You are viewing the archive: “2 Guns”

Hot Trailer: Denzel Washington In ’2 Guns’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday March 29, 2013 @ 12:34pm PDTTags: 2 Guns, Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg

Universal’s 2 Guns is directed by Baltasar Kormákur from a script by Blake Masters. The action thriller stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as two undercover federal operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. Pic opens in theaters August 2nd:

Comments 32

Universal To Release ‘R.I.P.D.’ In 3D, Moves ’2 Guns’, ‘Kick-Ass 2′ Dates

By JEN YAMATO | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:00pm PSTTags: 2 Guns, Kick-Ass 2, R.I.P.D., Universal

EXCLUSIVE: Universal‘s supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. will now be released in 3-D, the studio announced today as it made a flurry of updates to its summer schedule. However, the Dark Horse comic adaptation starring … Read More »

Comments (7)

Paula Patton Loading Up For ’2 Guns’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 12:07pm PDTTags: 2 Guns, Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paula Patton is in talks to star with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in 2 Guns, a film that’s based on a Steven Grant graphic novel published by Boom! Studios. Baltasar Kormakur, who just directed Wahlberg in … Read More »

Comments (7)

U.S.-China Deal Was In The Berlin Air: EFM Wrapup

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday February 20, 2012 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: 2 Guns, China, EFM, Glen Basner

Late Friday, the White House announced a new deal with China that would allow for more foreign films to be released in the nation’s movie theaters — and more money in the pockets of U.S. studios to boot. After the news broke, Mark Damon, whose Foresight Unlimited sold out on the European Film Market’s hottest title, 2 Guns, told me: “I have a feeling what just happened was already perceived by the Chinese. Buyers were out in full force and paying big numbers for theatrical releases — numbers you couldn’t afford if you were just going to video or TV.” Buyers, Damon noted, were also willing to give up censorship clauses during the EFM, which ran alongside the just-ended Berlin International Film Festival. “Up until now they would do a two-tier deal: X if a movie went theatrical and Y if it didn’t and Y would be substantially less. This time, they weren’t insisting on those.” The new agreement allows foreign studios a 25% share of box office as opposed to the traditional 13% and provides for 14 additional titles outside the 20-film quota. Chinese box office is projected to hit $5 billion from a potential 16,000 screens in 2015. There are currently about 6,200 screens. Talk about a need for product. One European exec tells me they’ve heard that on pictures where you’d normally expect to get, say, $50,000, the Chinese will now pay as much as $500,000. Read More »

Comments (2)

Denzel Washington In Talks To Star In ’2 Guns’ With Mark Wahlberg For Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR. AND NANCY TARTAGLIONE | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 3:13pm PSTTags: 2 Guns, Baltasar Kormakur, Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Universal Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Denzel Washington, whose most recent action effort Safe House premieres in New York tonight, is in discussions to take on another action drama involving Universal Pictures. He’s in early talks to join Mark Wahlberg in 2 Guns, a film that’s based on a Steven Grant graphic novel published by Boom! Studios. Baltasar Kormakur will direct the film. He’s coming off the Universal remake of his own film Contraband, which starred Wahlberg. The script was written by Blake Masters. The financing of the film is still coming together, though I’m told that Emmett/Furla Films the likely co-financier. Marc Platt is producing along with Boom!’s Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie. Randall Emmett and George Furla will likely join that roster.

My international colleague Nancy Tartaglione is covering Berlin this week and is already hearing that the film will be a hot sales title there. Universal will distribute and market in the U.S. Read More »

Comments 28