Oscar winners' next movies
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-17 11:40

With the gala celebration parties in Hollywood's Oscar season over, where are all the leading Oscar winners heading for their next movies?

Actor Sean Penn (L) and actress Charlize Theron hold their Oscar Statues at the 76th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 29, 2004. Penn won the award for best actor for his role in the film "Mystic River" and Theron won the best actress award for her role in the film "Monster." [Reuters]

While Best Actor Oscar winner Sean Pan becomes a special agent in the first thriller about the United Nations, Oscar-winning Charlize Theron is to team up with Best Actor Oscar nominee Johny Depp in "The Libertine," according to the latest issue of Entertainment magazine.

Shooting of the UN thriller "Interpreter" has started since last week at the 38-story UN headquarters in New York. Pan is to play a special agent trying to protect an African country's president from an assassination attempt after an interpreter, played by Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, overheard a conversation about the plot.

This is the first time that a film is being shot in the UN headquarters.

Best Actress Oscar winner Theron, who is now returning to her homeland of South Africa, will co-star with Depp in "The Libertine, " which tells about the story of 17th century poet John Wilmot, who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave -- succumbing to syphilis at the age of 33 -- only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

But Theron's very next movie is a World War II-era romantic film "Head in the Clouds," in which she co-stars with her boyfriend Stuart Townsend. It is directed by Australian filmmaker John Duigan. Theron stars as ambitious photographer Gilda Besse, who lives in France during the 1930s.

The Oscar glory has led to Theron's price as she received US$10 million for her leading role in a future Sci-fi film " Aeon Flux," based on the animated MTV episodes.

For Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Tim Robbins, he is to head play this March in "Embedded", a political satire that he wrote and directed.

Robbins will also star in "Code 46", a love story set in an eerily possible near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints.

Meanwhile, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Renee Zellweger will co-star with former Oscar winning actor Russel Crowe in Ron Howard's long-delayed boxing drama "Cinderella Man".

Zewellger has just finished her latest film of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" and nearly completed the Dream Works' movie " CGI Shark Tale". She will also team up with Janis Joplin in the biopic "Piece of My Heart", both due in 2005.

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