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There was a phase in the mid-2000s when the Wachowski sisters made the most of the clout that they had earned via their three Matrix movies, and produced a couple of genre films that might not have been green-lit otherwise. Both of those films — V for Vendettaand Ninja Assassin — were directed by their close collaborator, James McTeigue. Now, over 15 years after its theatrical run, Ninja Assassin has crept into the HBO streaming charts, where it's facing off against the blockbusters Sinners and A Minecraft Movie.

According to FlixPatrol, Ninja Assassin took the fifth spot on HBO on July 7. Originally released in 2009, Ninja Assassin had a mediocre run at the box office, grossing $60 million worldwide against a reported budget of $30 million. The movie earned mixed reviews, and is currently sitting at a "rotten" 26% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "Overly serious and incomprehensibly edited,...

“Divergent” franchise producer Pouya Shahbazian has revealed the investors and the first productions planned for his recently-founded Staircase Studios AI, a film, television, and gaming studio centered on an AI workflow. The venture aims to produce more than 30 projects in the next 3-4 years at budgets under $500,000.

The key members of the team include partner and lead investor Kenneth Lerer, who co-founded The Huffington Post and is managing director emeritus of the venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau. Additional investors are Aryeh Bourkoff, CEO of Liontree; Robert Pittman; Tad Haley of Rafiki Ventures; and venture capital firm Red Sea Ventures.

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (“Transformers”) is an advisor to Staircase Studios.

“After packaging and selling 150 projects into the studio system over the past 15 years, I’ve borne witness to far too much inefficiency to continue the status quo,” said Shahbazian, Staircase’s CEO. “The past year, I’ve dedicated myself to...

Staircase Studios AI, a new maker of films, TV series and video games, is promising to deliver “near-major-studio” levels of quality at budgets under $500,000.

The new company was founded by Pouya Shahbazian, producer of the Divergent franchise. With input from Brett Stuart, Head of AI Filmmaking, Staircase has built a proprietary AI workflow called ForwardMotion, which the company says “revolutionizes the process of studio filmmaking.”

The studio says it will aim to produce more than 30 projects in the next three to four years, with photorealistic results. (Take a look at the first film in the video above and read on to see more film and TV titles on the company’s launch slate.)

“Near-major-studio-quality releases” will be the goal, a press release from Staircase said, at budgets under $500,000.

Joining the company as a partner and working as the lead investor in the venture is Kenneth Lerer, who co-founded The Huffington Post...

In 2016, Mark Wahlberg starred in one of the best movies of his career. Deepwater Horizon followed the real-life story of an oil drilling rig exploding in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a catastrophic on-sea incident that is captured in all of its intensity in the Peter Berg-directed film. With an even 82% score from critics and audiences alike on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has been a smash-hit on several streaming services as of late. However, Deepwater Horizon has now found a new home, and it sadly won't be free to stream this time around.

Starting Feb. 1, Deepwater Horizon will be available to stream on Max. The second collaboration between Wahlberg and Berg, the film has two Academy Awards nominations for Best Visual Effects and Sound Editing. It's easy to see why, as the film is a technical masterpiece, a visceral experience that showcases the chaotic and fiery nature of the cataclysmic event.

Teen Wolf star Dylan O'Brien's Deepwater Horizon is now streaming on Tubi. The acclaimed 2016 biographical disaster movie, which also stars Mark Wahlberg, received two Academy Award nominations but was not financially successful.

Directed by Peter Berg from Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand's screenplay, Deepwater Horizon adapts "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours," David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul's The New York Times article, published on December 25, 2010. The movie chronicles the sad chain of events that led to the titular oil rig's massive blowout, which led to the tragic loss of lives. Dylan O'Brien plays Caleb Holloway, a member of a drilling team headed by Mike Williams (Wahlberg). Deepwater Horizon's ensemble also includes Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Kate Hudson, Ethan Suplee, Brad Leland, and Jason Kirkpatrick.

