Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen, who recently earned his first Emmy nomination for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, is seeking a hefty pay hike to the tune of a million dollars per episode.

U2 will be taking Kanye West on the road. The rapper will open the band’s make-up dates in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The originally scheduled shows were cancelled last year due to an unidentified illness in the U2 camp. The Vertigo tour is now the top-grossing tour in music history.

Warped Tour organizers say their Warped Eco Initiative has been a huge success so far this summer. Organizers say their recycling teams have collected 7,000 pounds of plastic, 3,000 pounds of aluminum, and 560 pounds of cardboard, all of which would have gone into venue garbage cans. The catering crew has also been helping by cutting back on paper goods. And the entire sound system is solar powered.

John Stamos will become a regular on ER this fall, when Sally Field, Andre Braugher and John Mahoney will make guest appearances during the NBC medical drama's 13th season.

Tina Fey, the long-time head writer and performer on Saturday Night Live is leaving the show to concentrate on her new prime-time series, 30 Rock. Fey also wrote the hit tween movie Mean Girls.
 

Outkast have turned down an invitation to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show to promote their upcoming Idlewild film and album. The duo reportedly couldn't agree on the offer, with Big Boi for it and Andre 3000 against. Oprah's perceived lack of support for hip hop has drawn criticism from the likes of Ludacris, 50 Cent and Ice Cube in recent months.

All-American Rejects have been forced to cancel the rest of their Canadian tour because of singer Tyson Ritter's vocal problems. Doctors have ordered Ritter to rest his voice for about a week. The Rejects plan to reschedule the canceled dates.

Rapper T.I. is taking his movie career to the next level. He's already made his mark as an actor with his role in ATL, and now he's written and sold his own screenplay. New Line Cinema has picked up the project, which will star T.I. as a car salesman at Atlanta's worst used car lot.

General Motors is breaking from its Break Through Cadillac campaign and dropping Led Zeppelin's song Rock and Roll, which it has used in commercials since early 2003, as its soundtrack.

Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell has written the theme song to the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale. Cornell will also perform the title track. This would make him the first male lead vocalist to perform a 007 song since A-HA in 1987 for The Living Daylights.

Two years after a planned concert special on CBS went belly-up, Madonna will give network TV another shot. The pop icon will star in a two-hour special on NBC that's scheduled for November sweeps.

Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst is getting married. The singer announced on his Myspace page that he is engaged to his 21-year-old girlfriend, whom he met over Memorial Day Weekend.

Janet Jackson is turning her album cover over to her fans. Starting today, you can download images of the singer to use in your own design for her upcoming disc, 20 Years Old. Janet will personally choose four finalists to provide artwork for special collectors' editions of the disc. 20 Years Old hits stores this fall.

Heath Ledger has reportedly been cast as the Joker in the Batman Begins sequel and an announcement from Warner Bros. is expected shortly.

The Doom Patrol is heading for the big screen. Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the feature film adaptation based on the DC Comic series. Adam Turner will write the screenplay, which will be produced by Akiva Goldsman.

NBC has picked up additional seasons of both America's Got Talent and its other summer competition show, Last Comic Standing, for 2007.

Nissan has yanked a bawdy new TV commercial featuring Kim Cattrall from New Zealand airwaves following numerous complaints from viewers who felt the spot's naughty humor was inappropriate and over the top.