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The Fighter (2010) trailer: stars Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams.

We were all expecting this. Pretty much. Crack levels roughly equivalent to any one of my off days. Or, as I like to call them, ‘days’. After suffering through pictures of a sub-doable Christian Bale, all Summer long, here is the trailer for his new movie with Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter. The trailer, for the boxing movie, shows the two main actors joined by Amy Adams, who’s almost unrecognisable. I was hoping Bale would have the pleasure of acting his co-stars off the screen at least 50% of the time, perhaps with equal billing. But, he’s really in a supporting role and his main job seems to be ‘look disturbing and then turn to crack at some point in the film’. He does get to act the film’s male lead, Mark Wahlberg, off the screen in the scenes they share together; they’re brothers in the film and seem to share more screen time than anyone. Moreover, I’m of the personal opinion that Wahlberg’s a pretty offensively bad actor in just about everything I’ve seen him in other than The Basketball Diaries and The Departed. I mean, I’m embarrassed by his attempts at acting and his insistence on chewing on and spitting out every line. It drains me too much to pay him any attention. I’d rather spend the film watching Bale’s shaved off ‘receding’ hairline than Wahlberg hammy acting. Are you psyched? Whaddya think of the trailer?

Michael Douglas hopes to attend Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps premiere.

According to his publicist, cancer-stricken Michael Douglas is hoping he will be well enough for the premiere of his latest film. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, co-starring Shia LaBeouf, was postponed from its intended April 2010 release. Since that time, we’ve had the news that Douglas has a tumour in his throat, for which he sought treatment. When the sequel to Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987) has its premiere, next Monday, September 20, Douglas will be about halfway through an eight week treatment program of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. However, he’s apparently keen to walk the NYC red carpet and make his first public appearance since late August. ‘That’s the plan right now,’ his rep says. ‘But we’re literally going day-to-day as to know how much he can do. He would like to attend the premiere and show his support for the movie.’