Reuters - No offense to the red-skinned, gun-wielding, cigar-chomping demon, but he had to rely on several real-life heroes before "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army" could make it to the screen.

Reuters - A day after losing a bid to scuttle a rival union's new labor contract with Hollywood's studios, Screen Actors Guild leaders insisted on Wednesday they were determined to negotiate a better deal, despite the studios' assertion that bargaining is over.

E! Online - After an afternoon stroll on the beach in Eze-sur-Mer with Bono, Robert De Niro and three of his children, Brad Pitt arrived at Lenval hospital at 7:30 p.m.

E! Online - "People will say, 'Why is he still doing this crazy s--t?' But I'm OK with that. I'd like my daughter to see me do these things, as I saw my father do some crazy things and learned to appreciate it. My philosophy isn't so much, 'Do what I do.' It's more, 'Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.' "

E! Online - Meet the new Hulk, same as the old Hulk.

E! Online - Is Brad Pitt ready to be one of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards?

AP - Hollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career.

Reuters - Quentin Tarantino will start shooting his next film, the World War II action tale "Inglorious Bastards," in October, with hopes of having it ready in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May.

AP - The hospital where Angelina Jolie will give birth says it has covered the windows of her room with a special material to prevent paparazzi from taking pictures of the actress and her partner, Brad Pitt.

AP - Hollywood wisdom through the ages has always been that no technological innovation — the transition from silent film to sound, black-and-white to color, hand-drawn animation to digital images — could ever make a bad movie into a good one.