Ewan McGregor has joined Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen on director Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic. McGregor will play Gene Vidal (father of author Gore), who had a passionate affair with the legendary female aviator (to be portrayed by Swank) while she was still married to publisher George Putnam (Gere). More at Variety
Dies At 73
Oscar-winning director has died of cancer, aged 73. Bestowed with the Best Director statuette for Out Of Africa and director of, among others, Tootsie, Three Days Of The Condor and The Firm, the prolific multi-hyphenate also ran Mirage Enterprises with the late Anthony Minghella and regularly took supporting roles in other director's films (including Woody Allen's Husbands And Wives and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut). Most recently, Pollack had produced and taken a small role in Michael Clayton and executive produced HBO’s docudrama Recount (which he was originally planning to direct until illness forced him to quit) and George Clooney’s Leatherheads. “Sydney made the world a little better,” said Clooney. “A tip of the hat to a class act. He’ll be missed terribly.” More at LA Times and The New York Times
Tolkien’s Son On Anti-Hobbit “Crusade”
Calling it his “one last crusade” in a long-running court battle, J.R.R. Tolkien’s son is out to scupper the planned two-film adaptation of The Hobbit that Peter Jackson will produce and Guillermo Del Toro direct. Claiming the Tolkien family is owed $150 million by New Line Cinema under a 7.5% profit-share deal his father signed in 1969 when he sold the film rights, Christopher Tolkien will ask a California judge on 6 June to back his claim that he can “terminate” film rights to The Hobbit. Watch this space… More at Times Online
Noth The One And Only For Zellweger
Renee Zellweger and Chris Noth (currently reprising his role as Mr. Big in the Sex And The City movie) will co-star in My One And Only. The Richard Loncraine-directed comedy will star Zellweger as a glamorous dreamer looking for a wealthy man to fund a new life for her and her two sons, with Noth as a retired military doctor she sets her sights on. The film is based on the real-life childhood adventures of actor George Hamilton, in the days before he acquired his perma-glow tan. More at Variety
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