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One of Mark Wahlberg’s best movies is all set to land on free streaming at the end of the year. Released back in 2016, the disaster movie Deepwater Horizon tells the true story of an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and is one of the few movies that both critics and audiences completely agree on. Deepwater Horizon stands at 82% from both groups, with director Peter Berg’s disaster movie receiving praise for its gripping action and emotional thrills.

Berg worked from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, with Deepwater Horizon boasting an all-star cast that includes Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien, and Kate Hudson alongside Mark Wahlberg. The disaster action flick is due to land on Tubi on December 31, and you can check out the official synopsis below.

“On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico,...

A 2009 martial arts movie produced by the Wachowskis is performing well during its run on streaming. The Wachowskis made their directorial debut with the crime thriller Bound in 1996, after penning the screenplay for 1995 Sylvester Stallone movie Assassins. But the siblings shot to global fame when they wrote and directed the 1999 science fiction action film The Matrix starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, and Hugo Weaving. The movie was met with widespread critical acclaim, and is considered a modern classic, as well as one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction films ever made.

Following the unexpected success of The Matrix, the duo wrote and directed The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003), as well as expanding The Matrix franchise in the realm of video games and animation. Branching out from the series, they also wrote dystopian action movie V For Vendetta, as well as making sports action-comedy Speed Racer,...

Remember that time Mark Wahlberg said he could've stopped 9/11? He later apologized, but it seems the world-famous hamburger salesman likes to fantasize about being present for ripped-from-recent-headlines tragedies as a way of "honoring" the real people involved. In fact, he did this on no less than three occasions in the 2010s with director Peter Berg; first on the film "Lone Survivor" in 2013, and then twice in a single year with "Deepwater Horizon" and "Patriots Day" in 2016.

Of these three, "Deepwater Horizon" is probably the best, if only because it's devoid of the suspect political overtones of the other two. The film dramatizes the 2010 Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit explosion and oil spill, pointing the finger of blame squarely at the corner-cutting Bp middle managers who ignored safety concerns raised by the rig's workers. With Wahlberg off playing action hero for most of the movie as Chief Electronics Technician Michael "Mike" Williams,...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster resulted in 11 deaths and 17 injuries. The real event had ten, not nine, individuals left behind on the rig. The 2016 movie was praised for its accuracy despite some changes and its poor box office performance.

Deepwater Horizon revolves around the events of the devastating 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which sadly killed multiple people in real life. The 2016 biographical disaster film, directed by Peter Berg and written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, is adapted from a New York Times article — "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours" — by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul that was published on December 25, 2010, eight months after the disaster. The piece goes into great detail about everything that happened, from the calm morning before the explosion to the next day when survivors prayed for the deceased.

Whereas the movie attempted to be as accurate as possible to Deepwater Horizon's true story, some parts had to be changed,...

The moment the WGA strike started at 12:01 a.m. on May 2, all late-night shows went dark. Many presume that the same is bound to happen with daytime dramas if SAG-AFTRA goes on strike July 1 (or later), as those series, similarly, are in continuous, year-round production.

However, SAG-AFTRA’s film and TV contract, which expires June 30, does not apply to SAG-AFTRA members working on soaps. It means those cast members will have to continue to work even if their guild goes on strike after the membership voted overwhelmingly for strike authorization ahead of SAG-AFTRA’s current negotiations with the the studios’ collective bargaining representative the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. And, with the four daytime dramas — The Young and the Restless (CBS), The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS), Days Of Our Lives (Peacock) and General Hospital (ABC) — continuing to churn out scripts amid the WGA strike using fi-core and other non-member writers,...

If you're a history buff like I am, or if you're just interested in learning more about U.S. Presidents of the past, you're gonna want to watch this new series that The History Channel is developing. It's called The Commanders, and it's an anthology series that "will dramatize the biggest moments in American history and those that served as commander-in-chief."

The limited series is said to range from four to ten hours long and it will focus on presidents including Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. According to THR, History Channel is also internally developing projects on George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower.

The stories that the network plans on telling come from a collection of books that they have optioned including The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton by Peter Baker, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, Thomas Jefferson...

Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg re-teams with director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) in the tense, moving action drama Deepwater Horizon, arriving on Digital HD December 20th from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate Company. Filled with powerful performances and “white-knuckle tension” (USA Today) Deepwater Horizon will be available on 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand January 10. Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh, Deepwater Horizon honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change all of their lives forever. This epic story of survival also stars Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight), Academy Award® nominee John Malkovich (Best Supporting Actor, In the Line of Fire, 1993), Gina Rodriguez (TV’s “Jane the Virgin”), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner franchise), and Academy Award® nominee Kate Hudson (Best Supporting Actress, Almost Famous, 2000).

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Does your memory go as far back as 2010, or have too many catastrophes and cataclysms blurred your vision? Peter Berg’s tense account of the Bp Gulf Oil Spill debacle covers twenty hours of technological peril, as Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell battle idiotic executives and a badly-cemented oil well that’s fixing to blow sky high — and to turn a massive floating oil rig into a hellish inferno.

Deepwater Horizon

Blu-ray + DVD

Lionsgate

2016 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 97 min. / Street Date January 10, 2016 / 39.99

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, Kate Hudson, Brad Leland.

Cinematography Enriqaue Chediak

Film Editors Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.

Original Music Steve Jablonsky

Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand from an article by David Rohde, Stephanie Saul

Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Mark Wahlberg, David Womark

Directed by Peter Berg

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

What...

Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg re-teams with director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) in the tense, moving action drama Deepwater Horizon, arriving on Digital HD December 20th from Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate Company. Filled with powerful performances and “white-knuckle tension” (USA Today) Deepwater Horizon will be available on 4K Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand January 10. Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh, Deepwater Horizon honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change all of their lives forever. This epic story of survival also stars Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight), Academy Award® nominee John Malkovich (Best Supporting Actor, In the Line of Fire, 1993), Gina Rodriguez (TV’s “Jane the Virgin”), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner franchise), and Academy Award® nominee Kate Hudson (Best Supporting Actress, Almost Famous, 2000).

Mark Wahlberg...

I always like when an actor hooks up with the right filmmaker. Often, it can lead to great things. For Mark Wahlberg, teaming up with director Peter Berg a few years ago led to a fantastic film in Lone Survivor. Later this week, they pair up again for Deepwater Horizon, a movie that could well be of some note. Later on this year, they’ll be together again for a more overt awards player in Patriot’s Day, but that’s for another day. Tomorrow, we get their take on the famous oil spill tragedy, focusing on some of the heroism that went down on that day. It could be in line to become an under the radar hit, so watch out. The film is a look at the disaster in April of 2010 on an offshore oil rig. Called the Deepwater Horizon, as you might imagine, the rig would explode...

Six years ago, nightmare images of an oil rig burning at night in the Gulf Coast seared themselves into memory. The fire raged high and furious against a pitch-black landscape, leaving one to wonder just what had happened ... and who, if anyone, survived. Now comes Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon, a dramatization of events in the hours leading up to the explosion that claimed 11 lives. Its direct source is a magazine article by David Rohde and Stephanie Saul; the screenplay is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan (Berg's The Kingdom, and also Lions for Lambs and others) and Matthew Sand. In its early scenes, the movie feels very much like a staged reading of a magazine article, filled with a copious amount of information that...

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On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig stationed off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico caught on fire, leading to one of the worst ecological disasters and oil spills in U.S. waters. 11 men died during the fire, but a lot more survived as they tried to stop the spill before being evacuated.

Following their collaboration on 2013’s Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg and director Pete Berg have re-teamed for Deepwater Horizon, a recreation of the hours leading up to the fire and how engineer Mike Williams (played by Wahlberg) made sure that as much of his crew got off the rig safely as he could. Besides being an amazing recreation of the actual fire, the film also deals with some of the reasons why things might have gone wrong as Williams and the rig’s offshore installation manager “Mr. Jimmy” Harrell (Kurt Russell) butt heads with visiting Bp execs.

