Patriots Day

Jimmy O. Yang Gets Serious In ‘patriots Day

... place, he’s an extra sitting right next to me at the next table. “Each piece he gave me really helped with the character. We talked about his state of mind when he ran into that gas station, which is a pivotal scene. People wonder how he had the presence of mind in that moment but he’s a genius and his adrenaline was going. He had this mindset of ‘I’m safe, don’t worry, but you gotta catch them.’. “That’s my only scene with Mark and it was the first day I had ever met him. Mark is taking down the information and he’s just so focused and intense and draws you into the moment with him. “I was so happy Danny and his fiancée came out for the AFI Fest premiere in Los Angeles. It was a great moment to have all of them there, people like [Boston Police Commissioner] Ed Davis and Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese. It was the first time I’d seen the movie and they brought them all out and Pete gave them a great shout out. He doesn’t like all this attention. ...

Patriot’s Day R

... is wearing a uniform and greeting VIPs at the finish line of the marathon. Berg introduces us to several of the surviving victims before their lives were turned upside down. We also meet the Tsarnaev brothers, the terrorists who planted the two bombs on Patriot’s Day 2013 and who would later shoot and kill an MIT police officer. Berg turns a shot of lovers’ intertwined legs into a subtle harbinger of doom, focusing on the minutiae of life to establish a beauty and humanity in the mundane. And yet he also moves at a brisk and, I hate to say it, entertaining pace, keeping us on the edge of our seats while simultaneously breaking our hearts and, every so often, even making us laugh. Kevin Bacon is perfectly cast as Special Agent Richard Des Lauriers, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation, and John Goodman is a force of nature as Police Commissioner Ed Davis. For good measure, we get Oscar-winner J. K. Simmons as the down-to-earth, cigarette-smoking Watertown ...

J.k. Simmons Talks About Playing Real-life Cop In 'patriots Day

... "Patriots Day" was worth making an exception. "I did sort of feel the onus of wanting to represent, to portray Jeff as well as I could," Simmons said in a recent phone interview. "Patriots Day," opening locally Friday, depicts the events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt to find the men responsible. Simmons plays Sgt. Jeff Pugliese, a policeman in the sleepy Boston suburb of Watertown. Pugliese's normal police routine turned into a dangerous shootout when the bombers, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were tracked down in Watertown. TOP JOBS. Pugliese, who was on leave because of shoulder surgery, was on the set during filming of those sequences in the film, Simmons said. "He kind of became an onset adviser for the whole Watertown sequence," Simmons said, adding that Pugliese also took the actor on a ride-along and to the shooting range. "Jeff became an absolutely invaluable ...

Patriot's Day'; 'sleepless

... El Paso theaters for the week of Jan. 13-19. Check out this story on El Paso __link__: __link__/story/entertainment/movies/2017/01/13/movie-capsules-patriots-day-sleepless/96510842/. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation. Movie capsules: 'Patriot's Day'; 'Sleepless'. Dave Acosta , El Paso Times 10:03 p.m. MT Jan. 12, 2017. Kevin Bacon (from left), Mark Wahlberg and John Goodman star in 'Patriots Day.'. (Photo: Karen Ballard, Photo by Karen Ballard). Compiled from El Paso Times staff and wire reports. Listings are subject to change. Opening this week. “The Bye Bye Man” (PG-13): Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind man’s most unspeakable acts. (No review). “Lion” (PG-13): A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before ...

Patriots Day' Latest Film To Depict Recent Events

... Summit Entertainment“Deepwater Horizon” depicts the BP oil rig disaster. 3 Arts Entertainment John Krasinski stars in “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.”. editor's pick topical featured. 'Patriots Day' latest film to depict recent events. 'Patriots Day' is the latest film to depict recent events. 11 hrs ago. Karen Ballard. CBS Films The police sergeant played by Mark Wahlberg in “Patriots Day” is a composite. Other characters in the film are based on real people. Endgame Entertainment Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the title character in “Snowden.”. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Warner Bros. Pictures. Miners are trapped in “The 33.” HBO. “Zero Dark Thirty” tells of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Columbia Pictures. Summit Entertainment“Deepwater Horizon” depicts the BP oil rig disaster. 3 Arts Entertainment John Krasinski stars in “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.”. Great biopic films used to be made years or even decades after major events, but now there seems to be a quick turnaround. “Patriots Day” hits theaters today and focuses on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. It ...

