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• 'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Burbank at 38 (AP)

  AP - The Los Angeles coroner's office says "The Lost Boys" actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.

  
  

• Animal activists target Calif. sushi restaurant (AP)

  AP - Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove."

• Review: `Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence (AP)

  AP - All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.

  
  

• Robert De Niro set to play Vince Lombardi in movie (AP)

  AP - Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie.

  
  

• John Krasinski joins "Something" romantic comedies (Reuters)

  Reuters - John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side."

• De Niro signs up to play football icon Lombardi (Reuters)

  Reuters - He has played killers and cops in the movies, and two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro may soon take on the role of iconic U.S. football coach Vince Lombardi in a film backed by sports television network ESPN.

  
  

• Mexico targets Hollywood with tax incentives (Reuters)

  Reuters - Mexico has launched a $20-million tax-incentive program in an ambitious move to lure film production from Hollywood and other locales.

• Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA (AP)

  AP - Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.

• MGM expected to draw six bids by March 19: source (Reuters)

  Reuters - Six companies are expected to make binding offers for storied Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by a newly set March 19 deadline, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

• Bigelow's Oscars will change Hollywood, slowly (Reuters)

  Reuters - "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow wrapped her fingers around that little golden man called Oscar on Sunday and cracked one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, but truly shattering it may take more time.

• R&B star Akon goes to Bollywood (AFP)

  AFP - US R&B star Akon is to record a track for a Bollywood film, following in the footsteps of rapper Snoop Dogg who raised his profile in the 1.2-billion-strong Indian market with a similar foray.

  
  

• Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson join suspense film (Reuters)

  Reuters - Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson have been cast in the suspense film "The Ledge," which began shooting Monday in Baton Rouge, La.

• Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident (AP)

  AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.

  
  

• "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" a cold-case chiller (Reuters)

  Reuters - Revolving around an investigative reporter and his unlikely crime-solving partner, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy of novels were not so much best-sellers as international publishing phenomena.

• Review: `Our Family Wedding' surpasses stereotype (AP)

  AP - One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness.

  
  

• Why Oscar chose "Hurt Locker" over "Avatar" (Reuters)

  Reuters - By the time "The Hurt Locker" won the best picture Oscar Sunday, it seemed almost a foregone conclusion since it previously earned honors from the Producers Guild, BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics, the National Society of Film Critics and critics groups in New York, L.A. and elsewhere.

• De Niro set to portray coaching legend Vince Lombardi (AFP)

  AFP - Robert De Niro, a legendary actor who won an Oscar for his 1980 portrayal of famed boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull", will play ex-American football coach Vince Lombardi in a new movie by ESPN Films.

  
  

• Film, TV casting briefs (Reuters)

  Reuters - Actress Spencer Locke has been cast in a guest spot on the CW's "Vampire Diaries." She will play Amber Bradley, a girl who enters a beauty pageant along with Elena and Caroline. Locke has appeared in the ABC series "Cougar Town," the film "Resident Evil: Extinction" and the Nick series "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide."

• Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies (AP)

  AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.

  
  

• STAGE TO SCREENS: Brian Geraghty of "The Hurt Locker" and 'The Subject Was Roses' (Playbill)

  Playbill - Meet Brian Geraghty, the rising star of the Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" and Mark Taper Forum's The Subject Was Roses.