MUSIC/ PINK ANNOUNCES "GREATEST HITS" SET: Pink premiered her new single "Raise Your Glass," on her official website this week. Produced by Swedish hitmaker Max Martin and co-written by the singer herself, the track is 1 of 2 originals on Pink's just-announced "Greatest Hits...So Far!!!" album, slated for release on November 16. "We will never be, never be anything but loud," Pink proclaims on "Raise Your Glass," which is chock-full of her signature humor and bad-chick swagger. "Party-crasher, penny-snatcher/Call me up if you a gangsta," she dares on the pre-chorus, over a pummeling beat and rock riff. "Slam, slam, oh hot damn/What part of party don't you understand?" The 2nd original song on "Greatest Hits...So Far!!!" is still to be determined, according to a press release, but among the classics confirmed for the set are "Just Like a Pill," "Get the Party Started," "U + Ur Hand," and "Glitter in the Air" Pink's last studio album, 2008's "Funhouse," has sold 1,797,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Graham King's GK Films has nabbed the feature-film rights for the Tony-winning musical "Jersey Boys," which continues to play on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who penned the libretto for the Broadway musical, will also write the screenplay. In a statement, Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio said: "We are extremely excited about the passion and commitment expressed by GK Films to take "Jersey Boys" to another level. Graham King has been a believer from day one. We are in good hands." "Jersey Boys," according to press notes for the Broadway musical, is "the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. It's a journey of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide — all before they were 30." "Jersey Boys" premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in October 2004 before arriving in November 2005 at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre. The Broadway production garnered 4 2006 Tony Awards.
Sandra Bullock is in negotiations to star in "Gravity," the outer space thriller that has become a game of musical chairs for the hot actress set. The studio went to Bullock after Natalie Portman's on and off again negotiations went into off mode for good. Alfonso Cuaron, who is directing and co-wrote the script with his son Jonas, is readying the picture, to which Robert Downey Jr. is attached. Although Downey brings star power, his role is overshadowed by the female lead, an astronaut whose struggle to survive a avalanche of space junk becomes the film's focus. The project originally was set up at Universal as a vehicle for Angelina Jolie, but it moved to Warners, where it encountered several bumps. First, Jolie left the project, partially because the studio balked at paying her $20 million fee. In the summer, the studio talked to Marion Cotillard; tested Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively; then re-engaged Jolie and then started talking to Portman. Bullock is also is in talks to star in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," the adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel that would also star Tom Hanks. At this point, "Gravity" is shaping up to be her 1st post- "The Blind Side" project.
NBC is putting its struggling Friday night legal drama "Outlaw," starring Jimmy Smits, on a production hiatus due to its low ratings. This means the network is suspending production on future episodes, but plans to run its remaining hours of "Outlaw." The network has 5 more episodes in the can. If "Outlaw" ratings rise on those 5 episodes, production could resume. Given the show's clear trajectory across its mid-week premiere preview episode on September 17 and 2 Friday night airings, however, it's unlikely the show will survive in the long term. The most recent episode drew only 4.7 million viewers and had a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating.Other than featuring the popular Smits, the other fascinating aspect about "Outlaw" is that it comes from Conan O’Brien, who developed the series for NBC under his Conaco production banner
BOOKS: VARGAS LLOSA WINS LITERATURE NOBEL: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy hailed "his cartography of structures of power" and "trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." The 74 year old has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays. He is the 1st South American winner of the prize since 1982 when it went to Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His works have also been translated into 31 languages, including Chinese, Croatian, Hebrew and Arabic. The writer's international breakthrough came with the 1960s novel "The Time of The Hero" which built on his experiences at the Peruvian military academy, Leoncio Prado. The book was considered controversial in his homeland and 1000 copies were burnt publicly by officers from the academy. His best-known works include "Conversation In The Cathedral," "The War of the End of the World" and "The Feast of the Goat".
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