David O Russell Reviews, Interviews & More
It's been a fierce battle, trying to figure out who will win this year's Best Actress Oscar. Unlike our Best Actor category, it's difficult to predict who will be going home with the golden statue. Jennifer Lawrence has been gaining a lot of momentum in the past month, winning one award after another, but there's still four other actresses who can easily take the top spot at this year's...
It seems that David O. Russell is hoping lightening will strike not just twice, but thrice—coming on the heels of the news that he has cast his Silver Linings Playbook star Jennifer Lawrence in the upcoming film Abscam, /Film now has it that the volatile director has also cast Lawrence in the upcoming The Ends of the Earth.
Director David O. Russell must have been so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence's acting ability that he had to get her on the next project he landed. Months after committing to the once-titled American Bulls--t, now Abscam, David O. Russell is bringing Jennifer Lawrence into the fold.
Today, Universal announced that it plans to release Jurassic Park 4 next year. They don't even have a director yet, but they've got an official distribution date. They must be pretty confident in their script then (and they should be since it's by the same duo that brought you Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Also, for those of you who've missed Community as much as...
The formula in a formula picture is often more alchemy than science. It's the balance between making that ride both comfortable and unexpected. David O. Russell has thread this needle before - and quite brilliantly - with films like Three Kings and The Fighter, which took tired genres and made them interesting again. But with...
Well, the Toronto International Film Festival has finally wrapped up, and with its ending comes the big winners, including the People’s Choice Award, which, as Indiewire notes, can be “a good luck charm for Oscar” (previous winners include The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, and Precious). We’ve got the full list of winners—check them out...
Dustin Hoffman's favorite actress Amy Adams just booked her next role. She'll be reuniting with director David O. Russell for his forthcoming untitled project, formerly known as American Bullsh*t. Adams would have actually been reuniting with Fighter co-star Christian Bale, but he dropped out yesterday and was quickly replaced by Jeremy...
David O. Russell could be described as mercurial, so it's fascinating to see what he's doing with his post-The Fighter success clout. His next film is Silver Linings Playbook, an adaptation of the best selling book, and it looks like a quirk-fest, albeit one with a great cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro,...
David O. Russell, the hotheaded (but brilliant!) director behind such films as The Figher, I Heart Huckabees, and Three Kings, has, in each of those films, tackled such themes as perseverance and family, the meaning of live, and recognizing human dignity in the midst the horrors of war, respectively. And now, in tackling the story...
When The Fighter was making the junket rounds, Mark Wahlberg joked about how there could be a series of films made about his real-life character Micky Ward's fights with Arturo Gatti. He said "We’re doing those fights in the sequel. We’ll do four more films. We’ll do the first Gatti fight in the sequel" which led to director David O. Russell...
This weekend, Vince Vaughn will tickle your funny bone in his latest comedy The Dilemma (check out our review), which is great for now but the actor already has another project in the works. According to Variety, Vaughn has his eye on a comic adaptation called 2 Guns. The trade reports that he's being tapped to star and David O. Russell is...
While doing promotion for his acclaimed film The Fighter, actor Mark Wahlberg revealed that he'd been cast in the coveted role of Nathan Drake and would star in David O. Russell's feature adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. This news came as a shock to the die hard fans of the video game who felt that Nathan Fillion, would have been a...
The country awaits with bated breath for this weekend's Paramount Pictures release, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale as Micky and Dicky Ward. Predicted to sweep awards season, the movie offers far more than your average boxing flick, and should please both commercial and critical audiences. We were fortunate enough to sit down with the film's...
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...
Last week we learned that Mark Wahlberg was set to take on the lead role in the video game adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. The film will be written and directed by David O. Russell and possibly co-star Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci as Drake's extended family. If that doesn't sound like a volatile group of characters we don't know what does. Russell recently...
Last night David O. Russell's The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, and Amy Adams had it's first ever screening at AFI Festival. The secret screening was only announced yesterday morning and over 100 people were turned away at the door. The star and producer of the film Mark Wahlberg was there to introduce the film and he told the audience...
The thought of a behind the scenes video from the set of a David O. Russell film strikes fear into our hearts. We know what can happen when candid footage from his films is found and released on the net (are you doing OK Lily Tomlin?). This time he might not press his luck because Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale are his lead actors and those two are known to have a short...
Remember when we told you about Natalie Portman's decision to produce and star in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? That story still stands but now she might be joined by noted director, David O. Russell. According to several online reports Russell has his eye on the Jane Austen inspired zombie feature.
We previously showed you a photo of Christian Bale looking highly emaciated on the set of his upcoming boxing drama, The Fighter. If images like that make your stomach turn, don't worry because we have a few photos of a shirtless and healthy looking Mark Wahlberg to balance it out. Over at IAmRogue, they've posted several production stills from the film, that not only...
The cast for David O. Russell's The Fighter is shaping up to be one talent filled ensemble. The cast currently includes Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale as half-brothers, and Oscar nominee Melissa Leo as their mother. Now according to THR, Amy Adams is nearing a deal to join the...
