-- Let the speculation begin. "Howling Mad" Murdock actor Dwight Schultz will be showing up for a cameo in Joe Carnahan's "The A-Team," according to a fansite. Hopefully, this means we'll be seeing other cameos from the rest of the team. Who doesn't want to see Mr. T give this young guns A-Team a vote of confidence with a tiny cameo role. Hell, he can leave his gold chains at home if it makes him happy. Schultz is great, but the fans want what they want: bring back T. (The Official Dwight Schultz Fansite, via Cinematical)

-- "Mad Men" producer Matthew Weiner is turning his attention to film now that the latest season is finished. He's now getting set to helm "You Are Here," a romantic comedy that he wrote. Independent financing is already in place and the cast will include the likes of Jennifer Aniston and "The Hangover" stars Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis. No word on a synopsis, but he'd better get cracking or he's going to leave a lot of "Mad Men" fans very disappointed. (Variety) Read more...

-- Darren Aronofsky may be busy with "Black Swan" -- which sounds a lot like "Fight Club" with ballerinas to me -- but he's going to need something more grounded as a follow-up to 2008's Oscar-winning "The Wrestler." And here it is. The filmmaker has partnered with Time Inc. Studios and XYZ Films to direct/produce an "indie heist thriller" based on the 2006 robbery of the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge, England, in which thieves made off with roughly $85 million. (Variety)

-- Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to Lucy Prebble's stage play "Enron," which chronicles the high-profile fall of the Texas energy concern. Prebble will adapt her script for film and Laura Ziskin will produce, though no additional cast or crew players have yet been revealed. (Variety) Read more...

Darren Aronofsky has been lying low since all the critical acclaim heaped on him after "The Wrestler." He's just been quietly developing his "Robocop" reboot. The talented director also has another project up his sleeve, one that might just take flight before "Robocop" thanks to the addition of Natalie Portman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Portman is attached to star in Aronofsky's next project, "Black Swan."

"Swan" is a supernatural thriller set in the New York City ballet. It follows a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself in a tight competition with a rival dancer. With a big performance on the horizon, the rivalry between them becomes fierce and ugly. While that could be vicious enough territory for a film to explore, the ballerina must face an even more terrifying question: whether her rival is even real or just a delusion. A lot of comparisons to made here to "The Others," the Nicole Kidman ghost story where all was not as it seemed... but not before we all wept in terror. Well, at least I did. Read more...

The differences between the terms "remake" and "reboot" are subtle, but important nonetheless. The first implies an attempt to recreate the recipe of something that came before, while the second tends to take the essential ingredients and craft something nifty, new and occasionally unrecognizable.

It's our hunch that Darren Aronofsky, he of "The Wrestler" and "Requiem for a Dream" fame, will be leaning towards the latter when it comes to his announced "RoboCop" project. If nothing else, original "RoboCop" screenwriter and co-producer Ed Neumeier agreed that Aronofsky, an unlikely match for the cybernetic law enforcement officer, is likely to do something equally unusual with the material. Read more...

Ever since Darren Aronofsky opened up with news that his ‘RoboCop’ project would be a reboot of the franchise, we’ve had plenty of questions for him about how his vision will define itself. Now, the “Fountain” and “Requiem for a Dream” director has leaked a little more insight and not only pointed out where he sees room to grow with the film, but let on that a Peter Weller appearance may not be part of the deal.

“The thing that’s exciting for a filmmaker like me about [“RoboCop”] is that it’s not as iconic as some of the other titles out there, so there’s room to do stuff with it,” Aronofsky told MTV News. “It had incredible insight into the future, and it’s still hilarious,” he added. Read more...

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Access Hollywood scored the strangest news of the day with the announcement that Mickey Rourke, fresh from his Oscar nomination in Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler", is set to get in the ring for real at the WWE's "Wrestlemania 25" on April 5th.

Wait, what? As crazy as it sounds, it looks like Rourke's pretty confident about the idea, claiming that he's been speaking with wrestler-turned-actor Rowdy Roddy Piper about participating. He even called out wrestler Chris Jericho, saying, "You better get in shape, because I'm coming after your a--." Read more...

