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Catherine Hardwicke's book tops N.Y. Times best-seller list; see a video she's made to say Thanks!

I don't know why this is news, but I guess everyone loves to report on these two doing another project. When did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck become as awesome as peanut butter and jelly? They did their little Good Will Hunting thing, but I doubt if lighting is going to strike twice if they team up again. I know they were in that shitty Kevin Smith film (wait, Kevin Smith makes shitty films?) but is there really an audience clamoring for these two guys to be together once again? I know I couldn't (happy, grammar police?) care less.

Rhys Ifans announced on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" that he will play a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, though he did not reveal which character he'll play. You can watch the interview below - he starts talking about "Harry Potter" at the 5:55 minute mark.

With F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button” collecting a trio of Oscars this year, picking up the writer’s best-known work “The Great Gatsby” sounds like a great decision for director Baz Luhrmann. The wildly experimental filmmaker behind “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet” loves period pieces, so his choice to take [...]

Nobel laureate’s Al Gore’s follow-up to his best-selling “An Inconvenient Truth,” originally planned for last spring, is coming out this fall with a new title.

O'Reilly talks about the lessons learned by its foray into e-book publishing.

William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked four decades apart, but that didn't stop their book, "The Elements of Style," from becoming one of America's most influential and best-known guides on grammar and usage.

Paramount Pictures has attached Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman to star in a film based on the new Leanne Shapton book "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry."

Regular readers know we’ve been eagerly following Spike Jonze’s long-in-development adaptation of the iconic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” Our interest was peaked nearly two years ago when we premiered the very first image from the film, and again last summer when we unveiled a second photo.

The film is based on a futuristic young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins.