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Exclusive: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Matt Dillon (Crash) will play their husbands in Polanski’s adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play. Shooting begins in Paris in February for 12 weeks. Although the film is set in Brooklyn, Polanski’s legal troubles mean that he has to shoot in France. The Academy Award-winning director cannot enter the US due to allegations against him for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in 1977. The film is being co-produced by French producer SBS and Constantin Film of Germany. Said Ben Said of SBS recently produced Reza’s feature directing debut Chicas, which starred Polanski’s wife Emmanuelle Seigner. Jeff Berg of Icm has been packaging the project since Reza first disclosed she was adapting her play with the Academy Award-winning director this summer. I’m told that Pathe and Ugc are both vying to be French distributor. God of Carnage tells the story...

Regardless of what Elisabeth Hasselbeck intends to do when she's old and lonely, The Golden Girls proved that even straight women of a certain age can have a good time when they form a chosen family.

Now Spanish audiences will get their own version of the Girls with Las Chicas de Oro, produced by Disney Media Networks and Latin World Entertainment.

This certainly isn't the first time the classic TV show has been adapted for other countries, but this version is notable for its stars, who happen to be some of the biggest names in Spanish entertainment: Concha Velasco, Carmen Maura, Lola Herrera and Alicia Hermida.

Velasco has been on screen since 1954, primarily as a character actress. Her breakthrough role was St. Teresa of Avila in the series, Teresa de Jesus, but she is probably more recognizable as Carmen Orozco Argenta in the Spanish drama Herederos. She plays Doroti — and...

Taormina, Italy -- The Taormina Film Festival on Monday bowed to Italy's passion for soccer, temporarily suspending the festival Monday during the Italian side's opening-round World Cup match against Paraguay and screening several films related to the sport.

The threat of rain prevented the game from screening at the festival's famous Teatro Antico venue, but a standing-room-only crowd filled Taormina's main indoor venue to watch the Italian side open its World Cup defense with a 1-1 tie. The festival used the game's intermission to show highlights from some of the soccer-themed films at the festival, and to conduct a short interview with Barry Hilton, the comic star of "Finding Lenny," the South Africa-set film that screened after the match.

"Lenny," Monday's nightcap, tells the lighthearted story of how the main character, amid a period of personal turmoil, uses soccer to pull his life together while also helping settle an unlikely land dispute.