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Actor Anthony Mackie has revealed he almost missed out on his breakthrough role in The Hurt Locker due to his commitment to ...
Anthony Mackie is opening up about how he almost lost his role in “The Hurt Locker” because of another director’s unreleased film. During a recent episode of Variety‘s “Know Their Lines,” Mackie ...
Anthony Mackie can never forget the “worst director” he ever met!During his appearance on Variety’s Know Their Lines’ recent ...
This Iraq war film sees Hawkeye and the future Captain America butting heads over bomb disposal in the first-ever ...
In "The Hurt Locker," however, it's what doesn't blow up that counts, because its main characters constantly struggle to save, not sacrifice, lives. Except, perhaps, their own.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of “The Hurt Locker” who sent multiple e-mails urging academy members to vote for his movie in the ...
The ‘Hurt Locker’ team is also now being sued by Jeffrey Sarver, an army sergeant who alleges that the film’s main character, played by Jeremy Renner, was largely based on Sarver’s own ...
For those voters, “The Hurt Locker” became the clear way to strike a little blow against the Academy’s blatant moves toward populism. 6. It had an irresistible storyline. The battle of the exes?
But when you make something like ‘The Hurt Locker,’ it’s very, very organic.” If he’d created something that sounded unique for “Locker,” it wouldn’t have worked, he adds ...
“Hurt Locker” screenwriter Mark Boal, who won the Oscar for original screenplay, thanked Bigelow, calling her an “extraordinary and visionary filmmaker,” and dedicated his Oscar win to the ...
The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow is the first woman in the 82 ...
Late last week, ‘The Hurt Locker’ producer Nicolas Chartier sent an e-mail to a group of peers and friends, at least some of whom are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...