Emma Thompson is set to star in Brian Kirk‘s upcoming action thriller “The Fisherwoman,” Variety can exclusively reveal. In the feature, Thompson is set to play a widowed fisherman who, while trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s only hope. Kirk will direct from a screenplay by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, who have just been tapped to write the “Hot Wheels” movie for Warner Bros and Bad Robot.

ArchitectureInmate deaths are up by 20% in the UK, the most incarcerated nation in western Europe. Can prisons designed using virtual reality modelling undo the harm? A huge image of a snowcapped mountain covers the wall at the end of a long corridor of cells in Her Majesty’s Prison Berwyn, providing a glimmer of relief from the sterile landscape of indestructible concrete walls and wipe-clean floors, flooded with harsh white light.

Is there anything in this world more puzzling than trying to put on an outfit in the morning that you won't completely regret come lunch? And no, we don't mean the white ones that you spill coffee down or the tight ones that make you a little light-headed. We mean the ones that saw the morning sunshine and gambled on an open-toe sandal only to be dodging puddles mere hours later.

TMZ.com DJ Stephen "tWitch" Boss' wife was adamant with cops Tuesday morning ... she knew something was terribly wrong, because he'd left home without warning and stopped all communication. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ when Allison Holker entered a branch of the LAPD Tuesday to report Stephen missing, she stressed how out of character tWitch's disappearance was. She told cops he just simply left their house -- there was no argument or issue -- and he wouldn't answer any of her calls.

She is hardly the shy and retiring type. So it's perhaps unsurprising that Charli XCX opted for maximum exposure when she attended Warner Bros' Golden Globes afterparty in LA on Sunday. The 23 year-old singer was both bra-less and underwear-free at the celebrity-filled bash, which saw her leave very little to the imagination.  Scroll down for video  Not shy: British pop starlet Charli XCX opted for maximum exposure when she attended Warner Bros' Golden Globes afterparty in LA on Sunday