Orton To Star In New Film, The Hart DVD, Royal Rumble, MVP, More

According to Variety, Randy Orton will star in the WWE Films production of Big Red. There is no word on what role Orton will play yet. Here is the description of the film… “In 1965, as the world changes all around him, 12-year-old Andy Nichol comes of age when he’s asked by his favorite teacher, Mr. Simon, to partner with school outcast Big Red for an English assignment.”

The Hart family DVD will be released in April, and will be officially titled Hart and Soul: The Hart Family Anthology.

WWE The Music: A New Day will be released on January 28th.

Promo Magazine has a piece up on the K-Mart/WWE relationship for the 2010 Royal Rumble, which you can check out at http://promomagazine.com

You can check out the first trailer for MacGruber at http://iamrogue.com/macgruber/ MVP, Chris Jericho, Big Show, Great Khali and Mark Henry all have roles in the film.

Chris Nowinski’s Sports Legacy Institute issued the following announcement today: “HBO’s Real Sports returns Tuesday (10 PM ET) with a two part follow-up to the Emmy Award winning piece from 2007 on concussions in the NFL. The original piece will be followed by a completely new report featuring the work of SLI.” USA Today reports “HBO’s latest Real Sports, debuting Tuesday, features Chris Nowinski, a medical researcher who studies head injuries among NFL players. He says he has pledges from more than 60 NFL players for, after their deaths, their brains to be donated to study effects of concussions – ‘some of these guys are doing it honestly to protect their own sons’ who play football.” The story, reported by Bernard Goldberg, will highlight the efforts of SLI and the BU CSTE and interviews with Chris Nowinski, Dr. Cantu, Dr. McKee, Eleanor Perfetto, and Ted Johnson.

WWE fires SD! Diva – she was sent home earlier this afternoon!