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		<title>Forbes say Will Ferrell is Hollywood&#8217;s most overpaid actor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study in Forbes makes a great case for one-note, high salary comedy actor Will Ferrell being Hollywood's most overpaid thesp after two years of underperforming hits and flops.

Their study suggests "for every dollar Ferrell was paid, his films earned an average $3.29" which compares to Shia LaBeouf's "$160 return per dollar"... though on that scale the study is slightly flawed as no-one saw Indy IV and Transformers 2 because LaBeouf was in it.
Land of the Lost is a movie that is at least
$35 million in the red for Universal.

This summer's Land of the Lost was one of those epic Hollywood disasters that...ended up costing an estimated $100 million and earned only $65 million at the worldwide box office.

Universal studio heads Marc Shmuger and David Linde were subsequently fired.

Land of the Lost's dismal box office helped land star Will Ferrell at the top of our annual list of Hollywood's Most Overpaid Stars. Ferrell is no longer the sure bet he seemed after hits like Elf ($220 million worldwide box office) and Talladega Nights ($162 million box office). Ferrell's 2008 film Semi-Pro earned only $43 million. Step Brothers did better with $128 million, but it wasn't enough to help Ferrell--mainly because ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Bale will coach Mark Wahlberg into THE FIGHTER!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Walhberg, at probably the final hour for his near three year pet project The Fighter, has called in some last minute favours and probably done an awful lot of sweet talking to secure the attachment (signatures still required on contracts) of Christian Bale to co-star, David O'Russell to direct, and studio Relativity Media to finance his biopic of boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward.

For a film that looked dead in the water, Wahlberg deserves an award in just getting this project back off the ground once again. The Fighter's officially back on and will begin production in July, now as a very promising picture once again. 



Bale will play Dickie Eklund, a real life former boxer who turned trainer after becoming embroiled in a life of drugs and crime. As a way to make up for ruining his own career, Eklund took it upon himself to train his half-brother "Irish" Mickey Ward, who had retired early and transformed him into a Rocky-esque come back which led to three epic bouts with Arturo Gatti. 



If you think it sounds a little like The Wrestler, then you wouldn't be far wrong. The movie was originally setup at Paramount for Darren Aronofsky to direct with Mark ...]]></description>
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		<title>Wahlberg, Franco, Henson, Common &amp; Wiig crash Carell&#8217;s DATE NIGHT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like he did with the supporting roles for Night at the Museum, director Shawn Levy has managed to convince some Hollywood leading players to appear in second-tier parts for an upcoming film of his, securing deals with Mark Wahlberg and James Franco this week.

The movie is Date Night, the Steve Carrell and Tina Fey rom-com which will be shot during the pairs breaks on The Office and 30 Rock respectively sometime late Summer for 20th Century Fox.



Also on board are Taraji P. Henson, Common, Kristen Wiig and Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester. Levy tells Variety, that he managed to convince these "formidable actors" because they all wanted to work with the two comedy leads.

Written by Shrek the Third scribe Josh Klausner, the movie follows a couple who find their routine date night becomes something much more than either initially expected.

Wahlberg plays a "crazily buff" securities expert who flirts with Tina Fey. 

Franco is a petty criminal and not to bright con-man.

Meester is the couple's babysitter.

Henson plays "the one good cop" who thinks the couple are in danger. 

Common plays the villain (IN A ROM-COM, what sort of character description is that?)

Wiig plays best friend to Fey. 

Love me some Steve Carell comedy and picturing him working off Tina Fey works well in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Bale attached to Mark Wahlberg&#8217;s PRISONERS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not desired for Christopher Nolan's science fiction movie Inception after working with the director on his last three movies, Christian Bale's hunt for a job elsewhere may have landed him a role in Prisoners.



You may remember we spoke about this Taken/Gran Torino esque thriller a few weeks back when Bryan Singer announced he was mulling over whether to direct it as his next movie, with Mark Wahlberg already attached as one of the leads. Now with Bale's expected involvement according to The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog, the project probably has just become much more desirable.

They also carry a run-down of the plot...
Here's the basic idea: After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation.  The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive. 
Aaron Guzikowski's dark spec script is going to be shopped around soon by Endeavour looking for someone to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Singer may take PRISONERS with Mark Wahlberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entertainment Weekly reported over the weekend that Bryan Singer is seriously mulling over directing Prisoners as his next movie, a revenge thriller with Mark Wahlberg based on a highly lauded script from first time writer Aaron Guzikowski.



