The Weekly News Roundup - week of June 13 - 17

Music

- Selena Gomez released her new song! WOOOO! It's "Love You Like a Love Song." She also released "Dices," the Spanish-language version of "Who Says". Please to enjoy both songs. (JSYK)

- And her BF Justin Bieber (well, Chris Brown featuring Justin Bieber (that applies to the song, not the relationship (Hopefully.))) released "Next to You." (JSYK)

- Aaaand friend of the show Cody Simpson released the video for his song "On My Mind". Good on ya, mate. (Cambio)

- Joe Jonas wanted to be part of Britney Spears' tour this summer, but she turned him down. She said it was because she wanted an "all girls" tour, but I swear I've heard that excuse before. (Cambio)

- Selena Gomez is healthy again, and blames her love of junk food for her recent brief stay in the hospital. Eat your vegetables, kids, and try not to smother them in cheese. (Cambio)

- Rihanna has been named the new tourism ambassador by her native Barbados. In othernews, sales of vacation packages to Barbados just skyrocketed. (Cambio)

- Michael Buble is writing a memoir. I hope it's full of advice about following your dreams! (Cambio)

- Justin Timberlake said in a recent interview with Playboy that he thinks Justin Bieber is a talented kid, and he hopes that JB has a good support system around him and a good plan for the future. Otherwise, instead of having staying power like the one and only JT, he could rapidly fade into obscurity like all of JT's former bandmates. (Cambio)

- Lady Gaga's meat dress is now in the Rock Hall of Fame, after it was chemically preserved. Because the process basically turned it into beef jerky, the dress was then painted so it would look as raw as it did the day she grossed out the entire planet. (TweenTribune)

Movies

- Chelsea Handler is in negotiations to play Victoria Justice's mom in the upcoming Paramount movie "Fun Size." Anyone know if Chelsea is still claiming to be 31? (Cambio)

- In a recent interview, James McAvoy said that releasing movies in 3-D is just a ploy by the Man to squeeze extra money out of the movie-going public, that 3-D is a waste of time and money, and that he was very happy that his movie "X-Men: First Class" was only released in 2-D. I'm with ya, Jimmy Mac. I'm with ya. (Cambio)

- In honor of the identity-swapping Monte Carlo, Cambio is doing a "No! I'm Selena" contest, where viewers submit their Selena look-alike photos. The winner will get a trip to LA, a Selena makeover by a Cambio stylist, and "an evening fit for a Monte Carlo princess," but no photo op with the original Selena. What a ripoff. (Cambio)

- Natalie Portman finally gave birth! I really could have sworn she was due a week after the Oscars. Huh. Regardless, mom and baby boy are doing well. (Cambio)

TV

- "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" premiered on Tuesday! You set your season pass on your Tivo, right?

- Jennifer Lopez hasn't decided yet whether she'll return to American Idol, since she's developing a Latin TV talent show and she might have a new film role in the works. So will she or won't she? Can she be the mom with the career who has it all?? Who WILL be the next American Idol??? The suspense is killing me! (Cambio)

- Kim Kardashian is getting a prenup before marrying the guy with the same name as her mother. I just... but... it's... WHEN WILL THIS KARDASHIAN PHASE BE OVER??? (Cambio)

Doing Good

- Remember the Justin Bieber perfume called "Someday"? It hasn't even hit shelves yet, but pre-sale proceeds have been donated to Pencils of Promise and Make-a-Wish, and JB is also auctioning a meet-n-greet at the launch party in NYC on June 23, with the money raised from that going to Communities in Schools and the Give Back Brands Foundation. (JSYK)

- In an effort to curb childhood obesity and show the diabetes epidemic, the Los Angeles Unified School District finally banned flavored milk from its cafeterias, although the more-sugar-laden fruit juices are still permitted. Baby steps. (TweenTribune)

- A school in Pennsylvania will save $15,000 this year by handing its lawn-mowing duties over to a flock of sheep. No word yet on how much it will cost them to clean up after the sheep, though. (TweenTribune)

Like Whoa

- Remember that tornado that went through western Massachusetts on June 1st? Well one of the houses it destroyed had 7 cats in it, and after a week and a half of searching through the rubble, all 7 cats were found alive and well. If only the house also had 9 lives. (TweenTribune)

Movies That Opened this Weekend (imdb)

Green Lantern

Mr. Popper's Penguins

The Art of Getting By (limited)

Buck (limited)

Page One: Inside the New York Times (NYC)

Top 10 in the Box Office Last Weekend (imdb)

1. Super 8

2. X-Men: First Class

3. The Hangover Part 2

4. Kung Fu Panda 2

5. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

6. Bridesmaids

7. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

8. Midnight in Paris

9. Thor

10. Fast Five

So many sequels!! Fast Five, Kung Fu Panda 2, Super 8...

