Fragrances Boutique

AP – Ruba Nadda’s “Cairo Time” is a film seeking poetry and not quite finding it.

AP – “Inception” is still kicking at the box office.

Reuters – With only one hit film since the mid-’90s — and that one being a cloying and artificial cancer comedy “The Bucket List” — Rob Reiner hopes to get his mojo back with “Flipped,” a return to the sometimes painful and sometimes poignant coming-of-age film he pulled off so splendidly in his 1986 film “Stand By Me.”

Reuters – Leonardo DiCaprio’s dreams thriller “Inception” ruled the North American box office for a third weekend on Sunday, and also overtook “Toy Story 3″ to claim top honors internationally.

AFP – Sylvester Stallone may be heading for box-office success when his latest action flick opens this month, but in Brazil — where the movie was filmed — companies are complaining he left a string of unpaid debts, according to a report.

AP – “Inception” is still kicking at the box office.

AFP – “Inception,” Leonardo DiCaprio’s mindbending thriller, topped the North American box office for a third straight weekend, holding off newcomer “Dinner For Schmucks,” industry estimates showed Sunday.

AP – The new head of ABC says he won’t shake up the TV network’s schedule on the brink of the fall season.

AP – The Material Girl is illuminating the City of Light, where she’s shooting her latest film, “W.E.”

AP – Doctors plan to let Zsa Zsa Gabor return home Friday, about three weeks after the 93-year-old actress was hospitalized with a broken hip.

AP – Spike Lee screened some of his new HBO documentary that includes a look at the massive BP Gulf oil spill and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him.

AFP – A year-old program granting movie studios tax breaks for filming in California has saved jobs and should yield two billion dollars in direct spending, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.

AP – Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated post-war Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestones as “Bicycle Thieves” and “The Leopard,” died Saturday at age 96.

Reuters – Another female worker on Casey Affleck’s upcoming Joaquin Phoenix documentary is suing the filmmaker/actor, this time claiming Affleck climbed into bed with her and groped her as she slept.

AP – “Law & Order: Los Angeles” is getting another big-name prosecutor.

AP – Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend says she’s the victim of a “smear campaign” and never tried to extort money from the Oscar-winning star.

Playbill – Two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline and Paul Dano discuss their work on “The Extra Man,” the new film comedy about New York City eccentrics. Theatre actors populate the picture.

AP – The Walt Disney Co. is selling Miramax Films to a group of investors for $660 million, marking a new phase for a studio that helped launch the career of Quentin Tarantino and push independent movies into the mainstream.

Reuters – Romanian film director Florin Serban was overwhelmed after showing his debut film this week to 2,000 spectators at the Sarajevo film festival, where he had shopped around his script as an unknown three years before.

Reuters – Actor Mark Wahlberg received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday as part of the promotion for “The Other Guys.”

AP – Chris Nolan’s “Inception” has been the No. 1 film every day since it opened earlier this month. Yet it could face a formidable challenge from the debuting comedy “Dinner for Schmucks” for the top spot at this weekend’s box office.

AP – Kenneth Branagh is directing “Thor” for Marvel Studios, and some think it’s a stretch for him to take on a superhero movie. He’s more Shakespearean, having adapted several of the Bard’s films for the big screen.

Reuters – At 84 years-old, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner embodies the lifestyle of sexual freedom that his men’s magazine has espoused since it was founded in 1953, featuring a nude centerfold of Marilyn Monroe.

Reuters – Every now and then a brave filmmaker can’t resist the temptation to make a metaphysical movie that somehow will manage to portray everlasting love on the screen, that will somehow show a romantic idealism so great that it transcends even the boundaries between the living and dead.

Reuters – The title of “Who Killed Nancy” — a new documentary opening Friday about the death of Nancy Spungen — is a little misleading.