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…
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…
This holiday season get ready to see someone get their teeth knocked out and we’re not talking about that drunk uncle who always ruins family gatherings. We’re referring to David O. Russell’s latest film The Fighter which will be hitting theaters. It’s a boxing drama that stars Mark Wahlberg as the fighter in question and Christian Bale as his trainer and brother. Paramount has released three video clips from the movie to give us an idea of what to expect…
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 “I’m happy it got to the big screen. It took me such a long time to get the movie made that if you don’t like the movie, I’ll do two hours of hard labor.”
Well if one thing is clear it’s that nothing is clear and we’re not sure if Wahlberg is due for some hard labor or an Oscar!
Lucky us! Well some of us! If you’re in the LA area you can be one of the first to screen the new drama starring Mark Wahlberg alongside the stellar supporting cast of Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, and Amy Adams, in The Fighter. AFI Fest just announced today that they will be screening the film from director David O. Russell for festival attendees tonight at 9:30 p.m. at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. See it before it starts winning awards!
A new trailer has been released for David O. Russell’s upcoming film The Fighter. It’s a sports drama that takes place inside the world of boxing with Mark Wahlberg in the lead role. It also features Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, and Amy Adams, so the film has more than enough talent to catch the attention of Oscar voters this awards season. Check out the new trailer below…
Fall is officially in full swing, and that means that all the major movie studios are celebrating the season by releasing their Oscar-bait projects. These are the pictures that feature less “badass action” and more “sensitive, nuanced performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sean Penn.” So, rather than reviewing all of these films individually, we decided to do what any dedicated movie-goer would do: judge them based on their trailers.
Let’s take a look and decide whether or not these films are likely to bag an Academy Award a few months from now…
The first trailer has been released for David O Russell’s sports drama, The Fighter. The film stars Mark Wahlbergas the title character, Christian Bale as his cracked out brother/training partner, Melissa Leo as their white trash mom, and Amy Adams as the round away girl. All that plus some good fight sequences make up the trailer, take a look…
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 fuse. Surprisingly, this behind the scenes video highlight’s the main ladies of the cast going at it, Oscar nominees Amy Adams and Melissa Leo.
