AP - Officials say that a John Travolta movie has suspended filming in one of the Paris area's toughest housing projects after 10 cars to be used in the movie were burned.

AP - Despite landing roles alongside Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis, Maggie Q says Asian actors still have a hard time getting good roles in Hollywood movies.

Reuters - Police in Italy are looking into reports that the Naples mafia plans to carry out its threat to kill the author of the best-selling book "Gomorra," which has been made into a hit movie about mafia brutality, by Christmas.

AP - Once Josh Brolin found a fresh source of income outside Hollywood, his acting career took off.

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

Reuters - With all eyes on the world's see-sawing stock markets, Fox is bullish on a sequel to "Wall Street."

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

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.

E! Online - Over three years, three movies and 33 songs now, we've kinda gotten attached to Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and the rest of the merry gang of singing high schoolers. And they've kinda gotten attached to being the HSM kids.

E! Online - Leonardo DiCaprio? Russell Crowe? Nope.

E! Online - Hide the hamsters...the Visitors are baaack!

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

E! Online - A lot of kids go a little crazy after graduation, so maybe that's what's happening to High School Musical 3 hunk Zac Efron, who is reportedly considering following in Harry Potter's nekkid footprints on Broadway in Equus.

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.

AP - Olga Kurylenko, the model and actress who stars in the upcoming James Bond movie, began acting by playing Santa Claus' young wife in a school play in her Ukrainian hometown.

E! Online - After watching the new Twilight trailer, we're feeling pretty giddy and want more of that  22-year-old foxy vampire/reluctant musician Robert Pattinson. So we were disheartened to realize we had to go back to MTV's VMAs just to find a picture.

AP - "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" kept audiences on the leash as it retained the top spot at the box office, fetching $17.5 million in its second weekend.

E! Online - Seth Rogen's kidding around with cancer (and no, we're not kidding).