Amy Adams will star opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in The Fighter, which David O. Russell is directing for Relativity Media and Paramount.

The drama revolves around the life of boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and trainer-brother Dick Eklund (Bale), chronicling their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund’s battle with drugs and Ward’s eventual world championship in London.

Adams will play Charlene, a tough, gritty bartender and former college high-jumper from Massachusetts who ends up dating Mickey.

Melissa Leo also has been cast as Wahlberg and Bale’s mother.

The movie begins shooting next month in Lowell.

Source: Coming Soon

Christian Bale hopes to be ā€œunder the radarā€ again. But, unfortunately for the actor, his controversial rant on the ā€œTerminator Salvationā€ set continues to put him in the spotlight.

In fact, his invective-filled rage has inspired a phrase, ā€œbaling out,ā€ which is defined as ā€œunleashing an epic storm of rage and profanity on the closest available target, regardless of said targetā€™s responsibility for your stress level, a la Christian Baleā€™s infamous tirade captured during ā€˜Terminator Salvationā€™ filming.ā€ The new phrase is included in the 2009 edition of ā€œCultural Dictionaryā€ by Cramer-Krasselt, which publishes this collection of zeitgeist terms annually.

Speaking of storms, nature put on quite a show when we recently interviewed ā€œThe Dark Knightā€ star at The Peninsula Hotel in Chicago. Even as thunder boomed, and rain and hail fell from the dark skies, the actor sometimes spoke on an almost whisper level.

The night before, at the special screening of ā€œPublic Enemiesā€ at the AMC River East, we saw Christian go up the stage with costars, Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard, as director Michael Mann called them one by one. Afterward, at the party held at the River East Arts Center, Christian amiably chatted with the guests who surged toward him and congratulated him on his performance in the film. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve uploaded new high quality candids of Christian Bale and his wife Sibi Blazic pick up their daughter from her swim class on June 26, 2009.

GALLERY LINK:
- Candids in 2009: In Los Angeles – June 26

A staff from lovefilm.com has email me the video & interview of Christian Bale on Public Enemies. As you read the interview below, you also can check out the video on here.

LF: Christian Bale welcome to LOVEFiLM, itā€™s a real pleasure to have you here.

CB: Thanks.

LF: Now, Public Enemies is a very different take on the gangster genre, it has a very different look and feel, was that an attraction for you?

CB: Well I didnā€™t know at the time that there would be a different look and feel to it but I think, certainly in my mind, Michael has made one of the finest movies that Iā€™ve ever seen. His level of filmmaking is just exceptional and heā€™s made a movie, and I donā€™t think Iā€™m speaking out of turn to say, I see it destined to be a classic. I think that his eye for detail and his abilities are just phenomenal.

LF: Now itā€™s based on real events and real people, and obviously the character that you play Melvin Pervis is a real person. Do you approach that differently knowing that this is based on real life?

CB: Absolutely, you know you want to be respectful to their memory, truthful but also you have to recognize that with making a movie thatā€™s two hours long you have to take some artistic license in order to tell the story most effectively and so thereā€™s some differences in the chronological order in which things happened. Melvin Pervis really could have a movie made just all about his own life; he was a very dynamic man and ultimately led a very dynamic but tragic life. But in this one heā€™s very much the supporting role, it is the Dillenger story and Pervis was the man that took down Dillenger and holds the record to this day in the FBI of taking down the most public enemies.

LF: I hope you donā€™t mind me asking some of our members to e-mail in some questions for you. The overriding question and feel we got was them asking you questions about method acting and your approach to acting, especially citing the Machinist?

CB: I donā€™t have any particular style, you know Iā€™ve never studied any acting at all. My personal love of what I do is the ability to obsess and immerse yourself completely and thatā€™s what I enjoy, you know I got into this not so much because Iā€™m a real lover of movies but because Iā€™m just really fascinated with people and I like putting myself in their shoes. And the fact that with this industry that Iā€™m in that obsession and immersion is seen as being necessary, where as in other walks of like it would be seen as quite abnormal.

LF: My final question to you, Iā€™m quite interested about some of the films that have inspired you?

CB: You know I tend to actually get inspiration more from books and documentaries and things, but I have to say I do get very much inspired by the people I work with. I think youā€™d be amazed at how little knowledge I have at movie history and how few movie Iā€™ve actually seen.

LF: Thanks very much for talking to us Christian, itā€™s been a pleasure.

Johnny Depp is all over the posters for this Public Enemies movie. But Christian Bale is MIA. Shouldn’t he be on the posters, too?

Apparently when you have the option of showing Johnny Depp staring off into the middle distance and looking iconic, you don’t need a second actor staring off into the middle distance and looking iconic. Not unless that second person carries the exact same, or better, commercial draw as Johnny Depp.

Christian Bale does not. You may think Bale does. You may want Bale to. But if that’s the case, too bad for you. You’re wrong.

How can I say with such certainty? Easy. Numbers. Look: Read the rest of this entry »

HEā€™S played a psycho killer, a flying bat and the man who fronts up to the killer machines in the latest of the Terminator series.

Now Welsh-born actor Christian Bale is keeping up his prolific run in big box office movies by starring as Depression-era ā€œG-Manā€ Melvin Purvis hunting Johnny Deppā€™s John Dillinger in the summer blockbuster Public Enemies.

In preparing for the new film, Bale visited Melvin ā€œLittle Melā€ Purvisā€™s son Alston to help get inside the skin of the larger-than- life character.

Speaking from the US, Alston, 65, said the Welshman did a pretty good job.

Tim Burton directed two. So did Joel Schumacher. Might Christopher Nolan also stop at two “Batman” flicks? Could the seventh big-screen caped crusader adventure since 1989 require the services of a fourth director? Rumors that Nolan might not return for another go at Gotham City have been rampant and according to Bruce Wayne himself ā€” Christian Bale ā€” a follow-up to “The Dark Knight” might never materialize.

“I truly don’t know that we’re ever going to see another ‘Batman’ movie,” Bale told MTV News while promoting his Great Depression-era crime thriller, “Public Enemies.” Read the rest of this entry »

British actor Christian Bale may not be familiar with Bollywood films but the ‘Terminator Salvation’ star says he is fascinated by India and hopes to visit the country.

“I seriously did not get a chance to witness Indian cinema but I have always been fascinated by the country and would love to visit India once in my lifetime,” Bale said.

The actor, who stars as former freedom fighter John Connor in the fourth installment of the ‘Terminator’ franchise, is also impressed by fellow Brit Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Read the rest of this entry »

As Michael Mann’s Public Enemies comes closer to opening, it’s reasonable for movie pundits to calculate whether this may be the picture where Johnny Depp gets his Oscar at last. Why not? He’s 46. He’s playing the spectacular lead, John Dillinger, and Depp has been knocking at the door (somewhat shyly) for years now. But don’t forget that Christian Bale is playing Melvin Purvis, the G-man who eventually nails Dillinger. And if you remember the remake of 3.10 to Yuma, it wasn’t the swagger of Ben Foster and Russell Crowe that stayed in the mind. Theirs were flashy or lazy performances, compared with the haunted gaze and stillness of Bale as the ordinary man who had seen that he was going to die. Read the rest of this entry »

Summer is officially here, and people across the United States are weighing in on which celebrity they’d most like to have a summer fling with. A new MSN survey finds that Christian Bale is the object of desire for more than 50 percent of female respondents.

Source: PR News