The Weekly News Roundup - week of June 6-10

Movies

- In preparation for the July 1 release of "Monte Carlo," Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, and Katie Cassidy are going on a 10-city mall tour to promote it, starting June 10. (JSYK) UPDATE: Selena Gomez was hospitalized after appearing on The Tonight Show on Thursday, and is undergoing "routine tests". No word on when the CDC will quarantine Jay Leno for the safety of the American public. (JSYK)

- Dakota Fanning graduated from high school this week. Show-off. (JSYK)

- And in other scholastic news, Emma Watson quit Brown University back in April, and now we find out that she'll be a student at Oxford in the fall. She claims she's transferring because of what she wanted to study, but I suspect she just missed Hogwarts. (Cambio)

- A poster has been released for the upcoming "The Three Musketeers" that manages to make the movie look even worse than I'd thought. It's impressive. (JSYK)

- Shia LaBeouf said in an interview this week that Transformers 3 will be his last Transformers movie. In other news, Shia LaBeouf is a big fat liar. (Cambio)

TV

- Michelle Obama will do a guest spot on "iCarly." I guess Sasha and Malia must be fans... (Cambio)

- Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Chord Overstreet did a "Thelma & Louise" skit for the CMT awards that apparently set a new gold standard in comedy. We should all take notes. (JSYK)

- Justin Bieber and Rascal Flatts won the CMT Music Award for Collaborative Video of the Year, but then JB had to go and ruin everything by saying he was so honored to be at the "Country Music Awards" instead of the Country Music Television Music Awards. Dumbass. (JSYK)

- YES! Snoop Dogg is making the rounds, pitching a hip-hop version of American Idol. That show has to happen. It has to. (Cambio)

- Naya Rivera is the latest Glee castmember to get a record deal. Well done there! (JSYK)

- But she's still got a ways to go to catch up with Chris Colfer, who has already written a screenplay that is currently in preproduction, a pilot for Disney, and has now signed a 2-book deal with publisher Little Brown Book group. (Cambio)

- MTV canceled "Skins." Can't imagine why. (JSYK)

- It seems like a million years ago, but the MTV Movie Awards were only last Sunday. Complete list of winners here. (Cambio)

Music

- Kat Graham (of Vampire Diaries fame) is now also a singer. She just released the video for her single "I Want it All." (JSYK)

- A rough cut of the music video for the Justin Bieber/Chris Brown collaboration "Next 2 You" was leaked online this week. Still no word on why they used the number 2 but not the letter U in the title of the track. (JSYK)

- In one of those all-too-perfect moments, Lady Gaga had a "wardrobe malfunction" while she was accepting the CFDA Award for Fashion Icon. Brilliant. (Cambio)

- Shania Twain will take over the Las Vegas stage built for Celine Dion. She has signed on for a two-year run at the Caesar's Palace venue. (Cambio)

- Florence + The Machine are going on tour this summer, kicking off at Bonnaroo this week, and finishing in Milwaukee in July. (Cambio)

- Katy Perry created a dorky teenage alter-ego for her single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and set up Facebook and Twitter accounts for this Kathy Beth Terry. (Cambio)

- Jason Mraz is single again, ladies. He and now-ex-fiancee Tristan Prettyman split after less than 6 months of engagementship, with Mraz publicly siting his heavy workload and "clinging" too much too his art. (Cambio)

- Forbes released its list of best-paid celebs under the age of 30, and surprise-bloody-surprise,Lady Gaga is #1, and Justin Bieber is #2. Lebron James, Roger Federer, and Taylor Swift round out the top 5. (Cambio)

