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Russell Brand is returning to the MTV stage. The 36-year-old comedian has signed on to host the 2012 MTV Movie Awards. "This MTV Movie Awards will be more impressive than `The Avengers,' and you won't have to wait an hour for someone to Hulk out," Brand said Thursday.

New Orleans police have issued an arrest warrant for actor Russell Brand on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700.

Singer and comedian married in October of 2010. He says "I'll always adore her."

Just think, it was only 12 months ago that Taylor Swift became the nation's most supported underdog; Kanye West became, well, not; Katy Perry was first publicly propositioned by her now-fiancé (and last year's VMA host) Russell Brand; and Chelsea Handler was making waves by pissing off celebrities…in the funniest way possible.

This week's Ketchup includes news about the latest entries in the Alien, The Crow and Total Recall franchises, more news about what people associated with Lost and Star Trek have in the works, and new roles for Russell Brand, Tina Fey, Meryl Streep, Justin Timberlake, Denzel Washington and Sam Worthington.

This week at the movies, we've got rock 'n' roll ribaldry (Get Him to the Greek, starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill); DNA disturbances (Splice, starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley); a canine caper (Marmaduke, starring Owen Wilson and William H. Macy); and espionage entanglements (Killers, starring Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher). What do the critics have to say? It might seem like fun to hang with your favorite rock star -- unless you actually have to do it. The critics say Get Him to the Greek takes this inspired premise and wrings plenty of terrific gags from it, making...

Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow will have a lot of help to “Get Him to the Greek,” but it isn’t Emily Blunt. Assisting the crazy-coiffed rocker instead will be Sean “P.Diddy” Combs, Rose Byrne (”Knowing”), and Elizabeth Moss (”Mad Men”). The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” spin-off focuses on Brand’s sex addicted rocker, Aldous Snow, who had left Marshall ...