When he showed up to begin shooting his new film "Five Killers" in the south of France last week, Ashton Kutcher encountered one of those unexpected glitches that regularly pop up on any movie set.

The global movie box office rose 5 percent to a record $28.1 billion in 2008 as fans sought to escape tough economic times through the triumphs of superheroes in films like "The Dark Knight," and "Iron Man."

The FX channel is going to be the TV destination for "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Kung Fu Panda" and other DreamWorks animated movies.

Walt Disney is going 3-D on a lot of future films and some from its past.

Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed.

Global box office receipts rose 5 percent to a record $28.1 billion in 2008, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said on Tuesday.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

Liam Neeson has completed work on "Chloe," the film he was shooting when wife Natasha Richardson died after falling on a beginners' slope at a Canadian ski resort.

On the surface, "Adventureland," director Greg Mottola's follow-up to his hit "Superbad," looks like another good-time, raunchy romp. And it certainly has healthy amounts of partying and pranks to go along with its gross-out gags.

Paul Bettany, seen recently in "Inkheart," is in negotiations to star in "Priest," a horror Western.