It wouldn't be a Terry Gilliam film if it didn't involve chaos, delay and madness. The ex-Python's period drama The Brothers Grimm, starring Heath Ledger and Matt Damon, opens in the US next week, more than a year after it was completed.

Gilliam and the terrifying Bob Weinstein, head of Dimension Pictures, had some disagreements over the final state of the picture and the delay that ensued was so lengthy the director has had time to complete his next feature, Tideland. "I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people's idea about what would make it better," Terry said of the dispute with Bob. "Everybody's happy now. We're a big happy family." Tideland, the tale of a young girl's attempts to cope with her father's drug addiction, screens at the Toronto Film Festival next month.