Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:03AM - By Travis Woods
OK, so imagine this film: two Americans—one is a journalist, and the other is retired soldier—who join forces to rescue a kidnapping victim in Afghanistan. And Zack Snyder came up with it. And 300 screenwriter Kurt Johnstad wrote it. And the Christian Bale would play the reporter “who witnesses and is the only survivor of an attack on a group of Americans.” And Sean Penn now may play a retired Special Ops soldier who “comes to the scene determined to free a family member who has been kidnapped.” Translation: the most intense film ever made.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011 5:20PM - By Krystal Clark
The winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is Christian Bale for The Fighter. The actor portrayed the older brother to Mark Wahlberg in the drama. The actor started off his speech with “Bloody hell!” He also said that he wasn’t going to drop an F-bomb like Melissa Leo because he’s done enough of that in the past (in reference to his infamous leaked Terminator tape). He also gave a shout out to the real Dicky Ecklund who was in attendance.
***Looking for a play by play: Part 1 – Red Carpet to Best Supporting Actress; Part 2 – Best Animated Short to Costume Design; Part 3 – Best Original Song to Memoriam; Part 4 – Best Actor to Best Picture ***
Check out who he beat…
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 4:54PM - By Krystal Clark
Christian Bale is going on a diet — again. The British actor will reunite with the writer and director of 2004′s The Machinist for another film called Concrete Island. Brad Anderson will helm the film from a script by Scott Kosar that’s based on J.G. Ballard’s 1974 novel of the same name. Island will have the same star, director, writer, and dramatic weight loss that was featured in The Machinist. Deja vu anyone?
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:54PM - By Krystal Clark
Ron Howard has his hands full with the upcoming film and television adaptations of The Dark Tower. The novels have been described as Stephen King’s answer to JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. For such an epic story, we need an epic actor in the lead, and who better than Oscar nominee Christian Bale?
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 5:03PM - By Krystal Clark
One of the most predictable categories at the 68th Annual Golden Globes was for Best Supporting Actor. The statue went to Christian Bale for his portrayal of Dicky Hedlund in the boxing drama The Fighter. The actor previously picked up the award in the same category at Friday night’s Critics Choice Awards.
See who he beat out below…
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010 8:58AM - By Krystal Clark
Golden Globe nominee Christian Bale has wasted no time finding his next challenging project. The actor has his sights on Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s upcoming epic, Nanjing Heroes according to THR. China’s most famous director announced the casting news at a press conference on Wednesday to the shock and surprise of the attending media.
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Friday, December 10, 2010 10:31AM - By Will Kriegshauser
The decade-long timeline of the incredible expanding and contracting thespian begins in 2000, when Bale was offered the job of portraying Patrick Bateman in the adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’ novel, American Psycho. Before American Psycho, the world mostly knew of Christian Bale as that one kid from Empire of the Sun, a whole 23 years ago…
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Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:41PM - By Mali Elfman
Get ready to be be impressed by director David O. Russell and producer Mark Wahlberg’s cinematic experience The Fighter. Not only does this film boost an amazing true story but it also contains some of the best supporting roles of the year by all Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams. It’s stunning. Find out why below…
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Thursday, December 9, 2010 3:41PM - By Justine JC
The magnitude of the five year development fiasco that preceded the green light for this weekend’s fanatically anticipated release, The Fighter (directed by David O. Russell), seems unparalleled. Based on the life and career of the legendary “Irish” Micky Ward, played by Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter offers far more than your average boxing flick. For those of you looking to get your “Rocky” on, fear not, the fight scenes are plentiful. But in addition to upper cuts and toothless mongrels comes an unexpected level of heart and thematic poignance. We recently had the opportunity to speak with the film’s leading men to discuss their involvement in picture…
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