Black Eyed Peas and Hedley have been added to the line-up of performers at this year's Juno Awards. BEP's Monkey Business is nominated in the International Album category, while Vancouver rockers Hedley are up for New Group Of The Year honours. The Juno Awards will be held in Halifax on April 2nd.

Isaac Hayes, who has voiced South Park's Chef since 1997, has issued a statement indicating that he has requested to be released from his contract due to what he called the show's "inappropriate ridicule of religious communities."

Britney Spears is looking to go in a more rock ‘n’ roll direction on her new album. While in Hawaii, Britney is recording with legendary producer Bob Rock, best known for his work with the likes of Metallica and Motley Crue.

Training Day director Antoine Fuqua will be heading up a film based on The Notorious B.I.G.'s life and death. The film is being produced by the rapper’s mother and his former managers.

Tommy Lee has been in negotiations with the producers of the Rock Star show for the last few weeks to take on a star role in the revamped show format. The house band will be retained, with Tommy Lee taking the place of INXS searching for his next Rock Star lead vocalist. The winner will front Lee's next studio album and a tour.

KISS have cancelled their previously announced dates that were scheduled to take place this summer. The Chippewa Valley Music Festivals organization, which puts on the annual Rock Fest event, have requested a confirmed date from KISS for 2007. The organization is now working on securing a new headlining act for the July 22 day of their four day festival in Wisconsin.

Just like the Academy Awards, American Idol now merits its own pre-show. The TV Guide Channel will present an hourlong, live pre-show before each of this season's remaining American Idol telecasts.

Alicia Silverstone will play the lead in ABC's comedy pilot Pink Collar, which explores female relationships within the workplace.

Steven Spielberg revealed that he will be taking a year off from directing wherein his next project, his untitled Abraham Lincoln biopic, won't begin shooting until next year.

Bob and Harvey Weinstein are bringing martial arts to the stage and screen, nabbing the five novels behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and bringing the Oscar winning film to life in the theater.

Paramount Pictures has purchased a King Tut pitch from screenwriter Neil Crawford. The project is an action adventure romance film, loosely based on the discovery of Tut's treasures in Egypt in 1922.

The Great Buck Howard, a project which would have both Tom Hanks and his son Colin Hanks, will receive financing from Bristol Bay Productions. The younger Hanks will play Buck, an aspiring magician who goes to work as an assistant to a celebrated conjurer whose career is in decline. The elder Hanks will take on the smaller role of Buck's father, who's not thrilled about his son's job aspirations.

Warner Bros. Pictures CG animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be darkier and grittier than the previous three live-action Ninja Turtles films from the 1990s.

John Cusack will star in a film adaptation of the Stephen King short story, 1408. The original story told of a man who is a disbeliever of paranormal experiences, but finds his theories challenged when he checks into room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel.

Sandra Bullock has agreed to star in a film about Peyton Place author Grace Metalious, whose million-selling novel scandalized the nation 50 years ago and eventually ruined the author's life.

AFI and Saves the Day are among the acts announced as part of the Warped Tour line up for the summer of ’06. Also in the line up are Less Than Jake, Senses Fail, Against Me!, NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Say Anything, and Thursday alongside rock-n-roll veterans Joan Jett and The Buzzcocks. The twelfth annual Warped Tour kicks off in Maryland in June, with Canadian dates slated for Vancouver on July 18th and Toronto and Montreal on August 13th and 14th.

Our Lady Peace are hitting the road for 14 Canadian dates in support of their platinum-selling Healthy In Paranoid Times album. Joining the veteran rockers will be Neverending White Lights, Jets Overhead, and Pedestrian.

Bravo has purchased the exclusive rights to air reruns of HBO's groundbreaking Emmy-winning series Six Feet Under for the next four years.