"Coraline," the first stop-motion animated film to be conceived and shot in 3-D, is visually dazzling, as you'd expect — but strangely joyless.

Kirstie Alley is set to star in a US version of hit British comedy The Vicar of Dibley. The former Cheers actress, 56, will star in The Minister of Divine as a preacher who returns to the small town where she was once a teenage rebel.