Clint Eastwood has been named as the 39th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild's life achievement award. The veteran actor-director will be presented with the gong at the guild's award ceremony next March. Eastwood follows in the footsteps of previous winners Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon and Gene Kelly.

Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls will be adapted for the cinema by Warner Bros, the studio has announced. The film will be written and executive produced by screenwriter David Benioff. The book has already been filmed, in 1943, with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.

Orlando Bloom, who plays Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is in line to star alongside Brad Pitt and Eric Bana in Troy, director Wolfgang Petersen's big-budget adaptation of Homer's Iliad. The film is due to start shooting this spring in Malta, Morocco and the UK for release in 2004.