The once-upon-a-time spoofing that began with 2001′s Shrek will conclude when Shrek Forever After, the fourth computer-animated comic adventure starring the hygiene-challenged ogre — and the first in 3-D — arrives May 21. A trailer premieres Dec. 18 at showings of Avatar.

“All that was loved about Shrek in the first film is brought to the final film,” promises Bill Damaschke, head of creative production at DreamWorks. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz are back as the voices of Shrek, sidekick Donkey and ogress wife Fiona.

The premise is the Brothers Grimm meetIt’s a Wonderful Life: After rescuing a princess, getting hitched and fathering triplets, Shrek is feeling over-domesticated. “He has lost his roar,” says director Mike Mitchell (Sky High, Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo). “It used to send villagers running away in terror. Now they run to him and ask him to sign their pitchforks and torches.”

To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, the wee troublemaker who popped up briefly in Shrek 2 and 3.

Though certain websites wrongly, and somewhat bizarrely, list Paul McCartney as the voice of the vile schemer, it is actually non-Beatle Walt Dohrn, the film’s head of story, who does the honors.

Of course, the pact goes awry and Shrek must confront what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed. That translates into Donkey being forced into cart-pulling duty, fat and lazy Puss in Boots trading his sword for a pink bow and the underhanded Rumpelstiltskin ruling the kingdom.

No Shrek outing would be complete without new characters, and there are a bunch. Comedians Kathy Griffin and Kristin Schaal (Flight of the Conchords) are witches who hunt ogres. On the side of good is an underground resistance group led by Jon Hamm of Mad Men. “He is the best-looking ogre you’ve ever seen,” Mitchell says.

So does Shrek Forever After wrap up with everyone living happily ever after? “I hate to give away the ending,” Mitchell says, “but yes.”

Filming has been suspended on Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s new movie Knight And Day after two people were injured when seven bulls escaped the set onto the streets of Spain.

The animals, which were being used to recreate scenes from the country’s annual Pamplona bull run, fled onto the streets of Cadiz until they were recaptured approximately 40 minutes later. Two women were slightly hurt during the stampede, according to local police and officials, leading the mayor’s office to call off shooting until safety procedures are re-evaluated.

A spokesperson for the mayor of Cadiz says, “Nothing will be filmed in Cadiz until we have a new plan that guarantees the safety of local residents.” Producer Calle Cruzada insists he did not know how the bulls managed to escape.

But the incident will further the fears of an anti-bullfighting organisation, whose members have pleaded with Cruise and Diaz to pull out of the movie. Cas International released a statement last week (beg16Nov09), that read, “Apart from the fact that bulls are abused for this movie, we also fear that after seeing this movie, even more American and other tourists will participate in the bull runs in Pamplona and elsewhere in Spain.”

Cruise and Diaz were due to fly to Spain to start filming their scenes next weekend

The region 2 DVD of My Sister’s Keeper is released in UK Stores monday,be sure to head down to your local shop to buy it! My pre-order DVD came in the mail this morning so I’ll have HQ caps up for you tomorrow!

CAMERON DIAZ has made one of the worst films in history, according to moviegoers.

In the last decade, only three flicks have had audience feedback as scathing as her new release The Box, say the company who monitor fan reaction to Hollywood movies.CinemaScore compile Friday-night audience ratings for new releases, asking US cinema-goers to grade them. An A is said to signal a long life with a C described as “pretty much a death sentence”.

The Box – written and directed by Donnie Darko’s RICHARD KELLY – scored an F.Ed Mintz, who runs CinemaScore, said: “People really thought this was a stinker.”

The only films he remembers doing as badly were 2006 horror Bug, Wolf Creek in 2005 and Darkness, a 2002 film about a haunted-house.

Ed, puts the poor score down to the movie’s controversial ending, telling the LA Times: “Who’d want to pay $10 to see that?

“I’d love to hear how they thought they were going to get good word-of-mouth.”

In the film, Cameron plays a cash strapped mum who is promised a million dollars by a stranger if she agrees to press the button on top of a mysterious box.When she does so, tragedies start happening – including her son going deaf and blind.The Box flopped at the American box office and scored generally poor reviews from critics.

But the 37-year-old beauty defended her decision to make the movie, saying: “There is no much about humanity in the script and so much we are trying to understand about who we are as people.”

Cameron Diaz doesn’t have a problem playing a goofy girlfriend or an animated ogre, but she also can handle a thriller.

In her new flick “The Box,” she plays a literature teacher. Diaz’s character teaches a class where students discuss the play “No Exit” by Jean Paul Sartre and the concept of “Hell is other people.”

Co-star Danielle Heaton, who plays one of Diaz’s students, was impressed with how the superstar was able to stay in character — even when cameras weren’t rolling. Heaton tells “Extra” Diaz’s focus helped all the students stay in the scene. “She was very professional and had an easygoing nature about her.”

While the younger actors had a difficult time reacting to scary moments in the scene that were later added with special effects, Heaton says, “Cameron handled it very well.

In her first feature film outing since last summer’s tearjerker My Sister’s Keeper, Cameron Diaz failed to bring fans to the theaters for her thriller The Box. Her Warner Bros. horror flick, costarring James Marsden, took in a reported $4 million less than Keeper, which grossed $12 million in its opening weekend last July on nearly as many screens.

Actress Cameron Diaz has stated she is proud of her long legs, slim frame and pretty face because she thinks self-deprecation is “unhealthy”.

The blonde beauty wants more people to appreciate themselves, no matter what other people say about them.

“I don’t think that self-deprecation is healthy for people,” she told Parade. “I think you should have a healthy relationship with yourself. We all have our up days and our down days.

“But I’m not going to walk through this world hating myself because somebody doesn’t like me or doesn’t think I’m pretty or that I should be ashamed that people think that I’m pretty. How am I going to live my life trying to figure out what everybody else feels about me? All I can do is know how I feel about myself.”

The 37-year-old actress hasn’t always been so self-confident. She admits she was unsure and nervous when she shot to fame in 1994 film The Mask, but claims her life has “transformed” since then.

“I’m in a completely different place in my life now and I’m very comfortable where I’m at,” she said. “I’m looking forward to the future. I’m looking forward to this afternoon and tomorrow and the next day and a month from now.”

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A mysterious man presents a couple with a box, telling them that if they push its button they will receive a large amount of cashbut someone in the world will die as a result. Such is the simple premise of the Richard Matheson short story “Button, Button,” which has been adapted by writer-director Richard Kelly into “The Box.” Opening Nov. 6, the film stars Frank Langella as the man and Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as the couple.

“It was always this kind of great blueprint for an act one of a film,” said Kelly of adapting the story, “and then it was like, ‘Where do we go after this has happened?’ I wanted to know what happens to that couple, and ultimately who is [the man] and who does he work for. . . . ?”

To expand the story, Kelly modeled the couple after his parents, setting the story in Virginia, where he grew up, in 1976, when his father was working at NASA, and even incorporating a medical accident his mother suffered.

“It’s one of those what-if scenarios like you hear at a dinner party — what would you do? To ground it in reality, it was like, let me go to the people I respect the most, my parents, and not make it the kind of couple who would just push the button carelessly. To think even the kindest, least violent people with great moral values might still push it, all of a sudden it made the story real.”

Kelly’s parents visited the set several times, allowing the actors some insights. “Obviously, it’s an interpretation, not a facsimile,” said Marsden of drawing from them. “But the more I could get into Richard’s head and see what he was seeing, the easier it was.”

When “The Box” shifts from its elegantly simple premise into a sprawling conspiracy of indeterminate origin before reaching a startling finale of emotional intimacy, Kelly finds a way to meld incongruous parts into a cohesive whole.

The film nevertheless paints itself into some outrageous corners, hinting at who may be behind the man’s mission. Diaz set off a brief skirmish of online discontent following her Comic-Con appearance when she perhaps revealed too much about who might be behind the box and its button. “The funny thing is,” she said, “I don’t think even Richard knows. And that’s OK. That’s humanity. There is no answer.”

Though he’d asked his parents about details of their lives, it wasn’t until a lunch with the actors that Kelly’s parents came to understand just how much of their lives were in the movie.

Richard’s mother, Ennis Kelly, started to choke up a little in a call from their Virginia home. “It just means so much to me and Richard’s dad.”