The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.

The end, when it comes, may look a lot like this - grey skies shrouding the ash-covered ruins of civilization.

Sex. Drugs. Prostitution. Pedophilia. Rape. Pedro Almodovar has been able to translate some of the most delicate subjects to the big screen with grace and humor.

As moviegoers across the nation watched the end of the world with the opening of "2012" last week, news of Earth's demise spread quickly across the Web. Scientists, fed up with the misleading prophecies, quickly set the record straight with their own series of articles and a YouTube video.

Wearing a floor-length pastel striped evening gown, Sandra Bullock walked the red carpet in New Orleans Thursday for a special premiere of her latest film, "The Blind Side."

There are loads of references to other sci-fi movies in "Planet 51": "E.T.," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "Star Wars," even to a cute little mutt with a head shaped like the monster from "Alien" that squirts acid urine. The movie, about a far-flung planet of green aliens whose civilization resembles 1950s malt-shop and doo-wop America, is also crammed with subtexts about the era's paranoias, from UFO invaders to McCarthyism.

Apparently few things are as entertaining as watching the Earth shake itself to pieces.

"(Untitled)" is a funny movie set in New York City's fashionable art galleries and experimental music scene. Its characters are erudite and foolish, not always likable, but fun to observe.

Don't get on their bad side. This powerful coven enforces the laws of the vampire world.

The title of Adam Goldberg's new movie is intriguing: "(Untitled)" really doesn't have one.

"The Blind Side" flirts with terminal cuteness but wins us over, thanks to a lump-in-the-throat real-life story of selflessness and triumph.

The "Twilight" soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, "New Moon," a movie directed by a man and not a woman.

Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy "Knight & Day."

"Planet 51" takes off like a rocket with its glitzy and alien look, but it never achieves orbit because of a sputtering plot and lackluster performances.

A marginal improvement on last year's "Twilight," "New Moon" is a bit like being locked in a room for two hours with a very moody teenager.

LOS ANGELES - Despite her lofty Hollywood status, Sandra Bullock's ready to take a break from acting.

Nicolas Cage received his marching orders for "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" several years ago in a phone call from the filmmaker, Werner Herzog.

The publicity for a Hollywood movie is a machine to behold, especially from the inside.

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is a dead-on adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer book. That's not necessarily a good thing, because the second novel in the romantic vampire series is considered by some fans to be the weakest of the four stories.

Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle?

Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of potential nominees. And Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" wasn't one of them.

The "Twilight" series may have changed the lives of fans worldwide, but perhaps no one has been more affected by its success than the three stars of the film: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner.

LOS ANGELES - A hallway at the Four Seasons Hotel room lined with shoes of various shapes and colors leads to Ashley Greene, who's become a fashion plate in film and in her own life.

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

LOS ANGELES - Kellan Lutz felt far less pressure making "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" than he did making "Twilight."