Gotta love that James Cameron. He knows how to please a crowd. For some of us, however, the notion that he is grafting 3D wizardry to the naff glamour of Cirque du Soleil, the entertainment of choice for hicks the world over, should send a shiver down the spine. Cirque du Soleil, in the 1980s a respectable groundbreaking hybrid of circus, dance and other things normal people can’t do – [ed: It is officially called a "dramatic mix of circus... 

There’s trouble at ‘mill as Peter Jackson, still a little big headed from his triumph with the LOTR trilogy, says he’ll move ‘The Hobbit’ parts 1 and 2 from New Zealand unless the Australian actors’ union wakes up and smells the coffee. There’s been a huge kerfuffle over the last few days with the production not playing ball with the unions and, to date, seven unions have told actors not to take roles in the films. Jackson says he’ll... 

Yes, the rumours are true – Sacha Baron Cohen – he of ‘Borat’ and of the lesser ‘Bruno’ and even less amazing ‘Sweeney Todd’ will be playing the Zoroastrian rock star Freddie Mercury in an upcoming feature film scheduled for 2011 and produced by Angelina Jolie‘s producer friend Graham King with Robert De Niro’s and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Productions and Queen Films. Peter Morgan (the...