KEANU REEVES - BULLOCK AND REEVES' ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MOVIE

KEANU REEVES and SANDRA BULLOCK's latest movie collaboration has thrilled environmentalists - because the romantic drama has prompted movie giant WARNER BROTHERS to restore a popular US lake and plant trees.

The SPEED co-stars are reteaming for movie IL MARE, which will be filmed near Maple Lake, south west of Chicago, Illinois.

And because filming will affect 300 feet (91 metres) of the manmade lake's shoreline, Warner Brothers have agreed to pay up to $40,000 (GBP21,000) to stabilise the shoreline and pay for trees, a move which the COOK COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT were saving up for.

DOUG CHIEN, spokesman for the SIERRA ENVIRONMENTALISTS CLUB, says, "We had an informal meeting with environmental groups and Warner Brothers, and everybody at the table said this is a cool project."