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  • September 2008

    • Entourage Propels Wahlberg

      New York Times  |  Sep 8, 08 10:47 AM CDT

      Entourage Propels Wahlberg

      (Newser) - Mark Wahlberg continues to beef up his filmography, but behind the scenes the Entourage actor-producer is evolving into a major player. Through his TV production company, Leverage, he's a producer of the hit HBO show, and parlaying acting into producing was always the plan, the onetime Calvin Klein model tells the New York Times. . More »

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      television  • HBO  • celebrity interview  • Entourage  • Mark Wahlberg

  • July 2008

    • Next Batman May Be Lurking in Obscurity

      Radar  |  Jul 24, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Next Batman May Be Lurking in Obscurity

      (Newser) - With The Dark Knight —featuring a Batman "easily inhabited by the George Clooneys or Christian Bales of the world"—all the rage, Radar presents "other subversive comic book characters who probably won't—but really should—show up at a theater near you," including: Female Furies: "With a little retooling, this could be the hot new Julia Roberts feminist vehicle that Mona Lisa Smile never was." More »

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      Batman  • The Dark Knight  • comics  • Julia Roberts  • Sharon Stone  • Mark Wahlberg

  • June 2008

    • Happening Is No Big Event

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Jun 13, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Happening Is No Big Event

      (Newser) - M. Night Shyamalan’s apocalyptic thriller The Happening is slow-paced and funny at times, leaving critics mixed in their reactions. It’s “too thoughtful for the summer action season, but I appreciate the quietly realistic way Shyamalan” tells his story, writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times . “It will be described as empty, uneventful, meandering. But for some, it will weave a spell.” In the movie, a father (Mark Wahlberg) tries to escape with his family. More »

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      movie review  • thriller  • Mark Wahlberg

  • October 2007

    • Filmgoers Ask, Why Did I Get Married?

      Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 14, 07 4:57 PM CDT

      Filmgoers Ask, Why Did I Get Married?

      (Newser) - Black America flocked to Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? this weekend, lifting it to number one with $21.5 million. George Clooney and The Rock bowed to the actor/playwright's fourth effort, as The Game Plan fell to second at $11.5 million and Michael Clayton tied Mark Wahlberg’s We Own the Night at $11 million. More »

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      box office  • comedy  • George Clooney  • Janet Jackson  • Tyler Perry  • Mark Wahlberg  • Joaquin Phoenix

    • Mediocrity, Blahs Own the Night

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Oct 12, 07 3:00 PM CDT

      Mediocrity, Blahs Own the Night

      (Newser) - No one feels too strongly about We Own the Night, a crime drama Variety calls “exceptionally conventional.” It delivers “jolts of pulse-quickening drama,” the Inquirer says, complete with a rainy car chase every reviewer loved. Beyond that, “reactions will depend greatly upon one's tolerance for dramatic implausibilities, plot loopholes, emotional clichés, and period anachronisms,” Variety says. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • Mark Wahlberg  • Joaquin Phoenix

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