TV/Movies/Music

For September 1st and 2nd you can download the video to Madonna’s new single Celebration for free on iTunes! After the 2nd, it will be available for purchase.

The Walt Disney Company has purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock! Disney now owns the catalogue of 5,000 Marvel characters, including the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Disney hopes that by owning the comic book characters they will get back the young male demographic that they lost.
Even though Chris Brown’s interview with Larry King won’t be aired until Wednesday, some clips are surfacing on the web. When asked by Larry how Brown feels about the incident of assaulting Rihanna, he claims he doesn't remember doing it! Instead, Brown says, “I just look at it like wow, like I'm in shock, because first of all, that's not who I am as a person and that's not who I promise I was gonna be. Like when I look at the police reports, or when I hear about the police reports, I don't know what to think. I just don't know what to think. It's just like wow.” But when Larry clearly asks if Brown remembers beating her up, he says, "No. It's like, it's crazy to me, I'm like wow."

The Academy Awards are changing the voting rules for the Best Picture Category. Normally a member is asked to choose 1 nominee on the final ballot. This year, they wil be asked to put the 10 nominees in order of preference. If the number 1 spot being worth 10, number 2 being worth 9 and so on and so forth. “There are certain mathematical dangers with more nominees,” says the Academy’s executive director, Bruce Davis. “You could really get a fragmentation to the point where a picture with 18 or 20 percent of the vote could win, and the board didn’t want that to happen.”

After three years of negotiations, Activision has finally got the rights to have Smells Like Teen Spirit and Lithium on Guitar Hero 5. The company said it took so long because they had to talk to Courtney Love, former band member Dave Grohl, and Universal Publishing.

Nu Image/Millennium Film have given the green light to start filming Rambo 5. The storyline for the 5th film revolves around John Rambo as he battles human traffickers and drug lords to save a young girl abducted near the US-Mexico border.

The New York Times is reporting that EBay has reached a deal to sell its online telephone unit Skype to a group of private investors. The paper said that the value of the deal had not been disclosed but that an official announcement would be made later today.