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Calista Flockhart has admitted that she has never seen fiancé Harrison Ford's Star Wars movies.

The Brothers & Sisters actress, who began dating Ford in 2002, confessed that she had little interest in the sci-fi blockbusters growing up.

"I was never starstruck [by him]. I have not seen Star Wars, isn't that amazing?" WENN quotes her as saying

"I'm sure it is [good]. It's weird that I haven't seen it. We lived in a small town and the movie theatre was an hour away. And I was 12 - the perfect age to see it."

Ford shot to fame playing Han Solo in the legendary franchise, which has grossed over $4 billion at the worldwide box office.

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Jason Bateman will star in Jason Reitman's new movie Up In The Air, reports Variety.

An adaptation of a Walter Kim novel, the project will also star Anna Kendrick and George Clooney.

Clooney will portray a corporate downsizer who has become obsessed with collecting frequent flyer miles, while Bateman will play his boss.

The actor previously worked with Reitman on 2008 Oscar-winner Juno.

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Russell Crowe has admitted that he is refusing to watch the BBC's State Of Play miniseries, fearing that his movie adaptation will not match it.

Crowe, who portrays a journalist uncovering a political conspiracy in Kevin Macdonald's big screen version, told Empire that he would most likely be "angry" if he saw the acclaimed 2003 TV show.

"I was aware of [State Of Play] but haven't seen it. I haven't and I'm not going to see it. It's six hours of finely crafted BBC television and it's not something you can compare, really. It would probably just make me angry if I watched it, because no doubt it's full of really lovely details and lots of cross-connections with characters and stuff.

"Where possible we've done that here, but essentially it's a different form and there's a big difference between two hours and six hours. A huge difference."

Crowe added of his role, played by John Simm in the mini-series: "I'm fascinated by the ambiguity of journalism and how there are supposedly rules that are lived under, but the reality is you are a human being and humans are never objective. They always drag their life into what they do. And journalists are no different."

State Of Play is out in UK cinemas on April 24.

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Jessica Rabbit has been named the sexiest cartoon character of all time.

The singer, who first appeared in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, nabbed 37% of the vote to beat competition from Betty Boop (21%) and the Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Bunny (10%) in the poll carried out by Cadbury.

"The top three are all similar in that they share the most alluring virtues," said marketing director Lee Rolston.

Around 1,000 people were surveyed to mark the return of the Cadbury Bunny to adverts this Easter.

"What we find most impressive is that she is the only British character on the list," said Rolston. "In this way, she very much echoes Cadbury Dairy Milk's British roots."

Other fictional characters to make the list included Scooby Doo's Daphne Blake, Wilma Flintstone, Cinderella and Snow White.

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McG has confirmed that he is in talks with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton to appear in his upcoming movie Terminator: Salvation.

The director told SCI FI Wire at WonderCon that he had spoken to Hamilton about reprising her role as Sarah Connor and will talk to Schwarzenegger next week.

Of Schwarzenegger, McG said: "Truthfully, it's not clear. It's not clear. We'll see where we land. I mean, he's a very powerful guy, he's got to do what's right for him.

"I just kind of respect that the guy's the governor of the state of California, and he's got to go back to his advisers and ask them, 'Hey, is this a good idea?'"

He added that the governor's staff may believe that people will feel uncomfortable if Schwarzenegger decides to appear in the film.

Last month, the actor confirmed that he would film a cameo role in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables.

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Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Sacha Baron Cohen and Paul Giamatti have reportedly been cast in Alexander Payne's new project Downsizing.

According to Hollywood Elsewhere, the quartet are attached to the movie, which has yet to be announced by the Oscar-winning writer-director. No story details have yet surfaced.

Both Giamatti and Witherspoon have worked with Payne previously; Giamatti in wine-themed comedy Sideways in 2004 and Witherspoon in Election, which provided her big screen breakthrough.

Payne recently directed the pilot for HBO's comedy Hung, about a well-endowed high school basketball coach (Thomas Jane). He is also serving as an executive producer on the series.

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A private doctor is reportedly being flown to Africa to monitor Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood on the set of their latest movie.

Freeman will play Nelson Mandela alongside Matt Damon in The Human Factor, which will be directed by Clint Eastwood, 78.

According to the New York Daily News, producers are especially concerned about the health of 71-year-old Freeman due to his serious car accident last year.

"There's a huge budget for the film at stake," a source said. "These guys are getting up there in age. Sure, they had physicals before leaving; everyone has to. But [the private doctor] was just an agreed upon decision on all sides of the table."

