Riding the crest of good, if not remarkable, reviews, Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps topped the weekend boxoffice with $19 million. That figure would be anemic for most movies but it represents a high gross for director Oliver Stone. The fact that the original movie came out in 1987 made the lingering interest in the character of Gordon Gekko even more impressive. Stone made the rounds promoting the film, and for once kept his trap shut when it came to making provocative statements. Fox obviously wanted him to sell a concept both liberals and conservatives could agree on: hatred for Wall Street crooks and manipulators. The film represents a much-needed commercial hit for Stone, whose last movie was the much-ridiculed "documentary" South of the Border, a celluloid wet kiss to crackpot Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. For more click here

Although the porn industry is notoriously shadowy and highly competitive, it's still a business like any other in that its success hinges on copyright protection. Some of the biggest companies in the porn industry are uniting to stave off their greatest threat to survival: the proliferation of peer-to-peer sites that allow illegal downloads. The companies have already begun suing individuals for illegally downloading copyrighted materials and are moving against the the legions of Youtube-like porn sites that have sprung up recently that allow viewers to access thousands of porn films and clips for free. The result has been a massive drop-off in paid subscriptions to legit sites that own the material. While some of this material is posted by amateur exhibitionists, there are also thousands of clips that are derived from copyrighted videos. The companies will have a pretty difficult job controlling these sites as they can reappear rather quickly. Click here for more