Film Flash!

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Updated Friday 14 May 2004

Leonardo DiCaprio could star in a film about surfing legend Miki Dora, reports Variety. His production company, Appian Way, has bought the film rights for David Rensin's biography of Dora, All for a Few Perfect Waves.

The girl to play Harry Potter's girlfriend in the fourth film has been cast. 16-year-old Katie Leung has been chosen to play Cho Chang, Daniel Radcliffe's love interest in The Goblet of Fire.

Michael Caine is set to star with Danny DeVito and Kristin Scott Thomas in The Nature of Enchantment. Caine will play Dr Easterman, a psychiatrist who discovers a boy abandoned in New York, who sees the city as a fairytale land

Ving Rhames has reportedly signed up to star as boxing legend Sonny Liston in Night Train. The Mission Impossible star will also be executive producer for the biopic, according to Variety.

Al Pacino is set to star in 88 Minutes, a new thriller, according to Variety. In the film, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI receives a death threat saying he has only 88 minutes to live. James Foley will direct.

Jeff Bridges and Jeanne Tripplehorn are to star in The Moguls, a film about an amateur director who decides to cast his friends in a porn movie. Bridges will play the wannabe film-maker.