BY Leslie Simmons

{Hollywood Reporter} - 20th Century Fox has initiated a legal battle against Warner Bros. over the rights to develop, produce and distribute a film based on the graphic novel "Watchmen."

On Friday, the studio sued Warners, claiming it holds the exclusive copyrights and contract rights to "Watchmen."

BY Leslie Simmons

{Hollywood Reporter} - "Star Wars" is returning to the big screen in animated form.

On Monday, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. and Turner Broadcasting System announced that the animated movie "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" would hit movie theaters Aug. 15.

BY FEARSmag

- The VES Awards were given out last night during the Visual Effects Society's (VES) sixth annual gala event at the Kodak Theatre Grand Ballroom in Hollywood. The sold-out event attracted more than a thousand visual effects and animation artists, dozens of nominees and members of the film, television, commercial and video game industries. During the evening, filmmaker Steven Spielberg received the VES Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to the art and science of visual effects.

BY Duane Byrge

{Hollywood Reporter} - Roy Scheider, a brilliant stage actor who won movie renown as the small-town cop in "Jaws," died Sunday in Little Rock, Ark., of complications from a staph infection. He was 75.