Mark Wahlberg’s action tale “Max Payne” out-gunned the competition to lead Hollywood’s weekend with a $17.6 million opening.

Oliver Stone’s “W.,” a film biography of George W. Bush, debuted at No. 4.

The top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC, are:

1. “Max Payne,” $17.6 million.

2. “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” $11.4 million.

3. “The Secret Life of Bees,” $10.53 million.
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20th Century Fox has revealed the full new trailer for Mark Wahlberg’s action-thriller “MAX PAYNE”, opening in theaters on October 17. Directed by John Moore, the video game adaptation co-stars Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Olga Kurylenko.

Wahlberg plays maverick cop Max Payne who is hell-bent on revenge against those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. His obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmarish journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.

“The Happening” may have been a critical flop, but nobody can say Mark Wahlberg holds any grudges against his erstwhile director M. Night Shyamalan. “He’s a sweet guy,” Wahlberg told us. “For whatever mistakes he’s made, I think he’s learned from them and he’s a true artist.”

But that doesn’t mean he’s fishing for career advice from the guy. Because as Wahlberg related, when he saw his ucpoming weapons-toting hero Max Payne in the editing room, “I was like, ‘Yes! This is the sh-t I need to be doing! This is the stuff that makes people say, ‘You know what, you’re the man!’ This is it!’”
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If you’re filming an interrogation scene these days, you better hope it can match up with the Joker versus Batman, who in “The Dark Knight,” officially raise the bar on the old tried and true good cop/bad cop routine.

Call it a challenge met and exceeded, Ludacris told MTV News of a similar scene in the upcoming “Max Payne,” where the artist sometimes known as Chris Bridges gets to have his way with Wahlberg’s good cop turned vigilante.

“I’m the internal affairs investigator, Jim Bravura, and I’m just hounding Max Payne. Crazy thing about that is, whenever you see Mark Wahlberg, he’s usually playing those dominate characters, so this is the time I’m the one who’s dominate,” Ludacris said of his favorite scene in the upcoming video game to movie adaptation. “I get to hound him. Trust me, it’s the best scene in the movie when I’m hounding the hell out of Mark Wahlberg because I’m the boss.” (Read full story …)

After passing the SWAT test in preparation for her upcoming flick “Max Payne,” the real-life girlfriend of Macaulay Culkin used her gun skills against co-star Mark Wahlberg.

“I can shoot pretty well,” Kunis told Pop Tarts at last week’s Comic-Con convention San Diego. “I got to beat Mark up with my little gun, which was fun — he cried a little bit. I’m sure I saw a few tears.”

Wahlberg didn’t issue a denial, jokingly telling us later that Kunis “isn’t as nice as you would think; she likes to beat up on people.”

But it seems Wahlberg may have taken a bit of a dig at the likes of Brangelina, Jessica Alba and Matthew McConaughey, who all earned big bucks for shopping around snaps of their newborns (Brangie sells the pics for charity). (Read full story …)

Will Mark Wahlberg miss the Emmys this year? If he does, it’s because he might have a more pressing engagement — the upcoming birth of his second son!

ET asked the “Entourage” executive producer if he’s going to the Emmys on September 21, and he revealed, “That’s our due date so we’ll see — it would be nice to go there, get the Emmy, and then from the Emmys go to the hospital and bring our little boy into the world!”

Mark and his longtime love Rhea Durham’s new baby boy will join their 2-year-old son, Michael, and their 4-year-old daughter, Ella.

Well, now we know what makes Marky Mark “all warm in the pants.”

Try a crowd of thousands of young fans at Comic-Con rapt with attention over his upcoming action thriller “Max Payne.”

Surprising too, considering that outside of the “Tomb Raider” movies, video game adaptations typically yield limited success.

Comic Con Programming : Thursday, July 24

The legendary interactive video game Max Payne comes to the big screen, telling the story of a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal. “Max Payne” himself—Mark Wahlberg—will be on hand with Mila Kunis, Ludacris, and director John Moore to discuss turning the game’s noirish, hard-hitting, and complex world and characters into a movie event.

I uploaded some MQ promotional stills from Mark’s upcoming film ‘Max Payne’. Hopefully I can get my hands on some HQs soon. You can view the trailer here.

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The first trailer for John Moore’s adaptation of the video game Max Payne has finally arrived. After months and months of waiting and immense early praise, we finally have our first look at what to expect in this upcoming video game adaptation. Honestly, I’m impressed, very impressed, by this trailer. It won’t be what you expect, but it might leave you quite excited. I really love the visual style and this time I think Mark Wahlberg will kick ass, unlike in The Happening. I have no clue what that angel was at the end and if there is a dark fantasy or paranormal element to this, but that scene was pretty intense. I’ve been looking forward to this since I first heard about it and now I’m truly excited to see it.

This is an international trailer courtesy of Filmweb.pl. We expect there to be a different American version that might hit theaters soon as well. Although this looks much different from the games, it still looks very entertaining. Does the trailer live up to all of your expectations?

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