Kerry and Lavrov met on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit, where they signed a deal on nuke risk reduction centers in Washington and Moscow.

It also becomes the largest openings ever for Bullock and Clooney, and the 2nd largest for director Alfonso Cuaron.

Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy - the second installment opens this December - is the most expensive movie-making endeavor ever.

Finsterworld, Frauke Finsterwalder's darkly comic feature debut, won best film in the German-language feature category.

Elsewhere in Asia, a typhoon east of the northern Philippines blew away with no impact on the country.

Supporters of Morsi marched in several cities, as the military-backed government marked the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

"Let it be clear that it is the Syrians who do the actual destroying while we monitor, observe, verify and report," he said.