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I’ve often thought that more filmmakers should sit and properly watch the first half of Alien. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece is rightly lauded for its tension, for its outstanding production design, and for its ability to genuinely creep under your skin. But one of the key reasons, for me, that it feels so special is that it does so much quality foundation work with its characters. That an extraordinary situation is made to feel ordinary, by a bunch of people moaning and grumbling about everyday things, rather than talking in philosophic soliloquies, as too many modern characters seem to do.

Deepwater Horizon director Peter Berg, I think, has watched Alien many times, and he really gets it. You only have to watch either the film or television series of Friday Night Lights to get that he understands the importance of character,...

MaryAnn’s quick take…

Immensely intense and suspenseful. Disaster filmmaking at its most gripping, yet there is nothing in the least bit exploitive or sensationalized about it. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Wait, what? “Based on a true story of real life heroes”? Wasn’t the Deepwater Horizon that total cluster-you-know-what of incompetence and corporate greed that killed 11 people and spilled an ungodly amount of oil all over the Gulf of Mexico, oil that is still killing seabirds and fish and cute baby dolphins to this day, six years later? Yes, it is. But this is not that story, at least not anymore than it can make some Bp executives look wolfish and blundering (which they well deserve). This movie doesn’t even get into the oil...

“Deepwater Horizon” ends with a list of 11 people who died aboard the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, but it spends nearly two hours beforehand focused on one survivor. Electronics expert Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) is the courageous figure at the center of this unsettling reenactment, directed by Peter Berg with a sharp eye for fiery details and the morbid suspense leading up to it, but fewer ideas to prop up the mayhem. As the bursting oil gives way to flames, Williams and gruff installation manager Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell on autopilot) squint and grunt their way through the shadowy structure in a hectic escape that forms the movie’s prolonged finale. Even though it takes nearly an hour to get there, the payoff is simplistic. “Deepwater Horizon” fixates on beginning of the infamous oil spill with the superficial intensity of a theme park ride. It...

Exclusive: Matthew Sand, who wrote the original screenplay for Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, which stars Mark Wahlberg and has its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next Tuesday, is writing a mini-series for the BBC entitled Lionhearts about the Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart and the battle for Jerusalem. Pierre Morell (Taken) is attached to direct. Moving from Deepwater Horizon, a film about the heroism during one of the worst ecological disasters in…...

Exclusive: Matthew Sand, who wrote the original screenplay for Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, which stars Mark Wahlberg and has its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next Tuesday, is writing a mini-series for the BBC entitled Lionhearts about the Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart and the battle for Jerusalem. Pierre Morell (Taken) is attached to direct. Moving from Deepwater Horizon, a film about the heroism during one of the worst ecological disasters in…...

Summit Entertainment has released a new poster for their upcoming oil rig disaster film Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien and Kate Hudson.

Peter Berg directed the film from a screenplay written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand from an article by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul published in The New York Times.

On April 20th, 2010, the world’s largest man-made disaster occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone’s lives forever.

Check out the new poster below and let us know what you think.

Deepwater Horizon will hit theaters on September 30, 2016.

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Peter Berg’s doomed oil rig Deepwater Horizon plunges into the sea in explosive new poster for the director’s upcoming ensemble drama.

While the infamous Bp oil spill that ensued occupied international headlines for months – if not years – Berg’s high-profile picture circles back to those precious moments before the biggest man-made disaster in human history.

In spotlighting the brave men and women that experienced the event first-hand – not unlike Patriots Day, which also heralds a collaboration between Berg and Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg in 2016 – Deepwater Horizon features an all-star cast headlined by Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Dylan O’Brien, and Golden Globe-winner Gina Rodriguez. Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand are the brains behind the screenplay, and it’ll be fascinating to see how the scribes build a compelling character drama around such a momentous event.

Deepwater Horizon will make shore on September 30, when...

