Matt Damon was initially offered the role of Dicky Eklund in the 2010 film The Fighter. Damon revealed that while he found the subject interesting, the script was not great at the time. After David O. Russell joined the biographical sports drama, he rewrote the script. Christian Bale was cast in the role of Mark Wahlberg’s character’s brother, replacing Damon.
Matt Damon and Christian Bale in Ford v Ferrari | Chernin Entertainment
The Martian actor has no regrets about losing the role since Bale was phenomenal in the film. He even went on to win the Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Academy Awards next year. Damon joked that Bale owed his career post-2009 to him.
Matt Damon Passed On The Fighter Role, Which Won Christian Bale His Oscar Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a still from The Fighter | Paramount Pictures
Matt Damon and Christian Bale were...
Matt Damon and Christian Bale in Ford v Ferrari | Chernin Entertainment
The Martian actor has no regrets about losing the role since Bale was phenomenal in the film. He even went on to win the Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Academy Awards next year. Damon joked that Bale owed his career post-2009 to him.
Matt Damon Passed On The Fighter Role, Which Won Christian Bale His Oscar Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in a still from The Fighter | Paramount Pictures
Matt Damon and Christian Bale were...
- 5/23/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
Get ready to be captivated by the one and only Amy Adams! This Hollywood powerhouse has stolen the show in countless movies, earning her a reputation as one of the most talented actresses of our time. With five Academy Award nominations and a string of blockbuster hits under her belt, she’s become a household name.
In this article, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the most incredible movies on the Amy Adams movies list, and exploring the iconic roles that have made her a star. From enchanting fairy tales to gripping dramas and thrilling sci-fi adventures, we’ll showcase her versatility as an actress and her undeniable talent. So, sit tight, grab some snacks, and get ready for an unforgettable ride through the world of Amy Adams‘ movies!
Top 10 Grossing Amy Adams Movies
Amy Adams has starred in a number of successful films over the years, and...
In this article, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the most incredible movies on the Amy Adams movies list, and exploring the iconic roles that have made her a star. From enchanting fairy tales to gripping dramas and thrilling sci-fi adventures, we’ll showcase her versatility as an actress and her undeniable talent. So, sit tight, grab some snacks, and get ready for an unforgettable ride through the world of Amy Adams‘ movies!
Top 10 Grossing Amy Adams Movies
Amy Adams has starred in a number of successful films over the years, and...
- 3/10/2023
- by Dee Gambit
- buddytv.com
Eminem hasn’t focused much on a career path as an actor, but he apparently was in the running for a film that could have potentially changed his trajectory and had nothing to do with Mom’s spaghetti.
Film producer Todd Lieberman was a guest on the latest episode of the Hollywood Gold podcast, where he revealed that Eminem was initially producers’ top choice to star as boxer Micky Ward in The Fighter. The role in the 2010 David O. Russell-directed movie ultimately went to Mark Wahlberg, with Christian Bale playing his brother Dicky Eklund.
“The first person that we thought would star in this film was Eminem,” Lieberman said. “Eminem was going to be Micky Ward.”
The producer explained that discussions surrounding Eminem followed the success of director Curtis Hanson’s 2002 film 8 Mile, which featured the music superstar playing aspiring rapper B-Rabbit in a story that incorporated autobiographical...
Film producer Todd Lieberman was a guest on the latest episode of the Hollywood Gold podcast, where he revealed that Eminem was initially producers’ top choice to star as boxer Micky Ward in The Fighter. The role in the 2010 David O. Russell-directed movie ultimately went to Mark Wahlberg, with Christian Bale playing his brother Dicky Eklund.
“The first person that we thought would star in this film was Eminem,” Lieberman said. “Eminem was going to be Micky Ward.”
The producer explained that discussions surrounding Eminem followed the success of director Curtis Hanson’s 2002 film 8 Mile, which featured the music superstar playing aspiring rapper B-Rabbit in a story that incorporated autobiographical...
- 2/17/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christian Bale is no stranger to getting into the skin of his characters. While he's stated he is not a method actor per se, he has gone the distance for numerous roles to make the process of slipping in and out of character seamless. He embraces immersion to the fullest, whether it's hanging out with the person he's going to embody or going to the extreme to physically transform himself via starvation diets or excessive binging.
