Whom Peter Berg Wants Next

6:00 AM PDT 6/5/2012 by Marisa Guthrie

While Berg still enjoys steering big-budget movies, he says doc projects with HBO give him "creative balance."

Actor-director-producer and boxing-gym proprietor Peter Berg cut his documentary teeth directing "King's Ransom" for ESPN's 30 for 30, about Wayne Gretzky's 1988 defection to the Los Angeles Kings and last year helmed HBO's On Freddie Roach. The six-part series about Manny Pacquiao's trainer is an Emmy hopeful in the nonfiction series category.