* Steve Carell has landed himself a hot new love interest in his new film comedy - sultry French star Juliette Binoche. The star will play an advice columnist who falls for his younger brother's girlfriend on a family vacation in Dan In Real Life.

* Nicolas Cage has credited temperamental exes with preparing him for his role in Gore Verbinski's The Weather Man. The actor - whose ex-wives include Patricia Arquette and Lisa Marie Presley - says his romantic past aligns him with the experiences of his unlucky character, who is regularly bombarded with flying objects. He tells Hotdog magazine, "There have been times when, in my past, girls have thrown glasses at me and things like that."

* Clive Owen is desperate to make a family-friendly film because he refuses to let his children watch anything he has been in. Whether it's Julia Roberts' foul-mouthed husband in Closer, a seedy casino employee in Croupier, a cheating husband in Derailed or a bank robber in his new film Inside Man, Owen fears his films are too violent or sexual for his kids to see.

But he's impatient for them to watch their dad on film soon. He says, "My children aren't allowed to see any of my movies; they're nine and six. I would like to do a family movie for the kids because they can't see much of what I do and it would be nice to do one for them."

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