His award-winning role in "The Fighter" is a prime example of how his sometimes extreme methods come together to pay off. Based on the HBO documentary "High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell," which focuses on boxer Dick "Dicky" Eklund's spiral into cocaine addiction, and the direct and indirect impacts that addiction had on his career as a boxer. Something of a biopic, "The Fighter" highlights Dicky's struggle, but also ends up highlighting...
His award-winning role in "The Fighter" is a prime example of how his sometimes extreme methods come together to pay off. Based on the HBO documentary "High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell," which focuses on boxer Dick "Dicky" Eklund's spiral into cocaine addiction, and the direct and indirect impacts that addiction had on his career as a boxer. Something of a biopic, "The Fighter" highlights Dicky's struggle, but also ends up highlighting...
- 10/23/2022
- by Sarah Musnicky
- Slash Film
David O. Russell’s The Fighter is arguably the director’s most acclaimed movie (certain more so than the recent Amsterdam). It tells the true story of boxer Mickey Ward and his older brother, Dicky Eklund, played by Mark Wahlberg and (in an Oscar-winning performance) Christian Bale. While based on a true story, you might very well be surprised by how many liberties were taken with some of the micro-and-macro details in the film while still honoring the overall legacy of the scrappy Lowell underdog and his embattled, drug-addled half-brother Dickie Eklund. To be clear up-front, most of what transpires in The Fighter genuinely occurred in how it’s depicted onscreen, with incredible efforts made to recreate the precise in-ring action as it truly happened.
However, in the interest of time and to increase the riveting dramatic stakes of Ward as a true underdog, O. Russell altered several details regarding fighters,...
However, in the interest of time and to increase the riveting dramatic stakes of Ward as a true underdog, O. Russell altered several details regarding fighters,...
- 10/10/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
In 2010, Christian Bale co-starred in “The Fighter” as Dicky Eklund , a former boxer and recovering drug addict who helps train his brother to be a prizefighter. He would be feted with at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and numerous critics groups on his way to collecting an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. His one hiccup came at the BAFTAs where Geoffrey Rush proved victorious for “The King’s Speech”. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions He was nominated by the BAFTAs again in 2013 for “American Hustle,” this time for Best Actor. Fate did not prove to be kind to Bale, when once again he would walk away empty-handed. He would lose to another Brit, Chiwetel Ejiofor for “12 Years a Slave”. Both lost that Oscar race to Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club"). But third time could prove the charm for Bale....
- 2/10/2016
- Gold Derby
'The Fighter' movie: Mark Wahlberg as boxer Micky Ward. 'The Fighter' movie review: 'Smart' filmmaking from a business standpoint David O. Russell's The Fighter is a smart film; smart in the way it's constructed and executed as a means to appeal to a wide audience. People tend to like sports movies. They also tend to like movies where the good guys win and where the hardships the characters go through can all get tidily worked out by the time the credits start rolling. The Fighter is smart from a business standpoint. That also means Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson's screenplay is predictable and much too “safe” as well. Russell and the screenwriters don't tread any new territory; in fact, they don't even try. On the positive side, The Fighter offers several solid performances that make up for some of what's lacking elsewhere. 'The Fighter'...
- 1/4/2016
- by Nathan Donarum
- Alt Film Guide
A quarter-century ago, Kevin Costner hit a double-play, following up "Bull Durham" with "Field of Dreams" and becoming king of the sports movie. Twenty-five years later, as "Field of Dreams" marks its 25th anniversary (it was released on April 21, 1989), Costner is back with "Draft Day." The movie's about football, not baseball, and Costner's character plays in the executive suite, not on the field, but his mere presence still offers a reminder of great sports movies past.
And after all, isn't nostalgia a key element of sports movies? "Field of Dreams" makes this explicit -- we long for the sports heroes of our childhood, for a supposed long-gone golden age of our preferred sport, as a way of connecting with our past and bridging the generational divide that separates us as adults from our parents. Sports movies offer more than just the drama of winners and losers, or the journey from dream to achievement,...
And after all, isn't nostalgia a key element of sports movies? "Field of Dreams" makes this explicit -- we long for the sports heroes of our childhood, for a supposed long-gone golden age of our preferred sport, as a way of connecting with our past and bridging the generational divide that separates us as adults from our parents. Sports movies offer more than just the drama of winners and losers, or the journey from dream to achievement,...
- 4/20/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Our Oscar coverage continues. Here we overview the best acting and best directing award nominees.
