NEW YORK (AP) - The "Shrek" spinoff "Puss in Boots" landed on all fours, opening with an estimated $34 million to top the box office.

BEIJING (AP) - Rights activists have criticized a Hollywood studio for filming a buddy comedy in an eastern Chinese city where a blind, self-taught activist lawyer is being held under house arrest and reportedly beaten

As the run-up to holiday shopping intensifies, Target Corp. is saying its stores will open at midnight on Thanksgiving Day for the first time this year.

Netflix shares plunged 35 percent Tuesday after the one-time Wall Street favorite revealed a massive departure of subscribers angered by price increases and other questionable changes at the rental service that was created to make entertainment a snap.

Robot boxers defended their box-office title as "Real Steel" took in $16.3 million to remain the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend.

The Blackberry has left a bitter taste in the mouths of its users.

The YouTube channel for "Sesame Street" is back online after hackers forced its shutdown for a day by loading X-rated material.

Fans of Clarence Clemons will get to hear the Big Man in time for Christmas.

Shannen Doherty has married for the third time.

Actor Val Kilmer has sold the bulk of his 5,300-acre ranch in northwest New Mexico to a Texas oil and gas executive and his wife for $18.5 million.

Stan Lee's had a hand in creating many memorable heroes and villains that have jumped from the pages of comic books to popular culture.

One Reno restaurant and bar is working on revamping Thursday nights downtown with ladies' night.

A Brazilian director, an international cast and three made-in-Britain Hollywood stars - the London Film Festival opened Wednesday with "360," a tale of intertwined romances on several continents.

A Florida man was charged with hacking into celebrity email accounts in a computer invasion scheme that led to the posting of private and revealing information, including nude photos of actress Scarlett Johansson, on the Internet, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Attorneys for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death say the defense is dropping its claim that the superstar swallowed a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol.

A former Las Vegas prosecutor who handled the Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars celebrity cocaine cases has taken a plea deal that'll let him clear his own record in a felony cocaine case if he stays out of trouble for three years.

California corrections officials say a bit actor who appeared in the first "Austin Powers" movie is suspected in the death of his cellmate at the Central Valley prison where he is serving a life sentence.

To the ranks of New Coke and the Edsel, we can now add Qwikster.

Apple says first-day pre-orders of the iPhone 4S topped 1 million, breaking the record set by last year's model.

Hank Williams Jr. is about to have his say.

Prosecutors played a recording Wednesday in which Michael Jackson is heard discussing his plans to build a hospital for children in a rambling, slurred conversation with the doctor charged in his death roughly six weeks before the entertainer died.

Adele is again canceling concerts because of throat troubles.

As her grandfather sat pleasantly perplexed at her wedding, Lauren Barnes reached into the recesses of her strapless white gown, whipped out her iPhone and accepted her groom's Facebook relationship change to "married."

Actor Hugh Grant says Britain's leader has told him he will support reforms of the country's scandal-hungry media in the wake of the tabloid phone hacking scandal.

Singer Stevie B is disputing a claim he owes more than $400,000 in child support but says he's "moving forward" after being arrested and spending several days in a Massachusetts jail.