Reuters - English director Mike Leigh has been praised for his award-winning films that cast a critical and realistic eye on British society through gritty, heartbreaking characters.

AP - Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years.

AP - How do you get kids to vote? Just say no.

AP - DreamWorks Animation SKG has announced plans for a sequel to "Kung Fu Panda" to be released in 2011.

AP - It was movie stars celebrating movies, as Sean Connery, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Jodie Foster, Dustin Hoffman and a host of others gathered in Hollywood for the American Film Institute's annual "AFI Night at the Movies."

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.

AP - A lawyer for two photography professionals says seven nude and seminude Marilyn Monroe photos that are the subject of a lawsuit were found in curbside garbage nearly 35 years ago.

AP - How do you get kids to vote? Just say no.

E! Online - Nicole Kidman's night at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood Tribute will be legendary—literally.

Reuters - "Capote" star Philip Seymour Hoffman has joined the voice cast of Australian claymation project "Mary and Max," taking the lead role of Max.

Reuters - "Sex" sells -- and rents too. "Sex and the City: The Movie," debuted at No. 1 on all three DVD charts in the week ended September 28, officially kicking off the frenzied fourth-quarter selling season.

Reuters - As a comedy routine about the absurdity of religious fundamentalism, Bill Maher's "Religulous" is very, very funny. As a serious discussion of religion and spirituality, the film is, well, very, very funny.

AP - A photographer who called 911 to report Heather Locklear allegedly driving erratically runs a paparazzi agency and profited from images she took of the actress's subsequent arrest, the woman's attorney said Wednesday.