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  • Peter Berg's shark fears for Rihanna - 15 May 2012
    -Battleship director Peter Berg was so convinced a shark would attack pop star Rihanna during the making of the movie, he enlisted a security team to protect her while she was in the sea.-Berg, who filmed the action blockbuster in Hawaii, cast Rihanna in her movie d


  • Berg dismisses 3D as headache-inducing - 25 August 2011
    -Action director Peter Berg refuses to shoot his new blockbuster in 3D because the format gives him a headache.-Berg helms next year's (12) summer epic Battleship, which features a naval crew fighting aliens, and he's resisted pressure to make the movie more lifelik


  • Rihanna baffled by Battleship meeting with Berg - 12 August 2011
    -Rihanna was left baffled when she first met Battleship director Peter Berg - because he assumed she already knew he'd cast her as the star of the new action film.-The singing superstar was expecting just a meeting with the filmmaker, but he bombarded her with speci

Peter Berg - what members say


  • The Last Seduction
  • The Last Seduction review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars The Last Seduction 14 March 2007
    ...y believeable in the role and you can see why Mike is seduced by her. As Mike Peter Berg (now a director, he made his debut with the underrated Very Bad Things) has a n...   Read customer review
  • Welcome To The Jungle
  • Welcome To The Jungle review by from Truth or Consequences, Scotland
    Rated - 4.0 stars One of the most out-and-out fun action movies of recent times, one of the best working titles of recent times. 17 April 2004
    ...ecome rare of late. A few too many unnecessary stylistic flurries from director Peter Berg can grow a shade annoying by the final reel, but there's far more to like here ...   Read customer review
  • Friday Night Lights
  • Friday Night Lights review by from Wednesbury, Englands
    Rated - 5.0 stars Fantastic 4 May 2006
    ...liant all round cast, headed by Billy Bob Thornton as the Coach and directed by Peter Berg (who played the guy who Linda Fiorentina took for a ride in The Last Seduction)...   Read customer review

