Hollywood heavyweights Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt are set to join forces for a new movie. The pair are in negotiations to star as killers-for-hire in an action feature Mr and Mrs Smith.
The film, to be directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), is a combination of The War Of The Roses and True Lies, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Pitt and Oscar nominee Kidman will play a bored married couple who discover they are enemy assassins hired to kill each other.
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Rock musician Howie Epstein, bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for 20 years until ousted from the band last May, has died in a New Mexico hospital.
Epstein, 47, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the veteran rock band in 2001.
The cause of his death was not immediately known, but a female companion who took Epstein to hospital told authorities he had been using heroin and had been taking prescription antibiotics for an illness.
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Hollywood's publicity machine moved into top gear yesterday as final ballots were sent to 5816 Academy Award voters who will decide which films and stars will win US cinema's highest honours on March 23.
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