AMERICAN IDOL - U.K. TALENT-SHOW WINNER TO BECOME SUBJECT OF THEATRICAL BIOPIC

American Idol judge Simon Cowell has signed a deal with Paramount to produce a film based on the life of Paul Potts, a nondescript former cell-phone salesman whose operatic performances earned him the top prize on Britain's Got Talent, the U.K. version of Americ a's Got Talent, last year. His first CD, One More Chance, has since sold over three million copies. Clips of Pott's performances on Britain's Got Talent were posted on YouTube and reportedly caught the eye of Paramount executives, smoot hing the way for Cowell to pitch the biopic to them. "This company got that it's another Billy Elliot, a story anyone in the world can understand."

06/03/2008