Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger will soon be prowling alone. The lead Doll has a solo record due in early 2007 with production from Timbaland and Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas. It’ll be a busy year for Nicole, as the PCD are also slated to support Christina Aguilera this winter on her 41-date North American tour.

George Clooney will be reuniting with the Coen brothers for Burn After Reading. The project would make it their third collaboration after O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. The project is loosely based on the novel Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence, by Admiral Stansfield Turner, who was the director of the CIA from 1977 to 1981.

A release date for Gwen Stefani's sophomore album, The Sweet Escape, has been set for December 5th. The new mom said she started working on the follow-up to her first solo album, Love, Angel, Music, Baby before the birth of her son Kingston this past May.

Sarah Jessica Parker will star opposite Dennis Quaid in Smart People. She joins a cast which also comprises of Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, and Ashton Holmes. Noam Murro will direct the comedy about a professor (Quaid) whose wife's death has left him a bitter man. Parker will play a doctor who falls in love with him.
 

New Line Cinema has greenlit Semi-Pro for Will Ferrell to star in and New Line exec Kent Alterman to direct. The movie is set in the world of 1970s basketball and tells the story of Jackie Moon, a flamboyant owner player coach of the fictional Flint, Mich., Tropics in the final year of the American Basketball Association. Woody Harrelson will co-star in the feature as well. Shooting will take place early next year.
 

20th Century Fox has picked up the rights for Wes Anderson to direct and co-write a big screen feature to Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox. The story tells of a fox who outwits three bumbling farmers who are tired of sharing their chickens with the fox. The movie will utilize different types of animation but stop motion will be the primary form.

Outkast frontman, Andre 3000 has a new project in the works. The Idlewild actor will star in The Battle In Seattle. The film follows the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting and protest, which resulted in a riot. Andre will star alongside Oscar winning actress, Charlize Theron.

20th Century Fox's much talked about Borat film won't be opening in as many theaters as possible. Instead of opening in more than 2,000 screens as originally planned, Borat will open in 700. A 20th Century Fox distributor stated "Our research showed it was soft in awareness."

Paris Hilton learned a valuable lesson after she was arrested for alleged drinking and driving in September. The socialite appears in a public service announcement in the December issue of Seventeen magazine warning readers that even having one drink and getting behind the wheel is a bad idea.

Lollapalooza has been invited to take root in Chicago as a cozy abode for the next five years. The 2007 event will plug in August 3-5, and will feature the same size, diversity, and spectacle that the 2006 edition delivered.

The Game recently found his long lost sister on MySpace. The rapper was on the site and decided to type in the name of his sister who he hadn’t seen since she was three. Fortunately, his sister was on myspace as well. It’s not known if the brother and sister have actually met in person yet.

Roman Polanski will be joining the cast of Brett Ratner's Rush Hour 3, which reunites Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan for a third outing. Polanski's will play a French police officer who harasses Tucker and Chan's characters in several scenes while the stars battle a wing of a Chinese organized-crime family.

The Dixie Chicks are again at the center of a controversy over the limits of opinionated talk. A film company said Friday that NBC wouldn't accept an advertisement for Shut Up & Sing, a movie about the fuss created by Dixie Chick Natalie Maines' comment that she was ashamed President Bush was a fellow Texan. The network suggested the complaint may be a publicity stunt.

Clay Aiken is taping an appearance on NBC's Days of our Lives.

The video game maker that sparked uproar over a hidden sex scene in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, is courting new controversy with its latest schoolyard title Bully, featuring boys kissing.

A hacker who as a teen cracked the encryption on DVDs has found a way to unlock the code that prevents iPod users from playing songs from download music stores other than Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes.