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With Shiloh Fernandez and Nick NoltePatricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossett gave a screenplay to the postman, he put it in his sack, and bright and early the next morning it was being filmed with Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte. Well OK, maybe that isn't quite how Return To Sender found itself in production, but it's underway nevertheless, under the directorial eye of Fouad Mikati (Operation: Endgame).Not quite the Elvis-based rom-com its title might imply, this Return To Sender sounds a bit more sinister. It involves an up-tight nurse in a small town (Pike) whose life changes irrevocably after a blind date with a guy (Fernandez) who turns out not be all he seems. In the aftermath, Pike gets violent revenge on the person who set the date up has to rebuild her life and get back to being who she used to be. Nolte will be playing her father.THR's description of Pike as "victim to a life-altering event" sounds like coy language for a rather nasty date-related assault, but there's no confirmation of that so far, so we shouldn't leap to conclusions. The official line is that Return To Sender is a psychological thriller, and that single-random-event-that-changes-everything-forever business sounds very like the hook for any number of Ian McEwan novels. So perhaps, superficially, this will be somewhere along the lines of something like Enduring Love.Whatever, it sounds a scene-stealing opportunity for Fernandez following Red Riding Hood and the Evil Dead remake. And it's another entry in Pike's rather full diary. She'll follow this with Josh Duhamel's thriller French Window, and we'll next see her in The World's End, out in the UK on July 19.Return To Sender is shooting right now in New Orleans.     

A starry time is guaranteed aboard Richard Branson's spaceship, sat next to the Hollywood actor – and it's all for charity, tooA charity bidder at Cannes has won a journey into space sat next to Leonardo DiCaprio, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The lot, which went for €1.2m (£1m) at the annual AmFAR Cinema Against Aids gala at the Hotel du Cap, was listed in as a "once-in-a-lifetime trip to space with a mystery guest" on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic fleet of ships. A second pair of seats sold for €1.8m (£1.5m) for the same flight, totalling €3m (£2.6m) of the total €20m (£17m) raised, a 50% increase year-on-year.The identity of the passenger that the bidder would be sharing starry observations and possible nausea with was not revealed until after the gavel had fallen, but DiCaprio was present at the charity dinner, along with Cannes jurors Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz. DiCaprio has been in town promoting The Great Gatsby, which opened this year's festival last week. Whether or not his space companion is a fan of the film has not been revealed.Weinstein joked that many in the industry would like to see him shot into space too, "but only on a one-way ticket". The 66th Cannes film festival ends on Sunday, 26 May, when the winner of the Palme D'Or will be announced.Cannes 2013Leonardo DiCaprioHarvey WeinsteinRichard BransonSpaceAids and HIVFranceguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Can you guess what ABIAB stands for?The sun has finally come out here in Cannes, so the Empire videblogisode team capitalised on that fortunate turn of events by holing up in an office to record an extended movie parody. As the French wouldn't say, "Such is life."The spoof was in honour of our interview with Alec Baldwin and James Toback, whose documentary, Seduced And Abandoned, was shown out of competition at the Palais De Festivals. No points for guessing which scene from which movie we try to recreate  brightcove.createExperiences();This episode also saw us interview longstanding videblog-guest Stephen Woolley about his planned film Limehouse Golem, from a script by Jane Goldman.For more videblogifun - yes, that's yet another word we just made up - be sure to head to our Cannes 2013 microsite, where you can also find all of our initial reaction reviews, news pieces, picture galleries and more.    

James Grey's in competition period film follows the the travails of a young Polish woman played Marion Cotillard as she tries to get a foothold in the New World. read more    

Pitches from award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Sylvia Chang and mainland singer-actress Tian Yuan lead the way for the 30 projects on offer next month.read more