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Antonio Banderas will star in Zapata, a Disney-produced biopic about Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, Variety reports... Also according to the trade paper, Tea Leoni has joined the cast of Woody Allen's latest film, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, which also stars Allen himself, as well as Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Berkley and Charlize Theron, Variety reports... Almost Famous, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Gladiator and Billy Elliot have been nominated for best film of the year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars... CNN has canceled its daily entertainment program, Showbiz Today. — Michael Ausiello

TV GuideNews Feb. 1, 2001 at 12:00 a.m. PT