Aronofsky directing “The Fighter”?

I am a firm believer in Ebert’s edict that what’s most important is not what a film is about, but how it’s about it. That is, virtually anything can be the subject of an important and/or entertaining movie, if it’s handled the right way.

That said….Christ, another boxing movie?

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I don’t care if Darren Aronofsky wants to direct Rocky VII. I’m there.

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I’ll second that Brian.

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this sounds great (and how can you not like boxing movies?)…..

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Look at this:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961861.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Variety just runs the story, without any additional quotes or apparent original reporting, without sourcing Stax, who definitely broke this. I had a similar thing happen earlier this year with the ZYZZYX ROAD story. These people are scumbags.

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Devin –

Not to apologize for Variety (they ran a story on an insane moviehole.net rumor a week ago), but if you read their piece, it’s clear they had direct talks with the studio and more details on the project than Staxx did. You have to assume they probably were informed of the story at the same time, but got direct info. Michael Flemming is not one to break other people’s stories…He probably doesn’t even know there is an internet.

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I’ll second that Brian.

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Devin, of course there’s the possibility that Variety saw the story on IGN, contated the studio and got more information in order to “break” the story… or that Stax found out that Aronofsky was in talks just as the studio was ready to release the news to the trades anyway (i.e. someone leaked the info early). The same thing happened with IESB and that Piranha thing where he found out about the remake and the studio gave him a hard time about revealing it before the trades got the news.

The problem is that the studios don’t send their press releases out with the casting/negotiation news to all outlets at the same time. As a matter of fact, they rarely send the info to ANY outlets except Variety and/or The Hollywood Reporter. Kind of bullshit if you ask me.

We can keep complaining or just keep trying to find new stories like the journalists we are and post them when we do, ignoring what Variety/THR do.

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Oh, and God love Stax, but if he wants to be taken seriously, he should start using his real name like everyone else on IGN.

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Hey Ed. I wish that if you had something to say about me that you would say it to my face or at least in a personal email. It’s not like we haven’t met. By the way, is “Ed Douglas” your real name? I’ve heard that it’s not. Correct me if I’m wrong.

And I’d like to be taken me seriously based on the content of my stories and not the name in the byline. Would the point of Jeff’s post or the validity of my story be any different if I had written my story under the name of “Jim McCarthy” rather than “Stax”? No. Seriously, who cares? That’s a very lame and old argument you tried to make.

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