Wahlberg brothers pay for NY firm's burger name (AP)

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Actor brothers Donnie and Mark Wahlberg have licensed the name of a hamburger from a western New York chain of drive-in-style restaurants and plan to use it for their new eatery in Boston.

Executives with Tom Wahl's tell the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper the brothers have licensed the Wahlburger name from the company so they can use it when they and another sibling, Paul, open a burger joint named Wahlburgers Restaurant in their hometown. Tom Wahl's serves a cheeseburger called a Wahlburger and owns the federal trademark rights to the name.

Tom Wahl opened the first Tom Wahl's restaurant in 1955 in Avon (A'-vahn), south of Rochester. He sold it in 1986. The chain now operates eight restaurants.

The company hasn't disclosed the amount of the licensing agreement.

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Mark Wahlberg May Get Back in the Ring for 'The Fighter' Sequel

Ding ding: round two. Following the success of 'The Fighter,' Mark Wahlberg is putting ideas of a sequel into the ring.

According to Entertainment Weekly's interview with the producer and star of the boxing biopic, Wahlberg is championing a return to the screen to complete boxer Micky Ward's journey.

"I'm trying to plant the idea in everyone's head that we should do -- not five or six 'Fighters' like 'Rocky' -- but one more because the big thing that Micky Ward was famous for was his three epic battles with Arturo Gatti," Wahlberg tells EW. "So we're talking about possibly taking one more run at it."
Not only would a follow-up film fill out the legendary boxer's epic rise to champion but could potentially share the same epic box office numbers as the original. According to EW, the film has earned more than $93 million domestically.

And audiences aren't the only ones praising the film. 'The Fighter' earned seven Academy Award nominations, two resulting in Best Supporting Actor and Actress wins for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo, respectively. Wahlberg is counting on the fact that his cast of award winning and nominated actors would also jump at the opportunity to get back in the ring.

"Everybody had such an amazing experience making the movie that I can't imagine they wouldn't want to go back," Wahlberg said. "But it's still kind

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