If you loved Empire and can’t wait for more “music-driven” TV, you’re in luck. While Cookie and the gang (mostly Cookie, though; she is the best) won’t be returning to your screens as soon as you’d like, Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series about four kids in the Bronx just cast the main leads.

Here's something you never knew you wanted: Robert Redford giving smoldering eyes while a Kanye West track plays.

Having his Words with Friends movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby pushed from a December 2012 release date to this weekend might have been the best thing to happen to Baz Luhrmann, since it’s given him a chance to expatiate on how Gatsby is the ultimate summer movie for the ultimate summer partygoer. You want to…

By Jordan Asher Major Brogan III, age 16

You know what's a really nice way to cool off in the summer? Watching one of your many, many servants chip away from a giant tractor tire of ice so that your mint julep can be nice and chilly. Nobody likes a lukewarm mint julep, least of all Tom Buchanan. Moving The Great Gatsby back to an almost-summer release…

To the chagrin of high school teachers across America, Baz Luhrmann's glamorous, color-saturated adaptation of The Great Gatsby will soon offer a fun shortcut for 10th grade English classes trying to slog through Fitzgerald's classic. And it'll have Jay-Z songs in it!

Oh, and Jay-Z. High school required reading never looked so good — it's a spectacle worth waiting for! And wait we will, until May 17th, which is almost my birthday, and so you might think about buying me some tickets. I'd like to go somewhere with fancy food before and decadent cocktails afterwards. In return, I'll…

Here are some spooky through-the-bushes pictures of Nat Port's wedding to Benjamin Human Centipede: Full Sequence, which was vegan and Jewish and French and on the Big Sur coast and sounds nice, although I'm not sure about that dress. They had macarons instead of cake, and guests (including Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols,…

It's all happening! Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford (otherwise known as the Sith version of Michelle Williams and Jason Segel) are getting married on top of a mountain, and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And they will dance until the sun rises. And then…

Literary classic The Great Gatsby is not a twisted work of science fiction. It's not an epic fantasy full of made-up creatures, or a gory horror tale designed to scare the crap out of you. But like recent sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies, the new Great Gatsby film will be in 3D. And director Baz Luhrmann thinks it…

David and Victoria Beckham are expecting their fourth child together. Beckham says they're really happy it's not a boy again because they already have three of those.

• Newly ginger Khloe Kardashian has, as they say, a bun in the oven.

Baz Luhrmann has cast Carey Mulligan as the "manipulative heroine" in his version of The Great Gatsby.

As previously mentioned, director Baz Luhrmann is working on a film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo DiCaprio possibly playing Gatsby. Guess who had dinner Tuesday night in New York? Baz, Leo… and Blake Lively.

Baz Luhrmann — know for his vivid, colorful, theatrical films like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge — is tackling F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby next, and the female lead, Daisy Buchanan, has not been cast.

• Angelina Jolie is busy shooting her film about the Bosnian war, but has taken a moment to speak out about the plot of the script she wrote.

• While performing for sailors aboard the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman in the Persian Gulf last week, Jessica Simpson didn't handle the 97 degree heat well. After downing three Red Bulls with no water, she sang one song, then vomited.

• Sad face: Mickey Rourke's 18-year-old chihuahua, Loki, has died. Rourke called Loki "the love of his life." And famously thanked his all his dogs in his Golden Globes speech. RIP little dude! [E!, TMZ]