Hard rock indie imprint Roadrunner Records is one of the first labels to open its entire song stable (Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman, Slipknot, Stone Sour) to the online revolution. For 99 cents a song, visitors to the Vault (roadrunnerrecords.com) can download any track, past and present, from the label's catalog, as well as B-sides, demos and unreleased studio outtakes. Entire LPs are available for $9.99. Both fees are identical to what iTunes charges.

Disney-Pixar's Finding Nemo caught a whopping $70.6 million, the best ever weekend haul for an animated movie.

Chester Bennington, the vocalist for Linkin Park, has been hospitalized after suffering severe back and abdominal pains. There is no word yet on whether Bennington's condition will affect the band's participation in the Summer Sanitarium Tour, which begins July 4 in Pontiac, Michigan, and also features Metallica, limpbizkit, Deftones and Mudvayne.

NBC may be held up for a stunning $550 million a year if the network wants to keep airing three hit Law & Order series. A three-season renewal deal would make every episode worth about $8 million and cost the Peacock more than $1.6 billion overall. If NBC bows to Universal's demand, it would make for the most lucrative entertainment deal in television history.

Plans are under way for a lavish musical adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which is expected to kick off in London's West End in 2005. The stage show debuts on the tail end of Peter Jackson's big-screen blockbuster trilogy. Jackson has already moved on to another classic King Kong.

The final buyrate numbers from WWE’s Backlash pay-per view are in, and they are very disappointing with a paltry 300,000 “buys”. This comes as a big let down to WWE who were expecting a much larger number due to the in-ring debut of Goldberg, against The Rock of all people.

Britney Spears is selling her Hollywood Hills home to actress Brittany Murphy because it holds too many memories of her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake and Britney's upset over limpbizkit lead singer Fred Durst's claim on the radio that he made love to her there. However, the 21-year-old can console herself with the $1 million profit she's made on the property.

Twentieth Century Fox has bowed to protests by theater owners and has delayed the video release of From Justin to Kelly, which originally had been set to hit rental and retail outlets only six weeks after its theatrical release. After some of the country's largest exhibitors threatened to refuse bookings of the film on the grounds that many moviegoers would simply wait six weeks for the video to appear, 20th Century Fox decided to postpone the DVD release until September.

Controversial rapper Eminem has been offered $2.25 million per episode to make his own TV show. American TV bosses - desperate for a hit to replace smash comedy series Sex And The City - believe the foul-mouthed hip-hop star fits the bill. Sources at network HBO claim the program would be both "controversial and raunchy."

Sony will release a new PlayStation 2-based console with TV recording and DVD burning capabilities within the coming year. Dubbed the "PSX," it will combine the PS2's existing game-playing capabilities with a TV tuner, 120 gigabytes of hard drive space, a DVD-RW drive, and broadband Internet connection hardware to create a more well-rounded and capable media playing device.

There's an Online competition encouraging viewers to pitch their own reality series at PilotProject.tv. The winner gets to produce his own show pilot and wins $3,000.

Jackass star Steve-O has been released from a Swedish prison after spending nearly a week under lock and key. The eccentric stuntman was taken into custody last week after he gave a magazine interview claiming to have swallowed a condom full of marijuana before entering the country. When police raided his hotel room they found an ecstasy tablet and 5 grams of marijuana.

Peter Boyle (Everybody Loves Raymond) has joined the cast of Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, playing classic Scooby villain Old Man Wickles; Wickles was the first villain Mystery Inc ever faced.

M. Night Shyamalan (Sixth Sence) has made his next project The Woods. Ashton Kutcher, Kirsten Dunst and Joaquin Phoenix are in negotiations to star in the film, which centers around a Pennslyvania community in 1897 that lives with the knowledge that a mythical race of creatures lives in the forest surrounding their town.

Adam Sandler is about to wed longtime gal-pal Jackie Titone. Sandler and the model-turned-actress will swap vows at the end of June. 

John Travolta is in talks with MGM and Danny DeVito's Jersey Films about reprising the wisecracking Miami mobster role he played in 1995's smash comedy, Get Shorty, in a sequel titled Be Cool.

Michael Mann is tapping Tom Cruise for Collateral, a drama in production at Dreamworks.

Vairety reports that Michael Ferris and John Brancato, who rewrote the screenplay for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, will now write the script for Westworld for Warner Bros., a planned remake which will star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ferris and Brancato also wrote Catwoman for Warner Bros.

Bill Murray has signed to do the voice for the live-action/CGI film adaptation of Garfield. The film will be released by 20th Century Fox.

The authorized KISS biography, KISS: Behind the Mask, is slated for release this October. It is a 450-page hardcover edition, and includes comments from such artists as Joe Perry, Ozzy Osbourne, Pete Townsend, Ted Nugent, Brian May, and Lenny Kravitz.

Barbra Streisand's has thrown a fit over an aerial snapshot taken of her home by amateur photographer Kenneth Adelman. She's suing the shutterbug for $10 million, claiming he violated her privacy and crossed the state's anti-paparazzi law.

Despite new information coming to light effectively contradicting the Pentagon's official version of events, NBC says it's proceeding with plans to shoot Saving Private Lynch, a TV movie based on the former POW's rescue.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America again named Narciso Rodriguez, a red carpet favorite of Sarah Jessica Parker and Salma Hayek, as the country's best womenswear designer.

Die-hard Matrix fans will be shelling out to see The Matrix Reloaded all over when it hits IMAX theaters this month.

Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie is officially back on the market - her divorce from Billy Bob Thornton has been finalized.