Danny Boyle, director of "127 Hours," "Trainspotting" and "Slumdog Millionaire," among others, is in talks to direct the Aaron Sorkin-written Steve Jobs biopic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In 2009, Boyle won an Oscar for his direction of "Slumdog," and the movie also received Best Picture honors. With a script with a pedigree as prestigious as Sorkin's — the writer struck gold with both "The Social Network" and "Moneyball" in recent years, not to mention his incredibly successful run with television's "The West Wing" — chances are the movie already had the interest of Academy members before the ink was even dry.

David Fincher, director of "The Social Network," had previously been named by Sony to helm the project, but the deal recently fell apart, reportedly due to compensation demands.

Here's what's even more Oscar-baity than the Oscar-bait combo of Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle: Throwing Leonardo DiCaprio into the mix. THR reported that one of Hollywood's most admired leading men is being eyed to play Jobs, the Apple Computers co-founder and innovator who passed away in 2011.

Inevitably, the eventual movie will be endlessly compared to 2013's Ashton Kutcher-led "Jobs," which grabbed only $16.1 million at the box office and garnered a disappointing 27 percent approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. When it comes to a satisfying portrayal of the computer genius' life, maybe Sorkin, Boyle and DiCaprio are just the men for the job(s).

As Steve himself would say, here's to the crazy ones — especially if it ...

A producer who worked with Jay Z at Roc-A-Fella Records is allegedly at the center of an extortion plot over master tapes that could be worth tens of millions of dollars.

According to TMZ, a producer named Chauncey Mahan was questioned on Friday by authorities in connection with an alleged extortion and theft plot centered on Jigga masters that were thought to be missing.

The master recordings made between 1998 and 2002 were reported missing in 2002, with Jay's camp assuming they were lost. Last Friday, Mahan — who reportedly had a number of the recordings in his California storage facility — contacted Live Nation and said he was either going to auction the tapes or hand them over for a $100,000 "storage" fee. Live Nation has a deal with Jay that covers their joint venture, Roc Nation.

It's unknown how the tapes, valued between $15-$20 million, got into Mahan's hands. Authorities questioned the producer on Friday in connection with the alleged plot after Mahan reportedly agreed to sell them to Live Nation for $75,000.

According to TMZ, when Mahan took Jay's people to the storage facility on Friday to complete the deal, the Los Angeles Police Department was there and they detained Mahan, who agreed to be questioned at the police station. He also handed over the tapes to the LAPD until a judge determines proper ownership.

A spokesperson for Jay Z could not be reached for comment at press time.

While Mahan was not arrested, Jigga's team filed a grand larceny complaint on Friday with the NYPD, who are also investigating ...

"#Selfie" may be the Chainsmokers' first major-label single, but Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall are no strangers to the dance music scene. Since they joined forces in 2012, the New York-based producing partners have been churning out buzzed-about remixes around town. When the two casually spent an hour putting together their soon-to-be monster hit, they had no idea how "#Selfie" would change the course of their careers.

Quickly climbing up the Billboard, iTunes and Spotify charts, the track has also raked in tens of millions of views on YouTube. With a whole song's worth of quotable dialogue, "#Selfie" has quickly become much more than a track on a club playlist — it's a cultural phenomenon and anthem for the generation that invented the word.

So what does it all mean? "There was really not a message. It was either a stupid idea or a smart idea," Alex explained to MTV News. "I think it's funny. People are like, 'What are the consequences that selfies are having on society?' It's like, 'I don't know!' We made the song in an hour — give us a break!"

The Chainsmokers encourage taking the song at face value. "The song is just a satire — it's funny, it's entertainment, and I think that's why it did so well," Alex said.

In a post-"#Selfie" world, the Chainsmokers plan to produce music with a little more "integrity, in terms of who we are and what we've been doing," Andrew explained. They're gaining traction as MTV's Artist to Watch and already have the support of huge dance artists like Tiësto ...

By now, you've probably heard that Joss Whedon dropped a delicious surprise onto the internet, making "In Your Eyes," his latest film with director Brin Hill, available for rental on Vimeo. And 'round these parts, we wasted no time dropping our $5 on this movie in which Zoe Kazan and Michael Stahl-David star as two unsuspecting 20-somethings who find themselves connected via a cross-country telepathic chatline, because of course we did.