- MDot Finley is out of the hospital, Sean Kingston is still in but is walking around, andJennifer Hudson checked in with stomach pain. Maybe all these medical stories should go in the "Trends" category. (Cambio)

Seriously, WTF

- A teenager in China literally gave his right kidney for an iPad 2. He sold the organ for $3,400 and immediately bought the iPad 2, but the gadget got his mom all suspicious because where could he have gotten that kind of money? She figured it out and filed a police report, but it looks like karma is providing the bigger punishment: the hospital where he got the kidney removed isn't exactly qualified to perform surgery, and the kid is having a bit of a hard time recovering. Hence the commandment "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's iPad 2." (JSYK)

- Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream shop in Columbia, Missouri, created and immediately sold out of a new flavor of ice cream: cicada. Yes, the bugs. The gross, ugly, crunchy, disgusting bugs. The department of public health has, thankfully, taken umbrage with the practice of adding cicadas to ice cream, but the locals apparently love it. (TweenTribune)

Doing Good

- When Prince William and Kate got married in that splashy wedding in April, they asked guests, well-wishers, and fans to make donations to a wedding fund in lieu of sending gifts. That fund raised $1.6 million, which they distributed to 26 charities that support the armed forces, children, conservation, the elderly, art, and sports. (Cambio)

- Angelina Jolie and Missouri-born Brad Pitt donated $500,000 to relief efforts in Joplin, MO. (Cambio)

- Lady Gaga is auctioning off her grand piano and plans to donate the proceeds to Ten O'Clock Classics, a charity that provides classical music venues for young musicians. But according to Forbes, she could have just given them a crapload of money. (Cambio)

Movies Opening This Weekend

Super 8

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

Trollhunter (limited)

The Trip (limited)

Bride Flight (limited)

Viva Riva! (LA/NY)

Top 10 in the Box Office last weekend (imdb)

1. X-Men: First Class

2. The Hangover Part II

3. Kung Fu Panda 2

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

5. Bridesmaids

6. Thor

7. Fast Five

8. Midnight in Paris

9. Something Borrowed

10. Jumping the Broom

The Weekly News Roundup - week of May 30 - June 3

Bieber

- OMFG he got ANOTHER tattoo! No, he probably didn't, but photos from his Memorial Day fishing expedition show a giant star on his left elbow. Skeptics agree it's probably yet another Bieber prank. Biebrank. (JSYK)

- Because he is a little bit country in addition to being a little bit rock 'n roll, Justin Bieber willpresent an award at the CMT Music Awards. (Cambio)

Movies

- The first "Breaking Dawn" footage will premier this weekend at the MTV Movie Awards. Get excited!! (JSYK)

- Apparently all teen movie series based on popular novel series must have one more film than book. First Harry Potter, then Twilight, and now there are rumblings that there will be 4 Hunger Games movies based on the 3 Hunger Games books. All the better to fleece you with, my dear. (Cambio)

- The tricksy hobbitses are back!! Titles and release dates for Peter Jackson's two movies based on The Hobbit have finally been announced. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will land in theaters December 14, 2012, and "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" will follow on December 13, 2013. The movies will star Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, and Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, and Cate Blanchett in their roles from the LOTR trilogy. This brings joy to my nerdy little heart. (Cambio)

- "The Hangover: Part II" got the highest opening weekend gross ever for a comedy, further proving my theory that Bridesmaids would have done a lot better if it had starred a bunch of dudes. (Cambio)

Music

- More than a million copies of Lady Gaga's album "Born This Way" have now been sold. Take THAT, weak economy! (Cambio)

- With less than a month to go before the release of her album "When The Sun Goes Down,"Selena Gomez has FINALLY released the track list, tweeting a link to her website. (JSYK)

- Adele canceled a couple of North American tour dates due to laryngitis, then went ahead and just canceled the rest of the tour because her doctor put her on full vocal rest. For anyone lucky enough never to have been prescribed full vocal rest, it means no singing, no talking, no whispering, no nothing. In short, it's torture. (Cambio)

- Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" tour has officially begun. AT LAST! (JSYK)

- Sean Kingston is in stable condition in a Miami hospital after a jet-ski accident over Memorial Day weekend. (JSYK)

