Boston Herald - Guns were blazing in Brighton yesterday where the stars of two set-in-Boston flicks - “Real Men Cry” and “The Lonely Maiden” - played shoot ’em up for the cameras.

We hear “Maiden’s” Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman and William H. Macy staged their battle in the old High Output soundstage on Western Avenue. Meanwhile across the way, “Real Men Cry” stars Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo traded simulated gunfire on a soundstage fashioned out of the vacant K Mart.

At lunchtime, both crews broke at the same time and chowed on their catered meal in separate areas inside the old Frugal Fannies. What a deal!

The only place in the retail plaza not getting shot up? The Shaw’s supermarket - which had signs warning customers of the two-day Tinseltown shooting gallery across the way!

“The Lonely Maiden” crew expects to wrap on Thursday while “Real Men Cry,” the biopic of Southie bad boy Brian Goodman, will be outta here on Friday.

It was all smiles for “Real Men Cry” stars Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo, and Amanda Peet as they gathered on M Street in South Boston early yesterday for the first day of filming. The gritty crime flick, written and directed by Southie native Brian Goodman, is about two friends who turn to crime as a way to get by and will be filming in the area for the next couple of months. Donnie Wahlberg also stars.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke will play Boston thugs in the true-life crime drama “Real Men Cry.”

Hawke and Ruffalo’s respective characters, Paulie and Brian, are childhood friends forced to survive on the tough streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian finds it hard to reconcile his work and friendship with Paulie and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Peet) and son.

First-time feature director Brian Goodman based Ruffalo’s character on his own experiences with a friend who is now serving 100 years in prison for armed robbery.

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