Global movie ticket sales hit $29.9 billion last year, up 7.6 percent, with the most growth in the Asia Pacific region, the leading U.S. movie industry representative said on Wednesday.

They conjured box office magic with their Bourne spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller Green Zone debuts on Friday.

AP - Walt Disney Co.'s Disney-ABC Domestic Television and Liberty Media Corp.'s Starz Entertainment said Thursday they signed a new exclusive licensing agreement for Disney movies that will last through 2015 — three years longer than a previous deal.

If start-up Media Derivatives and broker dealer Cantor Fitzgerald have their way, investors may soon be able to place bets on the box office showing of summer blockbuster Iron Man 2.

AP - The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

Reuters - Giant-screen movie operator Imax Corp said on Thursday a strong slate of films, including the blockbuster Avatar, helped it bounce back to a fourth-quarter profit and it forecast a very strong year ahead.

Clint Eastwood is lining up his next directing project, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the nation's No. 1 crimefighter for almost 50 years.

Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.

Playbill - The box office at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre opens March 11 for sales to the U.S. premiere of Lucy Prebble's Enron, the highly theatricalized tale of the financial scandal and collapse of the American energy corporation.

WHAT Music-industry gathering in Austin featuring hundreds of acts showcasing for 8000 conference registrants and music fans. WHEN, WHERE Wednesday through