Black Swan And The Wrestler Started Out As One Movie

It’s easy to understand why director Darren Aronofsky might want to follow The Wrestler with Black Swan. Even without having seen Black Swan it’s clear that both movies involve similar themes. Both stories focus on athletes struggling with fading careers in less than mainstream professions. In The Wrestler Mickey Rourke plays a wrestler past his prime but unable to let go of the spot light. In Black Swan Natalie Portman plays a dancer facing a career challenge from a younger talent. But who’d have suspected that they started life not just as similar films but as one movie?

Aronofsky tells MTV that his original intent was to make a film about the coupling of a wrestler and a ballet dancer. He explains, “At one point, way before I made 'The Wrestler,' I was actually developing a project that was about a love affair between a ballet dancer and a wrestler, and then it kind of split off into two movies.” But the ballet meets wrestling idea became too complex and he eventually split the two concepts off into two separate films.

Yet even now he considers The Wrestler and Black Swan to be companion pieces and his hope is that at some point, someone will play them together. Aronofsky says, “They are really connected and people will see the connections. It's funny, because wrestling some consider the lowest art — if they would even call it art — and ballet some people consider the highest art. But what was amazing to me was how similar the performers in both of these worlds are. They both make incredible use of their bodies to express themselves.”

Now that the cat’s out of the bag, I’d say a Wrestler/Black Swan double feature is almost inevitable. Start lobbying your local arthouse for it, right now.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Casts An Egyptian Vampire

Twilight has a new castmember and he was announced by Kate Gosselin. That’s just about where we’re at with this thing folks.

The new addition’s name is Rami Malek, an American actor of Egyptian descent who most recently appeared in the Emmy awarded miniseries The Pacific. He was also Ahkmenrah in the much better than it had any right to be Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Now the 29-year-old will play an Egyptian vampire named “Benjamin” in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

An Egyptian named Benjamin? Really Twilight fans? This requires explanation. If you've read the books, give me one in the comments section below.

Nutcracker 3D Coming To Theaters November 24

When the trailer for Andrey Konchalovskiy's 3D take on the classic ballet The Nutcracker popped up online earlier this month, it seemed inevitable that we could expect a release later this year for the new take on the holiday classic. Now Freestyle Releasing has made it happen. THR reports that the indie distributor has scheduled a November 24 release for the film, which includes eight new songs by Lion King mastermind Tim Rice in additional to the traditional Tchaikovsky score.

Though the lead character's name is typically translated as "Clara" in the ballet, for this movie she'll be named Mary and played by Elle Fanning. Nathan Lane plays the uncle who gives Mary the enchanted nutcracker, and John Turturro plays the wicked Rat King whom Mary must defeat. Though Koncaholvskiy's last few films have been in Russian this one will be in English, so it'll be interesting to see how the Tango & Cash director handles a return to the language. And if we have to choose a 3D holiday movie, I'll take whatever this is over revisiting The Polar Express any day.

Take a look at the trailer again below if you're so inclined.

Daniel Radcliffe Lights Up In A New Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Image

We have a new image from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. In it, Harry lights up on some stairs. His wand that is. Daniel Radcliffe is climbing an unusually narrow stairway and he looks ready for a fight.

If you click on the image below you’ll get a high-res version of the photo, where you may be able to better make out what’s behind Harry in the photo, in the glass containers on the wall. Those would be skulls and I don’t think they’re human ones. Take a look:

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New Images From Buried Put Ryan Reynolds In A Box

I've had an incredible curiosity about the upcoming film Buried from the minute I first read about it. The concept is simple, yet brilliant: an hour and a half trapped in a tiny coffin with a panicked Ryan Reynolds. I then got my hands on a copy of the script, with the intention of only reading the first 10 pages. I ended up not being able to put it down and finishing it in one night. Then came the response out of the Sundance Film Festival, which was overwhelmingly positive and led to the film being picked up by Lionsgate to be distributed this fall. With the release date of October 8th drawing ever closer, my anticipation grows, and everything that comes out from the film only makes me want to see it more.

Kino Gallery has posted a slew of images from the film, both behind the scenes and stills from the movie itself. Considering the incredibly little amount of space they had to film in, it looks as though the only source of light in the scenes comes from the props, such as the cell phone, glow sticks and lighter. This must have been an absolute nightmare in post-production, but I can only imagine how it affects the atmosphere.

Life As We Know It Poster Makes Josh Duhamel A Drunken Baby

Here’s the craziest movie poster you’ll see this week for what is almost certain to be one of the least crazy movies being released in October. You know it’s not crazy because it stars Katherine Heigl and since announcing to the world that she hated Knocked Up (the only good movie she's ever done), she’s made it a point to do nothing but boring and predictable. But you wouldn’t know it from this poster for Life as We Know It, which shows her pursuing both her costar Josh Duhamel and her on screen goddaughter, who both seem to be doing their best baby runs away from mommy impression. It’s a poster craziness to movie lameness ratio of epic proportions.

Maybe Josh Duhamel will make this worth watching. If you’ve only seen him in Transformers you haven’t really seen what the guy is capable of. There’s a good actor, maybe even a good comedic actor, in there somewhere. Will Life as We Know It give that actor a chance to show us his stuff? The poster does.

Fox Looking At Bruce Willis And Kiefer Sutherland To Be The Thing In Fantastic Four Reboot?

The Thing from the Fantastic Four is about to undergo his newest incarnation. In the 1994 cheaply-made adaptation, he looked like something that crawled out of the toilet. In the 2005 and 2007 versions, they actually seemed to do it somewhat right, having Michael Chiklis dressed in a rubber suit. For the reboot, however, they've decided to go with an all-CGI Thing (a la Hulk), which means that the actor playing the role will only inform the character through a voice. But who will that voice be?

Comic Book Movie and Screen Rant are separately posting rumors that Fox is pursuing Bruce Willis and Kiefer Sutherland to lend their voices to the comic book character, though the sites fail to reference sources for their information. The reports state that neither actor has been reached out to by the studio as of yet.

The skeptical nature of the rules aside, I'm not sure either actor is the right man for the part. Willis' voice is simply far too smooth, whereas The Thing has a voice reminiscent of car driving on a poorly paved road. Sutherland's voice is at least deeper, but it doesn't have that right quality. And why would you want a voice people are going to recognize anyway? If they aren't seeing the actor behind the character's eyes, audiences are just going to be hearing John McClane or Jack Bauer. Fox, just let Chiklis do it. To be frank, he was perfect.

Life Imitates Art: Takers Steals Top Box-Office Spot From The Last Exorcism

Despite initial reports, Takers has lived up to its namesake and stolen the weekend box office throne from The Last Exorcism. Exorcism was initially deemed the champ with a weekend take of $21.3 million to Takers' $21 million flat, but THR reports that final data overturned that initial placement, Takers finishing with $20.5 million, and Exorcism with $20.3.

I am hit with a level of disappointment. Exorcism is actually a surprisingly good movie; swift, unpredictable, and with an uncommonly wicked sense of humor. Critics, including our own Josh Tyler have said that Takers is a waste of time and offers nothing fresh or innovative, instead choosing to rehash older, better movies (i.e. Heat) in some slick but tacky new packaging. The Last Exorcism deserved to win over the weekend, if only because it probably surprised plenty of people by rising out of the late-August film dreck and managing to be a fun and nimble theme-park ride of a movie (and not just in a late-August, get-what-you-pay-for, Piranha 3-D kind of way).