News: Robin Wright Penn

Jude Law’s jilted wife in this week’s Breaking and Entering (and the wife of Sean Penn in real life) seems to be making a bit of a comeback after several years of relative obscurity. Potentially most intersting is her turn as Queen Wealhtheow in Beowulf, the title character played by her Breaking and Entering co-star Ray Winstone, though the as-yet untitled film about the love affair of writer Ernest Hemmingway (to be played by James Gandolfini) and journalist Martha Gellhorn could also prove a hit, and even – if it’s played right – a potential Oscar contender for the 2008 awards.

News: James Gandolfini

The man best known as Tony Soprano may have had a break from New Jersey in this week’s All the King’s Men, but as he’s currently filming for the Sopranos computer game, the mob seems never far behind. His next major film project will be starring as infamous writer Ernest Hemmingway in an as yet untitled project looking at the author and journalist’s romance with fellow writer Martha Gellhorn, the inspiration for Hemmingway’s masterpiece, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Lined up to play Gellhorn is none other than Robin Wright Penn, wife of Gandolfini’s co-star Sean Penn from King’s Men, who seems to be making films with pretty much everyone involved with this weeks’ releases…