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Film News: Taymor, Gilliam, Jackson among honorees — Helmers Julie Taymor, Harold Becker, Terry Gilliam and Amos Gitai, and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover and Angela Molina are among the latest additions to the long list of career recognition recipients expected on the Italian isle of Capri for the 14th annual Capri, Hollywood Film Festival.

Film News: 3D pics, overseas auds changed gameplan — Back in 2000, studios were flush with cash and made movies for U.S. audiences first. New Line and MGM were still players. DVDs were new and had yet to turn into Hollywood’s cash cow. Watching a movie online was unrealistic. Brad Grey was still a talent manager. And Pixar was the little toon shop outside San Francisco that made cute movies on its computers.

Film News: Events prove the conventional wisdom wrong — Hollywood is addicted to visions of the apocalypse, whether in movies like “2012″ or in the pervading sense that the business is going to hell in a handbasket.

Film News: Exotic or foreign-set films dominate film category — The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. filled its drama category with a potential blockbuster, a star-driven small-scale vehicle, two war movies and an inner-city tale of adolescent perseverance.

Film News: Sony film takes $19.2 million in five weeks — Roland Emmerich’s “2012″ has become the highest grossing Hollywood film ever in India.

Film News: Japan’s giant distrib-exhib will unspool 30 pics — Toho, Japan’s biggest distrib and exhib, has unveiled a 30-pic line-up for 2010 that promises stiff competition for Hollywood in the already difficult Japanese market.

Film News: Acad noms films critics love but auds ignore — It doesn’t take a Hollywood marketing genius to see that there’s a growing disconnect between films that critics love — and that the Academy deems Oscar-worthy — and the films that the average American really wants to see.

Film News: PR/marketing companies form PMK-BNC — BNC and PMK/HBH have made it official: They will merge operations at the start of next year to form Hollywood’s biggest PR shop.