Wahlberg would star as the Boston dad who takes the law into his own hands when his young daughter is kidnapped, a movie that belongs in the same mould as the recently popular revenge genre that has seen Gran Torino and Taken make big bucks.

Though Wahlberg himself had less luck with Max Payne ($40 million domestic) and it's clear the more grounded in reality and relatable the revenge concept is, the more broad an audience it can attract.

EW report the freshness the script brings to the genre, compares to the likes of the 90's classics Silence of the Lambs and Se7en. 

Singer answered whether he would make Prisoners as his next movie...
"I don't know yet," he said, "But I'm definitely intrigued. It's a great script. And I'd love to work with Mark."
Singer, coming off his World War II ensemble Valkyrie has once again begun quietly developing a Logan's Run remake but the lure of a great script for a small in scope thriller, may take his attention away once ...]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph suffers the full force of MAX PAYNE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wrenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, Obsessed With Film is allowed to review a movie that has already been on general release in the U.S. and reviewed in numerous press outlets in this country. You can read about the hilarious "embargo" put on us this week HERE.

Is it because Obsessed With Film is known for it's "say what we like" attitude and our desire to see actual quality cinema when we get invited to see movies for free and don't just geek out because we saved £6 on a cinema ticket?

Here's Joseph's review...

As a cinephile, I am aware of the seasons of the cinema - the biggest and noisiest action movies get released to the eager masses over the hot and tantalizing days of summertime, whilst the pseudo-intellectual Oscar films get released in the chilly, solitary nights of winter.

Trying to throw one last glossy action film my way in the wake of the London Film Festival?  If your name isn’t Bond, I’m pretty sure you’ve missed the high-speed boat. But here it is, the MAX PAYNE film based on the video game that nobody has cared about for around five years.


Don’t even get me going on this whole “video game turned film” malarkey that ...]]></description>
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		<title>P.R. girl from Fox reviews MAX PAYNE exclusively for OWF!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Obsessed With Film critic saw MAX PAYNE recently at a press screening exclusively for this site but just before the film started he was forced to silence by a non-disclosure agreement.



However his feedback e-mail to me after the screening, I believe, is good to print. He never actually reviews anything about the film, so surely this is fine. If it's not, it will be removed sometime today...
Attached is my review of MAX PAYNE.  It's been a while since I last did a review, so apologies for the rust.  I'm an American and my head is spinning with election buzz!

I should tell you that at the press screening, they made me sign some paper stating that my review wouldn't be posted until the 10th of November (the release date is the 14th).  [EDITED BECAUSE HE MENTIONS WHAT WE THOUGHT OF THE MOVIE], I guess they expected it to get slaughtered by the critics and maybe wanted to blunt it as much as possible.  I'm surprised that they even showed this to critics.  I was having a chat with one of the PR girls from Fox, and when I asked her if she liked the film, ...]]></description>
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		<title>W. feels the PAYNE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rarity in Hollywood, a video game adaptation tops the box office charts this weekend. Mark Wahlberg's starring action vehicle MAX PAYNE earned $18 million from it's wide release, which was surprisingly bigger than the much anticipated adaptation of RESIDENT EVIL in 2002 but still only makes it the 9th biggest video game adaptation in history.

Of course to no-one's surprise, the movie killed at the reviews, a 17% Rotten Rating with barely any love for it from the top critics.



W, a movie that I thought would have gotten so much more wide appeal managed just $10.5 million after a strong opening on Friday.

Still, the movie has the strong subject matter to stay around for a while and if it reaches $45 million by it's end run, it will have been a success. Josh Brolin seems a shoe-in for an Oscar nom.



1

Max Payne (2008)
$18M
$18M


2

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
$11.2M
$69.1M


3

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
$11.1M
$11.1M


4

W. (2008)
$10.6M
$10.6M


5

Eagle Eye (2008)
$7.34M
$81.3M


6

Body of Lies (2008)
$6.88M
$24.5M


7

Quarantine (2008)
$6.3M
$24.7M


8

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
$3.9M
$26.7M


9

Sex Drive (2008)
$3.57M
$3.57M


10

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
$2.68M
$36.9M


The biggest surprise of the weekend was THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, a Fox Searchlight drama based on Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Wahlberg says THE FIGHTER is down for the count, Brad Pitt knocked out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paramount Pictures have pumped millions of dollars on several different writers and two years of developing THE FIGHTER but this weekend all signs point to the studio shelving the project.

