“All this work, and that’s what it took to be a superstar in her eyes,” Travolta says. “That’s the one thing she’ll watch, regardless of what it is.”

So, too, will moviegoers, it seems. Cranking out nearly three times the number of animated movies than in the 1990s, the industry counts on cartoons as its most bankable genre.

The latest offering arrives Friday with Travolta’s Bolt, about a TV dog who finds himself lost in New York

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MoviesOnline sat down with British actor Daniel Craig to talk about his new film, “Quantum of Solace,” directed by Mark Forster. Hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation on stage, screen and television, Craig returns to the role of the legendary 007 Agent James Bond following his highly acclaimed debut in Casino Royale, the highest grossing film in the history of the 007 franchise.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet tell a Revolutionary Road screening audience about why they chose the project for their first collaboration since Titanic.

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After a one-year hiatus that featured a writer’s strike and Kiefer Sutherland’s real-life trip to jail, ”24″ is poised to return for a seventh season of Sutherland’s Jack Bauer fighting for freedom in his own cringe-inducing way. The episodes start in January, as usual, but this year the producers are offering an extra helping of Bauer power: a two-hour movie prequel that airs Nov. 23 on Fox.

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 Ellen Kuras started filming Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family in 1984, when Thavi was 21, shortly after they fled Laos and landed in Flatbush. For 23 years, she followed the family through a long exile, joyful reunions, and painful separations. The result, The Betrayal, is a moving documentary about refugee life in America. The title refers not only to what Thavisouk’s soldier father suffered when the U.S. military pulled out of Laos in the seventies but also to the more intimate, personal betrayals that followed. Kuras talked to Dan Kois.

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You would be hard pressed to go anywhere in the world where people don’t know exactly what you mean when you say, “Bond, James Bond.”  Not surprising seeing as there are 22 movies spanning over a 40 year history; it’s a bit difficult to avoid exposure to the British agent with a license to kill.

The 22nd film, Quantum of Solace, is opening across the United States today, and so it seemed a good time to take a look at James Bond related sites across the Web.  From official sites to fan sites, and even one that prides itself on figuring out the real world counterparts to Bond’s gadgets, there is a bit of something for everyone.

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Aaron Eckhart is attached to take the lead role in an action movie for the first time.

The art-house specialist, who had one of his biggest roles to date in the summer, playing Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Batman sequel “The Dark Knight,” will now star in the sci-fi actioner “Battle: Los Angeles.”

The story revolves around a Marine platoon’s encounter in the battle on the streets of Los Angeles against an alien invasion. Eckhart will play the platoon leader.

Jonathan Liebesman (”The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning”) will direct the Columbia Pictures project, which has yet to set a start date.

Eckhart made his name working on smaller films, such as “In the Company of Men” and “Thank You for Smoking.” He returns to theaters next year opposite Jennifer Aniston in the romantic drama “Traveling.”

Sony Pictures could begin to look more like Disney.

The studio most identified as the home of high-testosterone action flicks aimed at young male audiences — think “Spider-Man,” “Men in Black” and most recently, James Bond — has aggressive plans to tap into one of the few rising segments of the filmgoing public.

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QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Director: Marc Forster 
Stars: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric 
Studio: Columbia Pictures

The Plot: Picking up where Casino Royale left off, James Bond (Craig) sets his sights on the organization behind Vesper Lynd’s betrayal. The mission puts him on a collision course with Dominic Greene (Amalric), a ruthless businessman who, Bond soon learns, is brokering a deal to take total control of one of the world’s most precious resources. Relying on allies new and old — including Camille (Kurylenko), a beautiful woman with her own agenda — Agent 007 looks to bring down Greene and his conspirators.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Director: Danny Boyle Loveleen Tandan 
Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto 
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Plot: The story of how impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik (Patel) became a contestant on the Hindi version of “Who Wants to be A Millionaire?” — an endeavor made without prize money in mind, rather, an effort to prove his love for his friend Latika (Pinto), who is an ardent fan of the show.

The bad news is that the ongoing credit crisis is going to make it harder to assemble film financing, which will result in fewer movies coming to market. The good news is that the ongoing credit crisis is going to make it harder to assemble film financing, which will result in fewer movies coming to market.

While the increasingly grim global financial meltdown hangs like a black cloud over this year’s American Film Market, participants at the annual AFM Finance Conference, held Friday at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, still saw a few silver clouds — albeit on a fairly distant horizon.

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