Stuff!

So indie fave Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, the Fountain) has a new film, The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke. The film just won the Golden Lion at the recent Venice Film Festival (its highest honor), and was picked up by Fox Searchlight pictures at the Toronto Film Festival. The film follows an aging, washed up pro wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who is reduced to cheap high school showcases and the such. He also wrestles with his estrangement from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and an attempt to connect with the aging stripper he has long pined after (Marisa Tomei). The film has been garnering some extremely positive buzz, and here are a few clips and interviews with the star and director, in addition to a lengthy interview (part 1, part 2, part 3)with the director, in which he talks about his next project, a semi-remake of the classic Robocop, in addition to his project after that, a telling of the story of Noah's Ark.

George Clooney is starring in a film helmed by his Good Night and Good Luck co-writer, Grant Heslov, about a purported military program aimed training for psychic soldiers. Looks interesting...

Stephen Soderbergh, hot off his recently picked up for distribution Che, starring Benicio del Toro as the revolutionary, has announced that he has a film about Liberace in the works...

Wes Anderson is slated to write and direct a remake of Patrice Lecont's recent My Best Friend, following his snow-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox...

That's it for now, suckers. Go see Burn After Reading this weekend, the new Coen Brothers film...