Cinemablend reports that a Forrest Gump sequel could be on the cards. Back in 2001 Eric Roth penned a sequel screenplay to his 1994 Oscar-winning hit Forrest Gump based upon Winston Groom’s novel Gump & Co. The script has has been gathering dust ever since but now it apears that producers Steve Tisch and Wendy Finerman have pulled it out of the archives.

The story takes place several years after the events of the first film and follows Gump as he stumbles through important historical events once again, this time through incidents in the 1980s and 90s including a meeting with actor Tom Hanks. Finerman and Tisch are apparently in early talks with Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise about reprising their roles.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, the movie that many consider to be the best of 2006 makes its Region 2 DVD debut next week.

On the 12th of March the film will be released as a 2 disk set in the UK with Amazon selling an exclusive version with limited edition art cards & slipcase. The Spanish language fantasy includes English subtitles, a Director’s commentary and is presented in 1.85:1 aspect ratio with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. The set includes:

• Introduction by Guilllermo del Toro
• Guardian interview at the National Film Theatre
• Featurettes
• Director’s notebook
• Storyboard and notebook video prologue
• Storyboard/thumbnail comparisons
• Trailers
• Galleries

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According to Real D there could soon be about 700 installed screens in the US equipped with their 3-D Cinema technology. This shows a major improvement in deployment since November 2005, when the Walt Disney Co.’s Chicken Little debuted on only about 84 3-D-ready digital-cinema screens in North America.

Real D has now announced new agreements with Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Entertainment Inc. and Cinemark to kit out hundreds of theaters for the March 30 release of Meet the Robinsons.  Real D claims that the company soon will have installations in nearly every major U.S. city and 13 other countries with 3-D installations exceeding 1,000 screens by the end of 2007.

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Variety reports that the next movie from M. Night Shyamalan will be The Happening, a spec script thriller bought by 20th Century Fox, a story previously titled The Green Effect. Shyamalan will direct the project which will begin shooting in Philadelphia this August. A June 2008 release date has been earmarked by the studio.

Shyamalan will produce with Sam Mercer and Munich producer Barry Mendel, who produced Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The project will be Shyamalan’s first R-rated feature and is a paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a large-scale, cataclysmic environmental crisis that turns into a struggle by mankind to overcome nature.

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Battlestar Galactica fans are now able to create their own mini-episodes thanks to the launch of the Battlestar Galactica Videomaker Toolkit from SCIFI.COM.

The toolkit gives fans everything they need to create their own four-minute Galactica movies. It provides more than 30 visual effects and 20 audio effects, as well as cuts from the show’s soundtrack. Fans can post their completed videos on SCIFI.COM to share with other fans. Two videos have been posted on the site as examples.

Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick will select his favorite video, and it will be broadcast in its entirety on SCI FI Channel during an episode of Battlestar Galactica. Click here to check out the Toolkit.

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In a surprising act of generosity, His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman has shunned Hollywood to give the film rights to his acclaimed novel The Butterfly Tattoo to a small independent Dutch company that promotes youth acting. Dynamic Entertainment, or DEH, have the option to adapt the book in exchange for giving Pullman a nominal 10 per cent of the low budget picture’s eventual revenue.

Accoring to the Independent, the producers hope to begin filming the ‘modern Shakespearean tragedy’ in August. They are close to raising the £140,000 required by selling stakes in the movie at £35 a share.
 
The book is a tragic love story about a teenager who falls in love with a girl that he meets whilst working at an Oxford ball. As their relationship blossoms, tragedy and violence wait in the wings as the youngtser’s boss has a shady past which won’t stay hidden, and his enemies use the two teenagers to exact their revenge on him.

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