AP - Two years ago, the biggest question surrounding Jennifer Hudson's career was whether she could act.

Reuters - Film director Spike Lee has set off a storm in Italy with a movie about black American soldiers fighting alongside Italian partisans in World War Two.

Reuters - Robert Downey Jr. is to play Victorian super sleuth Sherlock Holmes in an upcoming blockbuster that studio Warner Bros. hopes will become a lucrative new franchise.

E! Online - It's a good time to be a fanboy...or girl.

E! Online - Will Miley Cyrus get her wish of playing a younger, cleaner Carrie Bradshaw?

E! Online - Flowing locks. Tights. Well, yeah, Thor kinda could pass for a Renaissance man…

E! Online - Tom Hanks is the latest to offer a tribute to the late acting legend, recalling their work together on the Chicago-based gangster film The Road to Perdition:

Reuters - "Flash of Genius" may not be the sexiest film to debut this fall, but its true tale of the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers poses a timely question of values and ethics in the current economic crisis.

AP - Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario — as shown in the movie "Blindness" — is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society.

AP - Ever been to one of those weddings that just will not end?

Reuters - James Bond is making an unprecedented side trip before his next adventure reaches the U.S.

Reuters - Actor/musician Jack Black is reuniting with "Kung Fu Panda" writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger for an untitled action comedy at Universal.