Reuters - The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with Hollywood A-listers George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the red carpet for the Coen brothers' eagerly awaited "Burn After Reading," but from then on Tinseltown takes a back seat.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — The action comedy "Tropic Thunder" weathered a rush of new movies to remain No. 1 for a second-straight weekend with $16.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Reuters - "Tropic Thunder," a farcical combat movie within a comedy, was the No. 1 film at North American box office for the second week in a row, narrowly beating sorority-themed comedy "House Bunny."

Reuters - A Croatian film about two Bosnian immigrants who left the country during the 1992-95 war for a new life in the United States was chosen on Saturday as the best movie at the 14th Sarajevo film festival.

Reuters - Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki of Oscar-winning animated film "Spirited Away" has captured the hearts of Japanese moviegoers again, this time with a tale of a mermaid which will soon be seen around the world.

E! Online - La Misma Luna outshone all comers last night at the 23rd Annual Imagen Awards, honoring Latino achievements in film and TV.

E! Online - Nicolas Cage has suffered a serious downgrade in sexy sidekicks.

E! Online - With James Bond's most artful British nemesis out of the way, he's beginning to get into the holiday spirit.

Reuters - It might wear its derivative, "Legally Blonde"-meets-"Mean Girls" trappings like a rhinestone thong, but strip away the second-hand attire, and "The House Bunny" still manages to stand on its own two skyscraper heels thanks to the comic force of nature that is Anna Faris.