The Bearded Trio

West End actress Kelly Brook may not be a Hollywood movie star just yet, but if she keeps cracking the whip like this you never know. Kelly looked a real treasure as she struck Harrison Ford's classic pose from Raiders of the Lost Ark for an advertising campaign.  The 29-year-old shot a series of film stills as she urged TV viewers to vote for their favourite Sky Movies' Christmas Day line-up.

Steven Spielberg has bagged The Anti-Defamation League’s highest honour for his work in the field of human rights. The Oscar-winning director will collect America’s Democratic Legacy Award at the league’s Los Angeles fundraiser on December 9, reports Contactmusic. The 62-year-old was tagged as a “true champion of human rights” for his work in film and television, along with his humanitarian efforts. American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and Israeli singer Noa Dori are set to share the stage with other artists at the Beverly Hilton hotel. (ANI) Tags: steven spielberg

Drew Barrymore has revealed that director Steven Spielberg taught her everything she knows about acting. The Whip It star, who was cast in Spielberg's ET when she was only five years old, said that out of all the directors she has worked with, he has always given her the best advice. Barrymore told Empire: "I've spent my whole life working with more than 60 directors, so I've picked up all kinds of tips. Steven Spielberg has been a big help." She continued: "He gave me great notes. He's a wonderful mentor." Barrymore also compared her latest film to her first, adding: "My favourite scene in Whip It is actually the food fight, which is an homage to ET, when we had that big food fight in the lunch room."

Steven Spielberg and Will Smith's update of South Korean film Oldboy has reportedly been scrapped. Mandate Pictures and Spielberg's DreamWorks were in the process of securing story rights to the movie when the latter "walked away", reports Latino Review . The production companies apparently "didn't see eye-to-eye" on the terms of the deal. Director Chan-Wook's Oldboy , released in 2003, is a dark and violent revenge tale that involves torture and murder. Voters on CNN named it one of the ten best Asian films ever made. The Smith/Spielberg production was believed to be based on the picture's original source material, a Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya.

Here's a cool segment from a British video 'How to film the impossible' where wizards of ILM show us the process of real matte painting photography from films like Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi.

Who remembers the Xbox project, Natal? Project Natal went on to be the Xbox Kinect. Steven Spielberg talks about the project.