It's been one of the biggest success stories in recent Hollywood memory: former '80s heartthrob Mickey Rourke, beaten down and weathered and having nearly driven himself out of Hollywood, returning under the direction of "Fountain" director Darren Aronofsky to an undisputedly illustrious comeback.

Mickey Rourke's inspirational performance in "The Wrestler" has garnered him near-universal acclaim, and a Golden Globes nomination -- and win -- for Best Actor. But even if he hadn't taken home a statue, just the mere nod from the Hollywood community would've been enough of to signal that Mickey Rourke has returned. Below, listen to Aronofsky's remarks on his star, and then click here to check out all of our red carpet interviews from the 2009 Golden Globes.

FROM SPLASH PAGE: On the very short list of "Directors We'd Like To See Tackle A Comic Book Movie," Darren Aronofsky has a permanent spot among the top three names. Sure, he directed 2006's "The Fountain" and wrote the accompanying Vertigo graphic novel, but we're talking more along the lines of a spandex-clad, super-powered do-gooder out for justice. We got close to our wish back in '02 when Aronofsky was rumored to direct an adaptation of Frank Miller's classic "Batman: Year One" series, but that project eventually fell by the wayside.

However, we occasionally hear blips on the comic book film radar about a possible adaptation of the iconic manga series "Lone Wolf & Cub," which follows a disgraced Shogun's executioner on a quest for vengeance with his three-year-old son in tow. And while Aronofsky has stated that "Lone Wolf & Cub" isn't on his upcoming slate of films, it never hurts to check in with him in regards to the manga masterpiece.

Read the rest of Darren Aronofsky's thoughts on a "Lone Wolf and Cub" movie at SplashPage.MTV.com.

FROM MTV.COM: Mickey Rourke has taken a lot of punishment over the years, most of it with a puzzling eagerness. In movies of the 1980s, like "Diner," "Angel Heart" and "The Pope of Greenwich Village," his whispery charisma made him one of the most fascinating young actors in film. Then, in the early '90s, he bailed out of the business to become a low-level professional boxer, which is where the punishment came in. Now, at the age of 52, with a face so heavily repaired it resembles an Easter Island import, Rourke has found the role of a lifetime in Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler," in which he plays a has-been grappler who has also taken a lot of punishment but can't stop coming back for more — punishment is his life. It's a fearless and heartbreaking performance: Rourke himself may look lumpy and worked-over, but his charisma remains undented.

His character is Randy Robinson — "The Ram" — a star on the pro-wrestling circuit back in the '80s. Twenty-five years later, he's still pulling on the tights and soaking up steroids, but the matches are sparse these days, and the money minimal — he works a dead-end supermarket job on the side, but still can't make the rent in the dismal New Jersey trailer park where he lives. (New Jersey, with its bare trees and wintry flatlands, is a presiding emotional presence in the picture.) Wrestling has changed, too: Now your opponents come at you with barbed wire and staple guns, and rake dinner forks across your face. It's a young man's game, and Randy, with his bad back, hearing aid and deteriorating ticker, is no longer young.

Continue reading Kurt Loder's review of "The Wrestler" on MTV.com!

NEW YORK -- Fox Searchlight Pictures threw the first big movie-biz holiday party of the season on Wednesday night, in the Library of the Hudson Hotel. (It's a "library" with a bar, a billiard table and giant framed cow portraits thick on the walls.) The company had much to be festive about, two of its latest features being the focus of much, as they say, "Oscar buzz."

Director Danny Boyle was on hand to absorb back pats and congratulatory chatter for "Slumdog Millionaire," his quasi-Bollywood love story/adventure movie, which was shot in Mumbai and features, among several other things, one of the year's great soundtracks (by famed Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman). Also in attendance was the film's cinematographer, Anthony Dod Mantle, a madly affable Englishman, who attempted to explain the special camera he'd invented for the picture -- a sort of mini-Steadicam rig, it sounded like, amid the din -- and expressed his great love of India, a country where he's spent a considerable amount of time. Mumbai, especially, he said, is an extraordinarily crowded place ("You open up a cupboard and a family of fifteen comes tumbling out"), and it's a challenge to shoot in, but he'd go back in a minute. Not right this minute, though. First he has to hook up for a new picture with his longtime colleague, the Danish curmudgeon/director Lars Von Trier. Read more...