We're all used to famous types starting their own record labels; everyone from Ellen DeGeneres to Lily Rose Cooper (née Allen) has one. But what about having your own publishing imprint? HarperCollins has just announced that Johnny Depp will be in charge of a new imprint for it called Infinitum Nihil, which means "nothing lasts for ever", and shares its name with his production company. Perhaps publishing imprints are the new must-have. The US chef Rachael Ray and the comedian Chelsea Handler have them too.

Two mismatched rookie cops – Jonah Hill's geek, Jenko, and Channing Tatum's handsome meathead, Schmidt – are assigned to go undercover at a high school to infiltrate a drugs ring.

Patti Smith's latest album, her best in a while, is held together by a spine of pieces themed around exploration, from the culture-shock encounter of "Amerigo", through the cosmic awe of "Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)" and the aesthetic strivings of "Constantine's Dream", to her lovely version of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush", with children being rocketed off to seek fertile new planets.

The Hunger Games has emerged as one of the big winners at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.

The Avengers movie has topped the American box office for the second week in a row, taking $1 billion in its first 19 days.

Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube

Did I want to tell friends and a multitude of strangers what's on my mind every hour? To acquaint the world, electronically, with my every passing thought? Did I want to spend days thinking up brief, 140-character, smart remarks and posting them online? I didn't. But the Young Turks in Features talked me into it. Sign up here, they said, write a self-description, stick in a photo and send your first tweet – so I did.

Bruce Robinson, the director and writer of the black comedy Withnail and I and the cult classic How to Get Ahead in Advertising and the screenwriter and director of a new film The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp, claims not to be a director.

"When is he going to die?" enquires one mariachi owl, part of a chorus of owls, to another. "Soon compadre, soon," is the deadpan reply.

Johnny Depp has purchased the rights to create a movie version of 70s TV show 'The Night Stalker'.

Johnny Depp surprised fans at an intimate Alice Cooper gig in London, when he appeared on stage to play guitar with the legend.

Johnny Depp has no plans to marry Vanessa Paradis.