Marky Mark to Replace Gosling
In his quest to be in every other movie ever made, Mark Wahlberg has stooped to a low we haven't seen since the Funky Bunch: Ryan Gosling's replacement. Currently filming M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Wahlberg was already committed to The Fighter, co-starring Brad Pitt, and The Brazilian Job, an apparent sequel to 2003's surprise hit, Bringing Down the House. Wahlberg has just joined the cast of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones after Ryan Gosling left the project. Gosling gained 20 pounds for the role, and it is rumored that Jackson found Gosling's physique unacceptable - an opinion that three years ago would have been shockingly hypocritical, but today amounts to little more than a good excuse to get Mark Wahlberg.
Cobain, by way of 'Ray'
It has been announced that Courtney Love will co-produce a biopic of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. While you probably wouldn't trust Courtney Love with anything you own, she is somewhat of an authority on the subject of Kurt Cobain, so it kind of makes sense. Cobain's former bandmate Dave Grohl was probably busy anyway. There is as of yet no word whether Love would prefer Joaquin Phoenix or Jaime Foxx to play the lead.
Watts for "Birds" remake, Hopkins as "Psycho" director
In the late '90s, a few studio executives reached the following conclusions: "Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was good, but it really could have used some more Anne Heche," and "Dial M for Murder had its moments, but who uses a rotary phone in this day and age? And how does one even go about dialing a letter? This film simply cannot relate to modern Americans and their technological savvy. Get me Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow; we have work to do." A decade later, the people way better at making Alfred Hitchcock movies than he was are attempting to capture the lightening of reinvention in the bottle of improvement for a third time by remaking The Birds. Naomi Watts, the star of King Kong who has apparently established herself as Hollywood's "it" girl for classic-creature-terrorizing-rich-people-movie-remakes, is reportedly attached. In other Hitchcockian news, Anthony Hopkins will portray the late director in an upcoming film set during the making of Psycho. Moviegoers anxiously anticipate the mesmerizing scene in which a distressed Hitchcock exasperatedly inquires, "Where's Anne Heche when you need her?"
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