Tobey Maguire and co-stars will start filming Spiderman 4 in February next year, director Sam Raimi has revealed.

The cast will return once again for the fourth instalment of the hit superhero film, also starring Kirsten Dunst.

Raimi said: “The next instalment begins shooting, I believe, in February 2010.”

He added: “As far as we’re concerned, that’s no time left because they need so much time to work on the screenplay, casting is long, and the storyboarding and the shots are very, very complicated.”

He added: “There’s a lot of animation, there’s a lot of character design, costume design.

“It’s like making an animated film and a live-action film. I’ll just barely be ready.”

Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner is reportedly selling his porn empire, according to UK reports.

Virgin Media, owned by Richard Branson, is tipped as a potential buyer among others.

The company has suffered staggering losses in the first quarter of 2009.

Playboy magazine sales are three million per issue, compared to seven million in 1972.

The lucrative Hefner industry has been undercut by the internet.

Katie Price threw a karaoke party at her Surrey mansion to mark her 31st birthday, according to a UK report.

The model, also known as Jordan, spent the day in talks with her divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton at her London offices.

Husband Peter Andre is reportedly seeking joint custody of the two children from their marriage, Junior, three, and Princess Tiaamii, 21 months.

Andre reportedly looked at houses while taking the children over the weekend.

Price has a fortune worth £30m, it was reported.