Contraband

Weekend Box-Office: January 13-15, 2012

Posted 14 years ago

Contraband grabs your dough! This weekend’s craving was clearly more for action than animation, and Mark Wahlberg was armed and ready for it — his R-rated bullet-riddled thriller CONTRABAND took the top with $24.1 million in its first weekend. As...

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Interview: Contraband star Mark Wahlberg

Posted 14 years ago

Mark Wahlberg has certainly come a long way since his days of rapping with the Funky Bunch and modeling underwear for CK. The fearless yet shrewd actor-producer is no stranger to kicking butt and setting things straight in drama-action-thrillers. He...

JoBlo.com’s Box-Office Predictions! (January 13-15)

Posted 14 years ago

It’s always fascinating to observe the box office competition, the bloody Hollywood gladiatorial clash. To cheer for champions and underdogs, to speculate on tactics, or to hail the demise of the dreadful. And, of course, to witness the weekly reminders...

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Interview: Contraband star Ben Foster!

Posted 14 years ago

When I think of Ben Foster, I immediately imagine someone super intense based on his on screen persona and past characters. He is a phenomenal actor, who’s commanding roles in THE MESSENGER, ALPHA DOG, and X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, have...

Review: Contraband

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Former smuggler Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is pulled back into the biz for one last score, after his ne’er do-well brother-in-law (Caleb Landry Jones) ends up dumping a shipment of drugs, putting him in debt to a local gangster...

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Interview: Contraband star Giovanni Ribisi

Posted 14 years ago

Giovanni Ribisi has gotta be one of the most fascinating and diverse actors of his generation. The talented actor has displayed his great range in films such as LOST IN TRANSLATION, BOILER ROOM, AVATAR and THE OTHER SISTER. He has...

Movie Trailers

Mark Wahlberg is coming for you in this new Contraband trailer

Posted 15 years ago

CONTRABAND seems like one of those movies where you don’t even need to know what’s going on. None of the trailers I’ve seen have done much of a job trying to explain the plot of the film (basically people are...

Mark Wahlberg continues shooting people in 2 Guns, with his Contraband director Baltasar Kormakur

Posted 15 years ago

For a while it seemed like Mark Wahlberg was going to make most of his movies with filmmaker David O. Russell, but did he spark a new bromance with director Baltasar Kormakur? Kormakur, who directed Wahlberg in the upcoming thriller...

Mark Wahlberg puts boots to asses in Contraband trailer

Posted 15 years ago

I’m not generally a big Mark Wahlberg guy, but even I have to admit that this first trailer for CONTRABAND looks pretty badass. The film is a remake of the thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam, and has acquired a smoother name for American...

Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi to join Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale in the thriller Contraband

Posted 16 years ago

A couple of years ago, Icelandic thriller REYKJAVIK-ROTTERDAMN was released, and it was produced, co-written, and starred Baltasar Kormakur (who directed the recently released INHALE). Now, according to Variety, Kormakur will direct a remake of that very same film to...