What does a high-wattage star cast and a high-concept thriller premise do for you? Broken City, from Allen Hughes (one half of the Hughes Brothers) features Mark Wahlberg as a disgraced/retired cop hired by the NYC mayor (Russell Crowe) to find the man sleeping with the mayor's wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones). When Wahlberg is successful at…
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A fresh batch of posters for three films on our radar have just hit the web. The ones for Allen Hughes' Broken City and Robert Zemeckis' Flight both rely heavily on star power, which seems like a reasonable strategy when said stars include Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg, and Denzel Washington. The pretty, snowy poster for David…
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We've got a lot of new images today, and the first two are new looks at characters in Paramount's pair of upcoming Jack movies -- Jack Ryan and Jack Reacher. (Which tough guy will blink and allow a title change first?) Both images show new looks at supporting characters, but in the case of Jack…
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Things are indeed shaping up quickly for David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which Warner Bros. fast-tracked over the summer at the cost of Bryan Singer's Excalibur remake and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur film. Last month saw the casting of Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington and The Killing star Joel Kinnaman in the two title…
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Find it hard to keep up with what films are casting and which actors and actress are doing what? You're not the only one. It's all but impossible to keep up with everything, which is why we bring you Casting Bits. Today we've got a bunch of big names in smaller movies, a few studio…
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Catherine Zeta-Jones has had a slow couple of years, but the Chicago actress stepping it up again. She recently wrapped three films -- Lay the Favorite, Playing the Field, and Rock of Ages, all of which are due out next year -- and has now landed one more. Zeta-Jones recently finalized a deal to star…
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Rather than re-teaming with David O. Russell for The Silver Linings Playbook (Bradley Cooper will take that starring role, instead), Mark Wahlberg will make the Allen Hughes noir Broken City late this fall. And he'll be joined by Russell Crowe, who has just signed on to play the mayor of New York City, who drives…
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Last year Mark Wahlberg started talking about a noirish screenplay called Broken City by Brian Tucker that he wanted to make under the direction of Allen Hughes. The script was a 2008 Black List entry, and has earned comparisons to Chinatown thanks to the way it depicts urban intrigue and corruption with a cop turned…
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Next year might be looking up for Mark Wahlberg. After a couple of years characterized by films like The Happening, Max Payne and The Lovely Bones, he made some audiences happy with The Other Guys, and will go into 2011 with David O. Russell's The Fighter under his belt. And while there's been fan outcry…
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