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'Deepwater Horizon'

Photo by Kris Connor
Director Peter Berg and Washington Redskin player Josh Norman
Director Peter Berg and Washington Redskin player Josh Norman

Director Peter Berg, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and the team attended an advance screening of Lions Gate Entertainment’s new movie Deepwater Horizon at the Bow Tie Cinema in Richmond, Va.

Deepwater Horizon is an upcoming 2016 American biographical disaster thriller-drama film directed by Peter Berg, written by Matthew Sand and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O’Brien and Kate Hudson. It is based on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Principal photography began on April 27, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is scheduled to be screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and opens in Theaters in September.