Buzz News Roundup, 9/5

• Billboard warns us that we won't be able to escape the Barry Manilow this fall and winter, especially as he gets ready to release his jazzy holiday album.
• Variety has news about the Al Pacino-Robert DeNiro project Righteous Kill adding four more cast members, including John Leguizamo and Dan Futterman.
• Three of NBC's new fall pilots are now available for rent at Blockbuster, says the Futon Critic.
• Kelly Clarkson will, in fact, be resuming her tour, starting with a show at New York's Beacon Theater on October 14, the AP reports. Meanwhile, this year's "American Idol" tour isn't drawing crowds the way it was expected to, USA Today reports.
• ComingSoon reports that Ashley Judd will star in the drama Helen as a mother suffering from depression.
• "General Hospital" star Annie Wersching is joining the cast of "24," Zap2it reports.
• According to Billboard, Aerosmith will be returning to the recording studio in November.
• It's a "Roseanne" reunion for Sara Gilbert and her TV husband Johnny Galecki now that Gilbert has joined Galecki's CBS comedy "The Big Bang Theory," states Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, Jerry O'Connell's real-life wife, Rebecca Romijn, will guest-star on his new show, "Carpoolers," says the Futon Critic.
• Yet more Scarlett Johansson casting news, according to ComingSoon, this time she's in a diamond heist movie titled Brilliance.
• Atlas Shrugged, starring Angelina Jolie, finally has a director: Vadim Perelman, reports Variety.