AP - "Wow, thank you, I'm in shock right now. I was not expecting this." — Britney Spears, looking spectacular in a shimmering silver dress as she accepted her third trophy of the evening for "Piece of Me" at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Reuters - To play a role some are already calling a tour de force in the film "Adam Resurrected," Jeff Goldblum visited concentration camps and spoke to Holocaust survivors.

Reuters - Batman wants an Oscar. To be precise, Warner Bros. wants a statuette -- or 10 -- for "The Dark Knight." So the studio plans to re-release its blockbuster Batman sequel in January, the height of Academy Awards voting season.

AP - Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara film biography "Che" has found a U.S. distributor that will release it in theaters this December to qualify for the Academy Awards.

AP - Sit beside Steve Martin for a screening of "The Jerk," share a theater with Mike Myers for a showing of "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" or squirm in your seat alongside Jodie Foster during "The Silence of the Lambs."

AP - Paris Hilton's new reality show, the documentary "Paris, Not France," reveals a not-so-simple life in which the dumb blonde of her TV infamy is scarcely to be found.

E! Online - Dealmakers at the 2008 Toronto Film Fest suffered a serious case of buyers' remorse when only one film snapped up at the event, The Visitor, showed something resembling a healthy profit.

AP - Mickey Rourke's character in "The Wrestler" describes himself as a broken-down slab of meat, a man who's alone and deserves to be.

AP - Matt Damon says the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for vice president could end up "like a really bad Disney movie" if John McCain wins the November presidential election.

Reuters - A former infiltrator into the Irish Republican Army who spent months protesting against a film based on his life is now praising it and says a cash settlement had nothing to do with the switch.

Reuters - It's not easy being Paris Hilton, always being photographed by the paparazzi doing things as mundane as ordering a hamburger at a drive-in.

Reuters - We've all seen this film before -- two hoodlum friends from the tough, violent streets of South Boston trying to cope with the lure of easy money and the offsetting threat of jail time -- but we've never seen it this well done.