Johnny Depp sells his soul to Disney by agreeing to star in a fourth Pirates film as well as play the Mad Hatter and Tonto (Variety)

MGM, intent on remaking every film from the ‘80s, prepares for Dirty Rotten Scoundrel redo (Hollywood Reporter)

American Psycho – The Musical? (Hollywood Reporter)

Janet Jackson departs Def Jam (Hollywood Reporter)

Bruce Willis to make his directing debut (Variety)

HBO, in a bout of wishful thinking, renews True Blood after only two episodes (Hollywood Reporter)

Chris Cornell co-writes first single from American Idol winner, David Cook (Billboard)

Lionsgate and YouTube unveil branded channel featuring film clips (Hollywood Reporter)

New documentary chronicles the Beatles / Cirque de Soleil show (Billboard)

Jude Law to play Watson alongside Robert Downey’s Sherlock (Variety)

Cheech and Chong enjoy their career resurgence (Billboard)

Metallica is back on top of the charts (Billboard)

Uh-oh, Ben Affleck is now rewriting his acting roles (Hollywood Reporter)

David Cook’s new album will drop in November (Billboard)

Burn After Reading becomes the Coens’ biggest opener to date (Hollywood Reporter)

A third XXX movie is in the works, the franchise must be big in Japan (Variety)

Hugh Laurie becomes even richer with his generous new House deal (Hollywood Reporter)

What Doesn’t Kill You is a first-rate South Boston crime tale (Hollywood Reporter)

Steven Soderbergh and Michael Douglas team up for Liberace biopic (Variety)

Yes becomes the latest nostalgia band to replace its front man with a tribute band leader (Cinemablend)

Marvel celebrates “historic” summer at the box office (Hollywood Reporter)

Sid and Marty Krofft are transforming their classic ‘70s TV shows into movies (Variety)

Not only does The Steam Experiment boast a top-shelf B-list cast, but the premise sounds like a camp classic (Hollywood Reporter)

Jeff Goldblum has the role of his career as a clown whose talents allowed him to survive the Holocaust (Hollywood Reporter)

Rear Window creator’s heirs sue over disturbing similarities found in Disturbia (Hollywood Reporter)

The Wrestler puts Mickey Rourke back on top (Variety)

Not realizing the 70s are over, Heart contemplates a new concept album (Billboard)

Lakeview Terrace does not boast a view worth paying for (Hollywood Reporter)

Two additional Spider-Man films are planned (Hollywood Reporter)

Rakontur Films hones the art of street marketing (Business Week)

Noel Gallagher gets attacked onstage during an Oasis concert (Billboard)

Bangkok is less than dangerous during its opening weekend (Hollywood Reporter)

Inside Man is spawning a sequel (Hollywood Reporter)

Chris Cornell and Timbaland put finishing touches on R&B-flavored collaboration (Billboard)

Guy Ritchie is back on top with RocknRolla (Hollywood Reporter)

Tom Cruise will produce and possibly star in serial killer thriller (Variety)

Nickelback finishing new album with Mutt Lange (Billboard)

De Niro abruptly drops out of Edge of Darkness (Variety)

Denzel Washington will star in post-apocalyptic thriller (Hollywood Reporter)

U2 delays new album, while the band continues writing and recording an abundance of hits (Billboard)

The new 90210 debuts strongly (Hollywood Reporter)

Guillermo Del Toro is an extremely busy man (Variety)

Raising the Bar does just that for basic cable television ratings, setting a new record (Hollywood Reporter)

The CW network kicks off the fall season with solid numbers (Variety)

Tropic Thunder tops the box office again, as the summer movie season comes to a close (Hollywood Reporter)

John Lennon gets the bio-pic treatment (Hollywood Reporter)

Ricky Schroder will direct a new Sci Fi Channel TV movie (Hollywood Reporter)

Meet the talents behind this summer’s biggest films (Hollywood Reporter)

How much is Project Runway really worth? (Portfolio)

Aaron Sorkin will make a movie about Facebook (Variety)

Blogger who leaked unreleased GNR tunes is arrested, let the free publicity commence (Billboard)

Bangkok Dangerous is a misfire or shoots blanks or some other pun that means the film is not good (Variety)

Burn After Reading is not for everyone but may hook some Lebowski fans (Hollywood Reporter)

Neil Diamond fans score refund for recent concert, not sure if concertgoers dating back to the 1960s will also be repaid with interest (Yahoo)

Babylon A.D. director disavows the film (Variety)

Genesis completes their series of archival boxed sets, after grossing big bucks during their reunion tour (Billboard)