The first of two Peter Berg-directed, Mark Wahlberg-led films we’ll get within just a few months later this year, Deepwater Horizon depicts the harrowing explosion in April 2010, which killed 11 crewman. (The other is Patriots Day, depicting the Boston Marathon bombings, set for late December.) Today we have a new full-length trailer for the Bp oil spill drama ahead of a September release.

Selling the drama more as an action film — rather than the tone one might expect A Most Violent Year‘s J.C. Chandor would have come up with before dropping out — it might have commercial appeal, but we can’t say it’s among our most-anticipated of the fall. Also starring Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, Kate Hudson and Dylan O’Brien, check out the new trailer and poster below.

On April 20th, 2010, one of the world’s largest man-made disasters occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.

After engineering a taut and intimate war thriller three years ago with Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg are primed to reunite not once, but twice over the next twelve months for Boston Marathon thriller Patriots Day and Deepwater Horizon.

It’s the latter Wahlberg-Berg collaboration that will make shore first this September, documenting the calamitous Bp oil spill of 2010 that would go on to spawn a massive political, social and, most importantly, environmental debate that would span for years to come.

But much like Lone Survivor before it, Deepwater Horizon will place a laser focus on the heroes at the core of the story, and today’s series of grimy character posters for the action-thriller are designed to spotlight the “real life heroes” caught amidst the man-made disaster.

Adapting that gruelling tale for the big screen are Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, and we’re intrigued...

Summit Entertainment has released a brand new full trailer for their upcoming oil rig disaster film Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien and Kate Hudson.

Peter Berg directed the film from a screenplay written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand from an article by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul published in The New York Times.

On April 20th, 2010, the world’s largest man-made disaster occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone’s lives forever.

Check out the new full trailer below and let us know what you think.

Deepwater Horizon will hit theaters on September 30, 2016.

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This fall, Mark Wahlberg and his Lone Survivor director Peter Berg will team up again to showcase the heroism that was on display during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Back in March, we got the first trailer for this true story adaptation. Today, we have the second trailer, chocked full of even more action and drama, as we get ready for the September 30 release. If that wasn't enough, we also have character posters featuring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien and John Malkovich.

On April 20, 2010, the world's largest man-made disaster occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 people and injured 17 others, with more than 200 million gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. The oil spill affected the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, with over 8,000 animals reportedly killed as a result of the spill.

Bubbling to the surface mere hours after Lionsgate unveiled an early stream of photos, today heralds the release of the first Deepwater Horizon teaser trailer.

Placing a laser focus on the disastrous Bp oil spill of 2010, Peter Berg’s (Lone Survivor) environmental actioner thrusts Mark Wahlberg into the Gulf of Mexico where, unbeknownst to him, the crew of an American oil rig will be left facing the biggest man-made disaster in modern history.

But what today’s trailer does so well is introducing us to a time before the sea-floor oil gusher ruptured, expertly allowing an endearing family breakfast to run in parallel with action shots pulled from when the shit hits the fan. Breaking down the minutia of deep-sea drilling in layman’s terms, the opening involves Wahlberg’s blue-collar worker and his daughter using a Coke can – Independence Day, eat your heart out – to illustrate the process involved...

Back in May, we got our first look at Mark Wahlberg in the upcoming thriller Deepwater Horizon, as production got under way in New Orleans. We haven't heard much about this true story adaptation since then, but today Lionsgate has unveiled the first trailer, along with a poster and new photos. This first footage cuts back and forth between Mike Williams' (Mark Wahlberg) family life and his work on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, which became the site of an unprecedented disaster.

On April 20, 2010, the world's largest man-made disaster occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone's lives forever. Mark Wahlberg leads an all-star cast that also includes Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Kate Hudson and Dylan O'Brien.

Peter Berg directs from a screenplay...

Summit Entertainment has released the teaser trailer for their upcoming oil rig disaster film Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien and Kate Hudson.

Peter Berg directed the film from a screenplay written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand from an article by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul published in The New York Times.

On April 20th, 2010, the world’s largest man-made disaster occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story honors the brave men and women whose heroism would save many on board, and change everyone’s lives forever.

