Oscar voters on Sunday will have a chance to attend screenings of all five nominated films in the documentary category. Three are anti-war films. Michael Moore, who is among the nominees for his film Sicko about the U.S. health-care system, told the French news agency Agence France Press Wednesday, "The Academy has nominated three anti-war films: the thing that I was booed off the stage for is now being honored." He was referring to the negative reception he received in 2003 when, in accepting the documentary Oscar for his film Bowling for Columbine, he declared, "We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. ... We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you!" On Wednesday, Moore remarked, "Times have changed." Among this year's nominated documentaries is Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight. Ferguson, a former member of the Brookings Institution thinktank, spent $2 million of his own money to pay for a film in which more than 70 people who were involved in managing the war after the invasion were interviewed. He told AFP that he made the film because he had become "quite disturbed at the quality of media coverage of the Iraq war."

Disney plans to begin pitching its DVDs aimed at kids as part of the ad clusters screened in movie houses showing G- and PG-rated films. The company announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with National CineMedia's FirstLook, which delivers ads to theaters owned by such chains as AMC, Cinemark, and Regal in 164 markets. Disney President Bob Chapek said in a statement that the deal gives his company "an opportunity to showcase Disney Home Entertainment content to families in the perfect entertainment environment."

Both Warner Bros. and Universal Home Video said Wednesday that for the immediate future, they will continue to release product in the HD DVD format, despite Toshiba's earlier announcement that it will discontinue manufacturing HD DVD players. Warner reiterated that it will continue to release titles in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats through the end of May. Universal said that it plans to release Fletch in the HD DVD version on March 11. It has not yet indicated when it will begin releasing new and catalog titles in Blu-ray. Paramount indicated that it will continue to turn out HD DVD titles through March but did not indicate when it will phase in Blu-ray releases. When it reportedly received $150 million from the HD DVD camp last year to adopt that format exclusively, Paramount shelved its remaining Blu-ray stock. It was not immediately clear whether those disks were destroyed or whether they can now be dusted off and distributed.

Sylvester Stallone said Wednesday that he doesn't "want to be left out" of the court proceedings against former private eye Anthony Pellicano, who has been accused of illegally wiretapping several movie stars while they were involved in litigation. In an interview with the Associated Press, Stallone said that he was not surprised to learn that his phone conversations had been monitored. "In this town, nothing seems as it is," Stallone told the A.P. "There's so much skullduggery." The wire service says that Stallone's calls were intercepted in Feb. 2002 while he was involved in a $17.3-million lawsuit against his former business manager, who, he said, gave him bad advice to hold on to his stake in the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. The suit was later settled.

The Walt Disney Co. plans to release Destino, a film that began as a 1946 collaboration between Disney and surrealist Salvador Dali and completed in 2003 under the supervision of Walt's nephew, Roy E. Disney. Disney said that it expects to release the film as part of a two-disc "Walt Disney Treasures" set on November 11, 2008. The set will also include a feature-length documentary describing how the partnership between Disney and Dali developed. Another feature included in the package will be a short entitled "The Disney That Almost Was," about Disney projects that never came to full fruition.

There was no stopping American Idol Wednesday night. For the second night in a row the talent contest drew a bigger audience than all of its competition combined. The show averaged a 16.6 rating and a 25 share, peaking in the final half hour with a 17.8/27. That put Wednesday's show ahead of Tuesday's, with an actual audience numbering 30.64 million tuning in in the 9:00 p.m. hour, according to Nielsen Research. The show obliterated CBS's Big Brother, a summer reality series looking to establish itself during the regular season. However, during the 8:00 p.m. hour, it drew a 3.3/5, the lowest ratings for any program from a major network Wednesday night.

Last week's ratings results could not have lifted the spirits of Writers Guild of America members. Of the top ten shows only three were scripted. ABC's Lost placed highest on the list -- tied, with two other shows four fourth place. CBS's Two and a Half Men came in at No. 8 and the network's NCIS tied for tenth. Once again, Fox's American Idol blew away the competition, with the Tuesday performance edition capturing first place with a 16.6 rating and a 25 share. Not quite making the top ten was NBC's 2-hour "backdoor pilot" of Knight Rider, which tied for twelfth. Overall, Fox came out on top for the week with an average 6.7 rating and an 11 share. NBC finished second with a 5.5/9, barely edging out CBS with a 5.2/8. ABC trailed with a 4.4/7.

The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research: 1. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 16.6/25; 2. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 14.3/22; 3. The Moment of Truth, Fox, 8.4/13; 4. 60 Minutes, CBS, 8.1/14; 4. (tie) Deal or No Deal, (Monday), NBC, 8.1/13; 4. (tie) Lost, ABC, 8.1/13; 7. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC, 7.8/12; 8. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 7.7/11; 9. Deal or No Deal 2/14 (Thursday), NBC, 7.6/13; 10. NCIS, CBS, 7.5/11; 10. Survivor: Micronesia, CBS, 7.5/12.

In a move that some analysts interpreted as an act of retaliation against the NFL for allowing both CBS and NBC to carry the NFL Network's coverage of the New England Patriots-New York Giants game at the end of last season, DISH Network said on Wednesday that it has yanked the network from its "Top 100" package, the most popular of its subscriber packages, and had downgraded it to its "Top 200" package. The move leaves the NFL Network, which has been in a fight with cable TV operators to be included in basic-cable packages, with four million fewer potential viewers. A spokesman for the NFL said, "We are aware of Dish's unfortunate decision, which is not in the best interest of its many subscribers who are football fans."

Hyundai, which had said in January that it was considering yanking its two ads from the Super Bowl telecast because of the declining economy and the spots' $5.4-million total cost, now says it has no regrets about its ultimate decision to remain a sponsor. "It was a calculated risk that paid off," Joel Ewanick, Hyundai's marketing chief, told today's (Thursday) New York Times.The two spots promoted a new luxury sedan, the Genesis, that the company plans to introduce this summer. Ewanick said 45 million people inquired about the car following the telecast and that the company continues to receive inquiries. He said he has now begun to make preparations for the 2009 game. "I'm already starting my sales pitch internally," he told the Times.

A 20-year-old woman who was seen on ABC's Primetime magazine in 2006 being verbally and physically abused by her father and stepmother when she was 15 has sued the network and the principals connected with the broadcast, including host Diane Sawyer, charging negligence and recklessness. For the broadcast, thousands of hours of video was shot in the Nelson home over a three year period, much of it showing parents Joe and Lynn Nelson, screaming obscenities at their daughter Kyle, who sometimes is seen shouting back in kind. In one scene the father begins pummeling Kyle repeatedly. After it aired, the network reportedly was flooded with calls asking why ABC personnel had not intervened and reported the abuse to authorities. Kyle's attorney, Matthew Norfolk, told the Plattsburgh Press-Republican on Wednesday, "We maintain that a situation of continual, ongoing child abuse could have been stopped by ABC." He charged that by wiring the home for video, ABC "created the atmosphere and environment -- literally set the national stage -- for Kyle to be a victim of emotional and sometimes physical abuse by her father and stepmother, who we believe were dead-set on getting their 15 minutes of fame."