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Anthony Mackie in talks to join Mark Wahlberg in Michael Bay film Pain and Gain

The Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie – who recently wrapped the independent film Vipaka with Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker – is in talks to join Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson in Michael Bay’s low-budget Paramount film Pain and Gain. This according to Variety. Pain and Gain is based on a true story first told in an ….

More images from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter online

New images have been released from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the Timur Bekmambetov-directed, Tim Burton-produced adaptation of In the film, Abraham Lincoln – the 18th President of the United States – discovers vampires are planning to take over the U.S., and makes it his mission to eliminate them. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – which hits ….

New images from suspense crime thriller Man on a Ledge

Summit Entertainment has revealed new images from the Asger Leth-directed crime thriller Man on a Ledge, which hits theaters next Friday, January 27th. The film, written by Pablo F. Fenjves, stars Elizabeth Banks, Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell, Edward Burns, Ed Harris, Genesis Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie, Kyra Sedgwick, William Sadler, Pooja Kumar, Liz Holtan, Jonah Falcon, ….

New image set from Real Steel

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing ….

Free screening of Night Catches Us to open Newark Black Film Festival

The Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF), which is celebrating its 37th Anniversary, opens in Newark on Wednesday, June 29th, with a six-week run ending on August 3rd, 2011. Youth Cinema will be held on Mondays at the Newark Public Library and at the Newark Museum on Wednesdays beginning July 6th. The festival is a showcase ….

Night Catches Us nabs a one sheet

Night Catches Us centers on Marcus (played by Anthony Mackie from The Hurt Locker and Brother to Brother), who returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement, protecting a dangerous secret in a struggle against the revolution he once embraced, while rediscovering a forbidden love (played by Kerry ….

Magnolia Pictures catches ‘Night’

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to filmmaker Tanya Hamilton’s debut feature Night Catches Us, starring Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Kerry Washington (Ray), Jamie Hector (HBO’s The Wire) and Wendell Pierce (HBO’s The Wire and Treme). Night Catches Us – which contains an original soundtrack by Philadelphia natives The Roots – is a ….

Pics from Philip K. Dick’s Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt online

EmpireOnline has posted new images from Adjustment Bureau, which is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s short story Adjustment Team about a politician on the verge of winning a seat in the US Senate before meeting a ballet dancer played by Emily Blunt, who seems like the woman of his dreams. The only problem is ….

Hurt Locker star headed to The Adjustment Bureau

Anthony Mackie, who most recently appeared in The Hurt Locker, has been cast in Universal Pictures’ sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau, which Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are currently attached to star, according to Variety. George Nolfi, who’s making his directorial debut, will helm the movie from his own script, and produce alongside Chris Moore ….

Notorious DVD review

On April 21st, 2009, Fox Home Entertainment released the biopic Notorious on DVD. The film tells the tragic story of Christopher Wallace (1972-1997) aka Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G., a Brooklyn-born rapper who was taken at 24 years of age, a casualty of the now famous East Coast-West Coast turf war which first claimed the ….

Jeremy Renner discusses The Hurt Locker at New York Comic Con

Actor Jeremy Renner (28 Weeks Later, The Assassination of Jesse James) stopped by the Summit Entertainment film preview at New York Comic Con, to discuss his role in Kathryn Bigelow’s (Point Break, Blue Steel) Iraq war thriller The Hurt Locker. One aspect of the film that he made clear from the start, was that it ….