AP - Director Xie Jin, one of modern Chinese cinema's most prominent figures with a six-decade career that dates back to the pre-communist era, has died at the age of 84.

AP - Comedian and animal rights advocate Lily Tomlin says Jenny the elephant has worked 22 years for the Dallas Zoo and it's time for the aging pachyderm to retire.

E! Online - Quelle scandale!

E! Online - Shh! Don't tell fans of his latest tough-guy shoot-'em-up Max Payne, but Mark Wahlberg is just a big old softie. The father of three has finally set the date for his wedding to Rhea Durham, the mother of his children.

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

E! Online - Will Ferrell's latest professional turn isn't a bad tactic—truth be told, it's a damn good strategery.

Reuters - Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell, the composers-choreographers-directors who created the hit British stage show "Stomp" and shared an Oscar nomination for their short "Broom," have turned another shared passion into a hugely -- as in Imax huge -- entertaining documentary.

Reuters - Walt Disney Co's hotly anticipated "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" arrives in movie theaters around the world next week, with bumper advance ticket sales and plans to keep the $1 billion-plus franchise hot with a fourth film.

AP - Here's the one thing that makes "Max Payne" comparatively painless: Unlike most movies based on video games — the entire filmography of German director Uwe Boll, for example — it doesn't try to replicate the sensation of playing. It doesn't make you think you're controlling the characters, doesn't place you in the middle of their nausea-inducing world.

Reuters - The movie theater operators who attended the ShowEast conference here had to rush back to change their marquees Friday as another batch of new titles hit multiplexes.

E! Online - Steven Spielberg phoned home, and home answered.

AP - Is there room among the pratfalls and bedroom tirades of YouTube for an experimental, full-length film?