Jack Black and Shirley McLaine ham it up for the cameras at the premiere of their new movie; Kim Kardashian, Busy Philipps and more step out for Us Weekly's Hot Hollywood Style Issue event at Greystone; ASCAP presents their 2012 Pop Music awards to Katy Perry, Carly Simon, David Guetta and others; Emma Roberts and Julia Roberts make a movie premiere a stylish family affair; Rihanna sings for Steven Spielberg, Rita Wilson and many others in Hollywood to benefit breast cancer research—L.A. was hopping with events all over town Wednesday night and we have your details on the best ones that went down in this edition of Last Night's Parties. More»

Given the darkness and violence of the subject material, it's understandable that The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo wasn't going to be marketed on Burger King cups or NFL pregame shows. So when the suits at MGM told Trent Reznor, who composed the soundtrack, to come up with a creative way to market the movie, he had only one criteria: it had to be "something other than some bullshit party at the Chateau Marmont with a bunch of bullshit people." I think teaming up with HARD to bring Deadmau5 and James Murphy to the Palladium, for free, qualifies. More»

• Madonna's motherly acquisitiveness will not be thwarted! Malawian court rules in her favor to adopt another child [CNN]

• Following Ashton and Demi's threats to quit, Trent Reznor says he will quit Twitter and other social media (but can he stay away? see: Lodwick, Jacob) [Observer] More»