While Britain is still way ahead of the US in terms of actors feeling free to be open about their sexuality (although as a recent Equity campaign highlighted, there’s still work to be done), America is catching up.
The latest to come out is 23-year-old Paul Iacono, who some will know as the star of the MTV series, The Hard Times Of R.J. Berger, where he played a high school student whose life starts to increasingly revolve around his abnormally large penis! The show ran for two seasons, but was canceled last year. He also appeared in the remake of Fame.
Iacono is giving a coming out interview to The Village Voice’s Paul Musto, which will be online soon.
Only a few years ago, the only actors in the US who came out seemed to be people whose career had waned and now had an autobiography to hawk. Now more and more young actors, from Neil Patrick Harris to Iacono are being open without seeming to worry too much about it being the end of their career.
Emily Watson is going from World War I in War Horse to World War II with the dark comedy The Poisoners, and she’s taking Anna Friel and Lena Headey along with her. 
Actorly and literary types love Anton Chekhov, but he’s not exactly a writer who’s permeated the mainstream. However Hurt Locker actor Christian Camargo is hoping to change that, as he’s planning to write and direct a modern day take on Chekhov’s classic, The Seagull.
In the 1990s, half of the movie made by Hollywood were based on John Grisham books and the other half were based on Michael Crichton novel. However we haven’t had a Grisham movie since 2004, and even tthat was the rather un-Grisham Christmas With The Kranks (based on his novella Skipping Christmas).
I Robot and Dark City helmer Alex Proyas hasn’t had a huge amount of luck since the release of the Nicolas Cage starrer Knowing. His planned Dracula: Year Zero was cancelled by Universal before being resurrected with a different director, and his take on Paradise Lost got to the point where the cast was almost full and production offices had opened, before Warner pulled the plug and killed it off earlier this year.
Whether it’s because she likes the role or just wants to work with Ridley Scott, Angelina Jolie is in talks for a small part in The Counselor, according to 
It’s undoubtedly become more common for film companies to start developing similar projects at the same time, hoping they’ll be first to make it through the development proess and on to cinema screens.