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    Mark Wahlberg takes the law into his own hands in first red-band 'Mile 22' trailer

    Mark Wahlberg plays a covert intelligence operative who's a member of a shadowy squad in the first preview for a potential franchise-launcher.

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    'Patriots Day': How the Film's Team Re-Created the Watertown Shootout

    In separate interviews, director Peter Berg and director of photography Tobias Schliessler explain their approach to one of the film's pivotal scenes

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    Boston Marathon Bombing Victims Praise Heroism in Emotional 'Patriots Day' Trailer

    Hollywood drama meets its real-life inspiration in the new trailer for Patriots Day, Peter Berg’s cinematic retelling of the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. In the clip – the second full-length trailer released for the film – Mark Wahlberg, who plays a Boston police officer who joins the FBI in the hunt for the terror suspects, discusses the heroism that inspired the film’s plot. Patriots Day weaves together the interconnected stories of Special Agent Richard Deslauriers

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    'Patriots Day' Review: A Solemn Salute to Boston's Heroes

    A fitting big screen tribute to the resilient Americans who acted nobly in the face of terror at the 2013 Boston Marathon

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    'Patriots Day' Featurette: Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, and More on 'Getting It Right' in Boston Marathon Bombing Drama

    Deepwater Horizon from director Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg is still playing in theaters, but their next collaboration isn’t far behind. Patriots Day, a dramatic re-telling of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, is a ripped-from-the-recent-headlines story that remains fresh in many people’s minds. As a new featurette debuting exclusively at Yahoo Movies (watch it above) makes clear, the filmmakers are doing everything they can to remain as faithful as possible to the facts of the event.

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Action Hero Gina Rodriguez Talks Dangerous 'Deepwater Horizon' Stunts and Boxing Her Director Peter Berg

    Because she’s best known for the CW soap opera satire Jane the Virgin, you might not realize that Gina Rodriguez is a bona fide badass. Rodriguez did all of her own stunts in the movie except for one: the climactic nine-story leap Williams and Fleytas would make to safety. “Insurance wouldn’t clear me,” a disappointed Rodriguez lamented to Yahoo Movies at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Deepwater premiered.

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Peter Berg Defends Portrayal of Oil Workers as Heroes in 'Deepwater Horizon'

    Peter Berg is about to get worked up. Berg feels there is an unfair public perception of the workers onboard the titular oil rig — particularly the 11 men who died in the 2010 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — which he sites as a primary reason he wanted to make the film. “It’s such ignorance,” Berg (Lone Survivor, Friday Night Lights) told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, shortly before Deepwater premiered to anti-oil pipeline protestors outside the screening a