Peter Berg - filmography


  • Battleship - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Taylor Kitsch,  Alexander Skarsgard,  Liam Neeson
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Milton Bradley's strategic board game gets a sci-fi facelift with this Universal Pictures production from director Peter Berg (HANCOCK). The action will pit a small fleet of naval ships against an alien force intent on enriching Earth's valuable assets to ensure their survival. Taylor Kitsch (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 66% from 9 members
    Not available for rental
  • The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)
    Starring: Morgan Spurlock,  Peter Berg,  Paul Brennan
    Director: Morgan Spurlock
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME, 30 DAYS) examines the increased proliferation of branding in every aspect of our lives while attempting to persuade big-name brands to sponsor his irreverent exposé. Companies love to push their products, and it seems like everywhere we go, someone is trying ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 18 members
    Not available for rental
  • Hancock - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Jason Bateman,  Charlize Theron
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favour with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Theron) of the public relations professional (Bateman) who's trying to repair his image.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 15,675 members
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  • Hancock on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Jason Bateman,  Charlize Theron
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favour with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Theron) of the public relations professional (Bateman) who's trying to repair his image.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 96,898 members
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  • The Kingdom - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Jamie Foxx,  Jennifer Garner,  Chris Cooper
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Actor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,204 members
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  • The Kingdom - HD (2007)
    Starring: Jamie Foxx,  Jennifer Garner,  Chris Cooper
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After a deadly terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, takes the lives of many innocent American civilians, the FBI decides to take action by sending a team to capture those responsible. Hot shot Special Agent Ronald Fluery (Jamie Foxx) gets the task of a lifetime when he is picked to lead the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 875 members
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  • Smokin' Aces - HD (2006)
    Starring: Nestor Carbonell,  Jason Bateman,  Sharon Bruneau
    Director: Joe Carnahan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 819 members
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  • Smokin' Aces on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Nestor Carbonell,  Jason Bateman,  Sharon Bruneau
    Director: Joe Carnahan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 34,061 members
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  • Collateral (2004)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jamie Foxx,  Jada Pinkett Smith
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,342 member
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  • Collateral on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jada Pinkett,  Javier Bardem,  Tom Cruise
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jamie Foxx plays Max, a Los Angeles cab driver who has a pretty wild night in this thriller from Michael Mann (HEAT, THE INSIDER). First, Max picks up, flirts with, and gets the number of Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an attractive District attorney. Next, Vincent (Tom Cruise) climbs into his cab. He ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 104,801 members
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  • Corky Romano on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Christopher Penn,  Peter Berg,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: Rob Pritts
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Over the years, television's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has been the playground and jumping off point for an impressive number of comic superstars who nimbly made the transition from television to the big screen, including John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Steve Martin. Recently that tradition has continued ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 343 members
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  • Very Bad Things on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Christian Slater,  Cameron Diaz,  Daniel Stern
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A group of friends decide to give Kyle one last night of freedom before his wedding day. A bachelor party in Las Vegas sounds just the ticket. Drugs, booze and a stripper turn the party into murder and a test of friendship.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,413 members
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  • Cop Land - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Paul C,  Sylvester Stallone,  Robert De Niro
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The second film from writer/director James Mangold, the corruption drama Cop Land stars Sylvester Stallone as Freddy Heflin, the much-denigrated sheriff of tiny Garrison, NJ, a community which -- thanks to a technicality -- is populated almost entirely by members of the New York City Police ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 324 members
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  • Cop Land on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Paul C,  Sylvester Stallone,  Robert De Niro
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The second film from writer/director James Mangold, the corruption drama Cop Land stars Sylvester Stallone as Freddy Heflin, the much-denigrated sheriff of tiny Garrison, NJ, a community which -- thanks to a technicality -- is populated almost entirely by members of the New York City Police ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,962 members
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  • F.T.W. on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  Lori Singer,  Brion James
    Director: Michael Karbelnikoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    F.T.W: A love story revovling around the violent worlds of a wild and beautiful young woman who is unable to give up her criminal past and a rodeo cowboy just out of prison and trying to fit back into a society he didn't belong to in the beginning. NO CODE OF CONDUCT: A renegade cop who helps to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 103 members
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  • The Last Seduction on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Linda Fiorentino,  Peter Berg,  Bill Pullman
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The director of "Red Rock West" delivers this unusual thriller about a femme fatale who absconds with her husband's drug money. Fiorentino is enchantingly wicked as the cold-blooded beauty who uses men like toys.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,698 members
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  • Fire In The Sky on DVD (1993)
    Starring: D.B. Sweeney,  Robert Patrick,  Craig Sheffer
    Director: Robert Lieberman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on fact, the movie follows a controversial UFO incident in the mountain region of North Eastern Arizona in 1975. A group of young loggers encounter an alien and then encounter hostile public reaction to their claims.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,286 member
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  • A Midnight Clear on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Peter Berg,  Kevin Dillon,  Arye Gross
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 327 members
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  • A Midnight Clear - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Peter Berg,  Kevin Dillon,  Arye Gross
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1944, a six-man American intelligence and reconnaissance unit is sent by their reckless major on a mission in a remote part of the Ardennes forest on the German front. Isolated in a remote villa in the dead of winter, they wind up developing a cryptic relationship with a small band of German ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 71 members
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  • Shocker on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Murphy,  Peter Berg,  Richard Brooks
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a series of unusual dreams, young football star Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg) captures serial killer Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), a diabolical television repairman responsible for the deaths of several families. Pinker is sentenced to die in the electric chair, but the execution goes awry ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,105 member
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Peter Berg facts

5 most recent films

Battleship - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Battleship - 3.5 stars
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold - 3.5 stars
Hancock - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Hancock - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cop Land - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Collateral - 3.5 stars
The Kingdom - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Kingdom - HD - 3.5 stars
The Kingdom - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Never On Tuesday - 2.0 stars
Chicago Hope - Season 2 - 2.5 stars
Crooked Hearts - 2.5 stars
Chicago Hope - Season 4 - 3.0 stars
Battleship - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jason Bateman - 8 times - show films
Jeremy Piven - 5 times - show films
Jamie Foxx - 5 times - show films
Christine Lahti - 4 times - show films
Stacy Edwards - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joe Carnahan - 3 times - show films
Michael Mann - 3 times - show films
James Mangold - 3 times - show films
Keith Gordon - 2 times - show films
Morgan Spurlock - 2 times - show films