Films

MIRREN

Dame Helen Mirren's teamed up with someone familiar for her latest film - her husband.

Love Ranch is the first film she's made with Taylor Hackford since she met the director on the set of White Nights in 1985.

It's based on the true story of the first legal brothel in the US state of Nevada

Crowe

Russell Crowe's had another bad encounter with a journalist.

He's walked out of a chat after being told he had made Robin Hood sound slightly Irish.

Crowe swore at the accuser - telling them "You've seriously got dead ears if you think that's an Irish accent."

Voice coaches for the film claim they were aiming for an accent closer to Rutland than Nottingham.

DIE HARD...AGAIN?!

Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods is reportedly in talks to pen a fifth Die Hard movie.

Bruce Willis is expected to return as New York cop John McClane.

Willis previously said that a fifth Die Hard was in the works.

He says production could begin as soon as next year.

Woods also co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming A-Team movie.

CEMETERY

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have co-written and directed their first movie together - Cemetery Junction.

The comedy's released in cinemas today.

The brains behind The Office and Extras say it's a coming-of-age tale set in Reading in the 1970s.

The cast also includes Ralph Fiennes and Christian Cooke, who starred in TV series Echo Beach.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN ARE BACK

A classic children's film is re-released today - 40 years after it first came out.

The Railway Children tells the story of three children who move home after their father mysteriously disappears.

It's based on the novel by E Nesbit, and its stars include Bernard Cribbins and Jenny Agutter.

UMA FLICK IS MOTHER OF ALL FLOPS

Kill Bill star Uma Thurman's new film has taken just EIGHTY-EIGHT pounds at the UK box office.

Motherhood's release was limited to just one London cinema as backers hoped for word of mouth success.

OSCARS

The Hurt Locker has beaten Avatar to take Best Picture at the Oscars.

Kathryn Bigelow also took the Best Director prize for the Iraq war drama, becoming the first female to ever win the award.

Her film received 6 awards in total - beating ex-husband James Cameron's Avatar, which won three.

After being nominated four times in the past, Jeff Bridges won his first ever Oscar for country and western flick, Crazy Heart.

Sandra Bullock was named Best Actress for The Blind Side.

Mo'Nique and Christoph Waltz picked up the Best Supporting Actor and Actress.

DARKEST DEPPS OF CORNWALL

Johnny Depp is heading to Cornwall for the next instalment of the Pirates of The Caribbean movies.

Producers have chosen St Ives as the setting of the fourth film called 'On Stranger Tides'.

SPIDERMAN

The up-coming Spiderman film is to be released in 3D.

Sony says the fourth movie in the Marvel franchise will be released in 3D in 2012.

CLINT

Clint Eastwood has been named America's favourite movie star in a poll in for the Hollywood Reporter.

Second was Johnny Depp with Denzel Washington coming in at third.