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Reuters - Playboy Enterprises Inc, which publishes the world's most widely read adult entertainment magazine, will stop making DVDs to save about $12 million a year, and focus on distributing its content online, the company said in a regulatory filing.

AP - "The Secret Life Of Bees" teases with talent. How can a movie populate a house with Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson and NOT give us a song?

AP - Poppy, the perpetually sunny heroine of "Happy-Go-Lucky," finds that her beloved bicycle has been stolen from outside a London bookstore at the film's start. Not only is she not angry when she makes this discovery, but rather she says to herself, wistfully and with a wry smile, that she never even got to say goodbye to it.

AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

AP - James Cromwell approached the role of President George H.W. Bush in Oliver Stone's "W." with one certainty: He would avoid the sort of caricature Dana Carvey embodied years ago when he did Bush on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."

Reuters - The late Pope John Paul was wounded by a knife-wielding priest in 1982, a year after he was shot in St Peter's Square, but the injury was kept secret, his former top aide says in a documentary film.

AP - The London Film Festival, an underdog among global movie showcases, was opening Wednesday with the world premiere of "Frost/Nixon," a film about a British contender taking on an American heavyweight.

Reuters - The London Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with the world premiere of "Frost/Nixon," a movie based on a play about the dramatic series of television interviews with Richard Nixon in 1977.

AP - After countless denials of domestic trouble, Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced Wednesday they are divorcing after nearly eight years of marriage.

Reuters - When Mark Wahlberg first read the script for his new film "Max Payne," which debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, he didn't need much persuading to take on the title role.

E! Online - High School Musical 3 isn't out for a few weeks, but the cast has already said their goodbyes and, at a press conference Sunday, spilled about plans for the future.

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 - Steven Spielberg phoned home, and home answered.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Reuters - It was not his stock fund or 401k plan that was in jeopardy, but to Chinese director Wong Kar Wai, it was just as -- if not far more -- important. It was his movie, "Ashes of Time" that could have been lost forever.

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.