Roberts to make new film

So much for the maternity leave. Julia Roberts is getting the nannies organised to let her out of the house to make her first film since the birth of her twins in November, but she has some time yet to get her figure back.

She will be the voice of Charlotte in a live-action film version, featuring real animals, of EB White’s classic children’s book, Charlotte’s Web.

The Pretty Woman star plays the kindly barnyard spider who saves Wilbur the pig from slaughter. Fern, the little girl visiting her uncle’s farm, will be played by child star Dakota Fanning.

The film, scheduled for release next year, will also feature the voices of Steve Buscemi, as Templeton the rat, Oprah Winfrey and Cedric The Entertainer as Gussy and Golly the geese, Outkast’s Andre 3000 as one of the crows, Elwyn, and Sideways actor Thomas Haden Church as the other, Brooks.

At least Roberts will be able to show the film to her kids when they get a little older, unlike her last effort, the rather x-rated Closer, with Jude Law and Golden Globe-winners Natalie Portman and Clive Owen.