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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 almost missed out on his role in The Hurt Locker because he was tied up working on a movie with "quite ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
On the “Hurt Locker” side, the writers branch has 382 members, while the actors branch is by far the Academy’s largest, with 1,205. So Kathryn Bigelow’s film comes out with a big lead ...
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?
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...