Best Actor Nominees
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Age: 40
Previously Best Known For:
Bruce Wayne/Batman – Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy
Patrick Bateman – American Psycho
Previous Oscar Nominations/Wins:
Win - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 2011 – as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter
Interesting Fact: If he plays an American character, he will use an American accent in all the interviews related to the film. He says he does this so the audience isn't confused
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Age: 77
Previously Best Known For:
Freeman Lowell – Silent Running
Asa Watts – The Cowboys
Previous Oscar Nominations/Wins:
Nomination - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 1979 – as Captain Bob Hyde in Coming Home
Interesting Fact: One of the few actors to play a character to have killed John Wayne on screen (The Cowboys...
Best Actor Nominees
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Age: 40
Previously Best Known For:
Bruce Wayne/Batman – Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy
Patrick Bateman – American Psycho
Previous Oscar Nominations/Wins:
Win - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 2011 – as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter
Interesting Fact: If he plays an American character, he will use an American accent in all the interviews related to the film. He says he does this so the audience isn't confused
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Age: 77
Previously Best Known For:
Freeman Lowell – Silent Running
Asa Watts – The Cowboys
Previous Oscar Nominations/Wins:
Nomination - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 1979 – as Captain Bob Hyde in Coming Home
Interesting Fact: One of the few actors to play a character to have killed John Wayne on screen (The Cowboys...
- 2/22/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Rush this week, we’ve taken a look back at sports in the movies to bring you the Ten Best Sports Biopics…
Brian’s Song (1971)
A weepie isn’t something you always associate with a sports biopic, but Brian’s Song does such an extraordinary job in portraying two teammates and friends. American football players Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers butt heads when they both compete for a starting spot on the Chicago Bears. They ultimately become buddies, yet their friendship is cut short when Brian is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Try to hold back the tears at the end of the film … just try.
Raging Bull (1980)
The argument continues to rage amongst scholars and everyday moviegoers as to what director Martin Scorsese’s best film actually is, but any conversation about it has to include his knockout boxing biopic Raging Bull.
Brian’s Song (1971)
A weepie isn’t something you always associate with a sports biopic, but Brian’s Song does such an extraordinary job in portraying two teammates and friends. American football players Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers butt heads when they both compete for a starting spot on the Chicago Bears. They ultimately become buddies, yet their friendship is cut short when Brian is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Try to hold back the tears at the end of the film … just try.
Raging Bull (1980)
The argument continues to rage amongst scholars and everyday moviegoers as to what director Martin Scorsese’s best film actually is, but any conversation about it has to include his knockout boxing biopic Raging Bull.
- 1/29/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Mark Wahlberg is back on the big screen this week with Lone Survivor, the gruelling true-life drama about four Us Navy SEALs who find themselves behind enemy lines during the war in Afghanistan.
Wahlberg has experienced a career resurgence of late, complementing high-profile acting roles with producing duties on Prisoners, Boardwalk Empire and Entourage. Dive into his back catalogue, however, and you'll find some great acting work from the man who started his career with the Funky Bunch.
Digital Spy picks Wahlberg's five best movie roles below:
Boogie Nights (1997)
Roles in The Basketball Diaries and Fear got Wahlberg up-and-running as a screen star, but it was Paul Thomas Anderson's porn opus Boogie Nights that cemented him as a leading man of note. As adult industry star Dirk Diggler - a role allegedly turned down by Leonardo DiCaprio - he swung from wide-eyed idealism to drug-addled desperation throughout the course of the film.
Wahlberg has experienced a career resurgence of late, complementing high-profile acting roles with producing duties on Prisoners, Boardwalk Empire and Entourage. Dive into his back catalogue, however, and you'll find some great acting work from the man who started his career with the Funky Bunch.
Digital Spy picks Wahlberg's five best movie roles below:
Boogie Nights (1997)
Roles in The Basketball Diaries and Fear got Wahlberg up-and-running as a screen star, but it was Paul Thomas Anderson's porn opus Boogie Nights that cemented him as a leading man of note. As adult industry star Dirk Diggler - a role allegedly turned down by Leonardo DiCaprio - he swung from wide-eyed idealism to drug-addled desperation throughout the course of the film.
- 1/24/2014
- Digital Spy
Feature Robert Zak 24 Jan 2014 - 06:16
As Christian Bale puts in a startling performance in American Hustle, Robert looks at how the actor's grown into a great character actor...