Patriots Day,’ ‘hell Or High Water’ Production Designer Strives For Accuracy

... he says. “We wanted it to feel like it was lived-in to the maximum.”. To cement the film’s realism, the designer used an actual working bank and its tellers in Post, Texas, for a shootout scene. And for the climactic sequence set on a ridge, Duffield and location manager Jonathan Slator hiked for weeks to find the exact spot. “It had to come right off a road so the truck could drive up the embankment, and it needed to have a higher elevation on one side so he could shoot down from it,” notes Duffield. “Ben was great — he got the truck further up the hill than the stunt guys.”. In Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day,” Duffield stretched the budget to build an exact 1,000-foot replica of Boylston Street, where the terrorist bombing occurred. “We visited all the real locations to match everything exactly. The same granite, the same bricks and concrete — everything down to the gum spots on the street,” Duffield recalls. At a South Weymouth, Mass., air base, construction crews built the two main areas where ...

Patriots Day' Stirs Memories Of 2013 Boston Marathon

... he says, in the flattest-accented version of an "Expendables" catchphrase you've ever heard.' Click here to read the review. New York Times: 'Movies that depict heinous real-life criminal acts and attempt to grapple with their human toll are provocative undertakings, particularly when they’re made so soon after the actual events. As it happens, “Patriots Day” works so well on a dramatic level that my qualms were silenced almost entirely from the start.' Click here to read the review. MORE RUNNING SHORTS. by Eddie Wooten. Friday's release of "Patriots Day" will rekindle memories as the story of the bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon plays out on theater screens across the nation. Some Triad runners had already finished their races and reconnected with families. Still more would be stopped on the course, the race shut down by organizers after two bombs exploded. But a small handful from the ...

Gloucester Woman Wins Speaking Role In 'patriots Day

... Tsarnaev. This occurred right after they shot and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier, a Salem State University graduate. O’Connell was born in China, adopted by Gloucester’s Joy O’Connell when she was 4 months old, and grew up in Gloucester. The 2014 graduate of Gloucester High School was a member of the varsity cheerleading team and the Docksiders Jazz Band, in which she played keyboard. Getting the part. She was in the middle of final exams last spring when she learned about the film through Boston Casting, which was looking for “featured extras.” She has done other work through Boston Casting over the years but this is her first major film. “I was supposed to be at dinner with a friend in a restaurant scene but when it got to filming, I met Peter Berg, the director. We were set to film in a tea shop, and he’s looking around and says it doesn’t feel right. He looks across the street and sees an actual Chinese restaurant and we march everyone across the street and descend upon the place,” she said. That’s when Berg started talking to O’Connell, saying he wanted to do more with her. ...

Hidden Figures,’ ‘patriot’s Day’ In Tight Race, ‘monster Trucks,’ ‘live By Night’ Brace To Flop

... write-down on the family film and is eyeing a debut of between $8 million and $10 million. That’s a disastrous result for a film with a $125 million price tag. “Monster Trucks” focuses on a high school student (Lucas Till) whose truck gets taken over by a CGI monster. The studio will also expand “ Silence ,” a religious epic that Martin Scorsese has labored for two decades to bring to the screen. The story of Jesuit priests in feudal Japan will expand to 750 locations after making $913,000 in limited release. It cost $40 million to make and will do less than $10 million worth of business, a weak result given its budget. Then there’s Warner Bros.’ “ Live by Night.” The Ben Affleck-directed gangster picture is looking DOA after sputtering in limited release. The film should do roughly $10 million when it unfolds across approximately 2,700 screens. With a budget of at least $65 million, “Live by Night” is shaping up ...