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The episode of Apple Music’s Carpool Karaoke series that Linkin Park taped less than a week before singer Chester Bennington’s death has hit the web, and let’s just say Ken Jeong is stoked to be a part of it. The former Dr. Ken star joins the group’s Bennington — who’s at the wheel — Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn for a…

UPDATED with band statement: Days after singer Chester Bennington took his own life, his longtime Linkin Park bandmates today released their first statement on his death. It comes a day after they set up a suicide-prevention web page in his honor. Dear Chester, Our hearts are broken. The shockwaves of grief and denial…

Linkin Park, including the late Chester Bennington, will be seen in an upcoming episode of Carpool Karoake: The Series, filmed just days before the lead singer’s death. The band tweeted a photo of bandmates Bennington, Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn alongside Ken Jeong (Dr. Ken, Community) on July 14. Bennington, dressed…

UPDATED with tour cancellation: Chester Bennington, the singer for the top-selling, influential nu metal band Linkin Park who later fronted Stone Temple Pilots, was found dead today, Deadline has confirmed. He was 41. A source says he died at his home in Palos Verdes Estates near Los Angeles but did not provide…

EXCLUSIVE: His songs have appeared in films from Transformers to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now Linkin Park’s Joseph Hahn has tried so hard, and got so far that he’s made the jump from the recording studio to the director’s chair. Paragon Pictures has picked up North American rights to Hahn’s feature helming…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has been set to release The Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed martial arts film that won the Midnight Madness Award at the recent Toronto Film Festival. It is also rumored to be en route to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, by which time it will have a new soundtrack from Mike…

The Raid, which had its Midnight Madness screening last night, is getting a soundtrack overhaul. Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has been hired to create a new musical score for a film that was acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group based on partial footage shown during the Cannes Film Festival. SWAG’s plan…

Paramount announced today that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will have its world premiere June 23 as the opening-night film of the Moscow International Film Festival, six days before the third installment in the studio’s franchise unspools domestically. The event will include an outdoor concert by Linkin Park in Red…

EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Vincent D’Onofrio is the catalyst for a film adaptation of the 2001 Eric Bogosian novel Mall. The film will mark the feature directing debut of Linkin Park’s Joe Hahn, and will star D’Onofrio, Chelsea Handler and Bogosian. D’Onofrio is producing with partner Erika Hampson…