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		Bloomin' Bloom With apologies to those of you who are fed up with gazing at the ubiquitous cheekbones of Orlando Bloom (honestly, it really isn't High Noon's fault. It was either him or Geoffrey Rush: who would you rather look at?), here's another story about the rising star. He's signed on the dotted... to appear in Haven, opposite Gabriel Byrne and Bill Paxton. According to Variety, the two will-work-for-food performers will play "shady businessmen" who leg it to the Cayman Islands to avoid prosecution, but "their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the country". First-time writer-director Frank E Flowers, um, writes and directs.

		Rush Sellers It Early word is positive on Geoffrey Rush's performance as Peter Sellers in a biopic of the irascible comic great. The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers considers the late actor's genius/madness, and the Aussie star reckons the role was the "ride of my life". "Peter Sellers was a very complex, fascinating man," Rush told High Noon. "It was a brilliant script. I had a fantastic time working on it. I'm hoping my performance is an 'inhabiting' of Sellers with some good laughs early on in the first act!"

		Del Toro Needs Dollars Oscar-winning Traffic star Benicio Del Toro is struggling to raise money for his biopic of Che Guevera. He's developing the project with The Thin Red Line helmer Terrence Malick, but admits, "We can't get the money. It's not only about doing a movie. It's about doing it with a filmmaker you care about, a story you care about, and a subject that you care about." Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the lifestory of a world-famous revolutionary and some-say terrorist isn't enticing studios in the current climate.

		2 Fast Tyrese 2 Fast 2 Furious star/model/singer/plank Tyrese will next star in thriller DA Verdict, produced by Girl, Interrupted director James Mangold. He'll play a lawyer whose career depends on prosecuting crims from his old neighbourhood. Ethical dilemmas a go-go!

		Cox Coins It Brian Cox can buy a new patio, as he's inked to appear in The Bourne Supremacy and The Ringer. The former is, duh, the Matt Damon-starring sequel to The Bourne Identity, and will see the gruff Brit reprise his role as a dodgy spymaster. The latter is a comedy starring Johnny Knoxville as an able-bodied person who pretends to be mentally impaired, so he can compete in the Special Olympics. Cox will play his uncle.

		Craig Joins Jacket Excellent English actor Daniel Craig - soon to be seen in The Mother (in every sense) - has joined the cast of The Jacket, as has Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, and Kris Kristofferson. Adrien Brody toplines the pic, as a Gulf War veteran who is subjected to experiments when he lands in a mental hospital, accused of murder. There, he finds he can forsee the future, including his own death. John 'Love Is The Devil' Maybury directs. Pirates Of The Caribbean's Keria Knightley co-stars.

		Running Late... Right, High Noon is running late so no carefully crafted jokes here, just two entirely unrelated stories cobbbled together to save time. First, Stephen King's short story 1408, about a horror writer who is haunted (ooh, clever-clever Stephen), is being developed as a feature by Scream producers Dimension. And Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil will play buddies in an untitled cop thriller. And Jean Reno and Oliver Martinez will star in Empire Of The Wolves, a thriller adapted from a book by Brotherhood Of The Wolf scribe Jean-Christophe Grange. OK. Sorry about that. Got to go.