The Fighter News

Actress Glenn Close will present filmmaker David O. Russell with the Nantucket Film Festival's annual Screenwriters Tribute next month.

Rating: R Length: 129 minutes Release Date: April 26, 2013 Directed by: Michael Bay Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime Stars: 3.5 out of 5 The latest offering from director Michael Bay , "Pain & Gain" is not what viewers may be expecting.

Wahlberg is set to be executive producer for the untitled series, which will follow four female friends from the Massachusetts city trying to overcome their blue collar roots.

EXCLUSIVE : A&E has given a six-episode order to an untitled docu-reality series executive produced by Mark Wahlberg , which is set in his native Boston.

Three years after a Lowell man was portrayed briefly in The Fighter, he became "The Spitter" in New Hampshire , police said.

Title: Silver Linings Playbook BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc / Two Disc Set Video: 1080p / AVC Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Subtitles: English & Spanish Run time: 122 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Rating: R Region Coding: Region A Locked Bradley Cooper as Pat Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Robert De Niro as Pat Sr.

Giuffrida is HIV positive and was indicted by a Belknap County grand jury for one count of simple assault with an enhanced penalty because he knew he was allegedly spitting on an officer who was acting in the line of duty.

Michael Bay's "Pain & Gain" is a true crime movie on steroids, which is just the kind of film you would expect to get from the man behind the "Transformers" franchise.

A David O. Russell film about the 1970s Abscam scandal filmed scenes in downtown Salem this week.

He gave up the partying, stopped the brawling, and even erased the tattoos . The man once best known for dropping trou has evolved into a Hollywood force on and off the screen.

The movie itself is a handsome period production in the Hammer tradition. Breaking with tradition, the movie was co-produced with American International Pictures with the understanding that the Yankee house would amp up the exploitation elements at a time when Hammer's comparatively restrained productions were losing audiences to more permissive ... (more)

May 02--"Silver Linings Playbook" . Director David O. Russell has a knack for bringing interesting, albeit sometimes blustery families to the big screen.

We've taken a look at the talent in front of the camera, now lets see which masters behind it might be duking it out later this year.

April 30--SALEM -- A few Hollywood A-listers could be on Federal Street this week.

After delving into hard-hitting drama with "The Fighter," writer/director David O. Russell has returned to the source of his early love-crazy successes with this heavily medicated screwball romance.

This week on home video, we've got one of the big award-winners of last year, followed by a few not so acclaimed films, including a road trip comedy, a noir-ish thriller, and a dark farce.

Was Mark Wahlberg adding a little juice to his protein smoothies to pack on the pounds for his new movie with Dwayne Johnson , Pain and Gain ? Some are saying the lofty claims that he put on forty pounds of muscle in a mere 2 months to get into character as a meat head bodybuilder are too unbelievable and that he must have been including anabolic ... (more)

Jake Gyllenhaal So there's a movie called Nailed by David O. Russell of The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook fame.

Meeting with several of the enthusiastic actors, Mark Wahlberg , Anthony Mackie and Dwayne Johnson , along with director Michael Bay of the movie "Pain & Gain" coming out in theatres today, April 26, 2013 was a joy.

MOV-KINGS: George Clooney, left to right, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube in a scene from 'Three Kings.' In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, Hearst Newspapers presents the critical consensus of Mark Wahlberg 's films.