Shia, Julie Christie Love 'New York'

With Elizabeth director Shekhar Kapur stepping in to direct the script written by the late Anthony Minghella, the Hollywood Reporter says that Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie and John Hurt will star in one of 12 segments in the upcoming anthology, New York, I Love You.

A companion piece to the recent Paris, Je T'Aime, New York will feature short films directed by Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner, and both Boleyn girls, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, among others.

The 12 films, all set within the five boroughs, will feature performances by Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Chris Cooper, Anton Yelchin, Drea de Matteo, Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon.

The short starring Christie and LaBeouf is being compared to Minghella's Truly Madly Deeply, the film that first brought him acclaim. Christie will play a woman who checks into a hotel "that is in between worlds," whatever that means, and there she meets LaBeouf, and apparently, there's an amazing connection neither could see coming.

A release date for New York, I Love You is not known, but production has begun on the anthology.