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Mindboggling as the thought is to me, given its vast popularity, I'm prepared to accept there may well have been people whose first thought on leaving the cinema after watching Forrest Gump back in 1994 was, 'More, please.' Sadly, of course, more wasn't forthcoming. Now, however, 15 years later, the combined talents of David Fincher and Brad Pitt have delivered a film that does everything Gump did, exactly the same but with bells on.This, at least, is the gist of The Curious Case of Forrest Gump, a perfectly executed skit discovered via Bright Lights that with a few deft strokes draws out the startling family resemblance between Robert Zemeckis's fond portrait of life with a low IQ and the imminent Benjamin Button - films that don't just share a writer, Eric Roth, but also a host of telltale mannerisms. 'My name is Forrest,' drawls Tom Hanks, acting away, 'Forrest Gump.' 'My name is Benjamin,' drawls back Brad Pitt, acting harder still, 'Benjamin Button.' And off we go through a string

Parents rail against director Danny Boyle, who says kids were paid fairly.

An agreement has been reached in a lawsuit involving actor Heath Ledger's $10m (£7m) life insurance policy.

AN AGREEMENT seems to have been reached in a lawsuit involving Heath Ledger's $10 million life insurance policy.Filings with the court seek to establish a guardian to represent Ledger's 3-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose, who is the policy's beneficiary. An attorney has requested a closed hearing for late next month.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For more than 75 years, Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have battled to be the movie industry's top newspaper, but recent layoffs due to the recession and competition from Internet blogs has Hollywood wondering if it will soon become a one paper town.

Survivor Tocantins cast member Debra Beebe may be a middle school principal--she was Alabama's middle school principal of the year in 2007 for her work at J. F. Drake Middle School in Auburn--but have you ever known a middle school principal who dances on tables with her teenage daughters' friends?Debra told me that she has 'kind of have a Brady Bunch family: I have two children, my husband has three; I'm an old child living with five teenagers,' and she said that, 'my daughter's friends, when we go on vacation, just beg me to go out with them, because I'll be the one on the table, dancing to Flo Rida. I live life to the fullest and I'm going to have fun with whatever I do.''I'm an extremely social being,' Debra said, and her work demands that, as she's in charge of 908 kids and a staff of 75. She introduced herself as Debra, and her CBS nickname says 'Debbie,' but she's also known as 'Bubbles'--'you're always bouncing, you're bubbling,' a friend in Italy told her--but she won't us

Though the characters don't share scenes, they do share a coherent civilization where homelessness, guilt and an addictive desire to feel 'wonderful' (a state attained with drugs, power, money or sex) are ubiquitous. Beware - they may shake your cages. Like the paranoia in a Hitchcock movie, it's a little too close for comfort - no one is allowed a safe distance.

'Just this week, Richard Pulford, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre, credited big stars with bringing bigger business to the West End last year. So, what do we actors think? Truth be told, stars are almost essential nowadays in Theatreland, be they home-grown or imported. Stick a movie star or a modish comedian on the poster and you can quadruple your advance receipts in a trice.'...

As part of our ongoing battle with mortality, ghosts have become a comforting conduit to 'the other side.' No longer are

The telling differences between Three Monkeys, the fifth film -- and third released stateside -- by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan,