According to Mark Wahlberg, Darren Aronofsky’s The Fighter will begin filming this October. Awesome. You may remember that the film, a biopic on badass pugilist “Irish” Micky Ward, gained considerable traction in the press last year when Wahlberg and others compared it to a “new Raging Bull.” Brad Pitt later signed on to co-star as [...]

Last week we told you that Nicolas Cage was in talks to star in Robert Siegel’s The Wrestler, which is in development at Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures. ComingSoon is now reporting that Aronofsky is actually going to direct this film, which is targeted for a January 2008 start.
I had actually heard that Aronofsky’s The Fighter [...]

No, this is not an old news item. Yes, Brad Pitt single handedly almost ruined Requiem For a Dream director Darren Aronofsky’s third film The Fountain, b y walking away from the project weeks before shooting was to begin (Sets were almost completed, and the production shut down put hundreds of people out of work). [...]

Mark Wahlberg is set to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s paranoid apocalyptic thriller The Happening.