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Lil’ Kim will release her new album, The Naked Truth, on September 13 — just six days before the rapper is scheduled to turn herself in to begin serving a one-year sentence for lying to a grand jury investigating a 2001 shooting outside of New York City radio station WQHT-FM. MTV.com reports that Lil’ Kim […]

An update of the U.S. film calendar for this week and next. Dates are subject to change, and films initially may open only in select cities, mentioned wherever possible.
AUGUST 12
Wide
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (Dir: Mike Bigelow. Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin)
Four Brothers (Dir: John Singleton. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund)
The Great Raid (Dir: […]

Rank Movie Title Estimated Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross
1. The Dukes of Hazzard $30,575,000 $30,575,000
2. Wedding Crashers $16,500,000 $144,099,000
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $10,565,000 $169,023,000
4. Sky High $9,048,000 $32,050,000
5. Must Love Dogs $7,415,000 $26,278,000
6. March of the Penguins $7,135,000 $26,435,000
7. Stealth $5,800,000 $24,458,000
8. […]

Now you can search for available audio online:
Yahoo Inc. on Thursday will begin testing a new search engine feature that will pore through millions of songs offered by popular Internet music services like iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster.
The free service, available at http://audio.search.yahoo.com, boasts an index of more than 50 million audio […]

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch a film about 9/11 but obviously there appears to be an audience for such a movie:
Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello have been added to the cast of
Oliver Stone’s upcoming film about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center.
The movie, also […]

I love Samuel L. and manga, so this could be interesting:
Samuel L. Jackson has signed to star in and co-produce “Afrosamurai,” a live-action feature film based on a Japanese “manga” comic.
The story centers on No. 2, the Afro Samurai, who travels the road looking for revenge on those who murdered his father in front of […]

TV executive-turned-screenwriter Dan McDermott has been tapped to pen an updated version of “Charlie Chan” for 20th Century Fox.
Lucy Liu is attached to star and executive produce the long-gestating project, which centers on the granddaughter of the fictional Chinese-American detective.
“It’s a reinvention of the franchise that credibly passes on the baton to Lucy Liu as […]

It looks like “Invasion” won’t be a remake after all:
Nicole Kidman is in final negotiations to star in “Invasion,” a sci-fi thriller… The story takes place after a mysterious epidemic alters the behavior of human beings, and follows a Washington psychiatrist (Kidman) who discovers that its origins are extraterrestrial. She must fight to protect […]