Tag: Mile 22
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‘Robin Hood’ Review: Revisionist History Has Never Been Dumber or More Boring
This year has seen a (small) handful of movies as bad as Otto Bathurst’s revisionist new “Robin Hood,” but none of them — not “Mile 22” nor “The Happytime Murders” nor even Dinesh D’Souza’s “Death of a Nation” — have been more in denial of their own badness. If nothing else, this accidentally hilarious, goofy…
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Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Wonderland’ Adds Post Malone, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger to Cast (Exclusive)
Netflix has rounded out the cast of the Mark Wahlberg pic “Wonderland” with rapper Post Malone, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger, Bookem Woodbine and James DuMont all joining the ensemble.Wahlberg is set to star with “Black Panther” breakout Winston Duke also on board. Peter Berg is on board to direct the pic. This will mark the…
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Delivers $34M Five-Day Opening; ‘Mile 22’ & ‘Alpha’ Fall Short
August may be a notoriously slow month at the box office, but Warner Bros. has now delivered back-to-back strong performers. Last weekend The Meg topped all expectations and continued its strong global performance this weekend, while the new release of Crazy Rich Asians delivered an estimated $34 million in its first five days of release.…
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Rihanna Documentary Out Within Months, Director Says
Over two years after a Rihanna-approved documentary was first announced, director Peter Berg revealed that the film could arrive within months.In April 2016, Berg – whose action film Mile 22 arrived Friday – said he was at work on a Rihanna film modeled after D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back.While the documentary,…
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Box Office: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to Pocket $5.3 Million on Wednesday
“Crazy Rich Asians” is on track for a dazzling debut.Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated romantic comedy is expected to generate $5.3 million on Wednesday, according to early estimates. If projections hold, “Crazy Rich Asians” is heading for a weekend total of $19 million and a five-day tally of $27.5 million-plus. Some tracking predicts the movie, which…
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Is ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Looking at a Crazy Rich Opening Weekend?
This weekend gets off to an early start with the Wednesday release of the much-anticipated romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, the first Asian-led studio film to hit theaters since The Joy Luck Club. While Joy Luck Club didn’t play in any more than 600 theaters during its run 25 years ago, Crazy Rich Asians will…
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Mark Wahlberg Is Into the Oscars’ Best Popular Film Award: ‘We’d Have Won a Couple’
Reactions to the Academy’s decision to create a Best Popular Film award have been almost universally negative, with many writing it off as a cynical attempt to increase ratings. At least one person is into the idea, however: Mark Wahlberg. “Maybe if they’d had the category before, we’d have won a couple of them,” the…
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Film News Roundup: Freestyle Digital Buys Horror Movie ‘Killer Kate!’ for Halloween (Exclusive)
In today’s film news roundup, “Killer Kate!” gets a Halloween season opening, “Mile 22” will be shown to U.S. troops in the Middle East and the documentary “Inventing Tomorrow” is set for release.AcquisitionFreestyle Digital Media has acquired the North American rights to the horror film “Killer Kate!” for a pre-Halloween release.The movie will open in…
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‘Mile 22’ Sequel in the Works With Black List Writer (Exclusive)
Black List writer Umair Aleem has been tapped to pen the sequel of Mile 22, the upcoming feature that is the latest team-up for Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg.Mile 22, which hits theaters on Aug. 17, follows an elite American intelligence officer who, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a…
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Lauren Cohan on Surviving a CIA Boot Camp for ‘Mile 22’
Lauren Cohan’s no stranger to the action-adventure genre. As Maggie Green on The Walking Dead, the actress has shot/diced/impaled/stomped her way through the zombie herds. So jumping into a Peter Berg action film should be a cakewalk; yet for Cohan, Mile 22 wasn’t as easy a transition as it would seem on paper. On The…