Newly wed Friends star Jennifer Aniston is suing a magazine for printing photographs of her sunbathing topless in her back garden.

The actress, who married screen heart-throb Brad Pitt on 29 July, is taking Celebrity Skin Magazine to court.

Aniston is seeking unspecified damages and wants a ban to be placed on further distribution of the pictures.

The legal action claims the magazine violated Aniston's right to privacy after the photographer climbed a neighbour's fence to take the pictures.

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Pacino indie film set for major release

A low-budget film financed and directed by Al Pacino has been bought by 20th Century Fox for release next year.

China Coffee, which also stars Pacino, is based on a play he performed in New York in 1992.

It is the story of a winter night's conversation between a struggling writer and his mentor, with flashbacks to the events that shaped their lives.

The film was made over the course of three years.

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Vinnie's Hollywood debut storms UK charts

Vinnie Jones' first Hollywood film has gone straight to the top spot in the UK charts.

The former soccer hardman stars alongside Oscar winners Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie in the crime thriller Gone in Sixty Seconds.

Grossing �1.7m in its opening weekend, the film knocked George Clooney's The Perfect Storm off the top of the charts after just one week.

Despite a critical mauling the film also performed well at the US box office toppling MI:2 off the top of the charts last month.

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Depardieu back to work after heart op

French film star Gerard Depardieu has gone back to work after recovering from a heart bypass operation.

One of the busiest and best-known of French actors, Depardieu was in the middle of shooting Placard by Francis Veber when his heart trouble forced him into hospital on 10 July.

The star of such films as Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac and Asterix is well known as a bon viveur - he even owns a vineyard.

Next month he is due to start work on a second Asterix film - in which he plays outsize Gallic cartoon hero Obelix.

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Glover and Jackson up for boxing role

Danny Glover and Samuel L Jackson are tipped as leading contenders to play former heavyweight boxer Joe Louis in a new film from Spike Lee.

The War To Come will be based on the lives of Louis and German Max Schmeling, who fought some epic bouts in the 1930s.

Maximilian Schell is being mentioned to play the role of the older Schmeling, who is now aged 95 and lives in Munich.

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French crooner to join Chicago cast

Sacha Distel, best known for his 1970s hit Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, is to join the London cast of the long-running hit musical Chicago.

Distel, 68, who begins his six-month run on 18 September, said: "People in England know me for that song 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' and I am very happy they remember me for a song I recorded 30 years ago."

"The problem is that every time I come to your country, it seems to come true," he added.