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Black Widow's Scarlett Johansson has landed her next lead movie role in My Mother's Wedding with Kristin Scott Thomas.

Scarlett Johansson has officially signed on to star in Kristin Scott Thomas' forthcoming directorial debut film titled My Mother's Wedding.

Ok, interesting. jim watterson, media editor at the guardian, let mejust bring you in, what do you make of the bloomberg proposition? well, there isjust this enormous amount of competition for high—end news readers who will pay a lot of money for sort of quality news. you have got the ft, you have got ben smith, my former boss at buzzfeed launching a new project, you have got the economist and you have obviously got this bloomberg offering now among many others. the real challenge is, is there...

For business stories. john micklethwait, welcome to the media show. what have you launched then, exactly? how much does it cost and what do we get for our money? well, two things, to some extent, we are just using i what we have, we have been hiding in plain sight, - there is a newsroom behind me, somewhere, 500 people, - it is one of the biggest - newsrooms in london already. we cover 400 british companies, we have long been a massive - sort of force in - the city of london. we have got a telev...

Probably from the stress of thisjob, so ross kemp was mooted. that is harsh. martin compston would suit me. great. and the other person we have got here isjim waterson, the guardians media editor, and you have been at the royal court ofjustice every day since the trial began, i believe. there is a whole lot of interest in this case, how long is the queue for the press box each morning? it is quite extraordinary. there is a sort of queueing system and people have to get there very early, there ar...

The argument that we should be the main one, we do more coverage than anyone else when you are looking . at business and finance around the world. that is what we do, and i think within britain we should be - able to get into that position . and make the same argument. even then, i think there - is a large market for people who have more, i suppose, more money than time. - if you are in business, - the amount of money that subscribers, the different. competitors that you talked about, it is not ...

All the places that had i gone forward and sadly, there were not very many of them. - nobody accused us of bias i in that, whilst i think in many cases in britain, almost- automatically, when people read things, they imagine which side they are coming from, - and we are not. in that category. 0k, interesting. jim watterson, media editor at the guardian, let mejust bring you in, what do you make of the bloomberg proposition? well, there isjust this enormous amount of competition for high—end ne...

In chief of bloomberg, because bloomberg, famous for its financial coverage, is on a mission to become a major presence in uk news. it has launched a new subscription website and wants to rival the likes of the sunday times and the ft for business stories. john micklethwait, welcome to the media show. what have you launched then, exactly? how much does it cost and what do we get for our money? well, two things, to some extent, we are just using i what we have, we have been hiding in plain sight,...

For all the people who cannot afford a paywall, because they are just left with stuff that is made on the cheap? john, just picking up on that — is the idea that people would give up their digital subscription to something like the sunday times, and switch to bloomberg or are you proposing this as yet another subscription for people to pay for? i think we would make - the argument that we should be the main one, we do more coverage than anyone else when you are looking . at business and financ...

— is the idea that people would give up their digital subscription to something like the sunday times, and switch to bloomberg or are you proposing this as yet another subscription for people to pay for? i think we would make - the argument that we should be the main one, we do more coverage than anyone else when you are looking . at business and finance around the world. that is what we do, and i think within britain we should be - able to get into that position . and make the same argument. ...