The latest Risky Business-inspired commercial features four NCAA coaches with Metallica band members for the new lineup of Metallica songs coming to Guitar Hero. — Kotaku Check out today's big Blu-ray releases! Included in the lineup is Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire. — Switched Talk about being connected to the tech gods. It's rumored that Howard Stern will be getting a Palm Pre Read more

Metallica and Run-D.M.C. are among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. — E! Online The Japanese anime TV series Cowboy Bebop is being adapted for the big screen, with Keanu Reeves attached to star as a bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071. — The Hollywood Reporter Amy Ryan has joined the cast of Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating. — Read more

Remember hand-fart musician, aka the Manualist? For the easily amused (namely, me), I just couldn't get enough. He'd perform familiar songs with his hands, raising the questions, "Is this real?" and then, just, "Why?!" With this guy who performs Metallica's awesome song "Enter Sandman" with the kazoo, simply sit back and be awed. He really is good — and the costumes and showmanship don't Read more

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced this year's class of nominees, and there are some big names on the list. The Hall of Fame is following up last year's class, which featured the likes of Madonna, Leonard Cohen, and John Mellencamp, with a group of nominees including Metallica, Run-DMC, and the Stooges. In total, nine acts made the short list. In addition to the names above, guitarist Read more

Meet Mick Cassidy. Apparently, this guy has nothing better to do than to wait for Metallica to come out with a new album. (Which means more time to devote to you!) Metallica's last album St. Anger was released in 2003. It took three years, in 2006, for Mick to say enough's enough, and make a vow that he wouldn't shave until they released another album. And then they did: Death Magnet. James Read more

TNT has renewed Saving Grace and Raising the Bar, while HBO has OK'd a second season of True Blood. — Zap2it Nicole Kidman may become an action star, now that she's in talks to be in the "character-driven, treasure-hunting" action-adventure The Eighth Wonder. — Hollywood Reporter Fred Wolf (director of The House Bunny) will write and direct the dude road trip movie Divorced Guys, which will Read more

Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week's iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. In addition to my picks below, Jem's new album, Down to Earth, featuring her popular single "Crazy" is out today, though I can't locate Read more

Stephenie Meyer's final installment in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, sold 1.3 million copies in one day, the AP reports. The new Metallica album, Death Magnetic will be released on a Friday — September 12 — rather than on a Tuesday, which is the norm, writes Billboard. Stephen Root of Office Space and NewsRadio is joining Pushing Daisies for four episodes as a character with Read more