In the 2006 animated blockbuster 'Happy Feet', an alienated emperor penguin named Mumbles found empowerment through tap-dancing, and in so doing managed to both attract a mate and stop the overfishing that imperiled his Antarctic habitat.

Fans of 'The Simpsons' can breathe a “d’oh!” of relief: The animated series has been renewed for two more seasons.

THE eyes have it. Were it not for the quality of Andy Serkis’s performance in the central role, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12A) would be little more than a nakedly commercial cash-in on the popularity of the Planet of the Apes films.

Kids' movies may be the most difficult cinematic mountains to climb.

SANDRA BULLOCK appears to have become the latest victim of the curse of the Academy Awards amid claims her husband Jesse James was linked with a tattooed model.

David Beckham was refused a role in ‘The Simpsons’ because he wasn’t famous enough.g

Security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) has left behind his old job at New York City’s famed Museum Of Natural History to front his own company, which has just launched a glow-in-the-dark torch.

Pelt-clad primitives Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are incompetent and lazy and don’t pull their weight like the other men in their village.

Hank Azaria is celebrating after becoming a father for the first time.

As Bart Simpson skips into his 18th season of TV mischief, fans will be glad to know that creator Matt Groening sees no end in sight for the wayward lad or The Simpsons.

Monty Python’s Spamalot has made a lot.

How can you explain a joke; so many times and in so many ways? And does it stay funny?

Hollywood actress Helen Hunt is adamant she won't marry her screenwriter partner Matthew Carnahan, over fears marriage would spoil their relationship.

Spamalot, the eagerly awaited musical adaptation of the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, opened last night on Broadway to rave reviews and a star-studded audience.

Former Monty Python Eric Idle’s new show Spamalot has opened to acclaim in the United States.

Doubtless we’ll have Dodgeball in the next Olympics … what sort of game it thinks it is. Well, OK, it’s one where you, er, dodge a ball.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you read in the newspapers. Sometimes, perish the thought, journalists lie, cheat, make up quotes and write stories of events that never happened.

A month after stalled contract renewal talks led the actors voicing The Simpsons to stop work, both the cast and Fox TV are getting more “D’oh!”

Work has started on a Simpsons feature film but fans of the cartoon creations will have to wait years before it hits the big screen, it emerged today.

The new series of The Simpsons was under threat today because of a pay revolt among the actors who give voices to the classic TV cartoon’s stars.

Why were Friends star Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria of The Simpsons making a scene in a London park recently?

Friends star Matthew Perry is to make his world stage debut in the West End, it was announced today.

Actress Winona Ryder has landed her first movie role since being convicted of shoplifting from a posh store.

More than 500 friends and family packed the Paramount Studios theatre in Los Angeles for a memorial to Jack Lemmon.