Christian Bale's performance in American Hustle sets him up for a future in which he can become screen legend, but for a while it seemed like we may never see the scope of his unique gifts as a character actor.
From the moment he fire-axed his way onto the Hollywood A-list with American Psycho in 2000, Christian Bale became a cult film icon. His character, murderous banking executive Patrick Bateman went on to become one of the most quotable film characters ever, as evidenced by the sheer amount of internet memes and YouTube clips dedicated to him. Bale set the bar high for himself with a performance that hit the extremes of darkness and hilarity, if not exactly emotional complexity. We...
As Christian Bale puts in a startling performance in American Hustle, Robert looks at how the actor's grown into a great character actor...
Christian Bale's performance in American Hustle sets him up for a future in which he can become screen legend, but for a while it seemed like we may never see the scope of his unique gifts as a character actor.
From the moment he fire-axed his way onto the Hollywood A-list with American Psycho in 2000, Christian Bale became a cult film icon. His character, murderous banking executive Patrick Bateman went on to become one of the most quotable film characters ever, as evidenced by the sheer amount of internet memes and YouTube clips dedicated to him. Bale set the bar high for himself with a performance that hit the extremes of darkness and hilarity, if not exactly emotional complexity. We...
- 1/23/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Christian Bale could be back in the Winners' Circle at this year's Golden Globes, and if so, it will be with a whole new look. The actor took the Globe in 2011 for his role as a frail former boxer in The Fighter. But for his 2014 nomination Bale super-sized it, gaining 40 lbs. of flab to play the shady Irving Rosenfeld in American Hustle. This is only one of the startlingly rapid body transformations that Bale has endured as part of his craft. His talent is consistent, but the actor himself comes in all shapes and sizes, from bulging Batman to gaunt...
- 1/10/2014
- by Kelli Bender
- PEOPLE.com
Warner Bros
Christian Bale is arguably one of the greatest actors of cinema’s current generation. We can look towards the obvious reasons, such as an accurate representation of legendary superhero persona Bruce Wayne, despite admittedly overdoing the graveled tough guy voice for Batman.
You can also point towards his much deserved Oscar win for portraying the drugged out crack addict Dicky Eklund in The Fighter; a performance captured from true events so well that I was in disbelief at how similar both actor and character seamlessly blended together during the end credits additional footage.
There is simply no denying that Christian Bale is a talented actor, but there is something very specific – and potentially life threatening- to his character role preparation and encapsulation that really blurs the line between acting and simply becoming someone else entirely.
This element is a constant fluctuation between body weights. We’re not discussing...
Christian Bale is arguably one of the greatest actors of cinema’s current generation. We can look towards the obvious reasons, such as an accurate representation of legendary superhero persona Bruce Wayne, despite admittedly overdoing the graveled tough guy voice for Batman.
You can also point towards his much deserved Oscar win for portraying the drugged out crack addict Dicky Eklund in The Fighter; a performance captured from true events so well that I was in disbelief at how similar both actor and character seamlessly blended together during the end credits additional footage.
There is simply no denying that Christian Bale is a talented actor, but there is something very specific – and potentially life threatening- to his character role preparation and encapsulation that really blurs the line between acting and simply becoming someone else entirely.
This element is a constant fluctuation between body weights. We’re not discussing...
- 12/21/2013
- by Robert Kojder
- Obsessed with Film
Is anyone a better movie actor right now than Christian Bale? (Okay, I’ll give you Daniel Day-Lewis… but it’s close and getting closer.) The 39-year-old Welshman is fully in his prime, demonstrated most recently by two powerful performances landing in the heart of Oscar season. The flashier role might be in David O. Russell’s American Hustle, which doesn’t open until Dec. 20. In Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace, which opened Wednesday and expanded Friday, he plays the good-intentioned ex-con whose pursuit of justice — after his ne’er-do-well brother (Casey Affleck) goes missing — puts him on...
- 12/6/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Out of the Furnace
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Cast: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson
Running Time: 1 hr 56 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Plot: Russell (Bale) tries to pull himself together after leaving jail while his brother (Affleck) gets involved with a dangerous gang leader (Harrelson) from the mysterious Pennsylvania backwoods.
