Bought, lauded and fresh off great buzz from Venice and Toronto film fests, Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler,” now has a release date of December 19 – just in time for Oscar qualifying season like everyone predicted. [/Film]
Howard Shore had stepped in to replace Phillip Glass for the score to “Doubt,” featuring Phillip-Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. [In Contention]
Watch 7 minutes of “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly (we still can’t figure that one out) cause we surely won’t. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
David Foster Wallace (RIP) was working on an adaptation of “Infinite Jest,” with director Sam Jones, the man behind the Wilco documentary, “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”? Nope, false rumors. Jones was attached to direct at one point, but never with Wallace and the option apparently ran out. [CHUD]
Billy Idol almost took Robert Patrick’s spot as the the computerized killing machine in James Cameron’s “The Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” He was the director’s first choice. And before Arnold Schwarzenegger, apparently Lance Henriksen was up for the role of the original robotic monster. [MTV]
Colin Firth says the Coen Brothers’ “Gambit” film project is not happening. [MTV]