Two years ago Mark Wahlberg signed up to star as "Irish" Mickey Ward and Matt Damon his half brother/boxing trainer. Damon was then replaced in September 2007 by Brad Pitt and Darren Aronofsky's project seemed ready to go. Then Aronofsky went on to direct the similar sounding THE WRESTLER and now several re-writes later the film looks done.



This weekend The Playlist claims that Brad Pitt has dropped the film to work on other material and now Mark Wahlberg tells Coming Soon that he is meeting with Aronofsky TODAY for what could be the death meeting of THE FIGHTER...
I get up everyday at 5:00AM to train for a movie that might not even happen. It's depressing...I’m so focused on “Fighter” and that’s not even happening so it’s all depressing. I’m just looking for the next thing. I’m always looking for the next thing. I’ve done three or four movies since I’ve been training for Fighter,” Wahlberg said, later adding: “They finally got the green light, now we have to figure out the ...]]></description>
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		<title>MAX PAYNE posters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMP Awards have released two new international posters for the video game adaptation Max Payne, starring Mark Wahlberg as the broken New York DEA agent on the run from the police as he hunts out the killer of his family.



Hack director John Moore (The Omen remake, Flight of the Phoenix remake, Behind Enemy Lines) directed the picture due out on October 17th (US) and November 14th (UK).

Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris and even Chris O'Donnell co-star in what looks to be this year's Hitman. ]]></description>
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		<title>New MAX PAYNE images&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening October 17th is Max Payne, the latest attempt to turn a pretty popular video game into a financially successful franchise.

Only Resident Evil has had much success at that task this century.

Mark Wahlberg stars after the worst turn in his career in The Happening plays the titular cop who is haunted by the tragic loss of his family and has little regard for rules as he investigates a series of mysterious murders. The cute Mila Kunis co-stars for 20th Century Fox...


Hack director John Moore (The Omen, Behind Enemy Lines) directed the movie which might as well be called "this year's Hitman".

source - coming soon ]]></description>
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		<title>Evan Wright will take on his own COCAINE COWBOYS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist turned screenwriter Evan Wright (Generation Kill) will scribe Cocaine Cowboys for the big screen for Paramount, a movie which we told you back in January had Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg attached to adapt.


Centering around Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam vet who by the age of 20 ended up in violent gang related takeovers of New York nightclubs in the early 70's. He would later find himself drug dealing in Miami earning up to billions of dollars for a Medellin drug cartel.

Unbelievably he became a huge distributor of billions of dollars worth of cocaine and became such a big figure that he could bribe the Miami PD to shut down causeways, so in Grand Theft Auto style - he could race cars.

The events were all chronicled in the 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys.
"It's really an exciting story about the secret history of America," Wright said. "It's also a story that outwardly seems familiar, but the more you get into it, it's never really been told this way. It's about a guy who was a cocaine smuggler in a mafia -- we kind of know those stories -- but he also worked closely with the government to smuggle arms for the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bullet-Timed MAX PAYNE trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trailer for Max Payne is online, the video game adaptation that I have long since documented would probably end up being "the next Hitman" because of it's chosen director John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, The Omen remake) and one note source material.

Whether it's a good thing or note, that one note trait of the "bullet time" sequence has made itself into the first trailer...

mmm... at times it looks like you could replace Mark Wahlberg with Steven Seagal and it would be going STV.
At other times, it actually looks pretty inventive and some original shots, something that I've never seen in a frame of Moore's previous work.
The movie opens in October. With The Happening and The Omen... the last two movies from both guys respectively, they have a lot of forgiving to do.
source - coming soon
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		<title>The Red Banded HAPPENING</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The titanic ego of M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN has cursed his every move in recent years. The blossoming promise shown in his earliest films has disintegrated before the bewildered eyes of moviegoers everywhere. The trust is broken, replaced by a palpable resentment. It's like admiring a charismatic uncle as a young person, only to go behind the shed one day to see him sodomizing a dead cat; the relationship never quite recovers.

