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JAMES MCAVOY is to help launch a string of new Elton John tracks - while playing a garden gnome.

Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station," a portrait of Leo Tolstoy and his wife, will kick off the 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, which runs Jan.

Don't call her the new it girl. She'll fidget with her sleeves; the pressure makes her a bit squeamish.

Fact and fiction converge in this talent-driven drama based on Jay Parini's novel about Leo Tolstoy.

A carpenter is suing singing legend BARBRA STREISAND over allegations of negligence after he fell into a ditch while working at her California home.

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The Last Station depicts the final months in the life of Leo Tolstoy, focusing on the volatile relationship of the Russian writer and his wife Sofya during that time.

Oh Tolstoy! Plummer and Mirren. Stephan Rabold The Last Station Running time 112 minutes Written and directed by Michael Hoffman Starring James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Helen Mirren L et the drums roll.

Caption: James McAvoy Jameson Empire Film Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel - Arrivals.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE is impressed with the way ROBERT PATTINSON is dealing with superstardom - and he hopes the actor can keep himself grounded as his career continues to skyrocket.

JAMES MCAVOY has refused to work with actress wife Anne-Marie Duff in case they become "a target". The Scots actor feared they would suffer in the spotlight the same way Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez or Liz Taylor and Richard Burton did.

ACTRESS Anne-Marie Duff needed strapping leg doubles in her new telly role as ballet legend Dame Margot Fonteyn.

Tonight's the night for Hollywood's final verdict, but first our Scots cinema buffs tell us who their money will be on... Mark Millar, comic book author and screenwriter, on ATONEMENT I'm starting to hate all the best films.

James McAvoy was quite exceptional in The Last King of Scotland and it was his character who actually provided the perspective for the story and the movie itself.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, 2007's Atonement is an original, tragic, love story that's worth every minute of the movie watchers time.

"Becoming Jane" catches Anne Hathaway at a dip in her career - in the valley terrain where the "Get Smart" series stands like midrate hotels in a remote holiday resort, situated between the high-profile "The Devil Wears Prada" and the deceptively low-rent, indie-sheen of "Rachel Getting Married." She's still carting around some of her "Princess ...

And, like with Chekov, it can be an unwanted thing, inserted by a genetically augmented man hellbent on destroying Captain James T. Kirk.

The kind of collaboration that seems designed to produce the perfect British film, this adaptation of Ian McEwan's bestseller from screenwriter Christopher Hampton and director Joe Wright actually pulls it off.

This October, CosmoTV is full of fashion, fun and fright. Spend Thanksgiving afternoon in style with the fashionable Rachel Zoe for a marathon of Season 1 of The Rachel Zoe Project leading up to the premiere of the brand new second season.

James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn have reportedly signed on to star for director Robert Redford in The Conspirator , which will deal with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.