- Martin Scorsese to reteam with Robert DeNiro for "I Heard You Paint Houses," the story of a mob assassin believed to be involved in the death of Jimmy Hoffa. (Variety)

- "Kung Fu Panda 2" officially announced for June 3, 2011. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, confirmed to return. (Coming Soon)

- Win a chance to star in Chuck Palahniuk's next book by getting as many people as possible to see "Choke" this weekend. (Chuck Palahnuik)

- Larry Flint making an X-Rated movie with VP candidate Sarah Palin look-alike. (Daily News)

Earlier this month, the BBC reported that legendary band Radiohead was so pleased with being asked to contribute a song to the new movie “Choke,” that they, in fact, wound up creating the film’s whole score.

“The WHOLE score,” “Choke” director Clark Gregg joked. “[In fact] they wrote most of the script. They did a lot of the catering. They actually hand sewed most of the costumes but because they don’t want people to know how much work they did we’ve promised to keep it secret. For now we’re just saying they gave us the one song.

“My role actually performed by Thom Yorke,” Gregg continued, laughing. “But I cant reveal that for another six years. It’s just a part of the contract.”

If it wasn’t obvious from Gregg’s statements, the fact that The Playlist actually went to the trouble of talking to the film’s music supervisors a few weeks ago should clue you into the fact that the whole thing is something of a big mistake. Read more...

We've been all over "Choke" since we visited the set last year. I mean other sites might have run interviews with the stars that delved into Chuck Palahnuik's darkly comic story but how many got one of the film's stars to imitate a baby pterodactyl? Well the hits keep on coming with this brand new exclusive clip from "Choke." Enjoy.

- Angelina Jolie replaces Tom Cruise (seriously) in “Edwin A. Salt,” thriller about a spy falsely accused of defecting. Main character will undergo sex change to accommodate, change name to Veruca. (Variety)

- “Fools Rush In.” Orlando Bloom voyages to Serajevo for next project, about life in the Bosnian capital during three-year siege. (Reuters)

- First look at Jake Gyllenhaal as the “Prince of Persia” pops up online. Gyllenhaal still not Persian enough. (Just Jared)

- Radiohead writes song for new Chuck Palahnuik adaptation “Choke.” (BBC)

- Shake, rattle, and roll: J.J. Abrams to produce earthquake picture. Meh, I’m still waiting for the big one. (THR)

We knew it would be special when we visited its set last summer, and now we're happy to roll out the trailer premiere for "Choke," the film based on the book by "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk. The movie finds Sam Rockwell as a sex addict who fakes choking episodes at restaurants to con money out of them. The film opens September 26.

U2, P-Diddy, Morgan Spurlock and Charlize Theron were just a few of Hollywood's elite who took to the slopes of Sundance this past week to showcase their films – and my colleagues at MTV News spoke with all of them.

But forget the stars. From ground zero here in Los Angeles, the bird's eye view of the Festival was full of dollars, not Cents (as in 50), meaning big paydays for the following filmmakers:

"Hamlet 2": Hamlet tells his friend Horatio that "There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in [his] philosophy." Yeah, no kidding, apparently there was a whole other story! The comedy flick with Steve Coogan as a teacher who writes a Shakespearean sequel sold to Focus Features for $10 million, easily the tops of the festival. And they said he was indecisive.
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The optimism and excitement of the Sundance Film Festival was shattered yesterday by the news of Heath Ledger's passing. When I spoke with actresses Bijou Phillips and Gillian Flynn of "Choke," just bought by Fox Searchlight, emotions were clearly still raw for both women. Phillips whose lifelong friend Brad Renfro also died recently said simply of these tragic events, "It's got to stop."

The full report on how Sundance is reacting to Ledger's untimely death is here.

Chuck Palahniuk has got some crazy ideas. Some of them you've probably read already, like "Fight Club" and "Choke." But he's got a few more up his sleeve with his forthcoming book, "Snuff." While the book isn't set for release until 2008, Palahniuk shared lots of details with me, including a pie on the sky idea for casting a film version, when I visited the set of the upcoming film version of "Choke." (Check out my set visit to "Choke" here, including interviews with star Sam Rockwell and director Clark Gregg.)

Here's the plot synopsis on 'Snuff' in Palahniuk's own words: "It's about the shooting one of the worlds largest [pornographic] movies. It's basically about three men waiting in the green room among 600 men. Over the course of the first act you learn that this actress plans to die during the production and that most likely one of these three men was a child she conceived and put up for adoption. He's been trying to contact her for years. She's never acknowledged him and he's so desperate he's shown up for this casting call to try to rescue her before she dies."

Are we talking family fun or what? As we talked about the book, Palahniuk, almost to himself, said aloud one casting idea for a film version of his forthcoming work, "Wouldn't Kathleen Turner be perfect?!?"

First rule of working on a Chuck Palahnuik flick: Don't talk about working on a Chuck Palahnuik flick. Unless it's to MTV News, of course. "It's a very strange, strange film," Sam Rockwell said of his new movie "Choke," based on a novel from the acclaimed author of "Fight Club."

"It's about a sex addict and he's got this thing," Rockwell revealed about his character, Victor Mancini. "He goes into restaurants and makes himself choke on food so he can get someone to come up to him and give him the Heimlich maneuver and save his life. It's a way for him to get this strange, unconditional love, this childhood memory. He gets stirred up every time he does this choking thing."

But Mancini's dementia goes deeper than being just a sicko who gets his jollies from near asphyxiation, Rockwell asserted. Like all the great Palahnuik protagonists, Mancini has hidden motives. "Anybody with a little bit of money -- he'll look at their watches and stuff -- and then he corresponds with them and says, 'Oh, how are you doing?' They feel like a hero," Rockwell contended. "And then he says 'Oh, but I have to go to the periodontist, my gums hurt,' and they say, 'Let me send you some money.'" So it's a bit of a scam he does, with his choking thing."