Tom Hanks says if he and co-star Tim Allen hadn’t kicked up a fuss, there’d be no Toy Story 3 in your cinemas this week. Disney’s plan was to release Toy Story 2 straight to DVD but the stars disagreed. “We said it should be released as a film because it was magnificent and as good as the first one. Usually sequels are pale imitations and are slapped on video but this was really great. Eventually they bowed to some brand of common sense so now we have a Toy Story 3“

Bradley Cooper has revealed he was left with real war-wounds after filming The A-Team. The Hangover star plays Lieutenant Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck and admits he found it tough. He said: “When I got back each night I’d find new gashes and bruises – I shot with this one gun so much that I had a chronic cut on my upper bicep from the kick-back of the stock.”

Joann Sfar is best known in France for his graphic novels but he says his childhood memories made Serge Gainsbourg an obvious choice for his directing debut. “Everything was so boring on French television when I was a kid,” he recalls, “and this guy, he was not shaved, he pretended to be dirty, he would say dirty words and almost harass women on stage, and yet he was so intelligent.”

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