Aside from being a pretty good director, David O. Russell has two main claims to fame: calling Lily Tomlin a c*nt, and always casting Mark Wahlberg in his movies (all of them since Three Kings — Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, and The Fighter). While he’ll always be the Lily Tomlin-c*nt guy, the latter has reportedly changed, and if TheWrap is to be believed, Marky Mark is none to pleased about it.

Hollywood heavyweight [and real-life welterweight -Ed.] Mark Wahlberg has fallen out with his buddy director David O. Russell over the director’s decision to cast someone else in the lead of his new film, “The Silver Linings Playbook,” according to two individuals with knowledge of the relationship.

What, ah you too good fa Maahk Wahlberg now, cawksuckah? I FACKIN MADE YOU!

“They went with Brad Cooper because they felt he was hungrier and would work for cheaper,” Matt Muzio, Russell’s cousin and frequent collaborator, told TheWrap.
Muzio also fell out with the director recently, but said he was with Russell this summer on Martha’s Vineyard when the decision was made. Another individual close to Wahlberg confirmed the information.

BRADLEY FACKIN’ COOPAH? YOAH GONNA BURN ME FOAH THAT PRETTY FACKIN’ BLUE-EYED MAWMMA’S BOY? …I shoulda known you’d do me just like ya done yoah cousin, Matty da Wawp.

Wahlberg’s deal provided that he was to be paid an additional $900,000 if Anne Hathaway fell out of the project, according to two individuals with knowledge of the deal. Hathaway did indeed drop out, making Cooper the less expensive option to Wahlberg.
Wahlberg was paid a fee anyway, though another executive said it was because of his creative contribution to the Weinstein Co. project.
The decision to cast Cooper surprised Muzio and others because Wahlberg has been one of Russell’s most loyal friends in Hollywood, bringing him in on his pet project, “The Fighter,” after years of Russell being sidelined.
“If it weren’t for ‘The Fighter,’ ‘Silver Linings’ wouldn’t exist,” Muzio said.

Yeah, and if it weren’t for David O. Russell, The Fighter probably wouldn’t have been any good, so…

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In what sounds like the awesomest, movie-themed food truck idea we never came up with, Mark Wahlberg, along with his brother Donnie Wahlberg, will be opening a restaurant called “Wahlburgers.” Their other brother, Paul (that’s him on the left, with their mom and… uncle?), will be head chef. Also working there, I imagine, will be an assahtmint of cousins, knawckarounds, an hahd ons from the neighbahhood, such as Squeezebawx, Caspah, Tawmmy, Wawp Tawmmy, Snawtlips, Dahkie Mike, Skidmahks, Richie Three Balls, Elbows, The Gooch, Fruity Pete, Gene, and Johnny Bitchtits.

Hingham chef Paul Wahlberg, brother of actor Mark and New Kid on the Block Donnie [ouch. -Ed], has cleared a major legal hurdle in opening his new hamburger restaurant — securing the name, Wahlburgers, which had been previously trademarked.
“It just works,” said Ed St. Croix, Wahlberg’s business partner. “It’s a good-sounding brand we could put out the product with, a great name people could relate to.” [by which I mean ridicule]
St. Croix said the restaurant’s ownership approached [pelted with batteries? showered with verbal abuse?] Tom Wahl’s, a chain of burger joints based in Rochester, N.Y., a few months ago after they discovered it sold a product called the “Wahlburger.”
“We were definitely surprised,” St. Croix said. “It was a thing we had talked about for several years.”
The Wahlburgers’ group secured “full spectrum” use of the name, St. Croix said, but wouldn’t discuss financial terms of the deal, or any other details.
The group, which includes chef Paul and his famous brothers, also had some backup names, just in case it wasn’t able to secure the rights to Wahlburgers, but St. Croix wouldn’t divulge them for fear of confusing the issue.
Wahlburgers is slated to open soon at the Hingham Shipyard, across from the group’s Italian restaurant, Alma Nove, named in honor of the Wahlbergs’ mom and her nine kids. The group is also planning to open a pizza joint next spring. [BawstonGlobe via Movieline]

HEY MAHKY, SOME QUEAH’S IS SELLIN’ BUHGUHS, AN THEYUH CALLIN EM WAHLBUHGUHS!

Wahlbuhguhs? Wheyah?

In New Yawk.

New Yawk?!? Fack that cawksuckah. Let’s buy him out, and take his queah restrint back ta Mass.

Great idear, we’ll put it right neah da fackin’ hahbah.

Go Sawx?

Go Sawx.

