Stars read leaked Tarantino scriptSnapshot: Sushmita Sen walks the ramp with daughter Renee, looks awe-striking must visit

Tarantino is suing gossip website Gawker for $1m over the leaked script Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Dern and Michael Madsen have joined Quentin Tarantino in Los Angeles for a reading of his leaked script, Hateful Eight.

Once due to be the follow-up to Django Unchained, Tarantino cancelled the film in January after the script spread around Hollywood and film websites.

At the time, he said he was "very, very depressed" by the leak.

But he was in better spirits for the one-off live reading and hinted his movie may yet see the light of day.

"I'm working on a second draft and I will do a third draft but we're reading from the first draft," he told the audience at Los Angeles' Theatre at the Ace Hotel.

The event was organised by non-profit organisation Film Independent, which runs the Spirit Awards

The 51-year-old also suggested the script would be changed substantially in future drafts.

"The chapter five here will not be the chapter five later so this will be the only time it is seen, ever," he said.

Set in post-civil war Wyoming, the Western drama takes place after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, stranding a mismatched group of outlaws in a saloon.

Among their number are a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier and a female prisoner.

Several of Tarantino's old cast-members took part in the reading, with Tim Roth (Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction), Kurt Russell (Death Proof) and Amber Tamblyn (Django Unchained) all on stage.

"We've been rehearsing this for the last 3 days and we're not bad," said Tarantino.

Jackson and Russell played the duelling bounty hunters, while Madsen played cowboy John Gage and Tarantino narrated.

"Guys, you are starting to drift away from the dialogue on the page," he told the ensemble at one point. "No more co-writing!"

Nominated for five Oscars, Django Unchained was Tarantino's most successful film to date, making $425m (£253m)

About 1,200 people attended the show, with tickets priced between $150 - $200 (£90 - £120).

Among the audience were film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has distributed several of Tarantino's movies, and X-Men writer David Hayder.

Mobile phones were banned, and there was no live stream of the event.

Meanwhile, Tarantino is suing gossip website Gawker for contributory copyright infringement after it posted a link to the leaked screenplay.

The trial is due to start on 27 January, 2015.

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Selena Gomez burglary: Police arrested hidden man in Star's guesthouse/must visit

Selena Gomez visits the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014, in West Hollywood, California (photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) | Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

CALABASAS, California (AP) - authorities say they have to break a man in Selena Gomezs pension during the 21-year-old actress accused is arrested and singer was home.

In the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says 20-year-old transient Cruz Che Monday on $50,000 deposit is being held. Deputies did not know whether he had retained a lawyer.

Sgt. fray lupian says Gomez Gomez's Calabasas came (cal-UH-BASS'-us) about 21:30 Sunday, when she heard a noise and safety at home.

He says the suspect, knocked on the door and a friend answered but slapped it closed, as he, for Gomez asked.

Safety the suspects found in the Guest House and held him for deputies.

Gomez, the former "wizards of Waverly place" body turned pop star, Saturday night at the kids' Choice Awards favorite singer was named.

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US country stars hit London festival/must visit

Dixie Chicks' Martie Maguire was one of the performers Some of the US's top country music acts including Dixie Chicks and Zac Brown Band have played for 15,000 fans at London's Country to Country festival.

Other artists at day one of the two-day event, which also takes place in Dublin, included Dierks Bentley and Martina McBride.

Zac Brown Band's headline set included covers of Metallica's Enter Sandman and Van Morrison's Into the Mystic.

The festival was hosted by BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris.

This is the second year that Country to Country has taken place. Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts are among the acts performing in London on Sunday.

Zac Brown Band headlined the festival on Saturday in London

Artists paid tribute to the mainstream single chart with Dixie Chicks covering Miley Cyrus's global hit Wrecking Ball, while Dierks Bentley gave his take on Avicii's Hey Brother.

Zac Brown Band performed current tracks from their EP recorded with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, aptly named the Grohl Sessions.

"Looks like country music has found a new home," said Bentley as he addressed the crowd at the O2 arena in Greenwich. "Thank you for making this feel like home," he told the sell-out crowd.

While ticket sales for the Country to Country festival are buoyant, album sales of country music in the UK made up only 1.7% of all albums sold in 2013, according to the figures from the BPI, which represents the UK's recorded music industry.

Rock was the best selling genre taking 33.8% of all albums sold.

'He blew the roof off'

Triple Grammy winner Zac Brown says he sees their career on the UK music scene as being "at the beginning" and is open about coming back to "gain new fans".

Music fan Bobby Slater from Shetland in Scotland came to Country to Country to see Dixie Chicks and Zac Brown Band, but was won over by Dierks Bentley's set.

"He blew the roof off this place," the 25-year-old said. "He'll shift a lot of CDs."

His sister, 20-year-old Amanda Slater, hoped "more people get into country music" before ticking off a "lifetime ambition to see the Dixie Chicks play live".

Calum Fraser, 24, also from the Shetland Islands, was on his first trip to London, admitting it was a "fantastic opportunity to see such great bands".

Country to Country will return in 2015, taking place once more in London and Dublin, over the weekend of 7 and 8 March.

Bob Harris will be broadcasting highlights from the event on his country music show on 20 and 27 March.

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