Tyler Perry continues to amaze by using his own money to make television shows and wildly succeeding (Variety)

Is the public ready for a dark Superman? (Entertainment Weekly)

Fox will allow college students to stream two of its television premieres (Variety)

Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page rock out on Whole Lotta Love (Daily Motion)

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Tropic Thunder rules the box office again (Hollywood Reporter)

Bill Maher brings his sharp cynicism to the big screen with Religulous (Variety)

$5 million payment in dispute among members of The Doors appears imminent (Yahoo)

Could Mickey Mouse be in the public domain? (LA Times)

Stargate may outlive all of us on television (Hollywood Reporter)

Oasis rocks out on new album and still claim to be bigger than the Beatles (and the Jonas Brothers) (Billboard)

The Jonas Brothers debut at #1 but are still SO NOT the Beatles (Billboard)

Ben Affleck joins the new Mike Judge comedy (Hollywood Reporter)

Cable networks dominate the summer doldrums with original series (Hollywood Reporter)

Is Kerkorian interested in owning MGM for the fourth time? (Hollywood Reporter)

Leroi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band has died at 46 (Billboard)

Laurence Fishburne is joining CSI (Hollywood Reporter)

Peter Jackson officially signs up for the Hobbit film (Variety)

Warner Bros. battles Fox over rights to the upcoming Watchmen film (Hollywood Reporter)

Long delayed GNR album may be a Wal-Mart or Best Buy exclusive (Billboard)

The Donald hits a new low in shameless publicity by offering to buy Ed McMahon’s home and let him live there (Yahoo)

Famed music impresario, Jerry Wexler, has died (Yahoo)

Matthew Fox gets a raise on Lost, Sawyer’s going to be pissed (Hollywood Reporter)

Carrell and Fey team for Date Night (Variety)

Comic, Kick-Ass, deemed too violent for the studios, will be produced independently (Hollywood Reporter)

Mike Meyers to join the cast of Tarantino’s latest, hey it worked for Travolta (Variety)

Master P launches a new cable channel to rival BET (Hollywood Reporter)

DiCaprio and Crow team up with Ridley Scott for Body of Lies

Hawaii Five-O joins the remake parade (Hollywood Reporter)

DVDs will prevent Batman from reaching Titanic’s all-time box office record (Hollywood Reporter)

The stars of Lost seek more money and their costars follow suit (Hollywood Reporter)

Batman continues to dominate the box office (Hollywood Reporter)

Friends and colleagues remember the late Bernie Mac (Yahoo)

The great Bernie Brillstein has died, he was one of the good guys (Variety)

Sugarland co-founder sues for a cut of the bounty (Yahoo)

Brad Pitt signs up for Inglorious Bastards, Tarantino’s next film (Yahoo)

Ever wonder what happened to Evan Marriott aka Joe Millionaire? Come on, you know you did… (Entertainment Weekly)

Pineapple Express is off to a fast start at the box office (Variety)

Office actor BJ Novak grabs a coveted part in Tarantino’s next film (Hollywood Reporter)

David Simon casts Wire veterans in new television series set in post-Katrina New Orleans (Hollywood Reporter)

Mark Wahlberg to guest in front of the camera on Entourage (Hollywood Reporter)

Nic Cage and John Carpenter will team up on prison flick, sounds like an inspired combination (Hollywood Reporter)

Spielberg continues to negotiate his new independent DreamWorks deal (Hollywood Reporter)

Spielberg continues to negotiate his new independent DreamWorks deal (Hollywood Reporter)

The Black Crowes sue Gretchen Wilson for copyright infringement (Billboard)

The Black Crowes sue Gretchen Wilson for copyright infringement (Billboard)

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Howard Stern will remake Rock ‘n’ Roll High School and Porky’s (Variety)

Cheech and Chong reunite for comedy tour, if only smoking weed was still subversive (Billboard)

Miley Cyrus and Sugarland enjoy huge debuts on the albums chart (Variety)

Top Hollywood agent, Rick Nicita, joins Morgan Creek, not sure why he wants the demotion (Hollywood Reporter)

The Dark Knight succeeded because it was respectful (Marketwatch)

Cable networks continue to excite advertisers (Marketwatch)

Tropic Thunder delivers the laughs in a summer of serious superheroes (Hollywood Reporter)

Tropic Thunder delivers the laughs in a summer of serious superheroes (Hollywood Reporter)

The Dark Knight continues to set box office records (Hollywood Reporter)

Showtime revisits Studio 54 (Hollywood Reporter)

