AP - In entertainment journalism, the purpose of the lunch interview is twofold: to help the reporter feel like a normal, social being, and to have an excuse to talk with food in one's mouth.

AP - The New York Film Festival defines itself as an annual chance to take account of the state of film as art.

AP - In Spike Lee's long and eclectic career, "Miracle at St. Anna" is easily his most technically ambitious film.

E! Online - The James Bond brain trust has given itself a license to kill 007 catchphrases.

AP - Two Hollywood veterans, Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, will oversee the next Academy Awards telecast.

AP - Michael Douglas had to field questions Wednesday about the financial turmoil shaking world markets from reporters recalling his role in the 1987 film "Wall Street."

Reuters - Actress Anne Hathaway will star in "The Opposite of Love," portraying a commitment-phobic attorney who finds her well-constructed life coming apart when she rejects her ready-for-marriage boyfriend.

Reuters - Oprah Winfrey has joined the voice cast of the upcoming Disney animated film "The Princess and the Frog."

AP - "Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del Toro is collaborating with crime author Chuck Hogan on a trilogy of vampire novels, starting next summer with "The Strain."

AP - In a gala adorned with Hollywood stars, The Walt Disney Co. wowed an industry crowd Wednesday in a showcase of its upcoming films that included a sequel to its 1982 sci-fi flick "Tron" and a "Lone Ranger" remake with Johnny Depp as Tonto.

Reuters - Johnny Depp is becoming the new face of Walt Disney Studios. The actor will preside over the manic tea party in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" as the Mad Hatter and will play Tonto in "The Lone Ranger," whose latest screen incarnation is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.