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Two New Trailers for ‘The Fighter’
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Anyone looking forward to seeing Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg play brothers in the upcoming film The Fighter will get a treat with the newest trailer that dropped yesterday. I wrote a post about the second trailer that hit the web in October, and now the third is up to bat with the film now only weeks away from release. Hit the jump to see the trailer, and some encouraging words about the movie from filmmaker Spike Jonze.
Mark Wahlberg Talks to a Bear
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In perusing the movie news mill as I tend to do, this article caught my eye. Mark Wahlberg is likely going to star in a Seth McFarlane buddy comedy called Ted (via Slashfilm). What’s really interesting is that Ted is a walking, talking, pot smoking, womanizing, foul mouthed teddy bear that Wahlberg’s character brings to life. I’m going to just unload the plethora of pop culture and movie reference that ran through my mind at the news; Monkey Bone meets Chucky minus the murder (and Rose McGowan as a sexy anthropomorphic cat), SNL’s skit Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals, What am I? What am I?, the video game Naughty Bear and that X-Files episode with the creepy talking doll. Okay back on topic.
Second Trailer for ‘The Fighter’
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Christian Bale is known for his ability to morph into any persona to play whatever role is on the table. We saw his lack of regard for his body in The Machinist, we saw his ability to sing in the Newsies, and we all saw him playing a badass superhero in Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He has yet to play a woman, but I am sure that is on his bucket list to accomplish as an actor before he dies. The upcoming film The Fighter is yet another example of Bale’s ability to embrace a role without a care for his disgusting appearance. The Fighter trailer shows Bale scaled down from his bulky muscular look in Batman to a frame like a scrawny former drug addict (which he plays in the movie). He is almost unrecognizable at first glance. Check out Bale and the trailer for The Fighter after the jump.
Matts Review: ‘The Other Guys’ is Fun and Funny, But Not Ferrell’s Best
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GRADE: B-
This movie is very similar to Dinner for Schmucks in that it is a comedy featuring a tag team of lead actors who together form the only soluble piece for the entire film. Instead of the comedic duo of Carell and Rudd, The Other Guys features the mostly unfunny Mark Wahlberg and the most often funny Will Ferrell. I am going to try my hardest not to let my disdain for Wahlberg shine through in this review, but I cannot promise anything.
New Pics and Video Blogs From ‘The Fighter’ Starring Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg
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Back in July I posted some of the first pics of Christian Bale on the set of his upcoming boxing flick The Fighter, co-starring Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams. In that post, I discussed my admiration for Bale’s acting dedication as he is incomparably able to fluctuate his weight at the drop of a hat for different roles. He proved this dedication previously in 2004 with the psychological thriller The Machinist, where his weight dropped to a scary 125 pounds. His weight doesn’t look nearly as bad in these new batch of photos from The Fighter, but he still doesn’t look healthy.
Bale, Wahlberg and Singer…OH MY!!!
Posted by: | CommentsThe Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog, has the scoop that Batman/Batemen/John Connor himself, Christian Bale, is in serious talks to star along side Mark Wahlberg in Prisoners.
The script for Prisoners is burning up drooling studios right now and with the addition of these two bad-ass actors, shit is about to explode. The story breaks down like this…”A 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.”
Sounds pretty intense, and who better to have go at it in an intense thriller than 
Bale and Wahlberg? What makes this project even more potentially ridiculous, is that thriller-director-extraordinaire Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men 1 & 2, Valkyrie) has expressed serious interest in directing the movie. Though he may receive serious fanboy bashing for his interpretation of Superman in Superman Returns, this is one of the elite directors working today, and this script sounds perfectly suited to his style.
Needless to say, this project has endless upside, but nothing is official yet. All of these Hollywood big shots are just in the talking stage of the movie process, but the fact that this confirmed information exists is pretty good news.
Right now, despite his on-set freak out, Christian Bale has the best career in Hollywood. He just finished being Batman for the second time in The Dark Knight; a movie that broke nearly every box-office record, grossed over $1 billion and was nominated for 8 Oscars. In one month, he’ll be starring as resistance leader John Connor in Terminator Salvation, which looks absolutely bad-ass from all the footage I’ve seen. Then, a month after that, he’ll be starring opposite Johnny Depp in the gangster crime-thriller Public Enemies, directed by crime-thriller-extraordinaire Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral). Now he could possibly be starring in Prisoners, which would officially launch him into the Top 5 most-sought after movie stars in Hollywood.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, Marky-Mark needs this type of high-caliber, high-quality movie. Although he was brilliant and nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for The Departed, his last couple films have been train-wrecks. M. Night Shyamalan ruined the potential awesomeness of The Happening premise by making trees the culprit of mass suicide, which unfortunately starred Wahlberg. Then, this past summer, only a couple weeks after TDK was unleashed, Marky-Mark starred in the atrocious box-office and critical A-bomb, Max Payne. What’s ironic and funny about that flick is Wahlberg actually publicly bashed TDK, specifically Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker, calling his performance in Max Payne “10 times more intense and bad-ass than The Joker.” Yeah right. How did that work out for ya Mark? So this would be a nice career/ego booster for Wahlberg if all this pans out for the best. All in all, it is looking good and stay tuned to Movie Mash for more updates.
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