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Contraband International Trailer: Mark Wahlberg Gets Tough for a Change

Remember Oscar season 2010-11? Remember we had to keep caring about The Fighter ? I can’t believe how long we had to care about The Fighter . For me it was the Cold Mountain of 2011. The louder you squawked, the better your Oscar chances. Did you wave your hands frantically a lot of the time? Did you steal your accent from an SNL table read? See you at the dais. Anyway, I’m still sore with Mark Wahlberg, and I’m approaching the international trailer for his new movie Contraband with that rancor. It comes out in January, so it has to be laughable. Let’s laugh.

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Contraband International Trailer: Mark Wahlberg Gets Tough for a Change

Jay Duplass on Jeff Who Lives at Home, Austin’s Slacker Savants and the Duplass Secret to Success

For Mark and Jay Duplass , the sibling team behind The Puffy Chair , Baghead , and last year’s Cyrus , success came only after years of frustration — and only by happy accident. “All we were doing in the late ’90s, in our twenties, was trying to be the Coen brothers ,” Jay Duplass laughed to Movieline, “and failing at that, because the Coen brothers are awesome and they’re already the Coen brothers.” It was only when the brothers Duplass stopped trying so hard, at the end of their creative rope and after years of fruitless attempts, that they found the formula for personal filmmaking that would become their signature.

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Jay Duplass on Jeff Who Lives at Home, Austin’s Slacker Savants and the Duplass Secret to Success