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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If sushi lovers think the price of their favorite raw fish is too high already, then new documentary "The End of the Line" may shock them with its argument that the real cost may be some species' extinction.

BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - German director Wim Wenders has stopped production on the planned 3D dance film "Pina" following the death of the film's subject -- the legendary choreographer Pina Bausch.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - After Robert Pattinson confirmed he was signed on for the fourth Twilight installment, Breaking Dawn, back in Cannes, we've all been dying for more juicy deets on the hypersexualized film. (More on exactly how much naughtier the flick will be, next week.)

PRAGUE, - The 44th International Film Festival opened Friday in the Czech Republic with a week of events planned, including an award for French actress Isabelle Huppert and a world premiere by Milos Forman.

LONDON (Reuters) - Boy wizard Harry Potter is back in cinemas later this month with the sixth installment of the movie franchise, and another box office bonanza looks assured for the Warner Bros. studio.

TAORMINA, Italy (Hollywood Reporter) - "Sister Smile," Stijn Coninx's film on the life of the Belgian "Singing Nun," Jeanine Deckers, owes much of its success in Belgium and France to star Cecile de France.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" grossed a cool $13.8 million in North American theaters on Wednesday, marking Hollywood's biggest mid-week opening for an animated film.

NEW YORK - James Frey (FRY) is writing for young people, and Hollywood has signed on.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - We pretty much knew the basic details of what was going to be in Michael Jackson's will based on the scant details that trickled out yesterday.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Karl Malden, the acting great who worked the Waterfront with Marlon Brando and patrolled The Streets of San Francisco with Michael Douglas, died today at 97.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - A would-be Oscar vehicle doesn't go up against a giant-robot movie and live to tell about it.

LOS ANGELES - The footage of Michael Jackson's last rehearsal may be coming to a theater near you.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Review in a Hurry: Though it's not as obnoxious as the trailers might imply, the latest animated adventures of a motley mammalian menagerie from prehistoric times (Ray Romano and Queen Latifah as mammoths, Denis Leary as a sabertooth, and John Leguizamo as a sloth) are about as exciting as watching snow melt.

NEW YORK - Former Fox News entertainment writer Roger Friedman is suing his old bosses for more than $5 million after he was fired for reviewing a leaked copy of Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Ze fashionpolizei is facing off with the football police.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Batten down the hatches -- the hipsters are coming.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A jury is considering the case of Jesse James Hollywood, who is accused of kidnapping a teenager over a drug debt and then ordering his death in a case that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Review in a Hurry: Johnny Depp and Christian Bale star in a karaoke version of a gangster epic. You'll recognize the melancholy tones, but the whole thing is off-key and forced.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie is Hollywood's top earning actress, banking $27 million in the past year to beat out her partner Brad Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, who raked in $25 million, a Forbes.com study showed on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES - A high school that was the location for a racy photo shoot by Sacha Baron Cohen's character "Bruno" has broken away from the nation's second-largest school district.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Christina Applegate is now family to Drew Barrymore.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With no high-profile theatrical features hitting DVD shelves, video consumers are turning to new material.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 5-11:

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Seth Rogen and James Franco have taken the pineapple express to Oscar credibility.

LOS ANGELES - Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage, screen and television made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Jennifer Aniston is definitely not a Real Housewife of New of Jersey, but that doesn't mean she can't enjoy the Garden State.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Actress Lori Petty's feature directorial debut, "The Poker House," a drama based on her teenage years, has been picked up for U.S. distribution.

NEW YORK - Harve Presnell, whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," has died at age 75.