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Russell to be honored at Nantucket Film Festival
... Award at this summer's Nantucket Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday. Russell, who also directed "The Fighter" and just wrapped "American Hustle," will be presented with the award by Oscar nominee Glenn Close . Russell will also take part ... Comment?
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Glenn Close to present NFF Screenwriters Tribute
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... announced this week. In other festival news, Russell, the writer/director of "Silver Linings Playbook," "The Fighter," "I Heart Huckabees" and "Three Kings," along with actress Mariel Hemingway and Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Barbara ... Comment?
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Tracked Down: Amy Adams, Henry Cavill, David Ortiz and more...
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... to celebrate the end of their Boston shoot at BOND at The Langham with director David O. Russell, real-life "The Fighter" fighter Dicky Eklund and about 200 crew members on the '70s-era Abscam flick ... Red Sox stud Shane Victorino checking out of ... Comment?
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... gritty, independent feel. The film features an all-star cast, with a particularly buff and tan Mark Wahlberg ("The Fighter") taking the lead as bodybuilder and ex-convict Daniel Lugo, a man who dreams of improving his life without having to put in ... Comment?
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Mark Wahlberg To Make Boston Documentary
... Massachusetts city trying to overcome their blue collar roots. The idea was inspired in part by Wahlberg's film The Fighter . The series was picked up six episodes by A&E for six episode after the company ordered a pilot, reports Deadline. Wahlberg ... Comment?
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A&E picks up Mark Wahlberg produced docu-reality series set in Boston
... project is inspired by the spirit of the strong and hard-worn characters from Wahlberg's Oscar-nominated film, The Fighter. Wahlberg and Thompson were interested in finding, and talking to, real life women in Boston who are living examples of women ... Comment?
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A&E Picks Up Mark Wahlberg-Produced Reality Series
... free from their working class backgrounds -- real-life versions of the female characters in Wahlberg's 2010 film The Fighter . Wahlberg, a Boston native, will produce along with Stephen Levinson, Bill Thompson and Stephanie Drachkovitch. It is the ... Comment?
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A&E Picks Up Boston-Set Docu-Reality Series Produced By Mark Wahlberg
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... by A&E in November, came from the tough, hard-as-nails female characters in Wahlberg 's Oscar-nominated feature The Fighter . Wahlberg and Thompson were inspired by the women's spirit and set out to find a group of those types of Boston girls going ... Comment?
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Spitting suspect charged in church thefts
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Three years after a Lowell man was portrayed briefly in The Fighter, he became "The Spitter" in New Hampshire , police said. Comment?
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Blu-ray Disc Review: Silver Linings Playbook
... always had a talent for creating extremely believable characters. I thoroughly enjoyed Three Kings as well as The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook is no exception. It's no surprise that the film walked away with one Academy Award for Jennifer ... Comment?
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HIV positive protege of boxer Dicky Ecklund in court for spitting on officer
... because he knew he was allegedly spitting on an officer who was acting in the line of duty. The 2010 movie "The Fighter" was based on the life of Giuffrida's friend Dicky Eklund, also of Lowell. Eklund and Giuffrida were also the subject of an HBO ... Comment?
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Michael Bay film devoid of strength
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... that's a shame. If Wahlberg could have brought some of the same acting chops that he brought to a movie like "The Fighter" or even just "The Other Guys," he might have been able to bring the movie to a whole new level. Instead, he flounders halfway ... Comment?
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Spirit of the '70s Reborn on Salem Movie Set
... Bale, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. Christian Bale is no stranger to Massachusetts film shoots. He co-starred in The Fighter, a movie based on Lowell boxer Mickey Ward. Are you excited for this movie to come out? Let us know in the comments section ... Comment?
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Mark Wahlberg Handles His Business
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... met all those many years ago." Wahlberg has also taken to producing the movies he stars in, his biggest being ' The Fighter', which took him six years to make and received seven Oscar nominations, including one for best picture. His latest is the ... Comment?
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'Silver Linings Playbook' remains 2012's best film
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... "Silver Linings" features all of Russell's trademark whit and eccentricity -- as witnessed in the terrific "The Fighter" and "Three Kings" -- but without delving into the type of pretentious quirkiness often found in low-budget indie fare. What's ... Comment?
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... the more over-praised movies of 2012, this multiple Oscar-contender from director-screenwriter David O. Russell (The Fighter) feels as unbalanced as its hero. That would be Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano, a former schoolteacher obliged, owing to his ... Comment?
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DVD reviews: 'Silver Linings Playbook,' 'Broken City' and 'Not Fade Away'
... a knack for bringing interesting, albeit sometimes blustery families to the big screen. He did it in 2010 with "The Fighter," and follows up with "Silver Linings Playbook," one of the most enjoyable pictures of 2012. The film follows a troubled man ... Comment?
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Way (way) too early Oscar predictions: Best director
... as Clooney with the Academy his last couple of times out, receiving best director nominations for both "The Fighter" and "Silver Linings Playbook" . He was a pleasant surprise last year on nomination morning as many had him on the outside looking ... Comment?
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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. Comment?
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Christian Bale, Amy Adams flick filming in Salem
... directed by David O. Russell, has been filming in and around Boston since mid-April. Russell also directed "The Fighter," the 2010 film about boxer Micky Ward, which was also filmed in the Boston area. "Like Russell's previous films, 'American ... Comment?
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