Jonathan Demme is tracking former president Jimmy Carter across the globe as he promotes his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. He Comes In Peace promises to do for Carter's fight for world peace what An Inconvenient Truth did for the global warming compaign of Al Gore.

Participant are also backing Errol Morris's SOP, an expose of the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Avarice develops over 'Avatar' title A title clash of the Avatars seems to be lining up. James Cameron's $190 million Ava ta r , a 2001: A Space Odysseymix of live action an animation and his first feature since Titanic, is in competition with M Night Shyamalan's Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action version of the animated series. Cameron claims he's already registered his title.

IRELAND TOP FIVE MOVIES (weekend 12-14 January) 1 (-) The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino) Euro371,668 (-) 2 (1) Night At the Museum (Shaun Levy) Euro288,843 (Euro2,524,441 to date) 3 (-) Smokin' Aces (Joe Carnahan) Euro216,563 (-) 4 (2) Apocalypto (Mel Gibson) Euro215,514 (Euro2,488,032) 5 (3)Employee Of The Month (Mitch Rouse) Euro183,673 (Euro594,956) Compiled from Sunday Tribune industry sources US TOP FIVE MOVIES (weekend 12-14 January) 1 (-) Stomp The Yard: $22m (-) 2 (1) Night At the Museum: £17m ($185.8m) 3 (2) The Pursuit Of Happyness: $9.1m ($134.5m) 4 (5) Dreamgirls: $8.1m ($64.9m) 5 (4) Freedom Writers: $7.1m ($18.4m)