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First Look at Mark Wahlberg in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain: Pain or Gain?

via Socialite Life

While filming Michael Bay's next non-Transformers pic Pain & Gain, based on the bizarre, freaky real life story of a band of Florida bodybuilders who committed a heinous series of crimes in the '90s, star Mark Wahlberg put on quite the show for peeping photographers. Clad in workout gear and some very short shorts, he gave us quite the memorable first look at the modest little $20 million black comedy, as you can see after the jump.
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Michael Bay Directing Modest Little $20M Bodybuilder Crime Pic Next

arrives at the premiere of Paramount Pictures' "Super 8" at Regency Village Theatre on June 8, 2011 in Westwood, California.

When your last three movies combined cost nearly $550 million to make, a $20 million budget suddenly sounds... reasonable. Modest, even. So give Transformers auteur Michael Bay some credit for restraint with Pain & Gain, a real-life crime pic about bodybuilders-turned-criminals that he says he'll direct next.

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