In brief: Nixon says deal not done on Sex and the City sequel

Cynthia Nixon (pictured second from right), one of the Sex and the City quartet, has sought to dampen expectations about an early sequel to this summer’s hit movie. While her co-stars Kim Cattrall (far right) and Sarah Jessica Parker (second from left) have enthused about filming beginning early next year, and are believed to have rescheduled other acting work around it, Nixon, who plays the lawyer Miranda, says: "We're in negotiation... I'm very hopeful, but certainly nothing is for sure. I don't think anyone's deals are done"........... The children of the late Mark Birley, the founder of the Mayfair nightclub Annabel's, have agreed an out-of-court settlement over their father's will. As reported here, Robin was originally left just £1m of Birley's £105 million fortune after they fell out before his death. The Daily Mail claims he will now receive a third share............ Chris Martin has reacted strongly to the claim made by the virtuoso rock guitarist Joe Satriani that Martin’s band Coldplay plagiarised one of his compostions. "If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental and just as surprising to us as to him," says a posting on the band's website, believed to be from Martin. Satriani filed a copyright infringement suit in Los Angeles last Thursday, claiming Coldplay's hit single Viva La Vida incorporates "substantial original portions" of his 2004 song If I Could Fly............. David Tennant, the Doctor Who actor, was forced to pull out of the opening West End performance of Hamlet three hours before the curtain went up last night due to a back injury. Rather than postpone the play, his understudy, 29-year-old Ed Bennett, whose television roles have been limited to a walk-on part in the BBC's Silent Witness, braved the first night audience. While the Telegraph said Bennett mustered up the "performance of his life", Tennant's fans who turned up at the Novello Theatre in London could not conceal their disappointment. Lauren Stebbing, 24, a PA from Upminster in Essex, said: "We are here solely to see David Tennant, like a lot of other people"………… An 11-year-old Porsche once owned by the England football player David Beckham has been put up for sale on eBay. The vendor believes the 11-year-old car, which has 25,000 miles on the clock, will fetch considerably more than its £50,000 book price based on the fact that the modest London house in which the soccer star grew up has attracted offers of £1m, despite being worth only £250,000…………