Peter Berg, left, and Freddie Roach at the Wild Card gym in Los Angeles.
Talk about multitasking: Peter Berg spent much of the end of last year running back and forth, directing two projects at once. "Battleship" and "On Freddie Roach" are about as different as two films can be.
"On Freddie Roach," which airs for six Friday nights through Feb. 24 on HBO, is a documentary series about the boxing trainer who trains sensational world champ Manny Pacquiao. It delivers more quiet pathos than pumped-up celebration. Mr. Roach lives with the body-quivering shakes of Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Berg's other film is Universal Pictures' $200 million "Battleship," which—there's no polite way to say this—is based on a plastic board game. (It started as a paper-and-pencil game in the 1930s and was first released in 1967 by Milton Bradley, now part of Hasbro.) The movie goes a bit further than tiles, grids and sea battles, adding enemies from outer space, Liam Neeson and hunky actor Taylor Kitsch. It's slated for a May 18 release.
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