- And MDot Finley was hospitalized this week after he was in a motorcycle accident. All these injuries kind of make me miss the days when rappers just shot each other and were done with it. But not really. At all. Best wishes for speedy recoveries to both MDot and Sean Kingston. (Cambio)

- Joe Jonas finally released his single "See No More" today, and there was much rejoicing. Yaaaaaay. (Cambio)

- Leann Rimes is making us wait until July 18th for her single "Give." (Cambio)

- Next year, Coachella will take place over two weekends, because you can never have too much of a good thing or too many drugs. Wait. Might be wrong about that last part. (Cambio)

- First Ke$ha asked her fans to send her their teeth so she could make a necklace from them, and now she's asking them to name her puppy for her. TOO FAR, KE$HA. YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR. (Cambio)

TV

- Jane Lynch will host this year's Primetime Emmys in September, and I for one would like to thank the Academy. (Cambio)

Sports

- Shaq announced his retirement from basketball this week. Here's hoping he'll now pursue his acting career full-time. Kazaam! (Cambio)

- Spelling officially became a sport this week, when Sukanya Roy won the National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word "cymotrichous." The final five had been battling it out for ages, correctly spelling word after made-up word, but in the end, Sukanya was the victor. No word on whether she's getting an endorsement deal with Wheaties, or if she's headed to Disneyworld. (TweenTribune)

Doing Good

- The lead singer of Never Shout Never (not to be confused with anything Bieber) is fromJoplin, MO, and although neither he nor his family were injured in the tornado, he's still a wee bit upset about the massive natural disaster and has set a goal of raising $1 million to help other tornado victims in Joplin. (JSYK)

- Movie Star and professional Timothy Olyphant-impersonator Josh Duhamel has been honored by the Red Cross with their coveted Crystal Cross prize (not to be confused with their not-so coveted Kris Kross prize) for his support and fundraising efforts. (Cambio)

Trends

- A study published in the journal Pediatrics says that teens should not drink sports drinkslike Gatorade unless they are athletes, and that no teens whatsoever should drink energy drinks like Monster or 5 Hour Energy. Why? Well, sports drinks often have massive amounts of calories, and most teens can't burn them off, leading to obesity. As for energy drinks, they're loaded with caffeine, which is really bad for anyone still growing. Awesome. (JSYK)

- Pink is the latest Hollywood Mom. She gave birth to her daughter Willow Sage Hart on Wednesday. (Cambio)

- And Kim Kardashian insists that she will NOT be the next Hollywood Mom, and that rumors that she's pregnant and that her wedding to Kris Humphries will be a shotgun wedding are totally false. Huh. Only time will tell. Time, and math. (Cambio)

- Blake Lively told Glamour Magazine that she has sworn off wardrobe stylists because she likes dressing herself. This was probably not the right thing to say mere days after naked pictures allegedly of her were leaked on the internet. (Cambio)

- And speaking of clothes, Jessica and Ashlee Simpson are going to launch a new clothing line aimed at tweens. It will be part of Jessica's already-successful line. Who'd have thought she'd be the head of a business empire? Not I. Not even close. (Cambio)

- Gwyneth Paltrow joined Facebook and Twitter this week. Whoa whoa whoa, slow down there, tiger. Gotta ease into these things. Wouldn't want you to accidentally Tumblr and hurt yourself. (Cambio)

- Because the old food pyramid actually added up to like 12,000 calories per day, the Department of Agriculture finally released updated eating guidelines this week, swapping out the pyramid and replacing it with "My Plate", which is actually a plate plus a little additional ancillary plate or bowl. Makes total sense. I am now immediately healthy. (TweenTribune)

- The Webby Awards' Person of the Year is not a person. It's Watson. The Jeopardy-winning supercomputer. All hail our computer overlords! (TweenTribune)

Movies Opening This Weekend (imdb)

X-Men: First Class

Beginners (limited)

Submarine (limited)

Beautiful Boy (LA/NYC)

Rejoice and Shout (limited)

Top 10 in the Box Office Last Weekend (imdb)

1. The Hangover: Part II

2. Kung Fu Panda 2

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

4. Bridesmaids

5. Thor

6. Fast Five

7. Midnight in Paris

8. Something Borrowed

9. Jumping the Broom

10. Rio