Golden Globe winner joins set of children's fantasy film

Recent Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers will join Keri Russell, Freddie Highmore and Robin Williams in director Kirsten Sheridan's children's fantasy film, August Rush.

The film is set for a New York shoot next month.

This is Sheridan's second film - her first was Disco Pigs - while Russell and Rhys Meyers have worked together on the third Mission Impossible, out later in the year.