DiCaprio looks to enter the Twilight Zone (Hollywood Reporter)

Harold and Kumar will light up for a third installment (Variety)

Hollywood runs out of original ideas again and re-launches the Robocop franchise (Variety)

The Rolling Stones, in a long rumored move, sign a deal with Universal (Yahoo)

New Line contemplates more Hairspray – haven’t we had enough? (Variety)

Some real life casualties from the music industry’s downsizing (Rollingstone)

New Line prepares re-launch of the Nightmare on Elm Street series (Hollywood Reporter)

Pineapple Express delivers the requisite high (Hollywood Reporter)

Batman sets opening weekend records at the box office (Hollywood Reporter)

The Wire is snubbed by Emmy once again and for the last time (Yahoo)

Mattel wins case against Bratz maker (NY Times)

Sam Nazarian attempts to remake the Sahara and continue building his luxury empire (Wall Street Journal)

Materialism seems to have caught up with producer Scott Storch (Billboard)

10 will be remade, hopefully not starring Ashton Kutcher or the like (Variety)

The Weinsteins contend with rumors that their financing is running thin (Hollywood Reporter)

The Dark Night appears headed for a huge opening (LA Times)

Bon Jovi continues to dominate the concert touring industry (Billboard)

Paramount just missed the hedge fund gravy train (The Business Sheet)

Jimmy Kimmel grills his boss about the future of latenight (Hollywood Reporter)

The Dark Night has high expectations (Hollywood Reporter)

Britney Spears is actually working this summer (Billboard)

Billy Joel says goodbye to Shea with the help of some famous friends (Billboard)

Here are the complete Emmy nominations, if you have that much time on your hands (Academy of Television Arts and Sciences)

Emmy nominations have been announced (Hollywood Reporter)

Lionsgate and YouTube sign a potentially historic ad revenue sharing deal (Hollywood Reporter)

Billy Joel receives top-shelf documentary treatment (Variety)

Death Row Records gets auctioned off to very un-Gangsta buyers (Variety)

William Petersen will depart CSI (Yahoo)

Quentin Tarantino prepares his next blockbuster movie (Variety)

Michael J. Fox will guest star on Rescue Me (Yahoo)

Coldplay's first show gets a solid, if not stellar, review (Hollywood Reporter)

The Police will release a live CD/DVD chronicling their reunion tour (Billboard)

The Weinsteins and Showtime ink a potentially game changing distribution arrangement (Hollywood Reporter)

Guns N’ Roses will release long-awaited new single via Rock Band 2 (Billboard)

Lassie heirs win in court battle over rights (Variety)

Eddie Murphy’s latest film crashes and burns at the box office (Deadline Hollywood Daily)

Ron Perlman finally gets his due with the Hellboy series (LA Times)

The Godfather gets restored, heightening its darkness (LA Times)

BMG will likely sell out to Sony (Billboard)

Why does the Joker fascinate us even more than Batman? (Washington Post)

Dick Wolf and NBC squabble over the Law & Order fortune (Wall Street Journal)

Former New Line Cinema heads launch new production company (Variety)

VH1 and assorted musician fans pay tribute to the Who (Billboard)

Lou Gramm tackles Christian rock on his next post-Foreigner album (Billboard)

John Cusack sues to receive his $4.5 million salary, read the lawsuit here if you’re into that sort of thing (TMZ)

New movie, August, captures the rise and fall of an Internet entrepreneur (Portfolio)

Sumner Redstone continues to slug it out with his daughter and expects to reach 105 or 115 (NY Times)

Guys from New Jersey are dominating the concert grosses this year (LA Times)

Robert Downey, Jr. will tackle legendary Sherlock Holmes (Hollywood Reporter)

Hellboy 2’s long, arduous path to the big screen (Hollywood Reporter)

Avoid the summer re-run blues, with fresh Office webisodes (Variety)

Even celebrities are feeling the foreclosure pain (Yahoo)

Hulk Vs. Hulk postmortem (Hollywood Reporter)

The Day the Earth Stood Still trailer has arrived

BMI celebrates the music of Hall & Oates (Billboard)

Lyle Lovett contemplates a possible future without a traditional record deal (Billboard)

Live readies its first live CD, finally living up to their band name (Billboard)

The Dark Night receives rave early reviews (Hollywood Reporter)

The upcoming television season is handicapped (Hollywood Reporter)

Billboard celebrates Sub Pop’s first 20 influential years in the music business (Billboard)

Nickelback is the latest act to sign a 360 deal with Live Nation (Yahoo)