(*shawts*)

Casting America’s most blue-eyed WASP Bradley Cooper as the mixed-race goth icon in The Crow remake is one of the dumber ideas to come out of Hollywood, a town built on terrible ideas. Now Cooper is out, supposedly because of scheduling (though I prefer to think that he finally came to his handsome senses thanks to one of those Limitless pills). Now the actors being named as possible replacements are… Channing Tatum and Mark Wahlberg (who was basically C-Tates before C-Tates was C-Tates). Yes, I’m sure fans of The Crow will be delighted either way…

Bradley Cooper was to have played the title character but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that he has now exited due to scheduling conflicts. Cooper has David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook shooting this fall and then dives straight into Legendary’s Paradise Lost, which shoots first quarter next year…the exact time Relativity plans on making the high-priority Crow.
But akin to the project’s rock musician who is killed and resurrected [editor's note: no, not really like that at all...], two new names have surfaced as possible replacements: Channing Tatum and Mark Wahlberg. [THR]

They don’t say why those names are being mentioned or by whom, but if true, it sounds like this project has gone from WASP to whigger! And I think I speak for everyone here when I say that “From WASP to Whigger” would make an awesome reality show on VH-1 in which Channing Tatum takes a Northeastern blue blood and turns him into the white Flava-Flav of a Florida strip mall (with special guest Chet Haze!). Holy crap, thank God I’m already writing this down.

Terrorists Doug Ellin and Mark Wahlberg issued a new round of threats this week, reaffirming their commitment to releasing an Entourage movie inside the US, an attack whose consequences would be catastrophic, experts say. Officials responded by tightening security at club openings, Hooterses, and men’s mag writers meetings, promising to arrest anyone caught using the phrase “hug it out, bitch,” “victory,” or “Got MILF” and hold them indefinitely as enemy combatants. Homeland Security has upgraded the Douche-Threat Level to Sunglasses at Night.

More assurances that HBO’s longrunning comedy series Entourage will spill onto the big screen with a movie, following the end of its 8-season run this fall. “If I had to finance it myself, I would do it,” executive producer Mark Wahlberg said during the TCA session dedicated to Entourage‘s final season. “I’ve been telling Doug, The Hangover is to me very much like Entourage, and look at all the recent success of R-rated movies.” Doug would be Entourage creator/executive producer Doug Ellin. “We’re going to do a movie,” he said. “We’re going to do it, the questing is when and how quickly. Hopefully we’ll come down with an idea and make it happen.” [Deadline]

I agree, Entourage is a lot like The Hangover. The only distinction I see is that Stu could’ve killed that tranny he banged, dismembered her, and buried her in the jungle, and still been more likable than anyone on Entourage. “But, Vince, what if you don’t do dat Brett Ratnah movie, who’s gonna drive us to da pool party?”

Tagline: “Time to sack up and fist-bump your destiny, queer.”

Here’s the trailer for Jack and Jill, starring Adam Sandler… PLAYING BOTH SIBLINGS! WHAT GOD DID I PLEASE?!?  Hoo boy, this looks about as good as Katie Holmes’ acting.

Judd Apatow casts Bridesmaid‘s Melissa McCarthy, Super 8‘s Ryan Lee in Knocked Up spinoff. Apatow’s next focuses on Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters from Knocked Up, which is great, because if you don’t like Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann you can just go suck a f*ck. I just hope Ryan Lee grows into his teeth by then. I say this because I know I was once that awkward. Take it from me, kid, it… doesn’t get better. I recommend alcohol. |HollywoodReporter|

Jonah Hill and Mark Wahlberg teaming up for buddy comedy.  “Good Time Gang follows two party-happy mercenaries who decide to take on a more serious case involving a terrorist, only to find their mission complicated when they discover one of them is related to the target. The film has been described by two people familiar with it as a new spin on Lethal Weapon.” Coming off working with Channing Tatum on 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill should be right at home with Wahlberg. C-Tates’ entire persona is based on the Marky Mark Workout Video. POW!  |LATimes|

Di Bonaventura optioning reconstituted farts again. The brains behind the Asteroids movie and GI Joe has picked up the movie rights to the classic arcade game Space Invaders. The game is about 4-bit dots, but based on the title, I’m guessing the movie will be like Cowboys and Aliens, Battleship, Battle Los Angeles, Transformers, I Am Number 4, Super 8, and pretty much like every other alien movie of the last five years. Making a movie based on an old video game is like taking a Van Gogh, running it through an old Xerox 50 times, then making a graphic novel out of the Xerox. |THR|

Casey Anthony’s porn offer rescinded. In what I’m sure was not at all a publicity stunt, Vivid offered acquitted child killer Casey Anthony a porn contract, only to rescind the offer a day later. Steve Hirsch told TMZ: “It has become obvious to us that Vivid fans, and people in general, want nothing to do with her and that includes a XXX movie.” That’s true, I care deeply about the personal lives of those I watch get jizzed on. “What are your SAT scores? Do you have any letters of recommendation?” I often ask my laptop while setting lotion on it. |Superficial|

After the jump: the trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Restless, starring Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper, a love story about scarves and cancer.

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