Front Page: Executive will handle international sales, ops -- Former Polygram chief Stuart Till has inked a deal to acquire the international sales and distribution operations of Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's Icon Entertainment.

Front Page: Actor set for Columbia's 'Last' film -- "Braveheart" scribe Randall Wallace will write "The Last Pharaoh," a Columbia drama crafted as a vehicle for Will Smith to play Taharqa, the pharaoh who battled Assyrian invaders in ancient Egypt.

Front Page: Paramount reteams with 'Spiderwick' duo -- Paramount Pictures is reteaming with "Spiderwick Chronicles" producers Mark Canton and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein to bring young-adult novel "Spanking Shakespeare" to the bigscreen.

Front Page: Film begins shooting next month -- Jessica Alba will topline modern-day fable "An Invisible Sign of My Own."

Front Page: Musical remains on top of foreign box office -- "Mamma Mia!" continued to do sensational biz overseas, warbling its way into the top weekend slot at the international box office with $15 million from 3,493 playdates in 39 markets.

Front Page: Spirits high due to strong audience reactions -- Cannes and Sundance are cinephile fests, and Telluride courts the arty. But the Toronto Film Festival offers something few other major festivals can boast: real audiences by which to gauge a film.

Front Page: 'Bangkok Dangerous' on top with modest take -- The fall box office got off to its shakiest start in years as Danny and Oxide Pang's Nicolas Cage hitman actioner "Bangkok Dangerous" barely beat holdover comedy "Tropic Thunder."

Front Page: Festival kicks off despite political unrest -- Unswayed by the country's political turmoil and warnings to travelers to stay away, the 2008 edition of the Bangkok Film Festival will open on Sept. 23 with Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

Front Page: Exec known as champion of new technologies -- Mel Harris, the exec who was an innovator in firstrun syndication and the homevideo biz during his 25-year run in the top ranks at Paramount and Sony Pictures Entertainment, died of cancer Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 65.

Front Page: KTTV nabs prizes for May Day coverage -- Fox-owned KTTV's coverage of last year's May Day melee in MacArthur Park -- in which two of the station's staffers were injured -- has now netted the station a pair of Emmys.

Front Page: Aronofsky film pins down festival's Golden Lion -- Darren Aronofksy's drama "The Wrestler," starring Mickey Rourke as a washed out pro-wrestler in comeback mode -- both on and off the screen, it turns out -- has pinned down the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion, providing the Lido with a grand finale.

Front Page: Nicolas Cage film pulls in $2.7 million Friday -- Lionsgate's English-language remake "Bangkok Dangerous," toplining Nicolas Cage, led the box office with $2.7 million in what was a tepid first Friday of the fall box office season.

Front Page: Show's direction to be reconsidered -- The clock's been stopped once again on "24." Production will be shut down for more than two weeks on the show starting Sept. 15, 20th Century Fox TV confirmed late Friday.

Front Page: Marketers struggle to pitch shows sight unseen -- It's tough to promote products you've never seen. But that's exactly what some network marketing chiefs have been forced to do this fall. With finished episodes of new series arriving late -- and with more retooling of rookies than any other year in memory -- several nets head into fall blindly promoting their wares.

Front Page: '08 slate puts breaks on dramatic summer -- Majors and their specialty arms are working to shake up the September-December stretch, after the post-summer traumas of 2007. But the question is: After a bang-up summer this year, can the studios keep up the pace?

Front Page: 'Rain Man' in previews while 'Calendar' preps -- There's nothing new in raiding movie back-catalogs for legit exploitation. "The Producers," "Billy Elliot," "The Lion King" and countless others have made money-making transitions from screen to stage.

Front Page: Studio acquires rights to Preston book -- Tom Cruise and United Artists have acquired rights to serial-killer thriller "The Monster of Florence," with Cruise attached to produce and possibly to star, according to Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller.

Front Page: Obstacles prevent Indian co. from closing deal -- It's the most overly reported deal of the year, but it never seems to close.

Front Page: Premieres include 'Rachel,' 'Wrestler,' 'Porno' -- The Toronto Film Festival got off to its customarily polite start Thursday, opening with a handful of modest deals and a gala launch of $20 million Canadian WWI epic "Passchendaele."

Front Page: Hughes bros. to direct post-apocalyptic drama -- Denzel Washington will star in "Book of Eli," a post-apocalyptic drama that will be directed by Allen and Albert Hughes.