Seven-time Grammy Award-winning band Coldplay (pictured, via) will release a song called “Atlas” for the Catching Fire soundtrack.

Lead singer Chris Martin tweeted a photo of the handwritten lyrics (embedded below),  lyrics based on the second book in Suzanne Collins‘ Hunger Games series.

“Atlas” will be released as a digital download on August 26th.

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Last night, actress Lily Collins appeared in New York City to promote her upcoming film, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. She answered questions, showed the trailer, and shared two clips.

Collins (pictured, via) revealed that Oscar-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver may join the cast of Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Weaver “will play the ruthless leader of the Shadowhunters who will stop at nothing to destroy the man who killed her son.”

Thus far, no other new cast members have been announced. Collins and City of Bones co-star Jamie Campbell Bower have already confirmed that they will reprise their roles for the second installment of the film franchise. Shooting for the City of Ashes movie begins in September.

Jason Priestley, the actor who played Brandon Walsh on the popular Beverly Hills 90210 TV series, has inked a memoir deal with HarperOne.

In this book, Priestley plans to reveal details about his Hollywood journey, his race car crash in 2002, and “never-before-revealed” details about working on the 90210 set.

Priestley currently stars in Call Me Fitz on DirecTV’s channel 101. Executive editor Nancy Hancock negotiated the deal and the book will come out in spring 2014.

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Albert Johnson, better known as Prodigy from hip hop duo Mobb Deep, has launched his own urban and crime fiction imprint, Infamous Books.

The imprint was formed through a partnership with indie publisher, Akashic Books.

The imprint opened with Prodigy’s novella, H.N.I.C. The hip hop star collaborated with UK fantasy writer Steven Savile on this book.

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Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Emmy Award-winning talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Lincoln actor David Oyelowo will lend their voices to the audiobook edition of  The Butler: A Witness to History.

Atria Books’ 37 INK imprint will publish the print edition of Wil Haygood’s nonfiction book; a biography that profiles an African-American butler named Eugene Allen who was employed at the White House for 34 years.

The three actors will all star in adaptation of the novel, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels.

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Comedian Andrew Dice Clay has inked a deal with Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone imprint for a memoir entitled The Dirty Truth.

Vigliano Associates literary agent David Vigliano negotiated the deal with senior editor Matthew Benjamin.  Here’s more from the release:

From humble beginnings at smalltime gigs in Brooklyn to performing in front of stadium-sized crowds, Andrew Dice Clay roared to fame in the 1980s, becoming the only comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row. But his edgy material came at a price; he was forced into exile. Now, Dice is back, selling out performances as well as starring in Woody Allen’s new film, Blue Jasmine, in theatres July 26, 2013.

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An official trailer has been released for a film adaptation of Shannon Hale‘s novel, Austenland.

We’ve embedded the video above–what do you think? The film hits theaters on August 16, 2013.

Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer served as a producer for this project. The cast includes Keri Russell, Jennifer Coolidge, and Jane Seymour. Russell plays a woman named Jane Hayes who idolizes Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice.

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Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen will star in an adaptation of Andy Mulligan‘s young adult novel, Trash.

David Fickling Books, a UK-based company, published this book back in October 2010. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Stephen Daldry will direct and Richard Curtis wrote the script. Here’s more from Deadline:

Sheen will play Father Juilliard, and Mara will play Olivia, an NGO worker, in the tale of three poverty-stricken boys (played by newcomers Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luis and Gabriel Weinstein) who discover something unusual, mysterious and dangerous in a city dump in the Third World-set story.

Deadline reports that filmmaker Francis Lawrence is hoping to cast Academy Award-nominated actress Julianne Moore for the final two Hunger Games films.

Moore might play Alma Coin in the two-part adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ Mockingjay.

Many Hunger Games fans would characterize Coin as a pragmatic, controlling, and ruthless politician. Moore (pictured, via) won a Golden Globe for portraying an infamous political personality in the HBO movie, Game Change; former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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Ever wonder what it would be like to get a private email from your favorite writer?

Author, artist and filmmaker Miranda July will send you an email from an author or celebrity. You can sign up for free, to get a peek at the way different authors write to their friends. AppNewser has more:

If getting inside the heads of celebrities sounds appealing to you, then you are going to love Miranda July‘s latest project “We Think Alone.” The author/filmmaker has asked ten famous people to share previously sent private emails so that she can use them to craft digital portraits. Participants include: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Catherine Opie, Lee Smolin and Danh Vo. Readers can opt in to receive a weekly email newsletter with communications from all ten of the personalities.