BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Zellweger is 'Beatrix Potter'



From director Chris "Babe" Noonan comes the story of MGM's "Miss Potter", starring Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson and Lloyd Owen.

The period feature is scheduled for a wide release January 2007.

Set in the summer of late Victorian and Edwardian England, the story focuses on the life of author/artist 'Beatrix Potter'.

When Beatrix finally publishes her debut book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", she becomes a celebrity, leading to a forbidden courtship in 1905 with publisher Norman Warne.