Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, "Ball Don't Lie" takes it to the streets for an urban basketball coming-of-age drama. Sticky (played by rookie Grayson Boucher) is a 17-year-old foster care kid living in Venice, California, who discovers his talent at bball can open doors and cure ills.
Co-starring Nick Cannon, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Melissa Leo, Rosanna Arquette, and "Lost" alums Harold Perrineau and Emilie de Raven, "Ball Don't Lie" hits theaters June 5. Take a look at the exclusive trailer below.
He’s a 67-year-old veteran of more than 150 film and TV projects, a member of one of Hollywood’s royal families, and the winner of several Emmy and Golden Globe awards. So you might be asking yourself: What the hell is Beau Bridges doing in “Max Payne?”
“I’ve never played [the video game], but I have five kids,” Bridges explained to us recently. “And when I told them that I was going to be in ‘Max Payne,’ they were all excited! They were like, ‘Oh, Dad, that’s awesome. I can’t believe it!’ So I knew it was a game that had a big following.”
Naturally, the big draws of the film are names like Mark Wahlberg, Ludacris and Mila Kunis. But it’s Bridges’ charismatic, borderline-maniacal businessman character who steals several key scenes away from the others, as Payne (Wahlberg) investigates which side he’s on in a bloody gang-vs.-cops war that’s consuming their city. Read more...
If you’re filming an interrogation scene these days, you'd 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 dominant characters, so this is the time I’m the one who’s dominant,” 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 more...
They sing, they dance, they produce, heck, they even act. But now the boys of OutKast can add an even more impressive title to their resumes: muses.
Andre 3000 and Big Boi (nee Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton, respectively) won’t actually appear in Guy Ritchie’s newest crime drama, “Rock n Rolla,” but two characters, music managers played by Jeremy Piven and Ludacris, WERE based on the outlandish and talented duo, Piven revealed to MTV News.
“He did, he did pattern it on them,” Piven said of his character in the film. “[My character] was originally written as a black character, it was kind of an homage in a way to Andre 3000 and Big Boi from a video from back in the day that Guy had seen.” Read more...
After taking five years post-"Snatch" to return to the seedy underbelly of London crime with "Revolver," director Guy Ritchie is planning a much quicker turnaround after his next film, "RocknRolla." That's according to his new lead actress Thandie Newton, who revealed to MTV News that the director is intent on turning his latest drama into a trilogy of films - and on doing it fast.
"'RocknRolla' is one of three films and Guy's keen to get going on that straight away," Newton enthused. "[The second and third films in the series] are going to be excellent. I can't wait.
"We shot incredibly quickly [on the first]. There were three weeks pre-production," Newton added of her thoughts on how quickly the crime story could begin shooting. "He just gets on with it. He absolutely does not see challenges as intimidating." Read more...
