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20th Century Fox's search for a director for stand alone, non-sequel comic book movie The Wolverine took several months, with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky finally winning the job. Hugh Jackman recently admitted to being "pumped" about the project, which was based on the 1982 comic book mini-series by writer Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller and adapted by Christopher McQuarrie, but likely won't be as pleased to find out that Aronofsky has left the movie.
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Even though concept artist Jason Hazelroth's redesigns for MGM's planned Robocop reboot have been online for a year — and the project is on indefinite hold in the wake of MGM's bankruptcy and subsequent restructuring — several entertainment sites have been revisiting the designs following the news that a statue dedicated to the fictional cyborg crimefighter in director Paul Verhoeven's 1987 R-rated movie will be erected in Detroit thanks to a Facebook campaign that generated more than $50,000 in donations.
Darren Aronofsky, acclaimed director of such movies as The Wrestler and Black Swan, was once attached to direct the Robocop reboot, and he recently told ThePlaylist that he is still interested in the project.
what else is aronofsky up to? >> Posted 02.18.11 by BrentJS -
Director Christopher Nolan was recently interviewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where he received the Modern Master Award and discussed his career in movies. While it may not seem so now, Nolan was an unusual choice for a Batman movie prior to 2005's Batman Begins. At that point in his career, Nolan had only directed the thrillers Memento and Insomnia. He became involved in the movie after his agent notified him that Warner Bros. was looking to make another Batman movie and Nolan pitched the studio his Batman idea, SeattlePI reports.
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Hugh Jackman's fifth on-screen appearance as the Marvel Comics character Wolverine will commence in Fox's upcoming sequel stand alone, non-sequel movie The Wolverine. Based on the on the 1982 comic book mini-series by writer Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller, Jackman has been talking about adapting the series since 2009, just months after X-Men Origins: Wolverine opened. Now with production starting in a couple months, Jackman told The L.A. Times that he's "pumped" to play the famous mutant once again.
I’m really, really pumped about it. I feel like all the planets are finally aligned to make a great movie. We finally have the character and with this mythology — ever since X-Men, when I was kind of hanging around and reading all these comics, because I was cast before I ever read any X-Men comics, so I was trying to get my hands on everything. I remember saying to [producer] Lauren Shuler Donner, "Lauren, I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen this Japanese story, and I think it’s so good. It’s just genius, it’s brilliant.” And we kind of always talked about it from there on. I sort of even wanted to do that in the third X-Men movie at first, but we thought, no, we really need to establish who he is at first, and we did that [with ], and now this is sort of the cherry on top, to finally do it and have Darren Aronofsky direct it. I love his gung-ho attitude toward it and great vision. Straight off, it’s not a sequel, it’s a stand-alone, and I think we’re going to make one that people will describe as the best of the bunch.
Wolverine won't look like Eastwood >> Posted 02.01.11 by Ryan -
Christopher Nolan has not even started shooting The Dark Knight Rises and there's already speculation of who will take the reigns of the billion-dollar superhero franchise after Nolan is finished with his Dark Knight trilogy.
Clothes on Film talked to Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky who said he is working on turning an old Batman: Year One script into a comic book and then seeing what happens next.
Aronofsky was offered Batman Begins >> Posted 01.17.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
On Christmas, 84-year-old Hugh Hefner used his iPad to tweet his engagement to 24-year-old December 2009 Playboy Playmate Crystal Harris. Way to go, Hef, for embracing technology at that age, while Crystal still uses a corded phone!
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Less than two months after Darren Aronofsky and Rachel Weisz announced their split, Weisz and Daniel Craig were seen canoodling in NYC over the weekend. Hat tip to TMZ, that suggested the "Blond Bond" was in the picture at the time of the separation. Weisz and Craig star along with Naomi Watts in Dream House, a thriller that opens February 18.
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Late last week it looked like Lindsay Lohan was off the hook for her Betty Ford Clinic catfight with Dawn Holland after Holland's attorney said she would drop all charges and not cooperate with police on an investigation. However, the Palm Desert Police Department tells E! that the investigation is ongoing.
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Bristol Palin, in a heated battle with Snooki and her mom for the "Least Talented, Most Successful" crown, has paid $172,000 cash for this 5 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 3 car garage house in Maricopa, AZ. Bristol is toying with the idea of attending some college classes at Arizona State.
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When director Darren Aronofsky was officially hired for The Wolverine, it ended a search that included a short list of other directors, including David Slade, who admitted to a meeting with star Hugh Jackman. Jackman, however, ultimately wanted to work with Aronofsky, and told EW that his re-teaming with his The Fountain director was years in the making.
I love every one of his movies. He’s a visionary. I’ve been trying to get Darren since X-Men 3, really. We’ve been talking about this and Wolverine for so long.
The biggest Wolverine yet >> Posted 12.08.10 by Ryan -
For a time, it seemed as if The Twilight Saga: Eclipse director, David Slade, would be the man to bring the X-Men's favorite son, Wolverine, back to the big screen in the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After his name popped up on a short list of directors angling for the job, Slade even confessed to having met with title star Hugh Jackman to discuss the movie, which made him seem like a lock. However, as we all know now, the job of directing The Wolverine ultimately went to The Wrestler director, Darren Aronofsky, whose new film, Black Swan, is currently in theaters. So, where did that leave Slade? Back to directing commercials and spending "a lot of time reading trying to find the right thing to do next." In a recent interview with HitFix, Slade discussed the "torturous" process of choosing a project, losing out on The Wolverine to Aronofsky and what projects he has lined up next.
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Acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to The Wrestler, Black Swan, is a psychological thriller that explores the secret world of profesional ballet and one dancer's (Academy Award-nominee Natalie Portman) struggle to land the Prima Ballerina position in her company's new production of Swan Lake while attempting to maintain her tenuous grip on reality. During a recent press conference for the movie, Portman, who had danced as a young girl, described ballet as "an expression without words" and said that she "always wanted to do a film relating to dance." Portman said that the complex role she plays in the movie was one of the few that benefited from the hiatus she took from acting to study psychology at Harvard.
what did portman say about ballet and training for Black Swan? >> Posted 11.29.10 by BrentJS -
The first clip from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky's (The Wrestler) new psychological thriller, Black Swan. In it, we see the fragile mental state of the protagonist, Nina (Academy Award-nominee Natalie Portman), a talented ballerina who is next in line to replace her ballet company's Prima Ballerina, Beth (Winona Ryder), in the upcoming production of Swan Lake. While being fitted for the show, Nina has a frightening hallucination, but it pales in comparison to the horror she feels at discovering that the newcomer to the company, Lily (Mila Kunis), has just been made her alternate.
see the first Black Swan clip >> Posted 11.24.10 by BrentJS