At the heart of “The Dukes” is the sound of Doo-Wop, which before there was Elvis or the Beatles, before punk, hip-hop or grunge, was one of the first major musical youth movements, helping to usher in the age of rock and roll.

Disney, Columbia, Screen Gems, MGM and Paramount are all involved in making teen-dance musicals. YouTube and realityTV dance competitions have fueled enthusiasm and, beginning with “Save the Last Dance,” in 2001, the genre has good record at the box office.

Oct 4, 2008–Three Latin American companies are adapting Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's narco epic “Noticias de un secuestro” (News of a Kidnapping) for the bigscreen.

Oct 1, 2008–“The United States of Tara,” starring Toni Collette, will be shown by Bravo on January 18, 2009.

Sep 23, 2008–Steven Spielberg and his wife-actress Kate Capshaw have donated $100,000 to the campaign to defeat a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in California. The proposition would restrict marriage to unions between a man and a woman.