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JAMES McAvoy is being lined up to play late rock legend Kurt Cobain in a new movie.

The Atonement star is hotly-tipped to portray the Nirvana frontman, who committed suicide in 1994, in a film about his life, which is due to be produced by Cobain's widow Courtney Love.

A source said: "James is making a big impact in Hollywood at the moment. Hollywood bosses are convinced he is the perfect choice to play Kurt Cobain."

The film will be largely based on Charles Cross's biography Heavier than Heaven.

Cobain's unpublished journals will also be used to fill in personal details for the screenplay, which is being penned by Troy writer David Benioff.

Cobain enjoyed massive success fronting Nirvana with bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl in the early 90s with hits like Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You…

    BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A biopic of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is being planned by Hollywood studio Universal, with Courtney Love, Cobain's widow serving as the executive producer, it was reported Sunday.

    Variety magazine reported that the studio has acquired the rights to a biography of Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27 near the height of his grunge-rock band's success.

    Many of the details of the project are still in the early stages. But it is reported that "Troy" screenwriter David Benioff has signed on to write the screenplay, which will be based on the Charles Cross book, "Heavier than Heaven," which detailed the rise and fall of the late rocker.

    Nirvana helped popularize grunge rock in the early 1990s, and the song "Smells Like…

Courtney Love has hit out at Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, claiming that Kurt Cobain "loathed" him.

The song "Let It Die" on Foo Fighters new album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, is widely assumed to be about the relationship between Kurt and Courtney.

It contains the lyric: "A simple man and his blushing bride/Intravenous, intertwined...You're so considerate/Did you ever think of me?"

Writing on her MySpace page, Courtney said: "As for that drummer, well he's hit on me so many times. He's just a very very conflicted guy about me, which is why he continually writes songs about me to hear he 'hates' me more than 'anyone else'.

"Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist). In his will he made a codicil that Grohl was no longer a member of Nirvana. I just ignored the guy and will continue to."

She added:…

Dave Grohl is sick of being considered nothing more than Nirvana’s fifth drummer, asserting that he (and bassist Krist Novoselic) were just as important to the band as Kurt Cobain: “We’ve been called hired guns and I just laugh … when one of those elements is removed from the combination. It just falls apart.” Earlier this week, Courtney Love resolved a Nirvana-related legal matter and agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to lawyers who represented her during her 2002 lawsuit against Grohl and Novoselic for control of Nirvana’s music.

Dave Grohl hasn’t tried to hide his distaste for Courtney Love over the years: In 2002, he and Krist Novoselic filed a legal motion compelling Kurt Cobain’s widow to undergo a psychiatric evaluation as they all battled over the rights to unreleased Nirvana music (he also called her an “ugly fucking bitch” at a show). Now Grohl has spoken to the Guardian about “Let it Die,” a new Foo Fighters song off the band’s forthcoming Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (out September 25; read our sneak peek here) that seems to address the former Nirvana drummer’s feelings about Cobain’s relationship with Love. The song contains the lyrics: “A simple man and his blushing bride / Intravenous, intertwined.”

“[It’s] a song that’s written about feeling helpless to someone else’s demise,” he said. “I’ve seen people lose it all to drugs and heartbreak and…

Photo courtesy of CourtneyLove.com. 

"I did not fuck you," was how Courtney Love responded when told by her Seattle attorneys that she owed them up to $340,000 plus interest. That was the balance due on legal fees attorney Katherine Hendricks and O.Yale Lewis say Love incurred in a 2002 lawsuit against former members of her late husband's band, Nirvana, from which she ultimately earned at least $9 million. 

But the troubled rocker and widow of Kurt Cobain has now agreed to settle the attorneys' tab for an undisclosed amount, according to King County Superior Court records. The settlement, effective Monday, Sept. 17, apparently ends a three-year claim by Hendricks and Lewis, who alleged Love breached their legal-services contract. Hendricks would not discuss details of the settlement or confirm whether Love had paid her debt on time, as she agreed to do in an Aug. 28 settlement report. A trial…

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Courtney Love saved Jared Leto from his karaoke hell.

The actor - who is also the lead singer of rock band 30 Seconds to Mars - was made to go on stage to perform a song at a recent party.

Leto admits the supposedly 'fun' experience turned into a nightmare when he forgot the words to the song, and was hopelessly struggling until rocker Love came to his rescue.

The 'Fight Club' star told Radio 1: "I was at a party and got on stage to do karaoke. I was forced up and I quickly realised I'd made a mistake because I picked a song that I didn't know any of the words to. It was one of the worst experiences ever, but luckily Courtney got on stage and saved me. She was great."

Earlier this year, Leto broke his nose after an attempt…