AFP - Hollywood star Willem Dafoe has built a career by playing edgy characters dwelling on the fringes of society and, he told journalists at Asia's most prestigious film festival, he is getting more "reckless" with age.

AFP - The new Harry Potter film will only be released in standard 2D next month, after the US studio making it said it had abandoned efforts to convert the movie into a 3D version in time.

AP - Some serious character actors may be embarrassed about playing a comic book character, but Willem Dafoe says he's proud of his role as the villain Green Goblin in the "Spider-Man" movies.

AP - The new "Harry Potter" film won't be as dimensional as it was supposed to be.

AP - The William J. Clinton Foundation is donating half a million dollars to the J/P Haitian Relief Organization founded by Sean Penn.

AP - Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai says shooting two versions of the same movie simultaneously on a recent set posed the toughest challenge of her career.

AP - Some serious character actors may be embarrassed about playing a comic book character in a trilogy of Hollywood blockbusters, but Willem Dafoe says he's proud of his role as the villain Green Goblin in "Spider-Man" movies.

AP - Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva said she feared the Academy Award winner might kill her during a fight earlier this year, giving her first public account of an argument she claims turned violent.

AFP - Hollywood star George Clooney is on a tour of south Sudan drawing attention to his fears for war as the region builds up to a vote on whether to break away from Africa's biggest nation.

AP - Emma Stone will play Gwen Stacy in the next "Spider-Man" movie.

AFP - Indian cinema's most expensive movie "Endhiran" (Robot), starring former bus conductor Rajinikanth, had a record opening weekend at the box office, Bollywood analysts said.

AP - Though David Fincher and Trent Reznor were both central figures in the heyday of music videos, their most significant collaboration has come years later — not on MTV but in one of the most acclaimed films of the year.