• Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren and Robin Wright Penn are in negotiations to join Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in State of Play , a feature adaptation of a BBC miniseries. The story follows a congressman (Norton) and his former campaign manager-turned journalist (Pitt) who find themselves on opposite sides after the politician’s research assistant and mistress turns up dead. McAdams will play a young reporter at the Washington Globe .
The Hollywood Reporter • Avril Lavigne will headline a Unite Against AIDS concert in Montreal on Nov. 28. Sarah McLachlan, Angelique Kidjo, Corneille, Nikki Yanofsky and Marie-Mai will also perform at the Bell Centre show, which will benefit UNICEF's Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign.
Ben Mulroney will host. Subsequent concerts will take place annually in different Canadian cities. CanWest News Service • Comedian Tom Green will be in Edmonton for a month starting in early October to shoot a comedy called Freezer Burn .
The film is about aliens disguised as Dutch oil company executives who buy a local farming company; their goal is to use crop circles to heat up the earth and turn the planet into a Club Med for extraterrestrials. Crispin Glover co-stars as the villainous alien leader. CanWest News Service • The Sex Pistols have added two more dates to their comeback tour after the first three gigs at London's Brixton Academy sold out in minutes.
The band had originally planned a single London appearance on Nov. 8, but that was extended to three nights. Yesterday the group, which split up in 1978, announced they would play a fourth concert in Brixton on Nov.
12 and a fifth in Manchester on Nov. 17. Reuters [ Rachel McAdams at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept.
12, 2007.
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