August Rush Movie

In an acting career that's spanned eight of his 15 years, Freddie Highmore has shared screen time with Johnny Depp (twice), Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Albert Finney, CGI elves, a tiger and a multitude of Oompa Loompas. And yet, whoever or whatever his costar, Highmore always holds his own on screen.

"You can only do so many skinny pretty-boy roles," declares Jonathan Rhys Meyers in a downtown New York cafe. He's just come from a taping of "Live With Regis and Kelly," where he was interviewed by guest host Vince Vaughn. "I decided I had to become more masculine and move away from all those young man roles. I'm 30 now. And the very best roles for actors come between the ages of 30 and 50. And I want to be ready for them all."

It's never easy building word of mouth even for a crowd-pleasing movie, and the recent travels of "August Rush" producer Richard Barton Lewis prove the point. Scheduled to attend an "August Rush" screening at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis last month, Lewis first had to make an unscheduled landing in Memphis -- just a little smoke in the plane -- then had to fly past thunderstorms and tornadoes to reach Indiana.