Film News: Speeches brief at IFP event -- Tuesday night's anti-awards show awards show, aka the IFP's Gotham Independent Film Awards, was typified by HBO doc maven Sheila Nevins' acceptance speech.

Web Exclusive: 33 up-and-coming directors to be featured -- Hong Kong's Film Development Council is to launch a publicity campaign featuring 33 of the territory's up and coming directors.

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Web Exclusive: Complete nomination list, part 3 -- This is part three the nominations list for the 51st annual Grammy Awards.

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Award Central: Eye on the Oscars: Documentaries

Technology News: DeWolfe, Anderson to receive Vanguard Award -- The Producers Guild of America is presenting its Vanguard Award to MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe and president and co-founder Tom Anderson.

Exec Shuffle: Exec to head in-game advertising agency -- Massive has tapped JJ Richards to head the in-game advertising agency and bolstered its client list, landing deals with publishers Activision and Blizzard Entertainment.

Gotham: Jokinen directing thriller for Hammer Films -- Hilary Swank will star in "The Resident," a thriller set to shoot next May under the reconstituted Hammer Films banner.

Gotham: Lorne Michaels to produce NY Times' tale -- Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to a recent New York Times article about a 12-year-old aspiring food critic who has charmed his way into posh eateries on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

International News: Red Pearl to distribute films throughout region -- Overbrook Entertainment's Will Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz have teamed with Diana Jenkins' D Media to launch Red Pearl Pictures, which will distribute Western films throughout the Middle East.

Legit News: Musical ends Broadway run on Jan. 4 -- "Grease" will end its run at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on Jan. 4, joining "Young Frankenstein," "Boeing-Boeing," and "Hairspray" in what is shaping up to be the Rialto's Black Sunday. After the traditionally lucrative Christmas and New Year's frames, "Grease" will quit while it's ahead before the dreaded post-holiday slump.

Exclusives: Cage plays sorcerer in Disney's live-action pic -- Jay Baruchel is negotiating to play the title role in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" for Walt Disney Pictures. He joins Nicolas Cage, who plays the sorcerer in the Jon Turteltaub-directed live-action pic.

VPage: Stars perform at 'One Night Only' event -- Flying chairs, impromptu kissing and uncontrollable laughter were all part of Tuesday's "One Night Only... With a Little Help From Our Friends" event at Royce Hall benefiting the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Film News: Timberlake, Lopez curse to celebrate actor -- It's not often the key word at a fund-raising dinner is "muthafucka," but such was the case when Samuel L. Jackson was honored by the American Cinematheque at the BevHilton on Monday.

Film Reviews: Story of a teenage rugby talent forced to look after his younger brother is a familiar tale of working-class woes and insurmountable domestic odds that largely redeems itself thanks to an affable lead and some smart tech credits.

Film Reviews: Part transcendental love story, part gritty psychological thriller, Israeli writer-helmer Omri Givon's impressive feature debut, "Seven Minutes in Heaven," handles a difficult subject with imagination and emotional veracity.

Film Reviews: A young Cameroon madam with a motley crew of dispossessed kids takes a new recruit under her wings in "The Tree of Ghibet."

Film Reviews: Law and crime make uneasy bedfellows in "Galantuomini," a modest blend of crime drama and star-crossed romance set in Italy's Deep South.

Film Reviews: Small-town detective dramedy "Home Sweet Home" offers up a seductive pitch and some strong performances, but is marred by lazy filmmaking that never rises above smallscreen level.

Film Reviews: A middle-aged couple's move to Israel becomes one "oy vey" after another in "Hello Goodbye," a cross-cultural comic falafel whose various ingredients fail to jell. Stars Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu, though sometimes endearing, never achieve the screen chemistry of prior collaborations like "The Woman Next Door" and "Colonel Chabert." And helmer/co-scripter Graham Guit shoots off jokes about family, religion and the hazards of circumcision that mostly miss their mark.

Film Reviews: Artistic aspirations and romantic entanglements stalk the East Village streets in tyro helmer Jonathan Blitstein's goofily engaging Gotham comedy, "Let Them Chirp Awhile."

TV Reviews: Initially a one-note joke -- bookish librarian becomes reluctant action hero -- this third and apparently final installment of TNT's "The Librarian" movies benefits from nifty special effects and a wholehearted embrace of its modern-day "National Treasure"-type swashbuckler status.

Legit Reviews: Dutch director Ivo van Hove brings new meaning to the term "in your face" with his techno-centric treatment of John Cassavetes' 1977 film, "Opening Night," about the psychic meltdown of an aging actress after the accidental death of a young fan.

TV Reviews: Inspirational in all the right ways, "Front of the Class" -- the Hallmark Hall of Fame's latest pre-Christmas showcase -- leaves no heartstring unplucked in presenting the true story of Brad Cohen, who grew up with Tourette syndrome and overcame its frustrating effects to establish himself as a popular teacher.

Legit Reviews: I may have said many things, Oliver, but unfortunately I probably didn't mean them." The overwhelming irony of this remark is that it's a lie.

Film Reviews: "Dancers" follows the raw emotions catalyzed by the central couple's troubled courtship and putting a different spin on the risks of love.

Film Reviews: Approaching the blues with the enthusiasm of an overcaffeinated brass band, helmer Darnell Martin nonetheless makes some kind of music with the percolating '50s biopic "Cadillac Records" -- mostly because she mines a righteous, mythic sensibility out of the story of Leonard Chess, Muddy Waters and the birth of the Chicago blues.

Film Reviews: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. This odd, epic tale of a man who ages backwards is presented in an impeccable classical manner, every detail tended to with fastidious devotion.

Film Reviews: An "Incredible Journey" or "Homeward Bound" updated for the superhero era, "Bolt" is an OK Disney animated entry enhanced by nifty 3-D projection. The first inhouse feature from Disney Animation since Pixar guru John Lasseter took over the studio's creative reins, this tale of a canine forced to overcome his superdog complex and learn to become a regular pooch bears some telltale signs of Pixar's trademark smarts, but still looks like a mutt compared to the younger company's customary purebreds. While punchy enough to keep parents amused, pic will probably play best to small fry and, especially with Disney star Miley Cyrus onboard, will have no trouble chasing down hefty biz through the holidays.

Film Reviews: A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne Duprau's 2003 novel.

Film Reviews: Oliver Stone?s unusual and inescapably interesting ?W.? feels like a rough draft of a film it might behoove him to remake in 10 or 15 years.

Film Reviews: Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius can disguise "Body of Lies" as anything other than the contrived phony-baloney it is.

Film Reviews: ?Appaloosa? is a decent Western made in an era when a Western has to be pretty darn good to rope people into a theater to see it.

Film Reviews: Mickey Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances.