Mickey Rourke and Mark Wahlberg have stepped out in support of their boxing heroes.

The two actors appeared on the red carpet in Hollywood ahead of a press conference for British boxer Ricky Hatton and his Filipino rival Manny Pacquiao, who will go head-to-head in a huge fight in Vegas in May.

The Happening star Mark, who portrays boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward in the upcoming flick The Fighter, arrived with Pacquiao to be greeting by screaming boxing fans.

Mickey – who will next be seen in crime drama The Informers – was nominated for an Oscar for his lead role in The Wrestler.
Source: The AP

I just uploaded some recent candids of Mark, one album of Mark chatting with his friends and another of him shopping with Ella in Los Angeles. Enjoy

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 03-21 – Shopping with Ella at American Girl
• Candids from 2009 – 03-23 – Talking with friends in Beverly Hills

Back on March 6 it was announced Mark Wahlberg was attached to a new film called Prisoners from first-time writer Aaron Guzikowski. The story centers on a Boston man who turns vigilante after his daughter and her best friend are kidnapped.

At the time no director was attached and I said it sounded a lot like Wahlberg’s film Max Payne and a couple of commenters referenced Taken, the recent box-office success starring Liam Neeson. I didn’t necessarily think the film sounded all that interesting since we have had so many films of its ilk recently, but apparently the script is something Hollywood is hounding and has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven and over the weekend Entertainment Weekly dropped word that Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) may be eying the film as his next feature. (Read full story …)

Pride of Dot Mark Wahlberg will be on Extra tonight, talking candidly about his rise to fame and some of his more foolish, youthful choices.

“I made a lot of bad mistakes when I was younger,” Marky Mark admits, in a video on the show’s site. “When I was 17, I got sent to an adult prison and, you know, that was not where I wanted to be.” He remembers being in jail, watching his brother Donnie blow up on TV with New Kids on the Block. He’d passed on joining the massively popular boy band, “which I didn’t think was a cool thing to be involved with,” he admitted. (Read full story …)

Mark Wahlberg licks his lips with anticipation for his hot order! The actor gets take-out from Madeo restaurant in Beverly Hills, CA.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 03-07 – Picking up take-out from Madeo restaurant

One of the hottest scripts in Hollywood right now is a dark thriller from a previously unknown writer who signed with a major talent agency only two weeks ago. The screenplay already has drawn the commitment of Mark Wahlberg and the interest of nearly every major studio in town.

Aaron Guzikowski, a Brooklyn native who flew out to Los Angeles just a few weeks ago and signed with Endeavor, is behind “Prisoners,” a project said to have echoes of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Seven.”

The story concerns a Boston family man whose 6-year-old daughter and her best friend are kidnapped. He takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping the man he suspects responsible. (Read full story …)

After nearly a year of deliberation, I finally took the plunge and opened Brad Pitt Online, your newest Brad Pitt source! There you’ll find all the latest Brad Pitt news and media. I’m really excited about the site so check it out and let me know what you think!

Mark Wahlberg I am not. Paramount’s new iPhone game app, which the studio boasts is the first true shooter game for the iPhone, puts users into Wahlberg’s role of marksman Bob Lee Swagger in the 2007 film Shooter. The game follows the movie script, but the story line feels more like filler before the real playing, when you’re dropped on the field to shoot and kill enemy snipers.

That’s where Shooter hits its mark. Paramount takes full advantage of not just the iPhone’s touch screen, but also its motion sensors, so players have to tilt the phone to just the right position to aim the rifle and touch the screen to shoot. (Read full story …)