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• Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition (AP)
  

  AP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.

  
  



• New Matt Damon movie may bring Iraq war into mainstream (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - They conjured box office magic with their "Bourne" spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller "Green Zone" debuts on Friday.

  
  



• Global movie box office nears $30 billion in 2009 (Reuters)
  Reuters - Global movie ticket sales hit $29.9 billion last year, up 7.6 percent, with the most growth in the Asia Pacific region, the leading U.S. movie industry representative said on Wednesday.



• First film futures market expects approval soon (Reuters)
  Reuters - Media Derivatives Inc expects to be the first U.S. exchange to get regulatory approval to offer futures on film box office receipts, the privately owned company said Wednesday.



• "Wall Street" sequel delayed by five months (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - Fox is bumping Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel to the fall.

  
  



• Review: Pattinson still brooding in `Remember Me' (AP)
  

  AP - In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause."

  
  



• Ralph Fiennes filming "Coriolanus" in Serbia (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - After two years struggling to win funding amid the global financial crisis, actor Ralph Fiennes said on Wednesday he would start filming his directorial debut of a Shakespeare tragedy next week in Serbia.

  
  



• Animal activists target Calif. sushi restaurant (AP)
  AP - Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove."



• Review: `Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence (AP)
  

  AP - All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.

  
  



• Robert De Niro set to play Vince Lombardi in movie (AP)
  

  AP - Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie.

  
  



• Mexico hopes to lure filmmakers with subsidies (AP)
  AP - Mexico has implemented a new program subsidizing filmmakers in a bid to attract more cinema business to the country.



• Best Buy bets on 3D TV, but no quick payoffs seen (Reuters)
  Reuters - While James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar" took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best Buy Co Inc, which is making a big bet on 3D televisions this year.



• Summary Box: 3-D lifts world box office to $30 bln (AP)
  AP - 3-D BOOM: 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009.



• Bigelow's Oscars will change Hollywood, slowly (Reuters)
  Reuters - "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow wrapped her fingers around that little golden man called Oscar on Sunday and cracked one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, but truly shattering it may take more time.



• Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA (AP)
  AP - Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.



• De Niro signs up to play football icon Lombardi (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - He has played killers and cops in the movies, and two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro may soon take on the role of iconic U.S. football coach Vince Lombardi in a film backed by sports television network ESPN.

  
  



• Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident (AP)
  

  AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.

  
  



• 3-D boosts box office worldwide to record $30 bln (AP)
  AP - The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.



• John Krasinski joins "Something" romantic comedies (Reuters)
  Reuters - John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side."



• Review: `Our Family Wedding' surpasses stereotype (AP)
  

  AP - One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness.