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AFP - Country star Taylor Swift and quirky pop singer Lady Gaga were among the early winners Sunday as the stars came out at the 52nd Grammy Awards, the music industry's equivalent of the Oscars.

Reuters - Walt Disney Co is looking to sell what is left of its Miramax film unit, which could bring in more than $700 million, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing a mergers and acquisitions expert with knowledge of the process.

AFP - Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman took to the red carpet in London on Sunday for the British premiere of "Invictus", about Nelson Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

AP - "Avatar" is on the cusp of toppling the domestic box-office record after leading all movies for a seventh straight week.

AP - Kathryn Bigelow and "The Hurt Locker" became official awards-season front-runners Saturday after Bigelow won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America.

AFP - Science-fiction epic "Avatar" topped the North American box office for the seventh week running, taking in 30 million dollars one week after it broke the all time ticket sales record set by "Titanic," weekend estimates showed Sunday.

Reuters - "Avatar" ventured further into rarefied territory at the worldwide box office during the weekend, surpassing the $2 billion mark days after it broke the record held by "Titanic."

Newsarama.com - Rod Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Productions and son of sci-fi legend Gene Roddenberry announced that they've entered into a deal with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Television to produce Gene Roddenberry's pilot The Questor Tapes. Originally developed as a television series by Gene Roddenberry, the pilot didn't move forward, and was finally produced as a television movie in 1974. The titular character of Questor was the original model in many ways for later Star Trek: The Next Generation character Data. ...

Reuters - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director award from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday with her Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker," a low-budget film gathering awards steam ahead of the Oscars.

AFP - Kathryn Bigelow won the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards here Saturday, taking home the prize for her acclaimed Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker."