Nicole Kidman says making the musical movie 'Nine' was like "taking baby steps" back into work.

The 42-year-old Oscar winner - who plays a movie goddess called Claudia Jenssen alongside troubled director Guido Contini, who is played by Daniel Day-Lewis - admits it was difficult going back to work following the birth of her daughter Sunday Rose, who she delivered in July 2008.

Gerard Butler has been named the best British actor in Hollywood.

The Scottish hunk - who is best known for playing King Leonidas in '300' - beat a host of stars, including Christian Bale and double-Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis to win the title in a poll of more than 1,000 UK film fans by the DVD rental service LoveFilm.

U2 want Brad Pitt to star in a movie about their lives. The band's guitarist The Edge thinks the Hollywood hunk would be the perfect person to portray him if a film about the Irish group was ever made.

Edge, 47, said: "We'd want it to be realistic, we don't want the usual things, so Brad Pitt would play me. We want to be realistic, you know, you don't want to do the Hollywood thing."

Penelope Cruz was left blistered and bruised after performing a sexy dance. The actress was forced to push through the pain while doing a rope routine for new musical film "Nine" - because she was worried she would lose her grip and fall.

She said: "When something like that happens, you just have to keep going and forget about any physical pain. I was dancing in the dark with one spotlight on me, so I had to be extremely alert and focused."

Fergie will marry actor Josh Duhamel in January. The 33-year-old "London Bridge" singer and the "Transformers" star will tie the knot in Southern California over the second weekend of January.

It has been claimed many of Fergie's "Nine" co-stars, including Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard and Daniel Day-Lewis, will attend the ceremony.