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Six years ago, the Gulf of Mexico was transformed into a political hotbed as the United States, Mexico and countries in the Caribbean came face to face with the biggest man-made environmental disaster in recent memory – the Bp oil rig explosion, resulting in a catastrophic oil spill that could been seen from space.

Scrambling to respond, the incident spawned a months-long effort to protect beaches, wildlife and communities all across the Gulf, eventually leading to sealing the sea-floor oil gusher after close to five months. Circling back to the root of the tragedy is Peter Berg’s upcoming disaster pic Deepwater Horizon, and today the first images have surfaced placing Lone Survivor alum Mark Wahlberg in the thick of the maelstrom.

Featuring a script penned by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, Deepwater Horizon will shed light on the real-life event, and the brave men and...

Principal photography has begun on director Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The film stars Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg (Lone Survivor, The Fighter) alongside Golden Globe nominee Kurt Russell (Furious Seven and the forthcoming The Hateful Eight), Academy Award nominee John Malkovich (Red, Burn After Reading), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) and Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson (Almost Famous, Nine).

Deepwater Horizon is based on the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, the story chronicles the courage of those who worked on the Deepwater Horizon and the extreme moments of bravery and survival in the face of what would become one of the biggest man-made disasters in world history.

Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, The Kingdom) is directing the screenplay written by Matthew Sand and Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom...

Lionsgate has unveiled the very first photo from Peter Berg's true-story drama "Deepwater Horizon" which has begun filming in New Orleans ahead of a release in cinemas in September 2016.

Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Dylan O'Brien, Gina Rodriguez and Kate Hudson star in the film which is based on the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and chronicles the courage of those who worked on the rig during the disaster. Matthew Sand and Matthew Michael Carnahan penned the script.

Kate Hudson is the latest cast addition to Deepwater Horizon.

She will play Felicia, the wife of Mark Wahlberg's Mike Williams who is aboard the oil rig during the Bp spill of 2010, reports Empire.

The film has been based on a New York Times article 'Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour' and will follow the 48 hours before and the day of the spill which left 11 dead and oil gushing into the ocean for days.

John Malkovich has previously been cast, with rumours Gina Rodriguez will also be appearing.

Peter Berg is directing from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand and Academy Award nominee Jc Chandor.

Deepwater Horizon is due for Us release September 30, 2016.

No UK date has been confirmed yet.

John Malkovich has joined the cast of Deepwater Horizon.

The actor will star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the film, which is based on the 2010 Bp oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

He will play "a stubborn Bp representative" who underestimates the danger of the work being undertaken on the rig, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The incident left 11 people dead and oil gushing into the sea for nearly three months.

Wahlberg leads the cast as an electrician based on the oil rig, with Dylan O'Brien recently reported to have signed up for a role.

It has also been rumoured that Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is in negotiations for a part.

Lone Survivor's Peter Berg is set to direct from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand and Academy Award nominee Jc Chandor.

Deepwater Horizon currently has a Us release date of September 30, 2016, but no...

Dylan O'Brien is rumoured to be in talks for a role in Mark Wahlberg's Deepwater Horizon.

Deadline reports the actor could be set for a part in the film based on the 2010 Bp oil rig explosion in the Gulf Of Mexico in 2010 that left 11 people dead and oil gushing into the sea for nearly three months.

O'Brien would play the youngest crew member Caleb Holloway.

It has already been rumoured that Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is in negotiations for a role.

Lone Survivor's Peter Berg is set to direct from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand and Academy Award nominee Jc Chandor.

Wahlberg is starring as an electrician based on the oil rig.

Deepwater Horizon is due to open in the Us on September 30, 2016 but no UK date has been confirmed yet.

Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez is reportedly in negotiations to join Mark Wahlberg in the drama film Deepwater Horizon.

Deepwater Horizon examines the causes of the greatest oil spill in Us history, which occurred off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Lone Survivor's Peter Berg will direct a screenplay from Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand and Academy Award nominee Jc Chandor.

