• The makers of Tomb Raider, who have just re-located to Cambodia to film in the world-famous Angkor temples, have been told they can't shoot guns in any of the scenes filmed there. Cambodia's ministry of culture are still having problems attracting tourism, three decades after the civil war and are worried that gun-touting scenes will only reinforce images of the country as violent and strife-torn. Despite Lara Croft's action hero image and her personal arsenal of weapons, including grenade launchers and flame-throwers, Paramount Pictures have promised to portray Cambodia in the film as a "beautiful haven of peace and tranquillity".
• Controversial French film Baise-Moi, which caused huge ructions when it was released there earlier this year, looks likely to be released in Britain. The explicit story of two women who set out on a sex and murder spree after one of them is brutally raped, triggered uproar in France after courts cancelled its exhibition permit. The French government reinstated an 18 certificate after film-makers protested and many cinemas refused to pull the film, claiming freedom of expression. The film's UK release will be a test for Britain's newly relaxed film censorship laws, announced in September after a survey which found that adults wanted to watch films without excessive intervention, but wanted more protection for children.
• Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones have finally fixed a date and venue for their forthcoming wedding. - November 18 at the Plaza Hotel in New York, according to Yahoo! News. "It will be a sumptuous party. The invitations have already been sent to our friends," Douglas told Germany's Gala entertainment weekly. Douglas, 56, and Zeta Jones, 31, already have a two-month-old son, Dylan.
• A film based on the controversial Andrew Morton book looks set to be made about Britain's number one celebrity couple, Victoria and David Beckham. According to PeopleNews, Morton is in talks with Sky Movies to make the film, though according to a friend: "Nothing has been finalised yet". The Beckhams are unlikely to collaborate in the project as they tried to ban Morton's book from being published in the first place, claiming they were "deeply hurt" by his allegations that they made up a story about an attempted kidnapping of their son, Brooklyn.
• Diane Lane and Richard Gere look set to be reunited on a forthcoming project called Unfaithful. The film, to be directed by Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne, is inspired by the French classic La Femme Infidele and tells the tale of a married woman involved in an affair that leads to murder. Lane and Gere last worked together on Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 gangster film The Cotton Club. Filming on the new project is due to start next March.
• After his surprising success in Road Trip, comedian Tom Green has signed up to appear alongside Jason Lee in the forthcoming Bruce McCulloch feature Stealing Stanford. The film focuses on a man (played by Lee) who turns to a life of crime to pay for his niece's tuition for her freshman year at the prestigious Stanford University. Green will play his friend who is a bad influence.