P&G enters the music biz...Would you like a CD with that box of Tide? (NY Times)

John Oates’ mustache becomes a superhero, finally! (Billboard)

Motley Crue sues managers over money, read the filing here (TMZ)

BMG seeks to unload its stake in Sony-BMG music group (Financial Times)

The new Incredible Hulk film receives a glowing review (Hollywood Reporter)

Billy Bob Thornton releases his new album, no that’s not a typo (Hollywood Reporter)

The 16 worst movie accents (Entertainment Weekly)

The Happening gets a mixed review but is an improvement over Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water (Hollywood Reporter)

Foo Fighters perform Ramble On with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones (Billboard)

Foo Fighters perform Rock 'n' Roll with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones (Billboard)

Could a Brandon Walsh toilet seat be in the cards? (Hollywood Reporter)

Spielberg mulls going independent again, not good news for Paramount (Hollywood Reporter)

Kung Fu Panda messes with the Zohan (Variety)

DiCaprio will portray one of the videogame industry’s founding supergeeks in Atari film (Hollywood Reporter)

the latest of these being AC/DC (Billboard)

Wal-Mart increasingly signs exclusive distribution pacts with musical acts (NY Times),

Disney quietly profits from small venture capital investments (Businessweek)

Adam Sandler gets into the horror movie business (Hollywood Reporter)

Van Halen’s tour with David Lee Roth was a big moneymaker, next up Gary Cherone? (Billboard)

Foreclosure reaches the celebrity set (Wall Street Journal)

Guy Ritchie will “re-imagine” the Sherlock Holmes legend (Hollywood Reporter)

Note to Richard Hatch: When you win $1 million in front of millions of television viewers, you may want to pay the tax bill. (Hollywood Reporter)

TiVo’s stock price is stuck on pause (Hollywood Reporter)

Radiohead hits iTunes, Beatles remain a major holdout (Billboard)

Simpsons voice actors to make $8 million each next season, D'oh! (Hollywood Reporter)

Tribute to the late, great Bo Diddley (Washington Post)

Jewel dreams about Bob Dylan and answers inane questions from strange fans (Yahoo)

BMG contemplates its next steps as a media powerhouse (NY Times)

Tori Amos joins the many artists who are taking the independent label route (Billboard)

Edgar Bronfman discusses the current state of the music industry in this video interview (Financial Times)

Fire at Universal Studios destroys iconic clock tower from Back to the Future (Hollywood Reporter)

Sex and the City opens very BIG (Hollywood Reporter)

Prince blocks his cover of Radiohead’s Creep, but the band wants to unblock it (Yahoo)

Eddie Murphy will dust off the Axel Foley costume for another Beverly Hills Cop (Variety)

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Robert Sillerman lowers bid to take American Idol producer private (NY Post)

3 Doors Down are apparently still really popular, who knew? (Billboard)

Jessica Simpson goes country, listen here...

Sharon Stone's movies are banned in China, how will the Chinese survive without Sliver? (Hollywood Reporter)

Edgar Bronfman, Jr. continues his spectacular wealth destruction (The Star)

Indiana Jones prints money for guys (Spielberg, Lucas and Ford) who don’t need any more (LA Times)

Hollywood film studios try to remove some uncertainty by sticking with tried and true release dates (LA Times)

Legendary director/actor Sydney Pollack has died (Hollywood Reporter)

Slick Rick has been pardoned and can now avoid the worst punishment of all: being deported to England (Yahoo)

Phil Spector will be re-tried (Billboard)

Lou Pearlman gets 25 years in prison but not for his musical taste (Billboard)

Flash Gordon joins the parade of remakes (Hollywood Reporter)

Let's just hope it does not turn out like this...

Ad Age names the top entertainment marketers (Advertising Age)

Summit to remake Highlander series, begging the question: how long should a company wait before remaking a film franchise? (Hollywood Reporter)

Fox launches "human Tetris" game show (Hollywood Reporter)

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Jennifer Hudson will release debut album, after winning an Academy Award, kind of anti-climatic? (Billboard)

Prince Caspian opens strongly at the U.S. box office (Variety)

Indiana Jones has not aged well (Hollywood Reporter)

Fox introduces Remote-Free TV, viewers get to skip fewer commercials (Hollywood Reporter)

Denny's adopts new bands, but they're required to eat there (Billboard)

Nic Cage will star in remake of Bad Lieutenant, not sure why (Variety)

The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White are profiled in a new guitar documentary, which one of these three names is out of place? (Variety)

Fraggle Rock is coming to the big screen (Variety)