BBC - Films - High Noon - 19th December 2003

		Gold Mountain Nominations have been announced for Hollywood's second largest gong-giving, the Golden Globes. The Miramax awards machine must have worked overtime to secure eight noms for the cornball Cold Mountain, with Jude Law and Nicole Kidman up for best acting for their Forrest Gump impersonations. The superior Lost In Translation and Mystic River came away with five noms each, while The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King and Big Fish nabbed four - despite being the best films of the bunch. Tom Cruise's action epic The Last Samurai missed out on a best picture (drama) nom, while Ed Zwick was ignored as director. Unsurprisingly, Peter Weir received a nod for Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World, while Sofia Coppola's presence for LIT could boost her bid to be the first American woman to gain a best director Oscar nomination. Blighty's own Bend It Like Beckham received a best picture (comedy or musical) mention, as did Love Actually, which is also up for best screenplay. The Office was among the nominations for best TV series. Kill Bill: Volume 1 received only one nomination (Uma Thurman, best actress), as did Finding Nemo (best picture, musical or comedy). Ron Howard's western The Missing was ignored (Cate Blanchett was nommed for Veronica Guerin instead), while 21 Grams came away empty-handed too - with Sean Penn nominated for his year's other excellent turn, in Mystic River.

		Grimm Great Matt Damon is going doolally over his Terry Gilliam collaboration Brothers Grimm. "It was really great," he said while promoting Stuck On You (which isn't). "And Terry was everything that I could have ever hoped he would be. You know, watching Lost In La Mancha you see how passionate he is, and what an incredible director he is and it was just really nice to work with him. "I have huge, huge hopes for that movie. I think it could really be special. It's very funny and it's got a lot of fairy tale imagery in it and stuff that the Brothers Grimm ended up writing about." He then calmed down enough to return to shooting The Bourne Supremacy in Germany.

		A Guy Thing In news that will make High Noon's colleague Adrian Hennigan foam like a throttled dog, His Girl Friday is to be remade. And the man in charge of "reimagining"/ruining the classic newspaper-set Cary Grant comedy? The In-Laws director Andrew Fleming! His first decision? To call it Her Guy Friday! Genius! Anyone got a gun?

		Film Makes Money In the biggest shock since Dirty Den returned to EastEnders, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has made A Lot Of Money at the box office. $57.6 million on its opening day, in fact... Drew Barrymore and actor/director Jon Favreau have dropped out of romantic comedy Date School, leaving it in peril... Nicole Kidman has lent her (if Cold Mountain's anything to go by) inconsiderable vocal talents to George Miller's penguin-in-peril animation Happy Feet ("I'm in a little, tiny role but I don't think I'm allowed to talk about it yet," she said, talking about it).