VIENNA, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Andre Rieu has received the Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria last saturday. The decoration was awarded by Marianna Klicka, president of the District of Vienna.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- When the moon is full, the legend comes to life.

Welsh-born actor Anthony Hopkins is loosely attached to star in a film Andy Garcia co-wrote and plans to direct about scribe Ernest Hemingway.

A planned film version of William Shakespeare's play King Lear, starring Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins, was scrapped, reportedly for economic reasons. Hopkins was to portray the troubled monarch, while Gwyneth Paltrow, Keira Knightley and Naomi Watts were to have played his daughters in the $36 million-budgeted movie, which was announced at last year's Cannes Film Festival in France. The Telegraph described the cancellation of the project as the first high-profile casualty of the recession in the movie industry. Ruby are no longer doing it -- the film will no longer go ahead.

Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins were the first to be cast in Woody Allen's latest untitled movie, which is set to shoot this summer in London.