James McAvoy and David Tennant were on the pitch last Saturday for a celebrity football match alongside actor Martin Compston and former footballers Joe Millar, Darren Jackson, Tom Boyd and Gordon Smith.

The English side included Alan Shearer, Rob Lee, Ant and Dec, Sid Owen and TV presenter Jonathan Wilkes. It was the first Scottish team to play in the new Wembley stadium. All the proceeds went to the Bobby Moore Charity Fund.

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Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg is set to finalise a deal to make a movie about the Lockerbie crash which killed 259 passengers and crew and 11 residents in 1988. Ewan McGregor and James McAvoy have both been linked to the Hollywood project.

Spielberg is to take best-selling book "Flight 103" to the screen and is in the final stages of talks with author Juval Aviv.

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James McAvoy has been nominated in the first ever 'Jane Austen's Regency World Awards. He is in the 'Best Actor' category for his role as Tom Lefroy in last year's 'Becoming Jane'.

You can vote for James on JaneAusten.co.uk. The winners will be announced and awards presented at a prestigious dinner event at the Hilton Hotel in Bath on 15th May 2008. Thank you very much to Donna Lodge for the info!

James McAvoy and his wife Anne-Marie Duff were in Berlin on Friday to promote "The Last Station".

Director Michael Hoffman and leading actors Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer also attended the photo call. You can see a group picture HERE.

Filming starts on Monday April 7th in Germany.