Rachel Weisz moving into 'Dream House'

 

Oscar-winning British actress Rachel Weisz is to star in a thriller about a family that moves into a home with a gruesome history, entertainment industry reports said Tuesday.Weisz, who won a supporting actress Academy Award for her performance in the 2005 drama "The Constant Gardener," will star alongside British "James Bond" Daniel Craig in the film titled "Dream House," Daily Variety reported.Weisz and Craig play a married couple who relocate to a quaint New England town only to discover that their idyllic new home was the murder scene of a mother and her two children.

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  • Mo'Nique scooped the opening award at the 67th Golden Globes here Sunday, taking the best supporting actress prize for her performance as an abusive parent in the gritty drama "Precious."The 42-year-old accepted the award from Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, who began the star-studded show at Los Angeles's Beverly Hilton Hotel with an appeal for donations to the Haiti earthquake relief effort."Thank you God for this amazing ride that you're allowing me to go on," an emotional Mo'Nique told the VIP audience. "I tell y'all -- I'm shaking. I'm in the midst of my dream."

  • British actress Kate Winslet has won the Best European Actress award while "Das Weisse Band" ("The White Ribbon") picked up the prize for best European film at the European Film Academy's annual awards."Titanic" star Winslet, 34, won the award late on Saturday for her role as former concentration camp guard Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader", a part for which she also picked up an Oscar in February.

  • British actor Daniel Craig will star in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Hollywood's first adaptation of one of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's record-setting Millennium Trilogy, a Sony Pictures official said.The newest James Bond impersonator will play journalist-sleuth Mikael Blomkivst in the upcoming production, a version of which has already been filmed in Sweden, a Sony studio spokesman said.Craig, 42, will start working on on the film in a few months, once he and co-star Harrison Ford finish shooting "Cowboys and Aliens," said the spokesman.

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  • Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet accepted 25,000 pounds (41,000 dollars, 28,000 euros) in libel damages Tuesday over a British newspaper's claim that she had lied about her exercise regime.The 34-year-old British star of "Titanic" and "The Reader" had sued over an article that appeared in the Daily Mail in January entitled "Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the world's most irritating actress?"."I am delighted that the Mail have apologised for making false allegations about me," Winslet, who won the Oscar for "The Reader", said in a statement.

  • Veteran film-maker Woody Allen Friday confirmed the details of his latest film, a romantic comedy set in Paris which will include France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in an all-star cast.A statement said the film -- "Midnight In Paris" -- would also star Owen Wilson, Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates.The movie will revolve around a family travelling to the French capital on business while celebrating a young man's "great love" for the city.

  • Actress Brittany Murphy, known for her roles in films such as "Clueless" and "8 Mile," died after suffering a cardiac arrest at her home, police and hospital officials said. She was 32.Murphy's mother discovered the star slumped unconscious in a shower at her home in Los Angeles before her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, called emergency services, entertainment website TMZ.com reported.

  • Actress Brittany Murphy, known for her roles in films such as "Clueless" and "8 Mile," died after suffering a cardiac arrest at her home, police and hospital officials said. She was 32.Murphy's mother discovered the star slumped unconscious in a shower at her home in Los Angeles before her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, called emergency services, entertainment website TMZ.com reported.

  • Keira Knightley is to star alongside Austrian actor Christoph Waltz in a new film about the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the moviepilot.de website reported Monday.Waltz, 53, who won a prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival for his role in Quentin Tarantino's World War II movie "Inglourious Basterds", will play Freud, regarded by many as the father of modern psychoanalysis.British actress Knightley, best known for the "Pirates Of The Caribbean" movies, will play one of Freud's patients in "The Talking Cure".

 
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