Who’S It For? Fans of Bale’s acting palette, and those looking for a strong film during award season that isn’t eager to please.
Overall
In a current seasonal trend of lead men experiencing masculinity in crisis, Bale provides a presentation of such that comes with less of the fanfare of something like, oh, let’s just say for example, Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club. He shows the thoroughly Texas actor among others the more fortified elements behind a transforming performance, all while still managing the everlasting force that is one popular actor’s constant mojo.
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Cast: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson
Running Time: 1 hr 56 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Plot: Russell (Bale) tries to pull himself together after leaving jail while his brother (Affleck) gets involved with a dangerous gang leader (Harrelson) from the mysterious Pennsylvania backwoods.
Who’S It For? Fans of Bale’s acting palette, and those looking for a strong film during award season that isn’t eager to please.
Overall
In a current seasonal trend of lead men experiencing masculinity in crisis, Bale provides a presentation of such that comes with less of the fanfare of something like, oh, let’s just say for example, Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club. He shows the thoroughly Texas actor among others the more fortified elements behind a transforming performance, all while still managing the everlasting force that is one popular actor’s constant mojo.
- 12/6/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Christian Bale is known for his physical transformations, but it looks like Bradley Cooper might give him a run for his money in David O. Russell's "American Hustle." We've seen shots of the actors filming, but here's one of the first official images from the '70s-set drama about a sleazy scammer and his moll.
Bale and his fantastic comb-over star as the con man in question, one Irving Rosenfeld, and Amy Adams appears as his partner-in-crime, Sydney Prosser. Both actors received critical acclaim for their roles in Russell's "The Fighter," with Bale taking home an Oscar for his turn as former boxer Dicky Eklund.
Another Russell movie pair -- "Silver Linings Playbook" co-stars Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence -- are also back for another go-around with the director. Cooper rocks some Todd Phillips-style curls as a federal agent who forces Rosenfeld and Prosser to tattle on other grifters,...
Bale and his fantastic comb-over star as the con man in question, one Irving Rosenfeld, and Amy Adams appears as his partner-in-crime, Sydney Prosser. Both actors received critical acclaim for their roles in Russell's "The Fighter," with Bale taking home an Oscar for his turn as former boxer Dicky Eklund.
Another Russell movie pair -- "Silver Linings Playbook" co-stars Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence -- are also back for another go-around with the director. Cooper rocks some Todd Phillips-style curls as a federal agent who forces Rosenfeld and Prosser to tattle on other grifters,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
"The Fighter" co-writers Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy are ready to explore some of that Olde Towne strength once again, this time giving cinematic nod to the city's reaction to the devastating Boston Marathon Bombing on April 15.
According to Deadline, the pair purchased the rights to an as-yet-unreleased book on the events of that day and the following four-day dramatic manhunt which led to arrest of surviving suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev on April 19.
The book, titled "Boston Strong" and expected to hit shelves next year, is still currently being penned by Casey Sherman (the pair previously adapted another of his non-fiction titles, "The Finest Hours," which is being readied for production) and Boston Herald journalist Dave Wedge publication by University Press of New England.
Johnson and Tamasy share an Oscar nom with Scott Silver for their work on "The Fighter," a drama based on real-life Lowell, Mass. boxing brothers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund.
According to Deadline, the pair purchased the rights to an as-yet-unreleased book on the events of that day and the following four-day dramatic manhunt which led to arrest of surviving suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev on April 19.
The book, titled "Boston Strong" and expected to hit shelves next year, is still currently being penned by Casey Sherman (the pair previously adapted another of his non-fiction titles, "The Finest Hours," which is being readied for production) and Boston Herald journalist Dave Wedge publication by University Press of New England.
Johnson and Tamasy share an Oscar nom with Scott Silver for their work on "The Fighter," a drama based on real-life Lowell, Mass. boxing brothers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund.
- 7/9/2013
- by Amanda Bell
- NextMovie
There's something about the Boston accent in cinema that forces actors to feel like they really have to nail it. Of course, there are movies set in other cities (Chicago or New York, for example) featuring normally straight-voiced actors straining to sound like they're from the area. But it's not as seemingly mandatory as it is with a Boston-set movie.
If a movie takes place in Boston — and an increasing amount of them do — it's apparently federal law for an actor to wind up and take a wild swing at their best McLaugh from Southie. Some knock it straight over the Monster, while others Buckner the chance and watch helplessly as Ray Knight frantically scores the winning run. (We'll have to wait and see about Friday's "The Heat.")
