Mark Wahlberg

The Happening
Running Time 91 minutes
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo

There’s a moment in the boring, brain-dead new M. Night Shyamalan film The Happening when Mark Wahlberg turns to the camera, trying to suppress a grin, and asks, “Can this really be happening?” I ask the same question every week, but it just gets worse.

It’s not a good sign when a director casts Mr. Wahlberg, a ruddy rapper-turned-actor who looks like a choirboy selling crack in the apse, as a science teacher pondering the mystery of why honeybees are disappearing from coast to coast.  read more »

After completing the film adaption of Lovely Bones, Mark Wahlberg will start shooting for a movie version of the videogame Max Payne, beginning next year, according to Variety. John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) is directing.

Wahlberg is negotiating to play 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. He finds himself up against an adversary bent on destroying Max and the streets he protects.

One day before shooting began, Ryan Gosling walked away from his part as a greiving father in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel, The Lovely Bones, according to Variety.

[Gosling] stepped out after gaining 20 pounds and growing a beard for the job. Sources attributed the exit to creative differences.

Mark Wahlberg will replace him.  read more »

George Clooney's Michael Clayton managed to outgross the national chart topper, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married, in Manhattan. And there was nary a peep out of the Joy Division biopic Control.  read more »