Gossip Cop has announced that Justin Bieber and Mark Wahlberg will be working together on an upcoming Paramount Pictures street basketball movie, which is said to be “a gritty basketball-based drama with a “The Color of Money meets The Karate Kid” tone.”

Apparently, Bieber impressed Wahlberg with his b-ball skills at the celebrity game during NBA All-Star Weekend, where Bieber was named MVP. The film, which is of yet sill untitled, will be produced by Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, and Scooter Braun, Bieber’s manager, and the script will be written by Ian Edelmen, according to Deadline.

This definitely sounds like it has a lot of potential to be a great film! Keeping in mind that Bieber’s documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never grossed $97 million worldwide, while Wahlberg’s Oscar-winning The Fighter which has been praised far and wide.

Rewind a number of years to when Wahlberg first made his transition from his funky bunch to serious actor, starring in a few projects including The Basketball Diaries, where he co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio. Think that this basketball movie can do the same for Bieber’s career? It’s hard to say, but it will definitely be interesting to see where Bieber’s acting career can go! No doubt that his ever-reliable Belieber minions will fill theatres everywhere just to catch a glimpse of the Biebs on the big screen, but what would be interesting is who else joins them.

The film is expected to be officially announced shortly, but for now you can check out Bieber’s MVP-worthy hoop skills below.

Do you think a basketball movie will be able to launch Bieber’s acting career as it did Wahlberg?

A shocking report was released by Variety early this week. The report claims that reports that the scores for Black Swan, True Grit, The Kids Are All Right and The Fighter will be disqualified for the 83rd Academy Awards.

The trade says that Black Swan and True Grit scores won’t be competing because they are “diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music. Clint Mansell’s score for Black Swan is solely based on Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Carter Burwell’s True Grit score is based on 19th century hymns. The scores are being criticized for their lack of originality.

Whereas, The scores for The Kids Are All Right and The Fighter won’t be competing because they are “diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs.”

I mean, I think this is a little harsh. It still takes a tremendous amount of work to compile a film score even if the songs are not all original. Of course, the totalitarian ruling Academy is pulling the plug on these films. It’s not a surprising move from one of the most biased institutes.

OK everyone you are in for a treat – we got an interview with Tie Domi (That was some Toronto Maple Leafs humor, and in actuality Tie wouldn’t talk to us.) However, Mark Wahlberg did stop and speak with us about his new movie titled “The Fighter,” which is getting rave reviews. We also had a chat with Eric Weinstein, who is the real “E.” If you watch Entourage, you will know who we are referring to. And we also offer Mark Wahlberg a billion dollars…….Enjoy!