E! Online - Seth Rogen is now too skinny to play that chubby funnyguy Seth Rogen in a movie. "I'm sellin' out, guys," a slimmer Seth tells E! News at this week's Zack and Miri Make a Porno press day.

E! Online - The actual announcement about Madonna and Guy Ritchie's split may be yesterday's news, but the obsession over the marriage's demise is anything but—with no less than three mags making it their cover stories this week. And given some of the nastier details being reported, we can certainly understand why.

AP - Al Pacino kicked off the third edition of the Rome Film Festival, where he received an acting award and met with festive fans.

E! Online - Call it the Hail Mary that wasn't.

Reuters - A lifetime achievement award for Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino kicked off the Rome film festival on Wednesday, bringing a Hollywood veteran to the movie showcase which this year has a markedly European flavor.

AP - LOS ANGELES — For weeks, Hollywood had been criticized for not contributing enough to defeat a ballot initiative in California that would ban same-sex marriage. Now, members of the film and TV industries are sweeping in to preserve gays' right to get hitched.

Reuters - Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" guns into the marketplace on December 17 in hopes of awards-season attention.

AP - John Malkovich knows the play "The Good Canary" inside and out. In fact, he can direct it in three different languages.

AP - Bob Barker, Alicia Silverstone and other celebrities are joining a city councilman's effort to move elephants from the Los Angeles Zoo to a massive sanctuary where they can roam free — or at least close to it.

Reuters - The enormous success of "High School Musical" and its sequel on Disney Channel made it practically inevitable that the studio would try to recycle the concept for feature films.

AP - Actress Charlotte Rampling and director Wong Kar-wai will receive awards for their contributions to modern cinema at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

AP - London's Old Vic Theatre will start its 2009 season with a new American play directed by its artistic director, Kevin Spacey.