Let's take a look at the best of the best, and the wuhhhssst of the wuhhhhsst.* (*To be read with a terrible Boston accent.
If a movie takes place in Boston — and an increasing amount of them do — it's apparently federal law for an actor to wind up and take a wild swing at their best McLaugh from Southie. Some knock it straight over the Monster, while others Buckner the chance and watch helplessly as Ray Knight frantically scores the winning run. (We'll have to wait and see about Friday's "The Heat.")
Let's take a look at the best of the best, and the wuhhhssst of the wuhhhhsst.* (*To be read with a terrible Boston accent.
- 6/26/2013
- by Nick Blake
- NextMovie
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
Ah, the Oscars. We so rarely agree on the best film of the year, and yet you know I can’t quit you. There are plenty of recent Best Picture winners that I like – even love in the case of No Country for Old Men – but my personal favorite hasn’t taken the gold in decades. The same cannot be said for the acting categories. Of course there are winners that leave me less than impressed – you sure were fine in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin – but recently there have been more than a few instances where my winner is the Academy’s winner. This is especially true over the past few years, as this list will reflect.
Case in point, unless Sally Field shocks on Sunday (February 24) and wins her third Oscar, Anne Hathaway’s performance in Les Misérables will earn...
Ah, the Oscars. We so rarely agree on the best film of the year, and yet you know I can’t quit you. There are plenty of recent Best Picture winners that I like – even love in the case of No Country for Old Men – but my personal favorite hasn’t taken the gold in decades. The same cannot be said for the acting categories. Of course there are winners that leave me less than impressed – you sure were fine in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin – but recently there have been more than a few instances where my winner is the Academy’s winner. This is especially true over the past few years, as this list will reflect.
Case in point, unless Sally Field shocks on Sunday (February 24) and wins her third Oscar, Anne Hathaway’s performance in Les Misérables will earn...
- 2/20/2013
- by Shane T. Nier
- The Scorecard Review
Exclusive: Mark Wahlberg‘s Oscar-nominated feature The Fighter is the inspiration for a docu reality series. Wahlberg executive produces the half-hour project, which has received a pilot order from A&E. Inspired by the scene-stealing, big-haired, loud-talking, punch-throwing sisters of Wahlberg’s Micky Ward and Christian Bale’s Dicky Eklund in Fighter, the untitled Mark Wahlberg Boston Women Project showcases the real women of Boston, featuring the day-to-day life of four of these tough, hard-as-nails women who juggle family, work, and relationships all while remaining true to their way of life. Wahlberg is executive producing through his Closest to the Hole Prods, along with frequent collaborator Stephen Levinson of Leverage, Bill Thompson of Bill Thompson Prods Inc and veteran reality producer Stephanie Drachkovitch of 44 Blue Prods. Filming is slated to begin in a few weeks. This is the second Boston-set docu reality pilot at A&E for Wahlberg, Levinson and Thompson,...
- 11/16/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The actor will be reunited with the director of The Fighter, for which Bale won an Oscar, in a story about a shyster hired to take down corrupt politicians
Christian Bale has returned to the role of a shyster hired by the FBI to take down corrupt politicians in David O Russell's forthcoming conman drama.
Bale, who won the best supporting actor Oscar for his turn as boxer Dicky Eklund in Russell's The Fighter, was reported to have left the project earlier this year, but has now signed on. The as-yet-untitled film is also due to star The Fighter's Amy Adams, along with Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner.
Like The Fighter, Russell's new film is based on a true story, though there appear to be significant differences between real-life events and the version playing out on screen. Eric Warren Singer's screenplay for the movie, which was once titled American Bullshit,...
Christian Bale has returned to the role of a shyster hired by the FBI to take down corrupt politicians in David O Russell's forthcoming conman drama.
Bale, who won the best supporting actor Oscar for his turn as boxer Dicky Eklund in Russell's The Fighter, was reported to have left the project earlier this year, but has now signed on. The as-yet-untitled film is also due to star The Fighter's Amy Adams, along with Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner.
Like The Fighter, Russell's new film is based on a true story, though there appear to be significant differences between real-life events and the version playing out on screen. Eric Warren Singer's screenplay for the movie, which was once titled American Bullshit,...
- 10/8/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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