scheme, is perhaps most interesting. Also fascinating is "Crafting Four Brothers," in which Lovett reveals that the script's first draft was shaped by the melancholy experience of attending his grandmother's funeral and puttering around her house—an experience replicated in the screenplay when the brothers return to their old homestead after burying the woman who adopted them. That house is shot to pieces in a bravura sequence deconstructed in a very interesting four-minute featurette. Rounding out the extras package is a serviceable commentary by Singleton and five deleted scenes.

Four Brothers DVD
Buy the Four Brothers on DVD (Region 1). If you preorder it from Amazon you get a sneak peak at one of the extras with a bit of Mark talking.

Posted on Dec 05, 05 | 9:58 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Sat Nov 05, 2005

Four Brothers Boston premiere pics

Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation
Thanks to Sylvie, the foundation site updated to add some pictures from the Boston Four Brothers premiere back in August.

Posted on Nov 05, 05 | 8:03 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Thu Oct 27, 2005

Kudos for Wahlberg's Irish ‘mom’

Boston Globe
Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan, a.k.a. Mark Wahlberg's mom in ''Four Brothers," is in Boston today to get an award at the Magners Irish Film Festival. ''Mark's a fabulous actor, really wonderful," Flanagan told us yesterday, reached in Providence on the set of the Showtime series ''Brotherhood." ''He's fun and he's witty, and I so admire what he's done for the less fortunate."

Posted on Oct 27, 05 | 8:42 am | Permalink | Four Brothers

Thu Oct 13, 2005

Mark in FilmInk - October 2005 Issue

FilmInk
FilmInk with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst
FilmInk contacted me to let me know that Mark will be in the next issue of FilmInk! The magazine is available in Australia and New Zealand every 15th of the Month. So look for the above cover at your local newstands the 15th!

For those not in Australia or new Zealand, you can order copies online or contact Dina at dina@filmink.com.au

Thanks to FilmInk I can provide some exclusive excerpts of Gill Pringle's interview only seen here at Mark Wahlberg in the News:
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"Jesus Christ," says Mark Wahlberg softly, unblinking brown eyes silently watchful from beneath the shadow of a Boston Red Sox cap. Spoken with such fervour, a newcomer to this particular conversation may easily construe Wahlberg's two simple words as blasphamy, given the preponderance of profanities he's voiced over the course of his colorful career. But they'd be wrong.

"Its all about Jesus," he repeats for effect, slouching behind a coffee table in a New york hotel suite, slyly daring you to challenge him. Mark Wahlberg takes JC and the whole heaven business very seriously, attending Mass most Sundays - with or without a hangover[...]

15 years ago I[Gil] interviewed you in your Marky Mark days - What's the biggest life lesson you've learned since then?

Mark: Wear a condom! Seriously, I learned so much. It's just this never ending journey - all the things I've seen and experienced. I dont even know where to start. To read the whole interview pick up an issue!

Mark Wahlberg in FilmInk

Posted on Oct 13, 05 | 7:01 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Music: Wahlberg on home ground By MOCKINGBIRD

The New Straits Times Press
Rough and tough urban setting reminds ‘Four Brothers’ star of his upbringing. FOUR Brothers is the story of adoptive siblings who have grown up and gone their separate ways but return to their native Detroit for the funeral of their beloved mother.

Once back home, they begin to suspect that there may be more to her death than meets the eye and they embark on a journey of discovery, vengeance and, ultimately, redemption.

Mark Wahlberg, whose hit films include The Italian Job and The Perfect Storm, leads the cast as the oldest brother, Bobby, and is joined by relative newcomers Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund. John Singleton (2 Fast 2 Furious, Shaft) directs.

Mark Wahlberg talked to us about why Four Brothers is so meaningful to him and why it was fun to play the oldest brother.

It looks like this character and this setting in ‘Four Brothers’ is closer to you and your real life than any other film you have done. Is that true?

Definitely. It seems much closer to who I am and to a lot of kids that I knew. I grew up in a very poor neighbourhood, the youngest of nine kids, so I was constantly surrounded by family, mostly brothers. I’m the youngest but there were six boys. So this movie feels very much like home for me. I mean, there’s a bathroom scene in the movie and I realised it was just like my house. We had one bathroom with nine kids, two parents, and a grandmother, so it was always a little crowded. More...

Posted on Oct 13, 05 | 8:49 am | Permalink | Four Brothers

Mon Oct 10, 2005

Four Brothers Foreign Box Office, #6 in UK

Hollywood Reporter
UIP's "Four Brothers" took in an estimated $2.6 million this weekend, upping the cume to about $7.2 million. "Brothers" opened in France with an estimated $820,000 from 198 locations and held up well in the U.K. with a second-weekend drop of 40%.

Posted on Oct 10, 05 | 8:40 am | Permalink | Four Brothers

Fri Oct 07, 2005

More details on Four Brothers DVD

DVD Times
Available in separate Widescreen and Full Screen editions features include:

Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, English 2.0 Surround and French 5.1 Surround sound
English and Spanish subtitles
Commentary by Director John Singleton
The Look of Four Brothers
Crafting Four Brothers
Behind the Brotherhood
Mercer House Shootout
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailer

Pre-Order Four Brothers - released December 20th!

Posted on Oct 07, 05 | 8:42 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

Tue Oct 04, 2005

4 Brother #4 in the UK

BBC
There were only two other new films in the top 10 - crime drama Four Brothers, starring Mark Wahlberg, entered the chart in fourth spot while comedy Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo took ninth position.

Four Brothers - £789,718

Posted on Oct 04, 05 | 10:45 am | Permalink | Four Brothers

Mon Sep 26, 2005

The Four Brothers DVD cover

DVDAnswers
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The disc will be available to own from the 20th December, priced at around $19.99. As well as an anamorphic widescreen transfer, and English Dolby Digital 5.1 track, the disc will include a commentary by director John Singleton, nine deleted scenes, five behind the scenes featurettes, and the theatrical trailer.

Posted on Sep 26, 05 | 8:18 pm | Permalink | Four Brothers

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