Peter Berg
‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Irene Bedard, Kim Coates, Derek Hinkey and more discuss the show's approach to fact and fiction, particularly in its depiction of violence: “We are holding up something of a mirror.”
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‘American Primeval’ Director Peter Berg on Finale Deaths, the Prequel Spinoff He’s Considering and ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot
Berg also responds to criticisms of the representation of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and the line he wouldn’t cross when it came to violence depicted in the events surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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How ‘American Primeval’ Pulled Off That Scalping Scene
Star Dane DeHaan and makeup department head Howard Berger explain how they and special makeup effects artist Jamie Kelman pulled off the Frankenstein look of a scalped Mormon settler and his rotting head following a wagon train massacre: "I wanted to destroy him from the outside."
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Netflix Western ‘American Primeval’ Challenges Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin to Survive in Trailer
The streamer's fictional limited series from Pete Berg, Mark L. Smith and Eric Newman is set in the brutal American frontier of 1857.
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Mark Damon, Actor Turned Indie Film Exec and ‘Monster’ Producer, Dies at 91
After starring in teen movies, 'House of Usher' and Westerns in Italy, he helped remake the foreign sales and distribution film business.
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David Grutman of Groot Hospitality Launches DGN Studios Production Company (Exclusive)
Projects will include a first-look deal with Peter Berg's Film 45 and documentaries on DJ Black Coffee and restaurant Papi Steak.
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‘Painkiller’ Author on the 20-Year Road to a Netflix Hit and Why He Doesn’t Expect Richard Sackler to Watch
In 2003, Barry Meier wrote his first version of 'Pain Killer,' which along with Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article, is the source material for the streamer's series on the opioid crisis, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family.
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‘Painkiller’ Director Peter Berg on Turning the Opening Legal Disclaimers Into Something Profoundly Emotional
Berg talks to The Hollywood Reporter about tackling the opioid crisis with the Netflix series (which reunites him with Taylor Kitsch), while also discussing 'Friday Night Lights,' 'The Leftovers' and his very resolved Vince Gilligan beef.
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‘Painkiller’ Review: Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick in Netflix’s Glib Opioid Crisis Miniseries
Taylor Kitsch also stars in a Peter Berg-directed show about the launch of OxyContin and the subsequent epidemic of addiction.
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‘Painkiller’ Trailer Sees Uzo Aduba Taking on Purdue Pharma in Opioid Crisis Series
The 'Orange Is the New Black' star plays the investigator leading the case against the maker of OxyContin, with Matthew Broderick playing Richard Sackler, in Netflix's limited series from Eric Newman and Pete Berg.
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‘Boys in Blue’ Director Peter Berg on Whether Doc Series Changed His View on Policing
The doc series takes a deep look at the football program at Minneapolis North High School, coached by Minneapolis cops, set in an already troubled community rocked to its core in the wake of the George Floyd murder.
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‘Friday Night Lights’ Director Peter Berg on the Power of Football and His Long-Simmering Rihanna Doc
The filmmaker explains why new doc ‘Boys in Blue,’ filmed in the same city as George Floyd’s murder, was “the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my career” and dishes on rooming with both Marc Maron and Ari Emanuel.
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