IRISH actor Hugh O Conor, so effective last year in The Young Poisoner's Handbook, is starring in Sawdust Tales, which is described as "a mixture of myth and fairytale under the big top" and is shooting in Budapest under Turkish director Baris Pirhasan. X Files star David Duchovny will feature with Timothy Hutton, Angeline Jolie and Peter Stormare in Andy Wilson's action thriller, Playing God.

Jodie Foster will be joined by Matthew McConaughey and James Woods in the extra terrestrial drama: Contact, to be directed by Robert Zemeckis. John Travolta will join husband and wife Sean Penn and Robin Wright in She's De Lovely based on a screenplay by the late John Cassavetes and to be directed by his son Nick Cassavetes. And following Emir Kusturica's self declared retirement from film making last year not long after he won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for Underground - Kusturtica is set to make a swift comeback next spring when he directs the comedy, The Swedish King, starring Daniel Auteuil.