The verdict: there are no vampire slayers or "Avengers" members in "In Your Eyes," but this movie definitely hails from the Whedon-verse, with plenty of the writer's signature flair stamped all over it. Here are the most Whedon-y moments, beginning with:

1. Tropes Gone Wild
Whedon loves to play around with classic movie cliches, so that whatever you're watching feels simultaneously familiar and fresh — as in refreshing, but also as in cheeky, since nothing breathes new life into a plot device quite like a movie that employs it while also making fun of it.

And before it does anything else, "In Your Eyes" definitely has its own laughs at the ridiculous concept of falling in love via supernatural wormhole. Most notably: Dylan's panic over Rebecca being in the future, when she's actually just in a different time zone, which feels very much like a winky dig at the super-serious romantic flop, "The Lake House."

2. Whip-Smart Dialogue
Whedon's ear for articulate banter is unparalleled, but even we didn't realize how unparalleled until we saw it happening between two people, in two different places, connected only by their own personal psychic ...

Mondays are no fun for anybody, and this week is the rare one where that sentiment also applies to Johnny Depp.

That's because the box office returns on the star's latest effort, the Wally Pfister-directed "

"Transcendence" is now the latest in a recent string of box office disappointments for Depp, whose name is usually associated with billion-dollar hits thanks to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.

Success away from Captain Jack Sparrow has been harder and harder to find for Depp, however. When "The Lone Ranger" flopped last summer, it made headlines, and by then it was the second failure in a row. "Dark Shadows" made even less than "The Lone Ranger," albeit on a smaller budget.

And "Transcendence" makes underperforming Depp vehicles a trend, so what gives? How did one of the most bankable stars in the world get beaten by a movie called "Heaven Is For Real"? To understand Depp's recent failures, it helps to look back at what made him a star in the first place, and what it would take to turn him around.

First, let's get one thing straight. Depp has not had his last hit. With "Through the Looking Glass" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" getting ready to head into production, he has two sure-fire hits in the chamber, and there's still "Into the Woods" set for Christmas this year. But making money isn't enough to fully fresh Depp's star persona.

It was always his oddness that separated him from the rest of the A-list crowd. Outlandish and other-worldly roles ...

What's better than finding a hidden stash of jelly beans in your Easter basket? This picture of Blue Ivy meeting the Easter bunny.

Well, maybe not better secret jelly beans... but definitely better than stale Peeps.

Mommy Beyoncé posted some family photos of 2-year-old Blue on her Tumblr Monday afternoon — one of them including a giant, human-sized rabbit. And of course Lil' Carter had a rabbit-ear headband on to make the photo even cuter.

At first I was like... Wait, Bey put up new Tumblr pics?

Ummm, does anyone see this right now?

And then I was like... OMG guys, maybe we should keep this a secret.

Shield my eyes. I can't handle the cuteness.

Nooooooo. Why couldn't I be there?

I think I just died.

I'm just gonna eat all my feelings.

Byeee.

Well, Spider-Man is kind of a mutant, right? So maybe a cross-pollination with the "X-Men" franchise makes sense.

That's what Simon Kinberg, a producer on both "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and the upcoming "Fantastic Four" seems to think. In interviews from this weekend's WonderCon, Kinberg mentioned that he'd be more than open to the possibility of a crossover. We already know that the upcoming "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" will feature a post-credits scene starring our favorite band of (time traveling!) mutants when it hits theaters May 2, but Kinberg is gunning for even more. In an interview with ComingSoon, he responded enthusiastically when asked about a larger crossover.

"I would love it. The dream to me — I almost feel like Martin Luther King or somebody — I see a world where everyone is joined together," he said. "The dream is, obviously, one day to do a Marvel movie that is with all the Marvel characters or at least a universe where they can dive in and out of one another's films. Because that's the way the comics were created, I think that's the way the movies should actually be. For a series of business reasons, they aren't. That's not for narrative or creative reasons...

"We're not in competition with each other. We actually can be helping the cause for all these different movies. It's been shown that audiences have enough of a palate for them."

Meanwhile, Avi Arad, a producer on "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," is considerably cooler on the idea. In an interview with Read More →