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Before bagging the role of Twilight's heartthrob vampire, British actor Robert Pattinson was ready to pack it all in. Now he has fans camped outside his hotel. So why the long face, wonders Amy RaphaelBefore Robert Pattinson auditioned for the part of Edward the vampire in Twilight, he took a quarter of a Valium to see where it would take him. He got the part. He had no idea what he'd signed up for: he might have been aware that Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga had attracted 17m readers worldwide and that the Mormon mother from Arizona was the biggest publishing phenomenon since JK Rowling. What he didn't see coming were the teen girls who'd fallen in love with the sensitive, tortured Edward of Meyer's books. First they revolted online, calling Pattinson a gargoyle - and worse. Then they changed their minds, fell in love with him en masse and refused to leave him alone.Pattinson, who turns 23 later this month, has become an international pin-up since Twilight was released last year. He'

Why watch Star Trek and The Lord Of The Rings when you can make your own versions? Alex Godfrey meets the heroes of homemade Hollywood busy juggling their day jobs with some increasingly epic productionsJJ Abrams's cinematic reboot of Star Trek, out on Friday, is already earning praise for returning the tired space franchise to its core values and reinstating the characters that made it great in the first place. But a band of amateur film-makers had been doing that already. Even as Enterprise, Star Trek's final TV incarnation, was limping to the end of its final season in 2005, a team of hardcore fans were quietly producing for themselves the kind of Star Trek episodes they really wanted to see.James Cawley loved the show when he was a kid, and used to run around with his friends pretending to be Captain Kirk. Later, when he managed to get hold of the set blueprints from the original series, he decided to build a full-size replica of the Enterprise's bridge in this garage; firstly so h

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, on the verge of turning the big 3-0, is excited to announce the lineup of plays for the 30th Season (2009-10). Featured are a World Premiere by Danai Gurira (In the Continuum), exciting new works from Mike Daisey (If You See Something Say Something), Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), and Bruce Norris (The Unmentionables), and a large-scale work by Charles L. Mee (Big Love). In addition, Woolly Mammoth?s favorite out-of-town troupe, The Neo-Futurists, returns to DC for an unprecedented fourth engagement of their hit show, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind in December.

There's hardly anything you can add to the success of the Hannah Montana rollercoaster . and it hardly matters what a critic has to say about the perky little miss' transfer from runaway TV series success to the big screen.

. Case follows Lily Allen's anti-harassment victory. Photographers lament erosion of press freedomSinger Amy Winehouse has fought back against paparazzi photographers keen to record every aspect of her troubled private life, winning a high court anti-harassment injunction and posting the ruling outside her new home in the London suburbs.Winehouse, who has been a ubiquitous presence in the tabloids ever since her Mercury-nominated album Frank was released six years ago, secured the injunction to prevent her being pursued by photographers after her move earlier this year from her central London home to a more sedate neighbourhood.The order bans leading paparazzi agency Big Pictures from following Winehouse but also refers to any 'persons unknown' seeking to photograph the musician outside her home and in other public places if they have pursued her.This means that any photographers could face prosecution if they follow Winehouse by any means or approach her within 100 metres of her new h

. Case follows Lily Allen's anti-harassment victory. Photographers lament erosion of press freedomSinger Amy Winehouse has fought back against paparazzi photographers keen to record every aspect of her troubled private life, winning a high court anti-harassment injunction and posting the ruling outside her new home in the London suburbs.Winehouse, who has been a ubiquitous presence in the tabloids ever since her Mercury-nominated album Frank was released six years ago, secured the injunction to prevent her being pursued by photographers after her move earlier this year from her central London home to a more sedate neighbourhood.The order bans leading paparazzi agency Big Pictures from following Winehouse but also refers to any 'persons unknown' seeking to photograph the musician outside her home and in other public places if they have pursued her.This means that any photographers could face prosecution if they follow Winehouse by any means or approach her within 100 metres of her new h

Google is nearing a settlement with U.S. authors that will let it build the world's biggest library, but the deal is being haunted by antitrust concerns, objections from archivists and complaints about Google becoming the master of all the orphan books. Wired.com's Google Book Settlement FAQ helps you figure it out, without reading the 334-page court settlement.

Seventy-one years later, "The Goldwyn Follies," an absurdly ambitious flop, turns out to have some merit after all.

International News: Pavilion set to be twice as large as last year's -- The Russians are returning to Cannes big time, with a market pavilion twice the size of last year's stand. A full sked of screenings, workshops, co-production pitching sessions and directing master classes is planned for the 1,614 sq. ft. pavilion in a beachside location close to the market and international village pavilions.

ROME (Reuters) - After exposing a Church cover-up in 'The Da Vinci Code,' symbologist Robert Langdon returns to the big screen as an unlikely Vatican ally in the latest movie adaptation of a novel by author Dan Brown.