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Before I get into my prediction picks and second best choices for Best Original Screenplay, here are some titles that are worth mentioning and that I think are on the outsides looking in. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful (how will he do without Guillermo Arriaga as his wingman?), Mark Heyman and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (I think the Academy will find the title too risque)...

The rags-to-riches, come from behind boxing ring narrative has been overdone, and while nothing has come close to stealing the title away from the Jake La Motta biopic (Million Dollar Baby was crap folks), if the performances are spot on, if Russell gives this biography a different tapestry (apparently he shrunk the timeline from 30 to 3 years) then we'll gain more insight in why this originally attracted the Darren Aronofskys and the Brad Pitts).

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire may have walked away with TIFF's top prize of the People's Choice Award, but the critics are championing the latest effort from Hirokazu Kore-Eda instead and a pair of films among my tops of the festival in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye,Solo and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler are tied for second in a survey conducted by Eugene Hernandez over at indieWIRE.

Just prior to seeing the Sunday night's North American premiere of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler at the Elgin Visa screening room, I haphazardly ran into Alex from Firstshowing.net and Peter from Slashfilm.com in the downstairs lobby (which would explain how I ended up here).

Phoenix Pictures seems to be cornering the market on sci-fi properties. Fresh off the announcement that they will be rebooting the Robocop franchise with Darren Aronofsky comes word they are also producing the adaptation of sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein’s novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.