It's an understatement to say that Shyamalan has a lot riding on his newest pseudo-intellectual horror film THE HAPPENING. After the twin disasters THE VILLAGE and LADY IN THE WATER, this new film needs to really click, or Shyamalan will find himself trying to sell his patented twist-ending stories on streetcorners for nickels.

Unfortunately he decided to title this make-or-break endeavor THE HAPPENING, one of the worst titles I have ever heard or imagined. Depending on my mood, the title sounds either pretentious, boring, or pointless. What the fuck is a "happening" anyway???? This title means so very little that it threatens to evaporate right off of the one-sheet.

Then uber-genius Shyamalan releases a trailer that features the characters using the word "happening" over and over again. "Something is happening," says a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chris O&#8217;Donnell in MAX PAYNE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris O'Donnell, rarely seen on the big screen this century has managed to land himself a role in Max Payne says EW.

The former Dick Grayson was last seen in a notable film role eight years ago in Vertical Limit. Oh, how we haven't missed you Chris...

Max Payne is of course the adaptation of the Rockstar Video Game known by most as that "Matrix bullet time game". You just know they are going to put that in the film don't ya?

Mark Wahlberg stars as the cop who most overcome his grief for his dead family by tracking down the instigator of a new series of murders. Mila Kunis plays a similiarly distraught female sidekick and EW say O'Donnell will play an executive.

Behind Enemy Lines director John Moore is currently out filming in Toronto from a script by newcomer Beau Thorn.

Really weak supporting cast - if I've being blunt.

source - coming soon  ]]></description>
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		<title>The female AMERICAN PSYCHO lands a role in MAX PAYNE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very sexy Mila Kunis, who personally I can only remember from leading the insulting straight to video American Psycho II: All American Hero has joined the already cast lead Mark Wahlberg in the movie adaptation of the Rockstar video game Max Payne.

The 25 year old actress will be better known to Family Guy fans as the voice of Meg Griffin, or to viewers of That 70's Show who saw her play Jackie Burhart for nearly 200 episodes.

She also has a role in the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall...

In Max Payne she will play an assassin who teams up with Payne to avenge her sisters death. Payne himself is a cop haunted by the tragic loss of his family and gets tangled into a web of a murderous conspiracy.

John Moore, who may only be two steps down from Brett Ratner in the vacant movie stakes with Behind Enemy Lines and remakes to Flight of the Phoenix and The Omen on his CV, will direct Payne as his next feature.

Don't know about this one guys. I do like Wahlberg and his casting was pretty sweet (if a little predictable) but with boring John Moore helming and the casting of this innocent looking ...]]></description>
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		<title>THE HAPPENING gets trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I think I've seen this story before. It looks exactly the same as a novel I read a good number of years ago now. Cell by Stephen King.
In that book people who had mobile phones started going crazy and would turn into crazed zombie like freaks who commit mass homicide and even suicide.
That seems to be exactly what M. Night's latest movie THE HAPPENING is all about.


CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TRAILER (until I can find one to upload to the site).

Reminded me a little of the atmosphere brought about in Darabont's THE MIST.

I don't mind the trailer, it hits it's necessary points for creepy and Mark Wahlberg is enjoying some great success right now. I never thought M. Night would be able to convince me to see one of his films again after the double whammy that was THE VILLAGE and LADY IN THE WATER but I think I will see this... and probably regret it later.

Look for this on Friday 13th June! ]]></description>
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		<title>The Departed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Written by: William Monahan

Based on the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs written by Alan Mak &#38; Felix Chong

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale, David O'Hara

Film was released on October 6th 2006 in the U.K. and U.S.

[rating: 4.5]

Review by Matt Holmes 

I don't think any words that I can articulate will do this movie justice. Martin Scorsese has nailed it. The Departed truly has to be up their with any work the legendary director has ever done (no small statement), man you know I hate it that Scorsese's best work in years is the crime genre because contrary to what most critics say... he is much more than a crime director but fuck it, THIS FILM IS AWESOME.

Worried, anxious, sweating on this remake of the 2002 Hong Kong flick Infernal Affairs was I for many months but I should have known better when it was one of the greatest living directors at the helm. This is not a basic retread. It's not just a hack remake job for a quick buck which we are too often given with new sheens ...]]></description>
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