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Kate Winslet is being supported through her marriage break-up by Leonardo DiCaprio.

The actress turned to her 'Titanic' co-star when problems started to surface in her relationship with director Sam Mendes as the trio worked together on 2008 movie 'Revolutionary Road' and she is said to be relying on his support to get through this difficult time.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "Leonardo and Kate have been like brother and sister since they starred in 'Titanic' together.

"And since Kate's marriage problems started, around the time they were filming 'Revolutionary Road', they've got closer again. Kate feels like she can tell Leonardo anything.

"They were thrust into stardom together and were the only people who knew what the other was going through. He's been a rock for her."

The 34-year-old actress split from the 'American Beauty' director earlier this year after six years of marriage.

A statement from law firm Schillings said: "Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement.

"Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children. They ask that the media respect their privacy at this time."

Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom.

The actress - who was given the gong last year for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a Nazi war criminal in 'The Reader' - admitted she wanted to keep the statue out of sight so people wouldn't keep asking her about it, but in a place where guests could look at it privately.

She told UK TV show 'GMTV': "People can sneakily have a little hold and put it back down again... because basically everybody wants to touch it, everybody wants to hold it and go, 'Oh, my gosh,' and, 'How heavy is it?' So I figured if I put it in there, then people can avoid the whole, 'Where's your Oscar?' thing."

Just a couple of days after the announcement that Gwyneth Paltrow was joining the already all-star cast of Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, we now learn via The Playlist that erstwhile Morpheus Laurence Fishburne is also in talks to co-star. Expect Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel shortly.*

Sounds like the film is juggling this stonking acting roster by taking on multiple intersecting global plot strands, giving everyone something to do. The script by Scott Z Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!) involves an international pandemic. Fishburne, along with Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslett, Jude Law and Gwynny, would be part of a team of doctors and scientists called on by the Centre for Disease Control. So the dream team start off together, but separate off into their own stories as they take their expertise out into the field.

Soderbergh is knocking this one out in between Knockout and Liberace, and the $60m project has, since we last reported, been picked up by Warner Brothers. Fishburne's involvement does, however, depend on scheduling: he's also got some Predators to fight.

*Not really. But then again...

He racks 'em up and knocks 'em down. Steven Soderbergh is currently at work on Knockout, but before he starts Liberace with Michael Douglas, there's the small matter of global virus threat movie Contagion. As previously reported it's set to star Matt Damon, Kate Winslett, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law. Now Deadline Hollywood are reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow has been added to the starry cast.

We don't know much yet about Contagion, so its tough to speculate about Gwynny's role. But we'll say this: despite the snarky publicity she often gets, she's proved again and again - Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, Two Lovers, Iron Man - that she can be damn good, so we're all in favour of her joining forces with Soderbergh.

Contagion has been written by The Informant's Scott Z Burns, inspired by a discussion about germs on the Informant set. Douglas Adams always said that getting a movie made in Hollywood was like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people come into a room and breathe on it, but it turns out that if someone as much as sneezes around Soderbergh, a film gets made.

Movie News - Actress Penelope Cruz is reportedly in talks to star in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. The 35-year-old is said to be negotiating a role opposite Johnny Depp in the fourth film in the swash-buckling franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

The fourth movie will be directed by Nine's Rob Marshall and filming will begin in Hawaii in the summer. Jerry Bruckheimer will be producing the movie, which is scheduled for release on May 20, 2011, according to Variety.
Disney have kept details of the film's plot a secret and it is being written by Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott.

More film news...Lord Of The Rings stars Liv Tyler and Viggo Mortensen are Hollywood's highest-earning screen pair. The duo appeared as lovers in Peter Jackson's hit movie trilogy and they helped the movies make $2.9 billion at the box office.
Spiderman stars Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire came second in the list, which was put together by Forbes magazine, after the three films made $2.5 billion. Also in the list were pairs of actors that had appeared in more than one movie together.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio came third in the list after making $1.8 billion for Titanic and then $75 million for Revolutionary Road in 2008.
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Kate Winslet was "over-exposed" last year.

The actress - who picked up an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 'The Reader' and two Golden Globes for her performances in 'The Reader' and 'Revolutionary Road' respectively in 2009 - decided to take some time out so people wouldn't get tired of her.

She told the Daily Mail newspaper: "I was in hiding a little bit, just doing family stuff and very little work.

"To be honest, I felt so over-exposed this time last year with the Golden Globes and the Oscar. It was fantastic and everything, but I was sick of me, let alone what other people must have felt."

However, Kate is ready to get back to work and presented an award at the Golden Globes ceremony last Sunday (17.01.10) and will do the same at the Academy Awards in March.

Discussing her upcoming projects, Kate is shooting a mini-series for US TV channel HBO based on the James M. Cain novel 'Mildred Pierce'.

She revealed: "We're doing it from the book, not the film version with Joan Crawford.

"It's such a deliciously meaty role and we cover a lot of ground, with Mildred raising her two girls during the Depression era. She runs her own business and, of course, there are men.

Actresses Jennifer Garner (pictured) and Kate Winslet are to present awards at the Golden Globes. It has been announced that Garner, 37, Winslet, 34, and singer Cher, 63, and actor Kiefer Sutherland, 43, will all be presenting awards at the Golden Globe Awards later this year.

The 67th awards show is being aired on NBC from the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17.

Stars who have already been revealed as presenters of an award include Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Jodie Foster and Sophia Loren. The show is being hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais.
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Kate Winslet (pictured) has the celebrity body most women admire a new poll suggests.  The survey of UK women reveals that Kate's curves equal a win for the Oscar-winning actress.

The blonde beauty has a curvy shape that does not fit the super-skinny ideal in Hollywood. And she has openly dissed as much in the past, complaining about her image being touched up. Winslet, who recently starred in The Reader and Revolutionary Road, came out slightly ahead of Kelly Brook, a TV presenter and model with a similar curvy figure.

Two thousand women were polled by Slimming World. Halle Berry was third followed by Cheryl Cole, Beyonce, Megan Fox, and Lily Allen. Reed-thin Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss came in at the bottom of the poll, as did tabloid queen Katie Price.
See plenty of Kate's sexy award winning body here from the Vanity Fair photo shoot.
Former Casualty actress Rebecca Wheatley, 44, who dropped half her body weight down to 12 stone said: "It is fantastic to see that finally women seem to be aspiring towards a healthy body shape that is realistic and achievable. Kate Winslet has always spoken out about the importance of accepting your body."
 

Eva Mendes is planning to pen a love letter to the British Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet. Mendes, an actress, says she has never met the great Winslet, but thinks that she is in a class all of her own.

She said: "She never allows herself to get pigeonholed and she's always stretching herself. She's done nudity in so many of her films, yet she's not known for that – she's known for her work. She goes there as an actress and really, to me, she's untouchable."

Winslet this year received an Academy Award for best actress and a Golden Globe. She has lately dazzled in such dramatic on-screen fare as Revolutionary Road and The Reader.
Said Mendes: "I've actually never met her and I'm thinking, 'Maybe it's time to write her a little love letter. She can do no wrong in my eyes."