Sally Hawkins, left, with Alexis Zegerman, plays a spirited London schoolteacher in "Happy-Go-Lucky."

Russell Crowe as Ed Hoffman and Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris in "Body of Lies."

Jennifer Carpenter stars in Screen Gems' horror-thriller "Quarantine."

Leslie Cheung, left, and Jacky Cheung in Wong Kar-wai’s “Ashes of Time Redux.”

Bill Murray in "City of Ember, directed by Gil Kenan.

Rob Brown in “The Express.”

From left, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett and Tom Cavanagh in "Breakfast with Scot."

Jorge Roman as Alvaro in "La León."

Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig in "Nights and Weekends."

Daddy Yankee in "Talento de Barrio."

Steven Weber, left, and Alex Linz in "Choose Connor."

Claire Ilboudo stars as a teenager who tries to right an injustice.

Gerard Butler, left, and Idris Elba as partners in London crime in “RocknRolla.”

MOVIES.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences agreed to allow television commercials for forthcoming movies to be shown during the broadcast of the Oscars ceremony.

Mickey Rourke plays the title role in “The Wrestler,” directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Tom Cruise as a high school entrepreneur in “Risky Business.”

Leonardo DiCaprio in the film “Body of Lies.”

A Sotheby’s auction of the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel’s possessions has generated more than $1.4 million in sales, Bloomberg News reported.

“We are virtually invisible,” Robert David Morgan, a regular on “CSI,” said at a news conference on Monday announcing a plan to expand media-industry employment of people with disabilities.

The film “Fireproof,” about a firefighter who saves his marriage by turning to God, has become a box office success.

A scene from his movie “Afterschool,” which will be shown at the New York Film Festival on Monday and Wednesday.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai as the blind swordsman in “Ashes of Time Redux.”

Mara Manus

One of Betsey Johnson's sketches.

The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of “The Class” (“Entre les Murs”).

Charles H. Joffe and Diane Keaton on Oscar night 1978.

Paramount Pictures said it had pulled out of a planned film finance deal that was meant to raise as much as $450 million.

Chris Farley

The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.

A fire erupted Sunday at NBC Universal’s studio lot in Universal City, Calif. In the foreground, a set from “War of the Worlds.”

In the gender wars, men generally win the race to the bottom. This past week though, women were the ones who seemed completely preoccupied by the reproductive act.

Ryan Kavanaugh

The Bond films, like “Octopussy” (1983), with Roger Moore, have given the character a popular identity beyond the page.

An unsettling vision from “Mother of Tears,” directed by Dario Argento.

GOT THE MEMO The characters’ styles change into one in the film of “Sex and the City.”

Pixar, co-founded by Steve Jobs, left, and Disney, run by Robert A. Iger, have a Hollywood marriage that works. Starring in their newest animated film is a robot named Wall-E.

Emile Hirsh stars in "Speed Racer," directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski.

Dorian Paskowitz and his wife, Juliette, with their nine children, around 1976.

Jason Yachanin and Kate Graham in "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead," directed by Lloyd Kaufman.

ATTENTION JOAN RIVERS If you see a carrot strolling down the red carpet, it may be Ellen Page, star of “Juno.”

The British actor Ian McShane outside the Cort Theater, where he’s starring in a revival of Harold Pinter’s “Homecoming.” “You do battle with the audience,” he said.

The “Black List” has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.

A scene from “No Country for Old Men.”

“The Great Debaters,” starring Denzel Washington, left, tells the story of the winning 1935 Wiley College debate team.

Henry Fonda in the 1946 film “My Darling Clementine.”

After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing “The Kite Runner” has whisked to safety four young actors.

"Juno," directed by Jason Reitman, stars Ellen Page as a pregnant teenager.

Gary Clark Jr. in John Sayles’s “Honeydripper,” shot in Alabama.

Luis Mandoki directed a film that examines claims that a combination of a smear campaign and fraud at polling places swung the 2006 Mexican presidential election to Felipe Calderón.

The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a “a massive rollback,” and called on their members to continue their walkout.