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Well, this is certainly a surprise. THR reports that Dwayne Johnson is cashing in on his hard-earned box-office cred and nailing down a flashy HBO show with all kinds of big names involved. We're talking Peter Berg as director, Mark Wahlberg as produ...

Here is actor Jesse Plemons, talking to Zap2It in 2007 about the first time he suited up to shoot a football scene on Friday Night Lights: "There's this play where Taylor is supposed to knock the crap out of me. So he does, and I get up and I'm jumpi...

Peter Berg, known for directing the popular movie "Friday Night Lights," is hoping Friday turns out to be good once again as the alien-invasion action movie "Battleship" opens today. "It's just a fun, popcorn movie," Berg said of the movie, which...

ESPN Films on Tuesday announced the return of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 30 for 30 film series. As with the first series, which included collaborations with acclaimed filmmakers such as Peter Berg (Kings Ransom), Barry Levinson (The...

Battleship — Trailer no. 3 (May 18) Silver: I cannot wait to buy my ticket to Battleship. Even though the film looks like a vapid orgy of action and CGI, I have much more faith in Peter Berg, a director who's made some good films and told ...

For a while there, every time a movie adaptation of a beloved TV show was discussed, it was our cue to roll our eyes and scoff and flick the back of one hand dismissively, or maybe even wipe a bunch of crap off someone's table (whose? anyone's) in pr...

After the first two episodes of "On Freddie Roach" were screened at HBO headquarters on Wednesday night, a panel of Roach, director-producer Peter Berg and producer Jim Lampley fielded questions. Perhaps my favorite part of that came when Lampley ...

Confession time. When I heard there was going to be a six episode Freddie Roach reality show, my first reaction was: Will that work? What I know of Freddie, the ace trainer and former lunchpail banger who today struggles with Parkinson's while he ...

Bradley Cooper is in talks to replace Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook, about a former high school teacher institutionalized for depression and released into the care of his mother (trend alert!). Cooper is negotiating ...

This young century has brought us many wonders, ranging from the iPhone to replacing bread with meat, but chief among them has been the explosion of parody films. What was once a trickle of Scary Movies and Loaded Weapons has blossomed in the 2000s i...

An oral history of Friday Night Lights

Pee-wee football player: "Does God love football?" Street: "I think that everybody loves football" In the first five minutes of the debut of NBC's "Friday Night Lights" (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. ET), writer/director Peter Berg masterfully introduces Dill...

Blog | Conversation | October 03, 2006

NBC today revealed its prime-time lineup for the fall, and included among six new dramas will be a small-screen version of "Friday Night Lights." The series will be written by Peter Berg, who co-wrote and directed the movie version based on the pop...

Blog | Conversation | May 15, 2006

NIJMEGEN, October 29 (Eredivisie) - FC Groningen missed the chance to return to the top of the Eredivisie but managed to salvage a point at NEC Nijmegen thanks to a late strike from Marcus Berg.Goals from Peter Wisgerhof and Youssef El Akchaoui (pena...

ROTTERDAM, August 16 (Eredivisie) - Feyenoord coach Bert van Marwijk should include all four of the club's summer signings in his team for the curtain-raiser against NEC Nijmegen.Peter van den Berg, Alfred Schreuder, Danko Lazovic and Dirk Kuijt are ...

RKC Waalwijk defender Peter van den Berg has joined first division rivals Feyenoord in a player-swap, the Rotterdam club said on Saturday.