Reuters - In what is believed to be an industry first, Paramount Pictures is bundling its upcoming home video release of "Kung Fu Panda" with a direct-to-video companion film and will release the package on a Sunday -- November 9 -- instead of the traditional Tuesday.

Reuters - "As a movie musical, it's a train wreck." That's how one reviewer greeted Universal's stage-to-film adaptation of "Mamma Mia!" And that review was only one of a batch of disastrous notices.

AP - Cries of adulation — and hunger — followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives on Sunday to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city.

Reuters - Hollywood is challenging the hegemony of Apple in digital distribution. A consortium of major studios -- excluding key Apple ally Walt Disney Co. -- is teaming up with leading retailers and consumer-electronics firms to essentially transform the paid download into an experience akin to buying a DVD. The goal is letting video purchased at any outlet be played on any device worldwide.

Reuters - Playing like "Juno" junior, the engagingly irreverent "Lymelife" is a period suburban rites-of-passage story with a pitch-perfect cast headed by Alec Baldwin, Timothy Hutton and not one, but two Culkin brothers -- neither of them Macaulay.

Reuters - "Burn After Reading," a spy comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, narrowly won the weekend box office derby in North America on Sunday, setting a sales record for the Oscar-winning filmmakers.

AP - Matt Damon kept his cool as he helped distribute food from a truck that got stuck in the mud in a western Haitian town where Hurricane Ike left hundreds of people homeless and hungry.

Reuters - It's not about Shakespeare and not based on "King Lear," but fans of the Bard may find traces of both in a new Bollywood film set in modern-day India.

E! Online - Someone call the babysitter!

Reuters - Israeli and Palestinian directors at the Toronto International Film Festival are looking past the tanks, checkpoints and bombings to find humanity in everyday people caught up in the violence.

Reuters - "Every Little Step" is best described in a way unlike few movies before it. The film is a documentary, within a documentary.

AP - Daniel Radcliffe is talking about Alan Strang, the troubled young man he plays in "Equus," the Peter Shaffer drama now being revived on Broadway.

Reuters - With "Towelhead," the story of a Lebanese-American girl coping with puberty and older men, writer/director Alan Ball returns to some of the themes he explored in 1999's "American Beauty."