For some reason I found myself gandering at IMDB this morning and there was actually a swath of interesting things in today's releases:

Earlier this year British newspapers reported Jude Law's fiancee Miller lost [of Edie Sedgewick in 'Factory Girl'] the part because she was not famous enough, although the English beauty insisted the film clashed with her role in London play As You Like It. But movie insiders claim Miller's celebrity status has been helped by Law's admission he had an affair with his children's nanny Daisy Wright three months into his seven-month engagement to Miller. The 23-year-old will now play drug-addict Sedgwick in the forthcoming movie, reports British newspaper The Daily Mirror.

Hollywood (as a representative of film overall) has this funny inability to figure out why there's so much hostility to it even as they continue to blur the line between notoriety and fame.

Hollywood star Charlize Theron forced movie bosses to change her costume design for forthcoming movie Aeon Flux - after deciding her character's original outfit was too revealing. When Theron saw the superheroine's skimpy crime-fighting outfit of a bikini, thigh-high boots and shoulder pads, she decided to add trousers to the outfit. The 29-year-old star admits, "When you're playing with aspects of sexuality, certain things have to be hidden. That's what my mother always used to tell me. I wanted to stay as true as possible to the original character, but didn't feel the need to go as far with the costume." The sci-fi movie, based on the comic book adaptation, is due to be released in the autumn.

Or maybe I shouldn't speak with such broad brushes. The artwork in Aeon Flux is sufficiently grotesque that the skimpy outfit is unnoticeable. Theron's got the right idea. I'd actually go a step further and give her a full-body Susie Storm kinda outfit. But there's a reason they never asked me:

Movie siren Scarlett Johansson was less than impressed with Ewan McGregor's kissing prowess while filming The Island, insisting he was no better than an adolescent. Johansson shared a screen smooch with the Scottish hunk, and although many women would swoon at the thought of locking lips with the clean-cut star, Johansson was left cold. She snipes, "He kissed me like a 16-year-old schoolboy."

I can't help but think that Miss Scarlet has realize that the more loudly she says irrelevent things about men, the more she makes the papers. Getting a tad suspicious of her mutterings, but I suppose it's a better way to go about it than having your fiance sleep with the nannie.

Director Mike Newell is using his forthcoming movie Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire to vent his seething mistrust of children. The 63-year-old film-maker is determined to obliterate any sense of false innocence in the magical tale, as he insists kids should be depicted in a more truthful light - as bloodthirsty maniacs. He says, "I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically."

You can help but feel a little scorn for a director who aims to use established material to push his own sociological beliefs on an audience largely comprised of children and their parents.