Reuters - Blu-ray Disc player sales were strong through the holidays, and even the season's so-so disc sales went well enough to sustain industry hopes that the format can still become a next-gen cash cow for the studios.

Reuters - Emmy winner Christine Lahti is returning to the medical genre with USA Network's 90-minute pilot "Operating Instructions."

E! Online - Forget pretty ponies or science homework, Kate Hudson reveals in the new Elle that something else was on her teenage mind.

AP - The Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight," slighted in earlier Hollywood honors, was among best-picture nominees Monday for the Producers Guild of America Awards.

Reuters - Catherine Hardwicke had every reason to celebrate as her latest film, "Twilight," opened to nearly $70 million in November.

Reuters - The greatest Olympian in history is returning to China, this time as a brand spokesman for Mazda.

AP - An attorney for fugitive movie director Roman Polanski is seeking to have the Los Angeles County Superior Court removed from his notorious sex case, accusing the court on Monday of bias and prejudice against Polanski.

AFP - Macworld mania began simmering despite freshly released news that Apple's iconic chief executive Steve Jobs won't attend because a "hormone imbalance" that has his body wasting away.

E! Online - You can take the case out of court, but can you take the court out of the case?

E! Online - In light of Monday's autopsy finding that Jett Travolta, the 16-year-old son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died of a seizure, a medical expert tells E! News that seizures can cause death, even when the person who suffers one is taking medication to manage them.

Reuters - NBC News denied Monday that conservative author Ann Coulter has been banned from the network after "Today" dropped her from Tuesday's program because of breaking-news events.

Reuters - Cuba on Monday made the first of thousands of digitized documents, photographs and books that belonged to writer Ernest Hemingway available to scholars after the items languished for decades in the basement of his home outside of Havana.