THE NEW YORK TIMES released its review of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE this morning, calling it “alternately perfect and imperfect if always beautiful”. Hm (read more).

This weekend's box office is shaping up to be one of the most difficult to predict of the year, says the LA Times (read more).

Polanski plans to continue working on his latest movie, GHOST, from jail. Robert Harris, who wrote the best-selling novel that Polanski adapted for his film, said to the Times, "We will test to the upper limits the notion that there's no such thing as bad publicity" (read more).

The juice company Dole is no longer suing the makers of the controversial documentary BANANAS!. In the film, Nicaraguan workers say that they were made sterile by a pesticide used at a Dole plantation – apparently, they were actually recruited by a lawyer to lie (read more).

65 countries are in the running for an Oscar in the Foreign Film category. You can take a look at the extensive list here: (read more). A list of semi-finalists will be released in January.