Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory will pay $7.7 million The Pirate Bay, a free filesharing website whose management was convicted of providing illegal downloads, The Financial Times reports. The four men who run the site were sentenced to a year in jail and $3.6 million in fines in April after being sued by music and movie producers for providing copyrighted content to site users. The new owners, of course, said they plan to change the model to provide ways for producers to be paid for their work.
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Jun 30
2009
01:00 PM ET
Jun 30
2009
01:00 PM ET
Sandra 'Pepa' Denton, Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas doing VH1 reality series
VH1 has ordered celebreality series from two hip-hop stars — Sandra "Pepa" Denton of Salt n Pepa and Rozonda "Chili" Thomas of TLC. Both will premiere next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pepa's eight half-hour episodes will follow her as she searches for love after living celibate for years. Chili's eight-episode series will also focus on her own quest for romance, this time with the help of Brooklyn relationship expert Tionna Smalls.
Jun 30
2009
12:53 PM ET
'My Name is Earl' creator sets up comedy pilot at Fox
My Name is Earl creator Greg Garcia will pen an untitled pilot for Fox, Variety reports. It will center on a 25-year-old male who is forced to raise the infant that resulted from a one-night stand when the child's mother ends up on death row for murder. "It's kind of in the world that Earl inhabited," Garcia told the trade. "The same type of people. And with Yes, Dear, I enjoyed writing about families and raising children. So I came up with this idea, which in a way combines those two things." (The young father has a "quirky family"; his clueless parents are in their 40s.) Garcia hopes to get his Earl crew back together if all goes well. "There's a lot of disappointment and frustration at how [that show] ended," he said. "But after that, we looked for a new home and tried to make it economically work, but it didn't work out. We unfortunately had to finally call it a day. Everyone tried."
Jun 30
2009
12:31 PM ET
Jason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg in Kevin Smith's 'Couple of Dicks'
Jason Lee and Michelle Trachtenberg are joining Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in Kevin Smith's next movie, A Couple of Dicks, Variety reports. The comedy follows two cops as they track down a stolen baseball card and rescue a Mexican beauty, encountering gangsters and laundered drug money along the way. Trachtenberg plays Willis' daughter; Lee plays her stepfather. Seann William Scott and Adam Brody also star.
Jun 30
2009
12:18 PM ET
Amy Adams in talks to join Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale in 'Fighter'
Amy Adams could star with Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in the David O. Russell-directed drama The Fighter, Variety reports. She's in negotiations to play a gritty bartender who ends up dating Wahlberg's character, "Irish" Mickey Ward; the film, which begins shooting this summer, tells the story of Ward's journey from the streets of Lowell, Mass., to the world lightweight championship with the help of his brother, played by Bale.
Jun 30
2009
12:00 PM ET
Guy Pearce joins Katie Holmes for supernatural del Toro thriller
Memento's Guy Pearce is in negotiations to star opposite Katie Holmes in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a big-screen remake of a 1973 TV movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pearce will play a father whose daughter (Bridge to Terabithia's Bailee Madison) moves in with him, his girlfriend (Holmes), and the demonic creatures he refuses to believe share their home. Guillermo del Toro wrote the script with Matthew Robbins; del Toro protégé Troy Nixey will direct.
Jun 30
2009
10:15 AM ET
Redmond O'Neal allowed to attend Farrah Fawcett's funeral
Farrah Fawcett's son Redmond O'Neal will be allowed to leave the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif., where he is serving a jail sentence for violating probation on drug charges, to attend his mother's funeral later today, People.com reports. The private service will be held at 4 p.m. PT at the Cathedral of Our Lady Angels in downtown Los Angeles. Fawcett, 62, died last Thursday after a long battle with anal cancer.
Jun 30
2009
04:00 AM ET
Jackson fans will get concert refunds...but they could have a better offer
Ticket purchasers for Michael Jackson’s planned 50-night comeback concert may receive refunds sooner than expected, the concert promoter says. Ending speculation about when fans might be reimbursed for Jackson’s “This Is It,” performances in London, given the singer’s shocking death last Thursday, promoter AEG Live announced today that full refunds, including service charges, will be available starting Weds., July 1, through the ticketing venues like Ticketmaster. More information can be found at the Michael Jackson Live! website.
However, those holding vouchers for the now-priceless tickets, originally sold for between £50 and £75 ($83-$124), may decide they don’t want the money when they hear AEG’s offer. In lieu of the full refund, the company says it will send would-be concertgoers their actual, specially crafted lenticular ticket, designed by Jackson, himself. That offer remains valid until Aug. 14, 2009. “The world lost a kind soul who just happened to be the greatest entertainer the world has ever known,” said AEG’s president and CEO Randy Phillips. “Since he loved his fans in life, it is incumbent upon us to treat them with the same reverence and respect after his death.”
Jackson’s sudden death at age 50 not only sent plans for the concert series into disarray, but created a financial morass of personal debts, real-estate and recording holdings, and child custody issues that may take months, if not years, to settle.
Jun 30
2009
01:57 AM ET
Michael Jackson videos from studio, concert projects to be released?
Michael Jackson left behind an abundance of recently recorded videos of his performances, according to various news reports, including high-quality footage of rehearsals for his "This Is It" comeback concerts in London and a top-secret music video dubbed the "Dome Project" that Jackson wrapped shooting just two weeks before his death. TheWrap.com and The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that "This Is It" concert producer AEG Live has gathered 100 hours of video of Jackson and his rehearsals for his 50 scheduled London comeback shows, including a multi-camera, high-definition production shot the night before he died and enough audio for as many as two live albums. AEG, however, declined to comment to EW about whether they planned to release DVDs of the footage. Meanwhile, the Associated Press is reporting that Jackson shot the "Dome Project" for several days in early June, on four sets in the Culver Studios in L.A., including one set reminiscent of Jackson's iconic "Thriller" video. The project is reportedly expected to be completed July 15, but it is unclear when or whether it would see the light of day.
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LAPD interviews personal physician; second autopsy reportedly completed
Jun 29
2009
11:47 PM ET
Michael Jackson radio play rises an astounding 1,735 percent
Radio play for Michael Jackson's music catalog increased 1,735 percent in the three days following his death, according to Nielsen BDS numbers reported by Billboard. For the week ending June 28, 143 Jackson recordings have been played more than 67,000 times on over 1,600 terrestrial and satellite radio stations, and 22 of those tracks surpassed 1,000 plays. Leading the pack was "Billie Jean" with 4,540 plays (compared with 318 the week before), followed by "Thriller" with 3,570 plays, "Rock With You" with 3,546 plays, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" with 3,135 plays, and "P.Y.T." with 2,986 plays. Rounding out the top 10: "Beat It," "Man in the Mirror," "Wanna Be Startin' Something," "The Way You Make Me Feel," and "Human Nature."
More Michael Jackson coverage:
Joe Jackson: 'We're the parents. This is where they belong.'
Michael Jackson's mother granted temporary custody of his children
Janet Jackson appears at BET Awards
Doctor's lawyer says Michael Jackson was not injected with Demerol
Jackson's former nanny talks about singer's drug use
LAPD interviews personal physician; second autopsy reportedly completed
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