Mark Boal

Date of Birth

1973-01-23

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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Interview: Mark Boal, Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman, and Jessica Ann Collins Talk Echo 3

Posted 4 years ago

Mark Boal has been an impressive force for a few years now. His producing and writing credits for Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker both brought him early acclaim. And now, he brings his talents to the small screen...

TV Reviews

Echo 3 TV Review

Posted 4 years ago

Plot: When brilliant scientist Amber Chesborough vanishes along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband—both elite U.S. Army commandos—struggle to find her amid a guerilla war, discovering that the woman they love might have a secret. Review: Mark Boal...

TV Trailers

Echo 3: Luke Evans travels to Venezuela to rescue his sister in the trailer for new Apple action thriller

Posted 4 years ago

Mark Boal, the writer of Academy Award-winning films The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, provides us with a new action thriller from AppleTV+. The new series, Echo 3, stars Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman, Jessica Ann Collins, and James Udom....

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Echo 3: Apple TV+ premiere date and images unveiled for Mark Boal’s anticipated action-thriller

Posted 4 years ago

Apple TV+ is giving action fans a look at Echo 3, a new 10-episode thriller from Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Triple Frontier, Zero Dark Thirty). Luke Evans (Dracula Untold, Beauty and the Beast), Michiel Huisman (Treme, The Age of Adaline), and Jessica Ann Collins...

Ben Affleck exits J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier

Posted 9 years ago

Sometimes there are movies which just can't catch a break and you can't help but feel sorry for, and TRIPLE FRONTIER is certainly one of them. Once set to be helmed by Kathryn Bigelow with actors such as Tom Hanks,...

The Shallows director to take on movie about Waco standoff

Posted 9 years ago

During this age of tightly-wound tensions between civilians and law enforcement more and more films are coming out depicting times when it seemed those who are there to protect us are actually doing more harm than good. One of those...

Jessica Chastain on how Tom Cruise is to thank for Zero Dark Thirty

Posted 9 years ago

Tom Cruise has made a career out of being an overall mega human by hanging off the side of planes, running along the world’s tallest building, sliding across living room floors and teaching us how to love in JERRY MAGUIRE…and...

Zero Dark Thirty writer planning drama series around 2016 election

Posted 9 years ago

The 2016 presidential election is over and done, but emotions have flooded over into 2017 and continue to rush like a river even as I write this sentence. No matter your stance it was quite the experience watching it all...

Tom Hardy, Channing Tatum eyed for thriller from Zero Dark Thirty scribe

Posted 9 years ago

Not often, in this line of work, do I hear some casting news, followed by the name of the screenwriter, then finally read the directors name and then shout "YES!" in my head. I can honestly say I did that...

Anthony Mackie reteaming with Kathryn Bigelow & Mark Boal for Riots flick

Posted 10 years ago

THE HURT LOCKER. ZERO DARK THIRTY. Two movies from director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal that are so goddamned perfect you’d think Bigelow and Boal are two halves of Zeus’ shinbone that were separated, but have been reattached to...

John Boyega signs up for Kathryn Bigelow’s latest

Posted 10 years ago

Everyone wants a piece of John Boyega now. Coming off the success of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, Boyega has already signed on to be a major piece of PACIFIC RIM 2. However, he's also spreading his wings as an...

Johnny Depp may star in J.C. Chandor’s crime thriller Triple Frontier

Posted 10 years ago

Johnny Depp might be returning to the world of organized crime in a new movie. Variety has learned that the actor is in early talks to star in TRIPLE FRONTIER, an ensemble crime thriller "set in the notorious border zone...

The UnPopular Opinion: The Hurt Locker

Posted 11 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

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