E! Online - It may have been Courteney Cox's celebration last night, but all eyes were on Jennifer Aniston.

E! Online - • Steve Carell's got a Napoleon complex. The Get Smart star is dumbing down to play the title character in The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, per Variety. The comedy (what else?) centers on a Clouseau-like buffoon in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars and is written by the guys behind Blades of Glory and inspired by stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Reuters - "Max Payne" is a banal revenge melodrama-cum-detective story, but fans of the video game on which it is based should not be alarmed. The crews on production design, cinematography, visual effects, costumes, makeup, prosthetics and pyrotechnics do everything in their power to disguise this fact.

Reuters - Paramount Pictures is fiddling with its holiday release plans at the eleventh hour, delaying the wide release of true-life drama "The Soloist," starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, and the Daniel Craig-toplined Nazi escape film "Defiance" until the first quarter.

Reuters - Chart-topping R&B performer Ne-Yo is going multihyphenate. The singer is set to star in, executive produce and write the soundtrack for Fox Atomic's romantic feature "Venice Beach."

Reuters - Oscar winner Susan Sarandon spoke about her role as an actress and activist Thursday during the second annual Middle East International Film Festival.

AP - A judge in Los Angeles has ordered a former friend of Rodney Dangerfield not to distribute video footage of the late comedian taken during the final years of his life.

E! Online - John Travolta's latest film has gotten too hot for anyone to handle.

AP - "It's going to be tossed. I'm warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing. Anyway, peace and love, peace and love." — Ringo Starr.