Reuters - Days before the release of
its big summer movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth,"
producer Walden Media has acquired a talking-animal comedy. -- read full article
AP - The labor drama gripping Hollywood is now entering its final act after one actors group said its members ratified a new deal and the other prepared to turn down the major studios' final offer. -- read full article
AP - Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame. -- read full article
Reuters - "Gilmore Girls" veteran
Matt Czuchry will make his feature debut in "I Hope They Serve
Beer in Hell," an adaptation of Tucker Max's bawdy best-selling
memoir. -- read full article
AP - When it came time to complete the transition from kid star to grown-up actor, Hilary Duff put a scorpion down her pants and grabbed a microphone to sing the double entendre-laden "I Want to Blow You Up" in this year's film "War, Inc."
AP - Like "Definitely, Maybe" from earlier this year, the coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" asks us to dig deep within our nostalgia wells and reminisce about the mid-1990s.