A cheeky reporter made Charlize Theron blush at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Thursday by asking her to marry him and then quizzing her about sleeping arrangements. The Oscar winner was promoting her new film

Kim Basinger is set to play the on-screen mother of Charlize Theron in new film The Burning Plain. The film will be the directional debut of Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and shooting will begin in Mexico early next month with a release date scheduled for 2009.