BBC - Movies -news article - High Noon

		Bond's Ride Ruined A £500,000 Aston Martin, bound for the set of the latest Bond movie, got trashed on Saturday. The car was being delivered to a location near Lake Garda in Italy when the driver lost control on a tight bend, crashed through a safety barrier and plunged into the water. The driver, 29-year-old Brit Fraser Dunn, calmly freed himself from the wreck and swam ashore. He suffered only minor injuries and was due to be released from hospital yesterday. Of course the producers were probably more upset about the car which is a total write-off. Guess who'll be testing out the shark tank...

		Smart Gets High (Voltage) Amy Smart is joining Jason Statham in Crank 2: High Voltage. The actress, previously seen in Just Friends, will reprise her role as the girlfriend of hitman Chev Chelios. (We're guessing he took to killing people as a result of being bullied at school.) Chinese actress Bai Ling has also signed up along with Dwight Yoakam and Efren Ramirez who, presumably, form a support group for people with really silly names. This time out Chelios is up against a mobster who steals his heart and replaces it with a battery-powered ticker which needs regular jolts of electricity to keep working. Funnily enough, this is the only way moviegoers are likely to stay awake through the film.

		T4 Finds Femme McG has cast the female lead in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Moon Bloodgood will feature as a battle-hardened member of the anti-robot resistance opposite Christian Bale as fellow freedom fighter John Connor. If toughness is proportionate to the silliness of a name, we're confident Bloodgood could take Chev Chelios with an arm tied behind her back. In fact she is currently kicking butt in Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li. Cameras will roll on 5th May - strictly no auto-focus.

		Kingdom Rules, Fools Golden Jet Li and Jackie Chan are kicking butt at the US box office. Their action thriller Forbidden Kingdom stomped all over Judd Apatow's latest romantic comedy to take the No.1 spot. It grossed an estimated $20.9m (£10.5m) while Forgetting Sarah Marshall took $17.3m (£8.7m). Still, it's all good for comedian Russell Brand who has charmed the Americans on a promo tour for the latter. "I really like LA," he says, "and I'm surprised by that. I heard it was a superficial and vacuous space and, astonishingly, I fit right in." Fool's Gold made a splash at the UK box office, opening in first place with $2.4m (£1.2m). If you were one of those who paid to see it, how foolish do you feel..?

		Schneider Goes Wild Rob Schneider has signed up for indie comedy Wild Cherry. He'll play the father of a teenage girl who decides to lose her virginity to the star of the school football team. However, when she finds out that he only wants her as an entry in the team's "bang book," she and her friends plan their revenge inspired by the Greek play Lysistrata. As the ancient yarn has it, Lysistrata asks the women of Sparta and Corinth to 'withhold favours' to keep the men from warring. Surely that would just make them angrier? Brick producer Dana Lustig (honestly, that's her real name) will call the shots.