Renee’s Million Dollar Deal

Renee Zellweger has signed a massive $21 million deal with Universal Studios and Miramax to star in the new Ron Howard movie and the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary. On top of her game since being nominated two years in a row for Best Actress at the Oscars, Zellweger is now entering the heady territory occupied by stars like Nicole Kidman (who'll get $15 million for appearing in The Stepford Wives). The new deal represents a massive pay leap from Renee's last movie Down With Love, for which she received $6 million. Howard's movie will be the first film that Renee will appear in. Entitled Cinderella Man, it stars Russell Crowe as Jim Braddock