Mila Kunis Joins Mark Wahlberg on Max Payne Adaptation

Twentieth Century Fox has signed Mila Kunis to star with Mark Wahlberg in its upcoming adaptation of Max Payne – based on the Rockstar videogame.

Variety reports the film is directed by John Moore and was written by Beau Thorne. Julie Silverman and Scott Faye are handling producing duties on the film with Tom Karnowski executive producing.

In the film, Kunis will play an assassin who works with Payne (Wahlberg) to avenge her sister’s death. Payne is a cop haunted by the loss of his family and discovers he is in the middle of a conspiracy as he investigates a series of murders.

Paramount, DreamWorks Rip Up HD DVD Release List

In a further sign that Sony Corp.’s Blu-ray has won the high-definition format war, Paramount Pictures home entertainment unit said Feb. 29 that it will release its last HD DVD titles on March 4.

The company intends to switch to Blu-ray after it offers “Things We Lost in the Fire” and “Into the Wild” in HD DVD.

Paramount said it is in the process of determining its Blu-ray release schedule. Universal Studios said earlier in February that it was shifting its focus to Sony’s Blu-ray standard.

That announcement came after Toshiba Corp. said it would no longer develop, make or market players and recorders in HD DVD, the standard it invented.

Blu-ray won another key battle last month when Warner Bros. Entertainment chose it as the exclusive format for its releases.

Other Blu-ray backers are Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Co. and News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox.

Paramount is a division of Viacom Inc.

Source: Soundfood.net