Actor Patricia Neal has lost her battle against lung cancer and died yesterday at her home in Massachusetts, aged 84.

Actor and director Clint Eastwood has attacked the Treasury for threatening the future of the UK Film Council.

20th Century Fox has acquired the rights to Mark Millar and Steve Niven’s graphic novel, Nemesis, and Tony Scott has signed on to direct.

Guillermo del Toro has given the thumbs-up to Peter Jackson directing the Hobbit, and will instead direct Mountains of Madness – a 3D film epic featuring Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos with James Cameron as producer. Unnameable horrors are safe in del Toro’s hands…

Dozens of high-profile British actors have condemned the proposed attack on the UK Film Council.

Last year the 53rd London Film Festival kicked off with the massively successful caper Fantastic Mr Fox. We’re pleased to announce that the selectors are staying savvy this year, choosing Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go to open the proceedings.

…though still not the part we care most about. Dammit. While there’s still no say on who will play heroine Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood adaptation of Larsson’s The Millenium Trilogy, we can announce that Robin Wright has been cast as Erika Berger; the sharp, savvy and sexy editor of Millenium magazine who features as reporter Mikael Blomkvist’s love interest and boss.

Dios Mio! Following the news that Achorman 2 won’t be hitting our screens anytime soon, it seems that instead, Will Ferrell will be putting his energy into another film: La Casa De Mi Padre (The House Of My Father.) Que?

It seems that not even the pros are safe from an attack of stage fright, as Whoopi Goldberg yesterday revealed that she is suffering with terrible nerves before her West End debut in the stage show Sister Act.

It seems that a new love affair has blossomed between actors Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Having recently worked together on the upcoming picture Dark Fields, the two have gone in search of a new creative endeavour on which to collaborate.