| High Noon - Movie News Delivered Daily at, er,Noon | | High Noon - 10th April 2008 |
 | | Bloom In Love
Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christensen and Ethan Hawke are the latest to sign up for New York, I Love You. It's an anthology of romantic shorts inspired by last year's surprise hit Paris Je T'aime. Mira Nair and Brett Ratner are among an eclectic company of directors allotted a segment together with Boleyn girls Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, each making their directorial debut. Rumours of Woody Allen's involvement are untrue.
Other actors confirmed include James Caan, Robin Wright-Penn, Chris Cooper, Eli Wallach and, wouldn't you know it, Kevin Bacon. It's like a live action take on that board game. |  |  | | LaBeouf Loves Christie
The Hollywood Reporter does have the skinny on at least one segment in New York, I Love You. Bright young thing Shia LaBeouf is teaming up with golden oldies Julie Christie and John Hurt for a segment penned by the late Anthony Minghella. Shekhar Kapur is directing the story of a 'mature' woman who checks into a hotel located 'in between worlds'. During her stay she forms an intense bond with a young man.
It sounds dirty and wrong but this is actually intended as an uplifting story of metaphysical love in the vein of Minghella's 1990 classic Truly Madly Deeply. Shooting has already begun in NYC. | |  | | Myers On MTV
Mike Myers has been announced as the host of the 2008 MTV Movie Awards on 1st June. He'll be using the gong show as a platform to promote his upcoming comedy The Love Guru (which is due for UK release on 1st August). Vishnu knows the comedian needs all the love he can get after early promotion of the film inflamed tempers in the Hindu community.
He was accused of "ridiculing" Hinduism by Nevada-based spiritual leader Rajan Zed, but Myers asked people to watch the film before passing judgment. (He doesn't miss a trick.) | |  | | Universal Pays For Divorce
Universal has snapped up the movie rights to an article which recently appeared in LA Weekly. How To Get Divorced by 30 was written by Sascha Rothchild who dishes the dirt on the break-up of her first marriage along with those of five other friends. She suggests that it's actually beneficial to experience a "starter marriage" before finding your ultimate life partner and lays out 15 steps to achieving this end.
Step Two, Subset B is: 'Marry a comedian'. Because presumably they'll see the funny side when you present divorce papers 6 months later. (Except maybe Owen Wilson.) | |  | | Knightley In Edinburgh?
Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge Of Love will open the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 18th June. Keira Knightley, Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller star opposite Matthew Rhys in the leading role, and although it hasn't been confirmed, the chances are most of them will attend the gala screening. "I couldn't be happier to be opening this most auspicious festival with this utterly seductive and fascinating film," says EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill.
She goes on, "It's a film that I personally adore, and opening with it is the perfect expression of our commitment to intelligent, impassioned, exciting new filmmaking." Not that she's begging Keira to turn up or anything… | |
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