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Film News: Actor to receive Golden Icon Award -- Sylvester Stallone will be honored at the upcoming Zurich Film Festival with the inaugural Golden Icon Award for lifetime achievement.

Film News: Marianelli, Newman, Iglesias nominated -- Composers Dario Marianelli (“Atonement”), Thomas Newman (“Wall-E”) and Alberto Iglesias (“The Kite Runner”) have nabbed two noms each for the World Soundtrack Award.

Film News: 'Baader Meinhof,' 'Duchess' among selection -- Teutonic terrorism drama “Der Baader Meinhof Complex,” Keira Knightley starrer “The Duchess,” omnibus pic “8,” and Isabelle Huppert starrer “Un Barrage contre le Pacifique” are among the first titles announced to unspool at the Rome Film Festival.

Film News: 'Olvido,' 'Vida,' 'Parque' among selection -- Heddy Honigmann’s “El Olvido,” Christian Poveda’s “La Vida loca” and Enrique Rivero’s “Parque Via” will screen at San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos panorama of contempo Latin America movie-making.

Film News: Film opens to record figures -- Danish pic “Take the Trash” broke local records for a homegrown comedy when it opened last weekend.

Film News: Net profit for first half rises to $9 million -- The theatrical success of Dennis Gansel’s hit high school drama “The Wave” and Gallic comic book romp “Asterix at the Olympic Games” fueled a dramatic boost in profit for Constantin Film in the first half of the year.

Film News: Pic's gross is $15 million to date -- "The Dark Knight" topped the Korean box office for the second consecutive weekend. Pic added 760,000 admissions for three weekend days on 463 screens, lifting its gross to $15 million to date.

Film News: Goldberger to write, direct Animus' indie drama -- Thomas Haden Church is starring in Animus Films' indie drama "Don McKay" with Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, M. Emmet Walsh and Keith David.

Film News: German actor eyes role in Tarantino film -- Teutonic thesp Michael Fassbender is in final negotiations to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s "Inglorious Bastards."

Film News: Members will receive missive today -- In a slap at SAG and its stalled contract talks, the DGA's issued a staunch defense of its new-media deal with the majors and its exemption for low-budget productions.

Film News: Jackson, Walsh, Boyens onboard for film -- Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have officially signed on to collaborate on "The Hobbit" and its sequel with director Guillermo del Toro.

Film News: Society will take over some of org's services -- As part of a massive expansion, the San Francisco Film Society will become stewards of the Film Arts Foundation, a move which pushes the film society toward filmmaker services and doubles its membership.

Film News: Paul Hogan to star in 'Charlie & Boots' -- Oz's new super federal funder Screen Australia has announced its first slate with 25 projects sharing $A86 million ($75 million) in coin.

Film News: 'Dragon Emperor' debuts at No. 2 -- "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" debuted at No. 2 at the Japanese box office for the weekend of Aug. 16-17, bettering the bow of "The Dark Knight."

Film News: Eon passed on film rights to Faulks' 007 novel -- "Bond Is Back," according to the costly campaign heralding the latest 007 novel "Devil May Care," but that doesn’t mean the tome will be turned into a James Bond movie.

Film News: Games takes chunk out of take -- The Olympics may have turned the Beijing sky blue, but the outlook for the box office is gray.

Film News: Festival unveils slimmed-down selection -- South Korea's Pusan Film Festival unveiled Tuesday a slimmed-down, more Asian-centric selection for its 11th Pusan Promotion Plan project market.

Film News: Snowden, White to write MGM horror film -- MGM has scared up the scripting team of Stiles White and Juliet Snowden ("Boogeyman") to pen its remake of "Poltergeist."

Film News: Director continues saga...for better or worse -- George Lucas, I wish you knew how to quit us. An oft-cited aspect of the "Star Wars" legend involves the director's foresight in claiming sequel and merchandising rights during that far-away time before the movie world was awash in them.

Film News: The evolution of the artform -- Anime properties such as "Transformers," "Speed Racer" and "Avatar" (the latter announced for M. Night Shyamalan to direct) may make for obvious tentpole fodder now, but the medium took decades to gain critical mass among U.S. auds.