MOMBASA, Kenya 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."

LOS ANGELES - Chris Weitz wasn't looking to make a vampire movie when he got the call to direct "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

John Lee Hancock has made three feature films, each based on real people and events.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Actress Kristen Stewart wanted to make the right fashion statement when attending a screening of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" in Knoxville.

NEW YORK Get lost, Hugh Jackman. This year's "Sexiest Man Alive" is once again Johnny Depp.

TORONTO Nicolas Cage figures he owes no apologies when critics gripe about all the Hollywood action flicks he's done.

HONG KONG Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her.

LOS ANGELES Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending, not his advice, is to blame for the actor's financial problems.

BILOXI, Miss. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy know the Michael Oher story better than anyone, at least better than anyone other than Michael Oher himself.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

In the most indelible scene of "Broken Embraces" ("Los abrazos rotos"), Pedro Almodovar's latest vivid melodrama, Penelope Cruz plays dress-up.

Falling buildings, collapsing bridges, Hollywood actresses running around like chickens without a head: Who doesn't love a good end-of-the-world picture? Here are our five favorite disaster epics of yore.

BURKITTSVILLE, Md. The small Maryland town where "The Blair Witch Project" was set has some new welcome signs. Please don't steal them.

BERLIN The 26-year-old man charged with trying to extort $100,000 (euro67,258) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford has surrendered, German prosecutors said Tuesday.

BELLINZONA, Switzerland Switzerland's highest criminal court is expected to decide in two or three weeks whether to release film director Roman Polanski on bail pending a decision on his extradition to the United States, a court official said Tuesday.

CHICAGO - "Twilight" probably isn't a hot topic in the boys locker room or sports bars, but co-stars Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene, who play Emmett and Alice Cullen respectively, have noticed an increase in male fans for the vampire franchise.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio A police chief on trial in Ohio acknowledges that he joked with paparazzi about working with them to snoop on the woman who carried twins for celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, his lawyer told jurors Monday.

LOS ANGELES Disaster hammered the weekend box office as the doomsday epic "2012" debuted at No. 1 with $65.2 million domestically and pulled in $230.4 million worldwide.