The passenger travelling with Freeman when his car left the road in Mississippi last August recently revealed that she is suing the actor for negligence.

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Kevin Smith has signed with Warner Bros to helm comedy A Couple Of Dicks, reports ERC.

The film, to star Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan, has been scripted by Rob and Marc Cullen.

Production is expected to get underway later this year, with a January 29, 2010 release date scheduled.

The script, based on two LAPD detectives attempting to track down a stolen 1952 baseball card, is rumoured to have been on the 2008 Blacklist, a list of the year's best unproduced screenplays.

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James Corden has said that he is glad upcoming movie Lesbian Vampire Killers does not look like a British film.

The co-star of the upcoming horror movie admitted that he was afraid that the film could end up looking like The Benny Hill Show, BANG Showbiz reports.

Corden said: "I'm impressed that it doesn't look like a British film. After the first 20 minutes, it really kicks in and looks like an American teen flick.

"Ultimately it's a comedy horror and there is nothing gratuitous in it."

He added that he enjoyed acting alongside Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne without the pressure of having written the script.

Last year, a lesbian group claimed that the film was "shamelessly catering to men's girl-on-girl fantasies".

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Tom Selleck has reportedly revealed that he wants to land the lead role in the movie adaptation of his US TV show Magnum P.I.

The actor, who played private investigator Thomas Magnum from 1980 until 1988, admitted that he is eager to reprise the character on the big screen, despite studio bosses failing to offer him the part.

"They haven't called, they haven't written. I keep hearing they're developing one but I don't know whether I'm going to be in it," WENN quotes him as saying.

"But they keep doing [fan] polls and I keep winning them."

Last year, Matthew McConaughey confirmed that he had been offered the lead role, telling DS: "I'm having a look at it right now. I'm considering that."

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A film version of David Tennant's Hamlet will reportedly be produced.

Oliver Ford Davies, who played Polonius in the stage play, told The Daily Telegraph that production will take place in June.

Tennant, 37, sustained a bad back during the Novello Theatre run of the show, which meant that he only managed 11 performances at the venue.

The Dr Who star had already appeared in Stratford-upon-Avon, where some commentators described his performance as the best Hamlet of his generation.

Davies said: "We are intending to film it over two or three weeks in June. It won't be a full feature film as there isn't time but it will certainly be more than just the filming of the stage. It will be fantastic to work together again."

Ticket's for the RSC production sold out within three hours of becoming available last September.

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Terminator Salvation director McG has admitted that he may include a nude scene in his upcoming sci-fi sequel.

Speaking at WonderCon, the helmer said that he will not remove a shot of actress Moon Bloodgood topless in the rain for the benefit of securing the movie a lower rating from the MPAA.

He said: "I didn't want to [make choices based on a rating]. We would never do that. Now having said that, should the film be PG-13? The Dark Knight is PG-13 and I would regard that as made without compromise."

Discussing the nudity further, he added: "It wasn't a function of the rating. It was a function of whether it's gratuitous or is it servicing the story? Sometimes, you want to say that the softness of the human flesh is one of the things we're fighting for. It's decidedly human and it's not like the machines. Or does it just feel like a juvenile moment in an otherwise very serious film?"

Bloodgood insisted that she is in favour of the scene because it is not "shallow".

"I fight so much against nudity, but I'm a woman, I have boobs, it's a beautiful shot," she explained. "It wasn't at all gratuitous. I'm not afraid to say 'no'. I would have said, 'No, I'm not doing it', and I've done that, but it was beautiful. Did you ever just want to get naked and connect to someone?"

Terminator fans have called for the new movie, released on June 5, to be rated R, keeping it in line with the rest of the franchise. However, McG has previously speculated that it may receive a PG-13 classification.

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Richard Curtis has suggested that he includes nudity in his films because he found it exciting watching similar scenes as a teenager.

The Love, Actually director was speaking to Empire about why so many of his films include nude sex scenes.

He said: "I don't avoid nudity because I remember how much it mattered when I was 15, I was thrilled when a person in the movies took their clothes off.

"The sex scenes must just be me fantasising about a youth in which I never did get laid."

He added that, like Four Weddings And A Funeral, his new film The Boat That Rocked is about friendship, which he claimed is a recurring theme in his movies.

Last month, it emerged that Curtis had helped a group of youngsters make a film about the "real" Notting Hill entitled Grove Roots.

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Danny Boyle has reportedly been asked to direct the next film in the James Bond series.

Bond producer Barbara Brocolli is said to be interested in hiring the director to helm the follow up to Quantum of Solace, The Sun reports.

