Weekly Music News: We will have to wait until November 23 to see Beyonce and Lady Gaga duke it out in Beyonce's video for "Video Phone"; and we can thank the Chris Brown/Rihanna saga for the delay. Eminem's new movie, Britney's Australian lip-synching drama, and Beyonce at the EMA's round's out this week's music news.

Eminem to create a series of horror films

Eminem has been bitten by the Hollywood bug again. It has been confirmed by AllHipHop.com that the rapper has received the green light to create a series of horror films called Shady Talez. Shady Talez will pay tribute to the classics and will be in 3D. The film series has garnered so much interest that the director of the Twilight movies has signed on. Marvel has also signed on to the project in hopes of releasing a limited Shady Talez comic book series.

Jay-Z announces additional North American tour dates

Jay-Z has been touring and performing at a mix of 26 college arenas all across the country. To date, the rapper has performed at Pennsylvania State's Bryce Center, UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, Northern Kentucky University's Bank of Kentucky, Eastern Michigan University's Convocation Center, and the University of Massachusetts' Mullins Center to name a selected few. To keep the momentum going, Jay-Z has confirmed additional tour dates with the next leg of the tour kicking off in Houston on February 22, 2010.

Here are the tour dates:
Previously announced dates:
Nov 07 Fresno, CA Fresno State University/Save Mart Center
Nov 08 Los Angeles, CA UCLA/Pauley Pavilion
Nov 10 Austin, TX University of Texas at Austin/Frank Erwin Center
Nov 12 Champaign, IL University of Illinois/Assembly Hall

Newly announced dates:
Feb 22 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Feb 23 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Feb 25 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
Feb 27 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Feb 28 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Mar 03 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Mar 07 Norfolk, VA Scope Arena
Mar 11 Boston, MA TD Garden
Mar 16 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
Mar 19 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
Mar 20 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
Mar 22 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Mar 24 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
Mar 26 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
*** More cities and dates to be announced soon.

During Jay-Z's performance at UCLA Sunday night, Rihanna made a surprise appearance on stage and belted out the hook for their song "Run This Town."



Chris Brown and Rihanna to premiere new videos on the same day

Speaking of Rihanna, it has been confirmed that she and ex-beau Chris Brown are scheduled to premiere new music videos for their new singles on November 13. The two have been sharing some common moments these past few days haven't they? Both Chris Brown and Rihanna participated in separate interviews that coincidentally aired last Friday - just 4 hours apart; and now they will share the same video premiere dates. Rihanna will premiere her video for her song "Russian Roulette" while Chris Brown will premiere his new video for his song "Crawl." According to Rihanna, the National Domestic Hotline saw an influx of calls which went up by 59% after she appeared on 20/20. The hotline geared towards teenagers also went up by 73% as a result of her appearance.

Britney Spears gets slammed for lip-synching, or does she?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. In an epic fail moment of the month, concert goers in Australia who paid an arm and a leg to see Britney Spears perform live walked out while the singer was performing due to sheer and utter disappointment at the fact that she was lip-synching. According to reports, in the middle of Spears' concert in Perth, Australia fans that were dissatisfied with her performance and the revelation that she was lip synching, up and left the arena. Though reports suggest that fans walked out of Spears' first show out of her 14-gig in Australia after just a few songs, the singer's concert promoter says otherwise. The tour's promoter, Paul Dainty, says that the reports are false and that fans were very pleased with Britney's performance. He also chimed that Britney was left very upset after she got wind of what the Australian media reported. Tickets for the show went for $200-$1,500 a piece. It's a little comical that people are starting to clutch their pearls and get all riled up over Britney Spears lip-synching, she's only been perfecting her impeccable lip-synching abilities since the start of her career; where have they been? Because of Britney's controversial lip-synching, parts of Australia are considering to put disclaimers on concert tickets alerting fans that the performers may not sing the songs live.



Beyonce's performance at MTV's Europe Music Awards

Here is Beyonce performing her song "Sweet Dreams" at the MTV European Music Awards last week.





Story by Samantha Greaves

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