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Thousands of comic aficionados are flooding San Diego today for Comic-Con 2010, and documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is on the scene, capturing it all for his upcoming movie about the event he's dubbed "nerd nirvana." "You can cut the excitement in San Diego with a light saber!" he tells Rolling ...

Amy Adams is set to play Janis Joplin in a forthcoming biopic titled Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, which will be directed by City of God director Fernando Meirelles. "It's definitely true," a rep for the actress tells Rolling Stone. No studio has signed on to release the ...

Trent Reznor promised fans he'd keep making music despite retiring Nine Inch Nails from the road, and so far he's delivered: his new band with wife Mariqueen Maandig, How to Destroy Angels, released a free EP earlier this summer, and now Reznor has revealed he's recording the score for the ...

Juliette Lewis wants her life to be "dangerous": "I need the unknown." So when she was a film star, she wanted to become a singer — and once she became a rock star, she wanted to become an actress again. And now she's attempting to do both, going on tour ...

Charlotte Gainsbourg had no problem acting out the genital mutilation scenes in Lars von Trier's Antichrist. She didn't flinch at singing about incest with her father, Serge Gainsbourg on 1984's "Lemon Incest," when she was 13 years old. But when it came to the idea of portraying her late father ...

Dennis Hopper — actor (Rebel Without a Cause, Blue Velvet), director (Easy Rider, Colors), screenwriter, photographer, painter, hellraiser, raconteur, and no-bull Hollywood legend — died of prostate cancer at his house in Venice Beach, in Los Angeles today. He was 74. Hopper may have had the surest hand on the ...

In the latest issue of Rolling Stone , contributing editor Erik Hedegaard uncovers the mysteries of Russell Brand and Katy Perry's relationship, getting the comic genius to open up about proposing to the pop star in Thailand earlier this year. "It was amazing," Brand says. "I didn't make the decision. ...

With Saturday Night Live star Will Forte's MacGruber arriving in theaters this weekend, Rolling Stone asked Best Week Ever comic Paul Scheer to break down the five best SNL sketch-to-screen adaptations. Scheer, who will take the stage at Bonnaroo next month and has a role in a campy remake of ...

Martin Scorsese's documentary on the "Quiet Beatle," Living in the Material World: George Harrison, will not only feature never-before-seen images of the late rock great and new interviews with his Fab Four bandmates Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, but the film might include some unearthed music by Harrison. "Ultimately, we're ...

Director Martin Scorsese has completed filming his upcoming George Harrison documentary, now titled Living in the Material World: George Harrison. The filmmaker broke the news at the Cannes Film Festival, where he and George's widow, Olivia Harrison, are shopping the documentary to potential distributors. Living in the Material World, which ...

Katy Perry will perform her new Teenage Dream single "California Gurls" live for the first time at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, airing as-it-happens from Los Angeles on June 6th. "I'm proud to represent the West Coast at the MTV Movie Awards in the magical glow of the Hollywood sign ...

Pioneering producer and talent scout John Hammond, whose career stretches from discovering Count Basie in the 1930s to signing Bruce Springsteen in the 1970s, is the subject of a new biopic in development. "This is the story of a kid who decides to change America on his own," says Wall ...

Bob Dylan and David Bowie have had the honor of performing in front of acclaimed documentary director D. A. Pennebaker's lens, and now New York rockers the National are getting a chance to join the club. The band's Saturday night benefit concert for the Red Hot Organization at the Brooklyn ...

Twilight producers have made it a mission to provide their Twihard fans with stellar tunes to accompany each film — and the soundtrack for the upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is no exception. Muse, Vampire Weekend, the Dead Weather and Beck (joined by Bat For Lashes) will all contribute new ...

"We cut the track 'Sweet Black Angel' on the lawn, with the microphones outside," Mick Jagger recalled of the Rolling Stones' infamous sessions for Exile on Main Street last night in New York. "Just because we could." Jagger, Keith Richards, and producer Don Was were joined by admirers like ?uestlove, ...

The first time Iggy Pop heard the Stooges' "Search and Destroy" played back in the studio, "I knew I had something. I thought, 'This is that immortal shit.' " The revelation is just one of many packed into Search and Destroy: Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power, a making-of documentary ...

Oasis have earned no shortage of Beatles comparison over the years, and now frontman Liam Gallagher is taking his love of the Fab Four to the next level: he has acquired the cinematic rights to the book The Longest Cocktail Party, which tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Beatles' Apple ...