Email• A documentary charting the rags to riches tale of Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell is currently being made by the film's director Stephen Daldry. Daldry, who cast Bell in the role of the miner's son with a passion for ballet, has been filming the 15-year-old star since the film's release last year. The documentary will be broadcast on the BBC this autumn.
• Boys Don't Cry star Hilary Swank has finally joined Hollywood's big earners after signing up to appear alongside Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia for $3m (£2.30m). Unbelievably, the 26-year-old actress was paid just $3,000 (£2,307) for her Oscar-winning role in Boys Don't Cry.
• Kristin Scott Thomas is wowing French theatre critics with her performance in the 17th-century tragedy Berenice. Le Figaro declared, "She plays a queen and what a queen. Kristin Scott Thomas has the fibre of an aristocrat." Another critic said there was only, "A small trace of an English accent." Thomas, who is married to a French obstetrician and lives in France, is set to take the play on a tour of the country once the run in Perpignan is finished.
• The Phantom Menace has been voted the worst movie sequel of all time by American film site Eonline. The much anticipated 1999 film beat off hot competition from the likes of Batman and Robin, starring George Clooney, and Jaws: The Revenge to take the top position in the Repeat Offenders List which compiles the top 10 worst remakes and sequels of all time. "Liam Neeson gave it the old Jedi try but Ewan McGregor looked like he was still on the nod back in Trainspotting," the site declared. "The convoluted story line didn't help matters... unless you were a geek already emotionally invested in loving the picture to death before you took your theatre seat - and, yes, we know there were millions of you... it was all pretty ho-hum."
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