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Rock Rolls at MTV Video Music Awards (AP)
 AP - Rock was resplendent at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, as the veteran punk group Green Day took home seven moonmen and newcomers The Killers and Fall Out Boy won one each.
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No Suspects Emerging in Knight Shooting (AP)
 AP - Police had no suspects Sunday in the shooting of rap mogul Suge Knight at an MTV awards party — a typical development in the street-justice world of rap.
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'40-Year-Old Virgin' Retains No. 1 Spot (AP)
 AP - Steve Carell's second time at the top of the box office was almost as good as the first. "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," starring Carell as a middle-aged man who has never had sex, remained the No. 1 movie with $16.4 million, a strong hold from its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Celebs Scoop Up a Variety of Swag at VMAs (AP)
 AP - Few people can resist the lure of free stuff. Especially celebrities. Jessica Alba, Nick Cannon, Lil Jon, Shaquille O'Neal, John Singleton, Christina Milian and numerous other stars made their way to The Sagamore Hotel from Friday to Sunday to visit The Style Villa, where they could scoop up a variety of swag: lingerie, satellite radios, jeans, video-ready cell phones, free haircuts, even monogrammed boots.
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McCready Accused of Violating Probation (AP)
AP - Country music singer Mindy McCready is accused of violating her probation on a drug conviction, authorities said.
Stars call Weinstein for post-Miramax help (Reuters)
Reuters - It looks like Miramax
Films still needs Harvey Weinstein.
McCartney's publishing catalog is a pop treasury (Reuters)
 Reuters - Paul McCartney founded MPL
Communications, one of the world's biggest privately owned
music publishing companies, as the home to his solo
compositions following the 1970 breakup of the Beatles.
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HBO laughing with Manhattan moms (Reuters)
Reuters - HBO has ordered a comedy
series pilot from a producer of the cable channel's suffragette
movie "Iron Jawed Angels."
Studios Mull Changes to Movie 'Windows' (AP)
AP - Someday the phrase "Coming soon to a theater near you" could be replaced with "Coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you." The tradition of major films debuting first in theaters, then across staggered release "windows," including pay-per-view, home video, cable and, finally, broadcast TV, is being openly questioned.
Theater review: 'The Pillowman' (Reuters)
Reuters - It seems a bounty of riches
when not one but two great plays open in a single Broadway
season, but such is now the case with the arrival of the
National Theater production of Martin McDonagh's "The
Pillowman."
Stars call Weinstein for post-Miramax help (Reuters)
Reuters - It looks like Miramax
Films still needs Harvey Weinstein.
Revenge, an octopus and acclaim for Park (Reuters)
Reuters - Revenge may be a dish best
served cold, but South Korean director Park Chan-wook put live
octopus on the menu of his award-winning movie on getting your
own back.
Orphan's sad saga strikes chord at Sarajevo fest (Reuters)
Reuters - A
moving coming-of-age story about an orphan girl desperately
struggling to avoid a life of prostitution and degradation won
the top prize at the 11th Sarajevo Film Festival Saturday.
Poor films explains box office slump - survey (Reuters)
Reuters - The main reason for the
box office slump is the quality of the movies themselves,
according to a survey of moviegoers' opinions found in Internet
chat rooms and posted on message boards.
Director Lambert 'High' on vampire Western (Reuters)
Reuters - Mary Lambert, best known
for directing the "Pet Sematary" movies, has signed on to shoot
the indie vampire Western "High Midnight."
'40-Year-Old Virgin' Retains No. 1 Spot (AP)
AP - Steve Carell's second time at the top of the box office was almost as good as the first. "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," starring Carell as a middle-aged man who has never had sex, remained the No. 1 movie with $16.4 million, a strong hold from its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Studios Mull Changes to Movie 'Windows' (AP)
AP - Someday the phrase "Coming soon to a theater near you" could be replaced with "Coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you." The tradition of major films debuting first in theaters, then across staggered release "windows," including pay-per-view, home video, cable and, finally, broadcast TV, is being openly questioned.
"Virgin" Still Potent (E! Online)
 E! Online - For the second
straight weekend, The 40-Year-Old Virgin scored, just potent
enough to edge out the top newcomer, The Brothers Grimm.
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'Virgin' vanquishes rivals at U.S. box office (Reuters)
 Reuters - "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" enjoyed a
second romp on top at the weekend box office on Sunday, and
overall ticket sales tumbled to their lowest level since early
May in the dying days of summer.
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Robert Downey Jr. Gets Hitched to Producer (AP)
 AP - Actor Robert Downey Jr., the Oscar-nominated star of "Chaplin" whose struggles with drug addiction drew attention in the late 1990s, married producer Susan Levin on Saturday.
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McCartney's publishing catalog is a pop treasury (Reuters)
Reuters - Paul McCartney founded MPL
Communications, one of the world's biggest privately owned
music publishing companies, as the home to his solo
compositions following the 1970 breakup of the Beatles.
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'Hurricane' charts stormy days for Benet (Reuters)
Reuters - Even before all the hoopla
surrounding the dissolution of his marriage to actress Halle
Berry, Eric Benet was determined to record an album free of
genre constraints -- something acoustic and emotional, mixing
his old-school R&B style with folk, pop and other genres.
Country vet Stuart opens up his 'Soul' on new album (Reuters)
Reuters - There's something about an artist
having really lived life -- rejoiced in the good moments and
struggled through the bad -- that gives their music an extra
measure of poignancy. That is particularly true when it comes
to a gospel album, and it's evident in the heart and soul that
reverberate through every moment on "Souls' Chapel" by Marty
Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives.
Haden explores American song on new release (Reuters)
Reuters - Pictured on the cover of Charlie
Haden's new Liberation Music Orchestra CD, "Not in Our Name,"
is the same banner that arranger/pianist Carla Bley made in
1969 for the big band's self-titled debut disc, a jazz-fueled
instrumental indictment of President Richard Nixon's Vietnam
War policy.
Collins, Hartford tapped for Americana honors (Reuters)
Reuters - The Americana Music Assn. will pay
special tribute to songwriter John Hartford, who died in 2001,
and to singer/songwriter Judy Collins at its fourth annual
Honors & Awards on September 9 in Nashville.
Death Cab for Cutie makes 'Plans' for major bow (Reuters)
Reuters - Ben Gibbard describes Death Cab
for Cutie's major-label debut, "Plans," as his band's most
optimistic record to date.
Country stars Brooks & Dunn out to top themselves (Reuters)
Reuters - After more than a decade reigning
as country music's most successful duo, one might think Brooks
& Dunn would be concerned about Big & Rich, Montgomery Gentry
and other twosomes looking to take over their perch. But on
their new disc, "Hillbilly Deluxe," the only competition Kix
Brooks and Ronnie Dunn saw was staring them back in the mirror.
'Museum' tour set for Sommers (Reuters)
Reuters - Stephen Sommers ("Van
Helsing") has signed on to direct "Night at the Museum," a
family comedy loosely based on a children's book by Milan
Trenc.
Green Day dominates at MTV Video Music Awards (Reuters)
 Reuters - Veteran punk rockers Green Day
dominated at the annual MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday,
scoring seven wins including the evening's top honor of Video
of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
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Rock Rolls at MTV Video Music Awards (AP)
AP - Rock was resplendent at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, as the veteran punk group Green Day took home seven moonmen and newcomers The Killers and Fall Out Boy won one each.
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