Reuters - Paramount Pictures has downsized the art-house division that helped produce the Oscar-winning movies "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood."

AP - "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" led with eight Academy Awards nominations each Tuesday, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem — but it remained in doubt whether any stars would cross striking writers' picket lines to attend the ceremony.

Fashion Wire Daily - Looking at the normally swooningly handsome Spanish actor Javier Bardem on the red carpet at the "No Country for Old Men" film premiere Sunday night in Hollywood, it is hard to believe he is the same person that wreaks violent havoc throughout that modern western drama.

Reuters - The New York Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled 28 films debuting at the fall event, including many widely-anticipated U.S. movies and Iranian coming-of-age tale "Persepolis" on closing night.

AP - Javier Bardem is one of Europe's hottest actors. But the Spanish star is astonished to find himself feted at Cannes for starring in a modern-day Western set under the big skies of west Texas.

Reuters - Under tents in Manhattan's Bryant Park, disc jockey Javier Peral is mixing beats for an exclusive New York gathering, but sweaty hipsters won't be dancing to his soundtrack.

AP - Gina Lollobrigida, once dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one of her movies, is getting married to a man 34 years her junior.

AFP - Poland's former president Lech Walesa warned he may renounce his honorary citizenship of the northern city of Gdansk if German novelist Guenter Grass continues to hold the same honour.