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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2000 -- Tom Cruise is ready for some onscreen partner swapping with wife Nicole Kidman.
Daily Variety reports that Cruise and Paramount Pictures have snapped up the rights to English author Celia Brayfield's upcoming romantic novel "Heartswap" -- with an eye toward Kidman taking over one of the lead female roles for the big screen.
The story involves two engaged buddies who agree in a drunken stupor to try to seduce each other's marriage partners. Complications and infidelity ensue -- but of course. The movie is being set up between Paramount and Cruise-Wagner Prods. (Cruise's company with partner Paula Wagner).
AGENT GWYNETH? Gwyneth Paltrow may take a cue from Jodie Foster and star as an FBI agent in Warner Bros.' "Taking Lives." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paltrow has long been interested in working with director Tony Sc
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"Whatever you do, do NOT refer to this film as a musical." That was the proclamation of British filmmaker Mike Leigh when "Topsy-Turvy" was screened at the New York Film Festival.
True, there are large-scale musical numbers, but these set pieces are there to illustrate and, in some cases, advance the plot. Instead, what Leigh has achieved is the most successful integration of theatrical production numbers and comedy-drama since Bob Fosse tackled "Cabaret" in the early 1970s. And like that movie, "Topsy-Turvy" is also set during a period of upheaval, although one more subtly portrayed.
Fans of Leigh's "social surrealism" (best demonstrated in the Oscar-nominated "Secrets & Lies" and the critically acclaimed "Life Is Sweet" and "Naked") will be in for a bit of a shock. In attempting his first large-scale period piece, the writer-director focuses not on the proletariat but o