Movie:deepwater Horizon

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Action Hero Gina Rodriguez Talks Dangerous 'Deepwater Horizon' Stunts and Boxing Her Director Peter Berg

    Because she’s best known for the CW soap opera satire Jane the Virgin, you might not realize that Gina Rodriguez is a bona fide badass. Rodriguez did all of her own stunts in the movie except for one: the climactic nine-story leap Williams and Fleytas would make to safety. “Insurance wouldn’t clear me,” a disappointed Rodriguez lamented to Yahoo Movies at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Deepwater premiered.

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson Remember the Movie Sets They Shared Before Costarring in 'Deepwater Horizon'

    Deepwater Horizon marks the first acting collaboration between Kurt Russell and stepdaughter Kate Hudson. Russell told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Festival that he actually wanted Kate, whom he raised with wife Goldie Hawn, to take a role in 1996’s Escape From L.A., his eye-patched action hero Snake Plissken’s follow-up to the the 1981 classic Escape From New York.

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Peter Berg Defends Portrayal of Oil Workers as Heroes in 'Deepwater Horizon'

    Peter Berg is about to get worked up. Berg feels there is an unfair public perception of the workers onboard the titular oil rig — particularly the 11 men who died in the 2010 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — which he sites as a primary reason he wanted to make the film. “It’s such ignorance,” Berg (Lone Survivor, Friday Night Lights) told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, shortly before Deepwater premiered to anti-oil pipeline protestors outside the screening a

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    Watch the Very First Clip from 'Deepwater Horizon' (Exclusive)

    Peter Berg’s upcoming disaster thriller Deepwater Horizon gives faces to the men and women who were aboard the titular drilling rig when it was rocked by an explosion. Chief among those faces in the film version is Mark Wahlberg, who plays Deepwater Horizon’s southern-drawled crewman Mike Williams. Deepwater Horizon is the first of two films this fall from Berg and Wahlberg, along with the Boston marathon bombing drama Patriots Day, which examine real-life tragedy through the lens of a suspens