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Diana Quick as Queen Elizabeth in a 5-part television series on Channel 4. Photograph: Neill Menneer/Channel 4 Playing the Queen brought Helen Mirren international fame and enough awards to fill a trophy room.

Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham will topline the voice cast of Animal Logic's 3D animated feature, "Guardians of Ga'hoole," distributor Roadshow Films said Wednesday.

Director Zack Snyder has just secured a quartet of voices for his new 3D animated film.

The 2004 film Calendar Girls stared Helen Mirren and was the inspiration behind the Medina women.

Caption: Helen Mirren Los Angeles Premiere of 'Couples Retreat' held at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood - Arrivals Los Angeles, California .... Veteran actress DAME HELEN MIRREN is to be awarded a lifetime achievement honour for her contribution to the film industry.

Dame Helen Mirren is to receive the Lifetime Achievement prize at the Women In Film And Television Awards.

The 100 Best Films of the Decade : Art house or Blockbuster? Juno or Jason Bourne? Is The Bourne Supremacy really better than Brokeback Mountain? And if Finding Nemo made it, what the hell happened to Shrek? Tell us where we got it wrong, or right, and post your alternative lists below 10 Hunger Provocative London-born artist McQueen directs a ...

Seeing red: Sheen as the vampire leader Aro in 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' enlarge If life begins at 40, Michael Sheen has certainly begun a very different one since hitting the landmark in February.

Arguably, no two people were closer to Ayn Rand than Barbara and Nathaniel Branden, whom Rand once named as her "intellectual heir." Indeed, when the Brandens married in 1953, the author served as bridesmaid .

The Oscar nominees gathered for their annual lunch in Beverly Hills on Monday -- with Leonardo DiCaprio trading high fives with 10-year-old Abigail Breslin and Steven Spielberg huddled in deep discussion with Peter O'Toole. It was a high-powered group that included a who's who of Hollywood and the global stage -- actors Helen Mirren, Will Smith, ...

Was Helen Mirren the first choice for Mariah Carey's role in 'Precious'? In a bit of news that sounds crazier than it actually is, Mariah Carey told London's "Sunday Mirror" that her role as an unglamorous social worker in Lee Daniels' "Precious" was originally slated for Oscar winner Helen Mirren.

AT the time Robert Lindsay wasn't sure whether or not Michael Jackson was being serious.

Helen Mirren is going to do her first comic book movie. The Oscar winner has signed to play an assassin in "Red," Summit Entertainment's adaptation of the Wildstorm/DC Comics miniseries.

Caption: Helen Mirren Los Angeles Premiere of 'Couples Retreat' held at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood - Arrivals Los Angeles, California .... MIRREN SEEING RED DAME HELEN MIRREN has joined BRUCE WILLIS and MORGAN FREEMAN in a movie adaptation of popular comic series RED.

Mirren, who scooped the best actress Oscar at the Academy Awards in 2007 for her performance in "The Queen", joins a cast featuring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, Daily Variety reported.

ScreenDaily.com mentions that Helen Mirren has joined the cast of "Red" alongside Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman.

Mariah Carey had to fill some regal shoes when she accepted her acclaimed role in Precious - the part was originally offered to Helen Mirren.

An article over at ScreenDaily.com about some of the American movies looking for distribution and financing at the American Film Market's AFI Fest this week mentions that Robert Schwentke's adaptation of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner comic book Red is slated to start shooting on January 11, 2010 with the previously announced cast of Bruce Willis ...

His amazing sexual prowess, his obsession with Helen Mirren, his recovery from addiction, his radio shame - Russell Brand confesses all to Chrissy Iley.

Before starting work on The Last Station, which recounts the final year in the life of Leo Tolstoy, Helen Mirren decided to revisit her Russian roots.