
British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor has joined Mark Wahlberg in Paramount’s action thriller Infinite, with Antoine Fuqua directing. Infinite is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian at Di Bonaventura Pictures, and John Zaozirny. John Lee Hancock and Ian Shorr are adapting D. Eric Maikranz’s novel “The Reincarnationist Papers,” which is centered on the Cognomina, […]

Mile 22 debuted to $1 million on Thursday night. The STX release stars Mark Wahlberg, a shadowy CIA operative, who must extract a valuable asset. It reunites the actor with Peter Berg — the pair scored with 2013’s Lone Survivor, but Patriots Day and Deepwater Horizon — both released in 2016 — were box office […]

Mark Wahlberg and fellow producer Stephen Levinson have announced a new comic book series with Vault Comics, Alien Bounty Hunter, and they’re crossing their fingers it one day heads to the big screen. “Some of today’s greatest film franchises originated as comics. We always try to get involved with the story telling process from its […]

“Shooter” has been renewed for a second season at USA Network. Starring Ryan Phillippe, the drama is based on Mark Wahlberg’s 2007 film of the same name. Wahlberg serves as an executive producer on the USA series. Phillippe stars as Bob Lee Swagger, a highly decorated veteran who is coaxed back into action to prevent […]

Fox’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” is leading the box office after $9 million Friday at 3,522 locations on its way to a $26 million opening weekend. Lionsgate’s “Deepwater Horizon” made $7.08 million on Friday at 3,259 locations. Audiences are not lining up to see the oil spill disaster movie, which, with a production […]

Following his scene-stealing role in “Furious 7,” Kurt Russell is in negotiations to join Mark Wahlberg in Lionsgate’s “Deepwater Horizon.” Pete Berg is directing the pic, which also stars “Jane the Virgin” actress Gina Rodriguez. Lionsgate, Participant Media and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are producing “Deepwater Horizon,” which details the 2010 explosion on the BP rig […]

Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in the J.C. Chandor-directed Deepwater Horizon for Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment and Participant Media. Based on the true-life story of the 2010 Bp oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico which caused the worst oil spill since the Exxon Valdez, the movie is being produced by Lorenzo di […]

Building on the success of “Wahlburgers,” the A&E network has greenlit a new half-hour reality pilot produced by Mark Wahlberg and set in his native Boston, Variety has confirmed. The project, which has a working title of “The Big Brew Theory,” follows four quirky and highly intelligent MIT grad students who have pooled their life savings to […]

Following the announcements that Conan O’Brien will host and the list of nominees last week, MTV has now announced that Transformers: Age of Extinction star Mark Wahlberg will receive the “MTV Generation Award” at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards on April 13. The cast of “Entourage” will be on hand to present the award to […]

Mark Wahlberg was spotted filming director Rupert Wyatt’s The Gambler in downtown Los Angeles yesterday, February 3rd. The film is a remake of the 1974 movie starring James Caan as an English professor with a gambling addiction. In the original, Caan’s character falls into debt to the mob for $40,000 but seems to relish the […]