AP - Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio has signed on with Universal Pictures to distribute its films as his company parts ways with Paramount.

Reuters - Reversing a year-old regulation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved the use of CDs of songs and scores in campaigns for the music Oscars.

Reuters - It's been a discouraging couple of weeks for those on the right. John McCain is lagging Barack Obama in the national polls. Sarah Palin is still firing up the Republican base, but she's gone from novelty act to punch line amid the broader electorate.

Reuters - "Eagle Eye" bumped longtime champion "Mamma Mia!" from the top spot at the weekend box office overseas, in a transitional period before the major studios unleash their holiday-season wares.

Reuters - Iran's foreign-language feature Oscar entry "The Song of Sparrows" is heading to U.S. theaters this spring.

Reuters - In a surprise move, Don Cheadle will replace Terrence Howard as Robert Downey Jr's best friend in "Iron Man 2," the sequel to the superhero saga.

Reuters - Oliver Stone's film portrait of President George W. Bush was always going to be controversial given the director's liberal leanings.

AP - An adorable talking dog remained just the sort of escapist movie hero audiences wanted after a week of awful economic news.

AP - Oliver Stone thinks George W. Bush was unqualified to be president. However, the filmmaker found him an irresistible figure for drama.

Reuters - The new terrorism thriller "Body of Lies" failed to take the top spot at the weekend box office in North America, an apparent victim of moviegoers' preference for escapist fare amid global financial turmoil.

AP - An adorable talking dog remained just the sort of escapist movie hero audiences wanted after a week of awful economic news.