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Jeremy Renner Gets Inside The Hurt Locker

Thursday June 25, 2009
Summit Entertainment hopes to buck the trend with The Hurt Locker, the dramatic story of an elite group of soldiers who risk their lives disarming bombs in combat situations. Serious films overall haven't done well at the box office in 2009, and films portraying anything to do with war haven't felt any love from audiences in years. But The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner says that although this film definitely has to do with soldiers – and is based on journalist/screenwriter Mark Boal's observations made while he was embedded with an Army bomb unit in Baghdad – he views it more as an intense character study that just happens to focus on soldiers. Read More...

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  • (Photo © Summit Entertainment)

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