Actor Anthony Mackie has revealed he almost missed out on his breakthrough role in The Hurt Locker due to his commitment to ...

Anthony Mackie almost missed out on his role in The Hurt Locker because he was tied up working on a movie with "quite possibly the worst director to ever direct".

The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Mackie’s most recent work includes season two of Twisted Metal, where he returns as John Doe. He is also set to appear in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027), along with leading ...

Anthony Mackie is opening up about how he almost lost his role in “The Hurt Locker” because of another director’s unreleased film. During a recent episode of Variety‘s “Know Their Lines,” Mackie ...

Anthony Mackie can never forget the “worst director” he ever met!During his appearance on Variety’s Know Their Lines’ recent ...

This Iraq war film sees Hawkeye and the future Captain America butting heads over bomb disposal in the first-ever ...

In "The Hurt Locker," however, it's what doesn't blow up that counts, because its main characters constantly struggle to save, not sacrifice, lives. Except, perhaps, their own.

The ‘Hurt Locker’ team is also now being sued by Jeffrey Sarver, an army sergeant who alleges that the film’s main character, played by Jeremy Renner, was largely based on Sarver’s own ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of “The Hurt Locker” who sent multiple e-mails urging academy members to vote for his movie in the ...

But when you make something like ‘The Hurt Locker,’ it’s very, very organic.” If he’d created something that sounded unique for “Locker,” it wouldn’t have worked, he adds ...

“Hurt Locker” screenwriter Mark Boal, who won the Oscar for original screenplay, thanked Bigelow, calling her an “extraordinary and visionary filmmaker,” and dedicated his Oscar win to the ...