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HollywoodNews.com: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, and Frances Fisher star in the poignant period drama Any Day Now, written, produced and directed by filmmaker Travis Fine (The Space Between). The film recently completed principal photography in Los Angeles and is currently in post-production. Produced by Kristine Hostetter Fine (The Space Between) and Chip Hourihan (Frozen River), the film is executive produced by Anne O’Shea (The Kids Are Alright) and Maxine Makover (The Space Between.

Set in the 1970s and inspired by a true story, the film chronicles a gay couple who take in a teenage boy with Down Syndrome who has been abandoned by his drug addicted mother. As the teen discovers the strong bonds of family for the first time in his life, disapproving authorities step in to tear the boy from the only stable environment he has ever known. As the gay men fight to adopt this extraordinary special needs child,...

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith

HollywoodNews.com: No sooner did news break that Amy Adams is going to play Janis Joplin in the long-awaited bio-pic of the drug-bedeviled, bisexual 1960s music icon than the outcry began. Music critics and internet chatterers alike are bewailing the choice of Adams as Too Pretty, Not Gritty Enough, Not Gutsy Enough, Not Bluesy Enough, Too Sweet, Too Show Tunesy. Indeed, some of the near-misses for a biopic (Zooey Deschanel, Pink, Melissa Etheridge) do seem more readily adaptable into portraying Joplin than Adams, of “Enchanted,” “Julie & Julia,” “Junebug” and “Doubt” fame.

However, we can’t help but remember, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx had lots’a naysayers before he proved just how great he could be with his tour-de-force performance as Ray Charles in “Ray.”

How about the advance criticism over Joaquin Phoenix daring to play Johnny Cash (and doing his own singing?! What,...

Just in case you thought Steven Spielberg didn’t have enough on his plate, the filmmaker has added another biopic to his long list of projects in development. However, unlike his plans to depict the lives of Abraham Lincoln, George Gershwin and Martin Luther King Jr., this isn’t one of his directorial options. Instead, he’ll merely produce a film about First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the biopic is titled Jackie and will likely end up on HBO (home to Spielberg’s new miniseries The Pacific) rather than in theaters.

The script for Jackie was written by journalist and Today Show producer Noah Oppenheim. Rather than detailing the First Lady’s whole life, as previous TV movies in 1981 (ABC), 1991 (NBC) and 2000 (CBS) have, this film will focus on the aftermath of her husband’s assassination and be told from her point of view.

There are few Hollywood starlets that I rate more highly than marginally spade-faced Keira Knightley, and of all late actresses I am fairly unoriginal in my fondness for Audrey Hepburn, so the rumours quite some time ago that Knightley has signed up to fill Hepburn’s shoes in a planned remake of My Fair Lady is, for me, great news. The whispers around the project died down though, until today when stories have begun circulating that Joe Wright, director of Knightley in Pride and Prejudice and the amazing Atonement, is also set to be involved. So Audrey Hepburn is back, but unlike Audrey, Keira’s vocals won’t be dubbed if her singing in last year’s The Edge of Love is anything to go by. The problem seems to be, however, whether or not any individual can ever truly succeed in a performance that has been done to perfection already,...

The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Ashley Greene is, at present, in Atlanta for the Salute to Twilight Convention, and the Twilight Lexicon has been hot on the trail, tweeting every time something newsworthy is said or done. Just a moment ago, Tl tweeted that during the question and answer event with Ashley Greene, she admitted that she would love to perform a role as Audrey Hepburn in a biopic. Though Jennifer Love Hewitt did so in 2000's The Audrey Hepburn Story, that was nearly ten years ago. Below is a photo slideshow of Audrey Hepburn. This timeless gorgeous brunette has certainly been a focal point for...

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt dazzled guests at her 30th birthday party on Saturday - by attending as Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn.

The actress, who played Hepburn in TV movie The Audrey Hepburn Story, hosted tea and dinner celebrations at the Montage Beverly Hills - and chose old Hollywood glamour as her style for her big day.

It began with a croissant and coffee at Beverly Hills jeweller Tiffany's, where she dressed as her heroine's character Holly Golightly for a real breakfast at Tiffany's.

And the Hepburn theme continued throughout the day at the Montage, where friends and family celebrated with Hewitt.

The actress says, "It was amazing. I had a great day."...

What better way for an Audrey Hepburn fan to ring in a birthday than to have breakfast at Tiffany's? That's exactly what Jennifer Love Hewitt did to mark turning 30 over the weekend. The Ghost Whisperer star, who starred as her idol in the 2000 made for television biopic The Audrey Hepburn Story, dressed up like Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's character, Holly Golightly, in a little black dress, long black gloves and a tiara on Saturday. She then had breakfast – a croissant and coffee – at Tiffany's in Beverly Hills. "My mom worked that our for me," Hewitt told People at The Envelope...

Emmy Rossum is in negotiations to star as the female lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical feature The Phantom of the Opera, to be directed by Joel Schumacher. Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group is producing the project, which goes into production in October. The project stars Scottish-born actor Gerard Butler in the title role, with Patrick Wilson as Raoul, the boyfriend of Christine (Rossum), the latter of whom becomes the object of the Phantom's obsession. Lloyd Webber and Schumacher wrote the screenplay. No domestic distributor is yet on board. Rossum, repped by CAA, stars in the Clint Eastwood-directed Mystic River for Warner Bros. Pictures and 20th Century Fox's sci-fi thriller The Day After Tomorrow for director Roland Emmerich. The actress' credits include Passionada, Happy Now and the telefilm The Audrey Hepburn Story.

Jennifer Love Hewitt agonized over picking the right dress for this year's Oscars - even though she didn't go. The young actress admits she dresses up for the Academy Awards every year - and then watches them on TV. She says, "I even wear a tiara. I haven't picked out my dress for this year but I have the dresses from The Audrey Hepburn Story, so I'm going to wear one of those."...