Rodriguez is being eyed for the role of Andrea Fleytas, an oil rig operator who was reprimanded when she attempted to signal a warning for the impending spill.

Kristen Stewart was also in contention to play Fleytas in Deepwater Horizon, according to The Wrap.

Wahlberg will also be starring in the movie as an electrician aboard the doomed oil rig.

Deepwater Horizon opens in the Us on September 30, 2016. No UK date has been set as yet.

Rodriguez's breakout role in The CW's Jane the Virgin...

Director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) is in talks to replace J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) at the helm of Lionsgate's Deepwater Horizon. J.C. Chandor had been attached to the project for some time now, but he backed away from the adaptation due to creative differences. If Peter Berg's deal is finalized, Deepwater Horizon will reunite him with his Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg.

The Wrap reports that Liam Neeson, who starred in Peter Berg's Battleship, and Michael Keaton are being sought to co-star in Deepwater Horizon, although no deals are currently in place and it isn't known what characters they may portray. The project is based on a December 2010 New York Times article entitled Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul, which chronicles the events leading up to the 2010 explosion on the Bp oil rig dubbed Deepwater Horizon.

Mark Wahlberg is playing Mike Williams,...

After directing Robert Redford in All is Lost, filmmaker J.C. Chandor was slated to return to sea with Deepwater Horizon, a film about the oil rig of the same name and the tragedy that followed after it exploded and unleashed massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, making it the second largest environmental disaster in the United States. However, The Wrap reports that Chandor has now been replaced by Peter Berg on the film that will star Mark Wahlberg, who last worked with the director on his military drama Lone Survivor. Reportedly, Chandor left the Lionsgate project due to creative differences. In addition, the trade reports Berg's Battleship star Liam Neeson and Michael Keaton are also being sought for roles in the film, but their specific characters have been revealed. Based on a New York Times article titled "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour" by David Barstow, David Rohde,...

One of the most fascinating filmmaking voices of the moment, and certainly one of the most prolific, J.C. Chandor has been moving from project to project — "Margin Call," "All Is Lost," "A Most Violent Year" — shifting from one genre to the next with ease. He had been on track to get his biggest project yet going, "Deepwater Horizon" starring Mark Wahlberg, but the director's participation has sunk. Chandor has exited the movie over the standard "creative differences." Instead, Wahlberg's "Lone Survivor" bud Peter Berg has stepped in to help, and yeah, "creative differences" starts to make a whole lot of sense now. Penned by Matthew Sand and Matthew Carnahan, the film is based on the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, and chronicles the courage of those who worked on the Deepwater Horizon and the extreme moments of bravery and survival...

Exclusive: Lionsgate International will kick off pre-sales in Santa Monica next week on the Mark Wahlberg starrer from Jc Chandor.

di Bonaventura Pictures, Closest To The Hole Productions and Leverage Entertainment produce the Summit and Participant Media presentation. Lionsgate will release in the Us on September 30, 2016.

Jc Chandor is scheduled to commence shooting in March 2015 based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Matthew Sand and Matthew Michael Carnahan.

Deepwater Horizon is inspired by the catastrophic oil rig collapse in the Gulf in 2010 and centres on a rig officer and a band of colleagues as they race to evacuate injured co-workers and hunt for survivors on the stricken platform.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura produces with Mark Vahradian, Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and David Womark.

The world premiere of Chandor’s A Most Violent Year starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain will open AFI Fest on November 6.

Jc Chandor and Mark Wahlberg's Deepwater Horizon has announced a 2016 release date.

The director and actor are collaborating on the drama, based on the true story of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wahlberg will star in the film, which focuses on the crew of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig as they face the disaster.

Matthew Sand and Matthew Carnahan wrote the script for the production, which will begin next year.

Wahlberg will next be seen in The Gambler.

Chandor's next release will be the Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac-starring A Most Violent Year.

Deepwater Horizon will be released on September 30, 2016.

