Reuters - Film and television actors ratcheted up pressure on Hollywood's major studios on Wednesday when negotiators, stalled in labor talks with producers, sought backing to put a strike authorization vote to guild members.

AP - The world certainly could live without the intermittent windshield wiper, the invention at the heart of "Flash of Genius."

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.