A source said: "Danny is the man of the moment and he is being bombarded with offers from studios.

"He has been offered the chance to direct the 23rd Bond film by Barbara. The EON [Productions] team love his vision and think that it would work perfectly for the new look of Bond.

"Everyone on the EON team thinks Danny would be a fantastic addition to the Bond family."

The source added that the Bond franchise had moved "right up Danny's street" with the involvement of Daniel Craig and increased emphasis on characters and plot ahead of gadgets and one-liners.

Boyle shot to fame with his work on Shallow Grave and Trainspotting before directing The Beach and 28 Days Later and winning an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire.

Craig and Bond co-star Judy Dench have both called for the reintroduction of Q and Moneypenny to the series when it returns.

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Lynda Carter has said that Eliza Dushku would be a perfect choice to play the role of Wonder Woman in a rumoured movie version of the story.

Carter played the heroine on TV in the 1970s, while Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon was originally involved in a reimagining of the character for the big screen.

However, Whedon since dropped out of the film and said that the producers had kept him "completely in the dark" when he worked on the project.

Carter told WENN: "I've always liked Joss, and Eliza would make a great Wonder Woman.

"I hope if they make the movie it makes a bajillion dollars, which means they'll continue to make them."

She also offered to help with the movie and said she did not care about being paid for any assistance she gives the filmmakers

Whedon and Buffy star Dushku recently reunited to work on TV show Dollhouse, which had a poor start in the ratings when it premiered last month.

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David Lynch has hinted that he will look to other mediums to realise his ideas because it is too difficult to source funding for movies.

The director of Twin Peaks and Inland Empire told The Guardian that he no longer cares about getting his films funded.

Lynch said: "Now there's the internet, you can distribute anything. The problem is, how do you get money for it?…It's gonna be very tough, coming up.

"A painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap.

"So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of."

He added that he loves watercolours, acrylic, house paint, oil paint and the smell of turpentine.

Lynch recently had his name attached to his daughter Jennifer's upcoming movie Surveillance to help the film be picked up by producers.

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ER star Angela Bassett will make her directorial debut on indie project United States.

The actress is also producing the film with her business partner and husband Courtney B. Vance, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on the Percival Everett novel Erasure, the film is a dramatic comedy about respected black writer Monk Ellison, who pens a fake autobiography celebrating "ghetto" culture. However, when the book is acclaimed and offered awards, Ellison must choose "between pride and fame".

The script was penned by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran, and shooting is expected to start in the summer.

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A representative for Bruce Willis has described the £2.75 million lawsuit brought against him as "frivolous" and "without merit".

The Die Hard star has been sued by production company Foresight Unlimited, which has accused him of abandoning his directorial duties on a forthcoming movie.

Speaking to Extra, the spokesperson said: "In over three decades of practice, I have rarely seen such an absurd lawsuit. The production companies admitted they did not have the financing in place for the film.

"[They] failed to pay members of the cast and crew, and failed to deposit Bruce Willis's compensation in escrow, which resulted in the film not going forward."

The representative revealed that Willis had previously "threatened to sue the production companies for their breach of contract" which prompted the "baseless lawsuit" to be filed.

He added: "Mr Willis and other individual producers will proceed with their multi-million-dollar affirmative claims against the production companies this week, and are confident that they will prevail."

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20th Century Fox has pencilled in the third Chronicles Of Narnia film, Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, for release on December 10, 2010, says Variety.

The move returns the franchise to winter, where first instalment The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe opened in 2005, grossing $745 million (£505 million).

The subsequent sequel, Prince Caspian, debuted in early summer last year but was less successful at the box office, taking in $419 million (£284 million).

Fox jumped in to rescue the C.S. Lewis fantasy franchise in January after Walt Disney Pictures pulled out of making Dawn Treader, with Walden Media citing budgetary concerns.

Production on Dawn Treader will reportedly begin in Australia this summer, with returning cast members Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley being joined by Will Poulter as Eustace Clarence Scrubb.

Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough) is attached to direct from a script by Richard LaGravenese.

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Defiance director Edward Zwick has lined up whaling drama In The Heart Of The Sea as his next project, reports Variety.

An adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's book, the movie will recount how the ship Essex was destroyed by a sperm whale in 1820. Eight crew were rescued after being lost at sea for 90 days.

Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz co-wrote the script, which the Glory filmmaker plans to direct later this year.

The story of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville to pen his classic novel Moby Dick, a revamped version of which is in development at Universal with Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov.