Nicole Kidman, usually known for her impeccable style, opted for a rather dowdy look for her low-key date with Keith Urban.

The 43-year-old Oscar-winner was spotted out with her husband at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Los Angeles last night, where they caught a screening of Angelina Jolie’s latest movie Salt.
They then headed to upscale Mexican restaurant El Torito Grill for a late dinner.
While Grammy winner Keith, 42, is renowned for his scruffy jeans and shirt look, Nicole is considered a fashion icon.

But she didn’t quite get it right in her latest ensemble of a long, shapeless lavender shift dress, nondescript white cardigan and white flip flops.

With her hair pulled back in a messy ponytail and carrying what looked like an over-sized baby blue toiletry bag, the look was a far cry from her normal fashionista status.

Earlier today The Toronto International Film Festival announced that it will screen her latest film Rabbit Hole at the event, which opens on September 9 and Nicole will be a guest at the festival.
Heading home: Nicole and Keith leave the Sherman Oaks Galleria mall in Los Angeles after their dinner and a movie date night
Rabbit Hole is based on Cameron Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a couple (played by Nicole and Aaron Eckhart) whose son is killed in a tragic car accident. Read more… »

Nicole Kidman, Robert Redford and Ben Affleck are among the stars headed to the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

According to IndieWire, the festival, which kicks off on Sept. 9, will include films like John Cameron Mitchell’s ‘Rabbit Hole,’ based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, about a couple (Kidman, Aaron Eckhart) whose son is killed in a tragic car accident, Redford’s ‘The Conspirator,’ about the days affer the assassination of President Lincoln, and ‘The Town,’ Ben Affleck’s followup to ‘Gone, Baby, Gone,’ about a group of bank robbers in Boston.

Also on the list: ‘The King’s Speech,’ about King George VI’s (Colin Firth) battle to overcome his stutter, and Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan,’ starring Natalie Portman.

‘Black Swan’ will also open the 2010 Venice Film Festival, according to reports.

Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary last week with a romantic dinner at a Nashville restaurant, according to reports.

The pair are said to have sat in a quiet corner at Flyte, an establishment that is a favourite of other celebrities including Shania Twain, Gwyneth Paltrow and Taylor Swift.

‘[Nicole] looked stunning, very understated in a sleeveless dress and sandals,’ People.com reports an observer saying.

‘They were smiling and holding hands across the table. You could tell they were so in love.’

After dining, the couple are said to have spent time talking to the staff, who said the famous duo were ‘a delight’.

Kidman and Ubran wed in Sydney, Australia in 2006, and welcomed daughter Sunday Rose in 2008.

HBO has green-lit a new film about Ernest Hemingway starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, Deadline.com reports.

Hemingway & Gellhorn will follow the relationship between writers Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Owen, 45, will play the Nobel Prize-winning author and Kidman, 42 will take on Gellhorn, a famed 20th century war correspondent.

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Their courtship and five-year marriage is one of the most famous in American literature and helped inspire Hemingway’s critically acclaimed 1940 book For Whom the Bell Tolls.

James Gandolfini, who has reportedly been in talks to produce and possibly star in a new series at HBO, will executive-produce the film. Hemingway & Gellhorn was written by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl. Philip Kaufman will direct the film, which begins shooting next year.

Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage are to play a married couple taken hostage in the action adventure Trespass, according to Variety, marking the first occasion that the two actors have taken starring roles in the same film. Joel Schumacher is in line to take the reins on the project.

The screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Eli Richbourg centres on a couple seized by a brutal gang out to secure easy cash for their return. Everything is not as it seems, however, and the unexpected discovery of betrayal and deception causes further complications. It will be one of Kidman’s first films following a break from acting due to the birth of her daughter Sunday Rose. Producers are hoping to start production in Louisiana in August.

Meanwhile, Cage is in early talks to star in a second Ghost Rider film. The sequel to Mark Steven Johnson’s 2007 comic book movie about a stunt motorcyclist who gains supernatural powers after making a deal with the devil could be filmed by Crank’s Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who are also in talks. Plot details are under wraps, but the movie looks set to be titled Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The first film was received poorly by the critics, but garnered a more-than-respectable $228m at the global box office.

Kidman will be seen next in drama Rabbit Hole, with Aaron Eckhart, and also has rom-com Just Go With It on her slate for early 2011.

NICOLE Kidman is doing her best to stay out of the sun.
Sources say the fair-skinned star — who’s filming Just Go With It in tropical Maui, Hawaii — is making a big effort to ensure her skin doesn’t tan, and is reportedly using a specially formulated super strong sunscreen.
“Nicole does not tan, and working in the intense sun in Hawaii has been a challenge for her,” a movie insider reveals.
“She’s been a really good sport about it all, but she has begged the director to keep her out of the sun as much as possible.
“Her face is her fortune, and she protects it.”
Back in 2007, Kidman revealed that she kept out of the sun following a cancer scare.
“I never go in the sun,” she said at the time.
“I’ve had one skin cancer on my leg, and I rarely get in the sun, so that just shows you. They cut it out.
“Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I’m very medical. I come from a medical family.”

Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston are filming Just Go With It together in Hawaii and the two have become fast friends.
“They realized they had a lot in common,” an insider told Star. “They got to talking about their lives and before they knew it, they had gabbed away for almost two hours.”
Like a lot of regular folks, the two talked about a couple of famous celebrities. In their case it was ex-husbands Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Both Aniston and Kidman know what it’s like to be linked to a famous name, and then go through a public divorce.
“It was so therapeutic. Nic and Jen were doubled over in laughter making fun of the guys quicks,” said the insider. “Nothing was off-limits.”
Worse even for Pitt and Cruise, the two even discussed intimate details of their sex lives.
“Jen definitely didn’t have kind words to say about Brad,” another source said. “She told Nicole that he may be a sex symbol, but he could sometimes be a selfish lover.”
Jen even told Kidman that the sex had all but ended by the end of her marriage to Pitt.
Nicole Kidman had no kind works for Tom Cruise, either.
“Jen was taken aback after learning they sometimes went a long time without affection,” said a source.
Even more details came out as the two continued their talk.
“Tom always had to be in charge of every little detail of their lives,” said the source.

Nicole Kidman has reportedly warned Jennifer Aniston against dating “flashy celebrity types”.
The Hollywood stars have been filming new movie Just Go With It together in Maui, Hawaii, and have become close friends. They have bonded over similarities in their lives, with Jennifer asking Nicole how she keeps her marriage to country musician Keith Urban so fresh.
The flame-haired actress was happy to open up, and then decided to give Jennifer some tips on how to achieve happiness. “Nicole didn’t mince her words either. No doubt she warned Jennifer about against constantly dating flashy celebrity types because as long as she’s going for men who are Hollywood players, she’ll have trouble meeting a good guy,” a source told Look magazine. “Jen seems determined to start weeding out the men she can tell aren’t ready for a relationship, because it’s stopping her from searching for a long-term love.”
Jennifer has previously been married to Brad Pitt. She had an on/off relationship with musician John Mayer which ended last year, and has since been linked to her The Bounty Hunter co-star Gerard Butler.
She has previously said she hates being seen as someone desperate to find love, explaining she is happy on her own.

Nicole Kidman was among the stars at last night’s Music City Keep on Playin’ benefit at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
But it was Brad Paisley who set the tone for the evening after kicking off the three-hour event with a performance of his hit Welcome to the Future, reports The Tennessean. He and his wife actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who co-hosted the show, donated $100,000.
As of 11:45 p.m. ET, more than $1.7 million had been donated to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

Nicole Kidman has praised her “wonderfully opinionated” mother for making her the woman she is today.
The 42-year-old actress won two prizes at the InStyle Women of Style Awards in Sydney last night. She was unable to attend the ceremony as she is filming new movie Just Go With It in Hawaii, and sent her mother Janelle and sister Antonia to collect the award on her behalf.
When the women were onstage, ceremony organisers played a video acceptance speech Nicole had made before the event, in which she paid tribute to the “amazing” influence of the two women.
“I grew up in a family of women who are very strong and wonderfully opinionated,” Nicole said, while blowing kisses to Janelle and Antonia. “My mother was such a huge influence on me, and my education.
“She encouraged me to have a voice and ultimately to give back, so to then be recognised for that makes me very, very proud. It’s something I want to continue doing.”
Nicole said she was enjoying her own role as a mother, after giving birth to daughter Sunday Rose in 2008. She said she was proud to have worked so hard her whole life because it means she can have time off to watch her daughter grow up.
“Right now I’m very much in a place of nurturing: I love my family, I love being able to take care of my family and I’ve worked hard so that I can do that,” Nicole said.
Sunday Rose is Nicole’s daughter with her country singer husband Keith Urban.