HBO just released the trailer for the upcoming Matthew McConaughey / Woody Harrelson crime thriller True Detective and holy Jesus I think I just came.

Ben McKenzie was just cast in The Swimmer, a biopic about an American who swims one of Norway's most dangerous rivers. Mischa Barton is immediately campaigning to play Diana Nyad. Just kidding! Marissa Cooper is still dead.

It's Monday and everything is awful. More people are trying to use Finn Hudson's death for good PR, shitty agencies are getting fired by shitty clients who haven't been relevant in years, Miley is just ughhhhh can't, but luckily Bruno Mars will save us all come January.

Fox Searchlight and New Regency's 12 Years A Slave continues to build on its massive buzz from Telluride, receiving a standing ovation Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Jennifer Lopez will pushing herself in a challenging role in Jason Blum's new thriller The Boy Next Door.

As the mystery feud between major agency UTA and manager Shelley Browning's Magnolia Entertainment rages on—UTA recently vowed never to work with Magnolia again, on the heels of Browning pulling almost all her clients from the agency—the lurking question remains: why do UTA and Browning suddenly hate each other? I put in some calls to get to the bottom of it, and learned that the blow-up may have come down to Browning's Svengali-like hold over her clients

Everybody hates Ryan Seacrest; Breaking Bad's alternate storylines will paralyze you with fear; Nikki Finke still hates The Wrap; but Mark Gordon hates ICM more.

TOLDJA! In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nikki Finke revealed that she is looking to buy back Deadline from boss Jay Penske of PMC, or barring that, start a new Hollywood blog. Defamer first reported that Finke would be leaving come early September.

Katy Perry continues to find new ways to wear very little clothing in the just released video of her women's empowerment anthem "Roar" today, and it is very, very bad. The track just knocked off not women's empowerment anthem "Blurred Lines" as Billboard's No. 1 single.

Mr. Hall and Miss Geist may have never gotten together if Cher had ended up on My So-Called Life instead of Clueless; Stefon is too embarrassed to watch himself shamelessly hit on Seth Meyers; Clint and Dina continue to make it weird.

Dave Chappelle appeared in Chicago last night and had a few choice words to say about his Hartford walk-off. "I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God I hope it lands in Hartford, Connecticut." Alrighty then.

USC alumna Kelly Speca is the girl at the center of a catfishing scandal targeting Beverly Hills-based management company, Management 360.

Beating out the Fab Four for most non-solo act appearances on the Billboard 100 wasn't enough for Glee, they will now be bastardizing The Beatles in a two-part tribute. And yes, one episode is titled "Tina In the Sky With Diamonds."

Hunger Games madness has reached a fever pitch; Bill Nye might be chemistry-ing his way to that coveted mirror ball trophy; and NBC has come up with another "Let's just close our eyes and hope for the best" strategy to revive their struggling network.

Variety is gearing up for its latest "10 Assistants to Watch" feature. Think you can roll calls with the best of them? Tip: Reading Defamer regularly isn't helping your case.

Corey Feldman's publicist proves, again, that there is indeed no rest for the weary, sending out this 600-word press release entitled "Corey Feldman Responds to Bullying," at 9:00 p.m. on Labor Day.

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne have crappy neighbors; you can now go back to watching The Big Bang Theory but pretend you're only excited for football; and thank God, because the Labor Day box office was so crappy, One Direction almost took the top spot.

Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam and Ben and Kate's Dakota Johnson have just been confirmed as the leads of 50 Shades of Grey, according to an exclusive from Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr posted at 8:11 AM Pacific time.