Weinsteins get in the ring with Bale and Wahlberg for The Fighter

Movie mogul siblings Bob and Harvey Weinstein have picked up Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg's boxing movie.

The Weinstein Company has acquired the international rights to The Fighter and is now selling the film at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

The film, about Massachsetts boxing brothers Dickie Eklund (Bale) and 'Irish' Micky Ward (Wahlberg), is currently in pre-production. David O. Russell will direct.

The project joins an impressive list of upcoming movies for the Weinsteins, who will also be handling Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds, Rob Zombie's Halloween sequel H2 and the much-anticipated musical Nine, which features an all-star cast including Daniel Day Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, and Judi Dench.

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