Elton John and his partner David Furnish are planning to produce an unusual sci-fi movie which mixes aliens with Jane Austen characters. Bosses at the couple's Rocket Films

Happy Birthday to actor Benjamin Bratt (1963), ZZ Top singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons (1949), Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann (1939), sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke (1917), English drama author Jane Austen (1775; d. 1817),

Alison Sudol inhabits a vivid imaginary world populated by siren songs and sailors, sightless creatures and fragile fallen eagles, a place where almost lovers and hopeless dreams are bid a melancholy musical farewell.

As the year nears its close, have you really seen all the 2007 movies that count? The film buffs at WENN locked themselves away in a dark room with a week's supply of popcorn and warm soda and decided to review the last 12 month's hits and misses at the cinema.

Happy Birthday to actor Benjamin Bratt (1963), ZZ Top singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons (1949), Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann (1939), sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke (1917), English drama author Jane Austen (1775; d. 1817), and German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770; d. 1827).

Keira Knightley is this week's 'Maxim Hot 100' girl! Head on over to Maxim's Keira Knightley page to check out their page of sexy pictures of the Pirates of the Caribbean beauty!

Actress Anne Hathaway has her dog to thank for landing the role of Jane Austen in movie Becoming Jane - if the pooch hadn't eaten a hotel slipper she doubts she would have won the part.

Actress Anne Hathaway became a strict vegetarian on the Irish set of period movie Becoming Jane because she couldn't bear to eat meat after watching the birth of lambs at a farm nearby. The Devil Wears Prada star, who plays beloved English writer Jane Austen in the film, rarely eats meat - but life on a farm in Ireland really turned her off.

As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels.

Sean Connery has lent his support to win back a renowned literary archive for the National Library of Scotland. Connery joins crime writer Ian Rankin in the fight for the John Murray Archive, which contains manuscripts and letters from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Lord Byron and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.