Here are the TOP THREE stories in the world of Entertainment News - Tuesday, June 5, 2007
YOUTUBE SIGNS VIDEO-SHARING DEAL
Google Inc.'s YouTube said Monday that it will distribute local television programming from select Hearst-Argyle Television Inc.-owned stations in a revenue-sharing agreement, the first time the video-sharing site has paid for local TV content.
Under terms of the deal, YouTube will offer programming from stations in Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Sacramento, Calif., and Manchester, N.H. The channels will have news, weather, entertainment, local high school football and basketball content as well as original local programming.
"This deal fits perfectly within our overall digital strategy," said Terry Mackin, executive vp at Hearst-Argyle Television. "We have invested significant resources in our growing digital media efforts."
Hearst-Argyle is an investor in Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc., which publishes local TV news Web sites, including Hearst-Argyle stations. Last month, Internet Broadcasting signed a deal with Turner Broadcasting's CNN, which will bring CNN content to its sites and vice versa.
Hearst-Argyle owns 26 television stations and manages three others.
PIRATES CLEAN UP MTV MOVIE AWARDS
Captain Jack Sparrow was the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday as "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" was named best movie and its star, Johnny Depp, won for best performance.
Depp joined "Pirates" producer Jerry Bruckheimer to accept the Golden Popcorn trophy.
"This is the man who did it all right here, Johnny Depp," Bruckheimer said. "Without him, we wouldn't be here."
"I'd like to thank this man and Disney for not firing me first," Depp quipped.
Other big winners during the live broadcast from the Gibson Amphitheater included Mike Myers, who won the MTV Generation Award, and Sacha Baron Cohen, who collected two trophies.
Baron Cohen earned the comedic performance prize for his starring turn in "Borat." "Unfortunately, Borat can't be here tonight," he joked. "He's been feeling the pressures of fame and had to check himself into rehab."
Baron Cohen also claimed best-kiss honors for his smooch with Will Ferrell in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." The two comedians shared a long, passionate kiss - culminating in a roll-around-on-the-floor makeout session - as they accepted their awards.
The movie prizes were almost upstaged by a star who wasn't nominated for any: Paris Hilton.
The heiress, who entered a Los Angeles jail later Sunday night, caused a commotion when she arrived on the ruby carpet outside the amphitheater. Wearing a ruffled black dress and dazzling jewels, she flashed her trademark coy smile as she posed for photos and talked with reporters.
"I'm really scared but I'm ready to face my sentence," she said. "Even though this is a really hard time, I have my family, my friends and my fans to support me, and that's really helpful."
Host Sarah Silverman cracked a crude joke at Hilton's expense to open the show. When the camera panned to Hilton, she was not smiling.
Then the focus turned to films. MTV's irreverent mix of honors includes prizes for best fight and best villain, plus awards for aspiring filmmakers.
Jack Nicholson was the winning villain, capturing the Golden Popcorn trophy for his mobster role in "The Departed." The fight prize went to Gerard Butler, who battled "The Uber Immortal" in the epic "300."
The breakthrough performance prize went to 9-year-old Jaden Smith, who starred opposite his father, Will Smith, in "The Pursuit of Happyness." He accepted his award by video from Toronto with his dad by his side and his mom behind the camera.
The two-hour program was punctuated by musical performances. Rihanna and Jay-Z paired up on her new song "Umbrella," and soul songstress Amy Winehouse sang her megahit, "Rehab."
The 16-year-old awards show unveiled two new categories Sunday: best movie spoof and best summer movie you haven't seen yet. Andy Signore, a filmmaker from Pennsylvania, won for "United 300," a hybrid spoof of "300" and "United 93." "Transformers," due July 3, was named the best as-yet-unseen summer film.
KEVIN BACON JOINS RON HOWARD FILM
Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of Frost/Nixon, Working Title Films and Universal Pictures' adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer.
The play is based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977. The final interview ended with Nixon tacitly admitting his guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen are reprising their Broadway roles as Nixon and Frost, respectively.
Bacon, who is set to play Nixon's chief of staff Jack Brennan, joins Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.
Shooting will begin in late summer.
Bacon next stars in Death Sentence, a revenge drama from 20th Century Fox that is set for release in August, as well as in Alison Eastwood's Rails and Ties.
