Anthony Hopkins is to play revered author and adventurer Ernest Hemingway in a new movie, directed by Andy Garcia.

(Cue Pink Panther themesong ...) Yup, the infamous inspector Jacques Clouseau is back in The Pink Panther, which stars Steve Martin as the inept detective. In the latest incarnation, Clouseau must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach. He must also find out who stole the famous Pink Panther Diamond. Also on DVD this week: the motorcycle flick The World’s Fastest Indian, the Bruce Willis action film 16 Blocks and offbeat action comedy Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

Anthony Hopkins tried to keep a straight face while he was shooting death-defying motorbike scenes in new movie The World's Fastest Indian because he found the idea of being dragged around a salt flat hilarious. Hopkins risked life and limb as he was being dragged around the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for a motorbike crash scene in the Burt Munro biopic, but, far from being terrified, the Welsh-born Oscar winner found the whole experience funny.

Anthony Hopkins would love to follow up his latest efforts with director Roger Donaldson with a film about writer Ernest Hemingway - if the American administration will let them do it. The veteran actor, who stars as land-speed record-breaker Burt Munro in Donaldon's film The World's Fastest Indian, and the director have discussed making "Papa," based on Hemingway's life, in Communist Cuba where the tragic American spent 20 years of his life.