The 2008 Gotham Independent Film Awards has announced its winners, with "Frozen River" coming out as a winner with two accolades.

"Frozen River" has beaten out another favorite "Ballast" for winning the Best Feature category. Actress Melissa Leo also took home the Breakthrough Actor award for her role as a working class woman who turn to illegal immigrant smuggling to make ends meet.

Meanwhile, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Synecdoche, New York" were tied for the Best Ensemble Performance award.

"Twilight" star Kristen Stewart is set to take on the role of rock guitarist Joan Jett in the new biopic "The Runaways."

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 18-year-old actress, who is currently enjoying her success with the vampire romance flick, will be portraying the legendary rocker in the film about Jett's 70s all-girl band.

"The Runaways" will chronicle the rise and fall of the titular band, the first successful all-girl hard rock band - which included Jett, Micki Steele, Jackie Fox, guitarist Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West, and singer/keyboardist Cherie Currie.

Australian actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman's film hadn't been received as strongly as expected in their home country.

"Australia" might bear the country's name but it didn't exactly excite the citizens despite heavy promotional events. It garnered $4.9 million in its five-day opening weekend.

While the numbers were strong, it wasn't as high as expected, considering the Baz Luhrmann film centered on the whole nation. Studio bosses are now hoping it would withstand the real test of selling tickets in its second week.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp has acquired the screen rights to the Nick Tosches novel In the Hand of Dante through his production company Infinitum Nihil.

The novel centers on Dante's "The Divine Comedy." It tells parallel storylines involving the poet in 14th century Italy as he tries to complete the work and a plot involving Tosches, who is asked to validate the manuscript, as per Variety.

The 45-year-old Hollywood heartthrob, who is set to play Tosches, will be producing the film with his production partner Christi Dembrowski.

"Brokeback Mountain" stars Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams are up for the Best Female Lead prize at the Spirit Awards in February.

The ladies of the 2005 romantic-drama flick are both nominated for an acting nod for their films: Hathaway as a recovering drug addict in "Rachel Getting Married," and Williams as an alienated woman with a dog for companion in "Wendy and Lucy."

"Rachel Getting Married" leads indie films with 6 nominations, along with "Ballast" and "Frozen River."

If a fantasy world that includes a forgotten enemy, a forbidden romance and a fantastic adventure sounds like your kind of movie, then get ready for "Delgo." Set in a fantasy world like viewers have never seen before, "Delgo" opens in theaters everywhere December 12.

Celebrity News Service spoke with Marc Adler, the producer, director and writer of the movie, about the "new look" of the film. "We wanted to tell a timeless story about cultural acceptance and we did it in a magical world," Adler said. "It is an entirely new world with two societies, the land bound race and the aerial race."

The movie, rated PG and from Fathom Studios, won "Best Animated Feature Film" at the Anima Mundi Film Festival, a fact that Adler is proud of. "Our goal with the film is to have the audience enjoy the film in an entertainment way and take away the message of unity among all people," Adler told Celebrity News Service, adding that the film has scored incredibly high in Nielsen reports on its family friendly level.

Brad Pitt's anti-hero turn as Tyler Durden in the 1999 film "The Fight Club" has been named the Greatest Movie Characters of All Time by Empire Magazine.

Tyler, the soap salesman who started a club with Edward Norton's nameless character in the film, is "an utterly indelible creation," according to the poll. He beats Darth Vader and Heath Ledger's Joker at the top of the list.

Movie icons Han Solo and Hannibal Lecter round up the top 5, while another Harrison Ford character Indiana Jones is in 6th place.

Former "The O.C." star Mischa Barton has topped a movie nude scenes list for her 2007 drama "Closing the Ring."

According to the list compiled by MrSkin.com, the 22-year-old actress has bested Australian model/actress Sophie Monk's scene in "Sex & Death 101" and Heather Graham in "Adrift in Manhattan."

Anna Faris' funny turn in the 2008 comedy "The House Bunny" also made the list, as well as Angelina Jolie's nude back exposure in "Wanted."

"Kung Fu Panda" is leading the rest of the animated films with 17 nods at the International Animated Film Society Awards or Annies.

The 2008 DreamWorks Animation film, which featured the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, and Jackie Chan among others, has been shortlisted for 17 prizes at the ASIFA-Hollywood awards show.

Among the nominations "Kung Fu Panda" has amassed are Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Video Game, Animated Effects, 3 bets for Character Animation in a Feature Production, and Directing in an Animated Feature Production to name a few.

Ben Stiller is planning to follow up his 2001 comedy "Zoolander" with a sequel, he reveals.

The 43-year-old comedian, who was in London last week promoting another sequel "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," revealed he is in talks to get a green light on the sequel.

He told tabloid The Sun, "We've been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we've had a few scripts. I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first."

The Shins' frontman James Mercer is all set try his luck with acting in movies. Mercer is starring in the feature film "Some Days Are Better Than Others," directed by Matt McCormick.

The film deals with a set of lonely people trying to create their own abstract forms of communication, McCormick told Pitchfork. "The character he plays is in many ways an extension of the character that I created for him in The Shins' 'The Past and Pending' video I did a while back," McCormick adds.

McCormick has previously worked on videos "Australia" and "The Past and The Pending" for the band. The film also features former Sleater-Kinney drummer Carrie Brownstein. Brownstein has previously appeared with Mercer in a short by McCormick entitled "Light Tiger Eye."

"Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf is set to play the title role in the upcoming legal thriller, "The Associate," based on novelist John Grisham's soon-to-be released novel.

The 22-year-old actor will be playing a student who is about to graduate from Yale Law School when he was offered a job at a law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit, Variety reports.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing for Paramount Pictures.