Well, Summit is already scoping out a 2016 awards season plan as they've set Deepwater Horizon, the next film from J.C. Chandor (All is Lost) for a September 30, 2016 release date, which pretty much guarantees a Tiff 2016 premiere... that is if you're planning your schedule that far in advance. The film will star Mark Wahlberg and is based on the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, the story chronicles the courage of those who worked on the Deepwater Horizon and the extreme moments of bravery and survival in the face of what would become one of the biggest man-made disasters in world history. Matthew Sand (Ninja Assassin) and Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom, World War Z) penned the screenplay. Filming is set to begin March 2015 and over at Hollywood Elsewhere, Jeff Wells alludes to the fact Liam Neeson may be joining the cast.

Summit Entertainment has issued a September 30, 2016 release date for their true story adaptation Deepwater Horizon, which has Mark Wahlberg attached to star. The project currently has the release date to itself, although it comes a week before Warner Bros.' Ninjago on September 23, 2016, and a week after Warner Bros.' Live by Night and Universal's Monster High on October 7, 2016.

Deepwater Horizon is based on the New York Times article Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour by David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul, which chronicles the 48 hours before the oil tanker Deepwater Horizon exploded off the Gulf of Mexico coast in 2010. The explosion resulted in the worst oil spill since the Exxon Valdez disaster. Mark Wahlberg is playing the oil rig's No. 2 manager in the adaptation, which will shine a light on true acts of heroism that were never made public after the explosion, which killed 11 crew members and injured 16 others.

Summit Entertainment has announced that Jc Chandor's "Deepwater Horizon" is set to score a release on September 30th 2016. Matthew Sand and Matthew Carnahan penned the script.

Mark Wahlberg stars in the movie about the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and chronicles the courage of those who worked on the rig during what would become one of the biggest man-made disasters in world history.

Meanwhile, the upcoming reboot/refresh of the "Vacation" franchise at Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line has been moved up. Originally slated for November 13th 2015, it will now hit a month earlier on October 9th 2015.

The currently filming project, which has officially scored the title "Vacation," stars the likes of Ed Helms, Leslie Mann, Christina Applegate, Chris Hemsworth, Charlie Day along with cameos from original stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein are helming.

Summit Entertainment has staked out a date for Deepwater Horizon, the true story account of the devastating 2010 Bp oil spill that Mark Wahlberg is starring in and Jc Chandor is directing. The film from Participant Media and Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s di Bonaventura Pictures will hit theaters in wide release on September 30, 2016.

Script by Matthew Sand and Matthew Carnahan turns the worst oil spill since the Exxon Valdez into an action-drama, depicting what went down aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the 48 hours preceding April 20, 2010, the day an explosion killed 11 crew members and sparked a massive fireball that sunk the offshore oil rig and unloaded 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.

Summit Entertainment has set a wide September 30 2016 release for J C Chandor’s oil spill disaster film starring Mark Wahlberg.

Participant Media and di Bonaventura Pictures are the production companies on Deepwater Horizon and Lorenzo di Bonaventura serves as producer.

Matthew Sand and Matthew Carnahan wrote the story about the 2010 spill that ensued after an offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf Of Mexico.

• Mark Wahlberg may star in the Bp oil rig explosion film Deepwater Horizon from All Is Lost director J.C. Chandor. The movie is adapted from The New York Times article “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hour” and is based on the true story of the men who worked on the rig in the Gulf of Mexico when it exploded in 2010, causing one of the worst oil spills in history. Wahlberg would play the No. 2 manager on site. Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z) has adapted the latest draft based on an original version written by Matthew Sand. [Deadline]

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Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in the J.C. Chandor's "Deepwater Horizon" for Summit Entertainment and Participant Media.

The true-life story deals with the 2010 Bp oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico which caused the worst oil spill since the Exxon Valdez. Wahlberg will star as the No. 2 manager on the doomed rig.

The film showcases what happened behind-the-scenes in the 48 hours leading up to and the day of the disaster. It also revisits the acts of heroism that followed in trying to rescue men in the water, stories not known to the general public.

Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand worked on the script and the film is targeting a late spring/early summer shoot. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce.

Source: Deadline...