Action-thriller “Parker” and comedy “Movie 43” are in a close race with Oscar nominees “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Silver Linings Playbook.”

The drama marks his follow-up to House and the second pilot this season from an exec producer on the Hugh Laurie starrer.

Arthur Abraham may defend his WBO super middleweight champ title against the man he won it from, Robert Stieglitz.

In November, a major fire killed 112 people in another factory in Bangladesh, raising questions about safety standards and treatment of workers.

Earlier, an Egypt court had sentenced 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster that killed 74 last year.

France has some 2,400 forces in the West African nation but says it wants African nations to take the lead in fighting the extremists.

“Blood & Chrome” is set during the first Cylon war and centers on young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino).

Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris fall in love, marry, and endure a most unusual illness in Michel Gondry’s first French-language feature.