Roman Polanski's wife has asked a host of film stars to join her fight to prevent the director being extradited to America.

The 76-year-old Oscar-winner - who fled the US to France in 1978 after being convicted of unlawful sex with a minor - was arrested on Saturday (26.09.09) in Zurich, Switzerland, and faces being sent back to the US so his actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner has begun compiling a petition calling for his release.

Dame Helen Mirren wants to film a sequel to 'The Queen'.

The 62-year-old actress - who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the movie which followed the monarch's life the week after the death of Princess Diana in 1997 - would love to make a movie about the queen's golden jubilee, which she celebrated in 2002.