Reuters - Paramount Pictures said on Monday it had topped $1 billion in sales at U.S. and Canadian box offices, boosted by hit films "Iron Man" and the latest "Indiana Jones" saga, and become the first studio to pass that benchmark this year.

Reuters - Entertainment site Fandango.com said on Monday it bought Movies.com from the Walt Disney Co to expand its offering of movies reviews and celebrity news.

AP - Steven Garcia pulled into a Houston gas station recently to fill up the old Dodge van his punk band uses on summer tours.

Reuters - Walt Disney Co is waging a campaign to convince investors that its product range and brand make it more valuable than media peers and more like a consumer goods company -- but so far that has proved a hard sell on Wall Street.

Reuters - More than three years after it went off the air, "NYPD Blue" is still at the center of a battle over broadcast indecency.

Reuters - Maxwell Smart clobbered Mike Myers with his shoe phone at the weekend box office in North America.

Reuters - Celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart has been denied entry to Britain because of her 2004 U.S. conviction for lying about a stock sale.

Reuters - Live Nation Inc Chairman Michael Cohl, the driving force behind the concert promoter's wooing of superstars such as Madonna, has resigned, the company said on Friday after a disagreement over strategy.