Dustin Hoffman has undergone treatment for cancer, his spokeswoman said, without specifying the details of the disease. The cancer "was detected early and he has been surgically cured", the 75-year-old actor's spokeswoman told People magazine. "Dustin is feeling great and is in good health." Hoffman is currently filming Chef, directed by Jon Favreau, and co-starring Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson. – AFP
More than a dozen years after their last film together, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep will reunite on screen for an adaptation of Ann Leary's darkly comic small-town New England tale, The Good House. De Niro and Streep starred together in The Deer Hunter (1978), as well as Falling in Love (1984) and Marvin's Room (1996). Writing the script will be Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. – AP
Steven Spielberg is no longer planning to direct American Sniper, an adaptation of Chris Kyle's best-selling autobiography he announced in May. Bradley Cooper is set to play the former Navy Seal sniper, who was killed along with a friend earlier this year while at a North Texas shooting range. Kyle is considered the deadliest sniper in US military history. Spielberg has yet to announce his follow-up to Lincoln. – AP
Michelle Dockery warns against jumping to conclusions about how her character's baby on Downton Abbey and the British royal infant ended up with the same name. George proved the name of choice for the fictional boy born to Lady Mary on Downton and the real one in line to be the king of England. Dockery called it an "amazing" coincidence, but said that while she has heard that William and Kate are fans of Downton Abbey, she doesn't suspect that it inspired their choice. Downtown Abbey returns for season four next month in Britain. – AP
The actress Nargis Fakhri will be seen doing an item number (a raunchy song-and-dance sequence usually unrelated to the film) for the first time in Shahid Kapoor's forthcoming film Phata Poster Nikla Hero. "The song was a very fun experience. It's not as easy as it looks and it takes a lot of hard work to look as glamorous," the 33-year-old told The Times of India. Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, Phata Poster Nikla Hero will also feature Ileana D'Cruz and is scheduled for release on August 22. – The National staff
The US distributor of the 2012 Australian film The Sapphires has apologised for the DVD cover that prompted outrage by placing the female Aboriginal stars of the movie in the background. The DVD on sale in Australia shows the women clearly, but in the US version they are "blue washed" and placed in the background while the Irish actor Chris O'Dowd – who plays their manager in the film – is front and centre in full colour. The US cover sparked outrage on social media, with O'Dowd himself tweeting that it was "ridiculous, misleading, ill-judged, insensitive and everything the film wasn't". The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the American distributor Anchor Bay had provided a short statement in which it said it "regrets any unintentional upset caused by the upcoming US DVD release of The Sapphires". It said new cover art was being considered. – AFP
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