PIERCE BROSNAN has been offered $5 million than double his pay cheque on Golden Eye to star in the big budget volcano movie, Dante's Peak ... ER star George Clooney, who has replaced Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader in Batman and Robin, will co-star with Annette Benin in the The Peacemaker, the first live action feature film from Steven Spielberg's Dream Works company .. John Travolta will reunite with his Broken Arrow director, John Woo, for the thriller, Face Off which will co-star Nicolas Cage.
Robert De Niro and Ethan Hawke have been signed for the new screen version of Great Expectations, which will be directed by Alfonso Cuaron, while Mel Gibson's Icon Productions next month starts filming a new version of Anna Karenina with Gibson's Braveheart co-star Sophie Marceau in the title role and Bernard Rose, who made Icon's Immortal Beloved, directing.