From Bridget To Bob

Although Hugh Grant may have poured cold water on the prospect of there being a Bridget Jones's Diary sequel, director Sharon Maguire seems quite happy to keep herself busy with all manner of new projects. This morning, she's been announced as the director of a new romantic comedy, which - the Hollywood Reporter adds - will be produced by Ridley and Tony Scott's production company Free Prods. Bob! is a remake of the successful German film Alles Bob, in which a philanderer's cunning plan to swap bachelorhood for a marriage with a rich woman he doesn't love, comes undone when he meets a single mum that he does. It's the latest in a number of projects that the English director has recently signed for, including an all-British teaming with Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes for the film adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel Eustace Diamonds.