Trailer Debut: ‘Lone Survivor’

Mark Wahlberg bravely takes on the Taliban (and admits to attending a Coldplay concert) in the trailer for Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor.  Also starring Eric Bana, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, and Emile Hirsch, it was suggested by several pundits that this could have been a late Oscar contender (perhaps the first in Berg’s career). Though […]

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Board to death – Battleship review

Battleship – Starring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, and Rihanna. Directed by Peter Berg. Rated M. Originally published April 11, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Battleship is now available on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia. Blockbusters, ho! With the American summer sailing ever closer, audiences are bracing themselves for the inevitable onslaught of big-budget features that have made the period so highly anticipated (and feared). Though […]

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Interview: Peter Berg (Battleship)

Interview: Peter Berg (Battleship). By Simon Miraudo. You might recognise Peter Berg from his 106-episode stint on the hit drama Chicago Hope. These days, however, he’s more likely to appear on TV as himself; popping up on shows like Entourage and Californication as ‘Peter Berg: big-time director’. The success of his last film, Hancock (which […]

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Friday Night Lights movie script is “about done”

Peter Berg has told MTV the script for another Friday Night Lights film – this one, based on the TV show – is close to being completed. Berg directed the first adaptation of H.G. Bissinger’s landmark football book Friday Night Lights – concerning a small-town Texan team’s 1988 season – in 2004. He later executive produced the acclaimed television series – […]

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Teaser Debut: Battleship

The first teaser trailer for Peter Berg‘s $200 million film adaptation of the board game Battleship has docked online. As befits a movie based on a board game, the premise is exceptionally simple: a naval fleet discovers aliens lying in wait beneath the water. They fight. You can watch it in HD over at Yahoo. […]

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Friday Night Lights may return to the big screen

From book to movie to TV show and back to movie. The evolution of the Friday Night Lights franchise is more complex than an elaborate football play. The Emmy-nominated television program Friday Night Lights wrapped up over the weekend in the United States, but producer Peter Berg has hinted that there is still life in […]

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Hancock – Review

Hancock – Starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. Directed by Peter Berg. Rated M for violence and coarse language. 92 mins. There is a scene in Will Smith’s latest blockbuster, where the film’s misunderstood superhero threatens to insert a prison inmate’s head up another inmate’s … well, back entrance. That he does it […]

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