Hot tracks; Work Drugs – Runaways Say Lou Lou – Games for Girls (ft. Lindstrom) Zella Day – Compass Milky Chance – Flashed Junk Mind I’ve created a Spotify playlist with my top picks, which you can subscribe to via open.spotify.com/user/jenster13/playlist/0gYXunFqF4QGZahdvTtjFU or by searching Jenster13. If you want to share your own choice tracks, send me suggestions for a readers’ playlist.

MTV EMAs: Katy Perry is leading the nominations for this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs). The singer is up for seven including Best Female, Best Pop Act, Best Video and Best Live act.

She will be going head to head in most categories with Ariana Grande, who has six nominations for the awards being held in Glasgow’s Hydro on 9 November. Among the other frontrunners, 5 Seconds of Summer and Pharrell Williams have five each, while Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Iggy Azalea, Eminem, Sam Smith and Kiesza picked up four.

The biggest battle will be between 5SOS and 1D as they go head-to-head in the Biggest Fans category, while Cheryl Cole won the wildcard vote to be in the running for Best UK & Ireland Act – the winner of which will be entered into the Best Worldwide category. To cast your vote, go to tv.mtvema.com/vote.

Chuffmedia’s upcoming Glasgow gigs to check out: Ryan Adams: Royal Concert Hall, 25 Sept.

The 1975: Barrowland, 25 Sept.

EofE (with The Vamps): SECC Clyde Auditorium, 27 & 28 Sept.

Manchester Orchestra: ABC, 2 Oct.

Blitz Kids: Cathouse, 5 Oct.

Eliza And The Bear: King Tut’s, 8 Oct.

HEYROCCO: Broadcast, 8 Oct.

Hudson Taylor (with Jake Bugg): Royal Concert Hall, 9 Oct.

Years And Years (with Clean Bandit):Academy, 13 Oct.

George Ezra: Queen Margaret Union, 18 Oct.

Lady Gaga: Hydro, 19 Oct.

Death From Above 1979: The Garage, 22 Oct.

Daniel James (with Sam Smith): ABC, 23 Oct.

Twin Atlantic: Barrowland, 24 Oct.

Asking Alexandria: Barrowland, 26 & 27 Oct.

Nick Mulvey: Oran Mor, 26 Oct.

Hyde & Beast: Broadcast, 28 Oct.

Framing Hanley: King Tut’s, 29 Oct.

Indiana: King Tut’s, 30 Oct.

Rixton: Oran Mor, 31 Oct.

The Lafontaines: ABC, 31 Oct.

Top read: Saving Grace by Jane Green; A perfect stranger wants her perfect life. Grace Chapman lives comfortably with her husband, bestselling author Ted, in a picture-perfect farmhouse on the Hudson River in New York State. Then Ted advertises for a new assistant, and Beth walks into their lives. Organised, passionate and eager to learn, Beth quickly makes herself indispensable to Ted and his family. But Grace soon begins to feel side-lined in her home – and her marriage – by this ambitious younger woman. Is Grace just paranoid, as her husband tells her, or is there more to Beth than first thought? From the number one bestselling author of Tempting Fate and The Accidental Husband comes Jane Green’s stunning new novel about a shattered marriage and a devastating betrayal.

Paper Towns: Model-of-the moment Cara Delevingne has bagged a role in Paper Towns, the film adaptation of Fault in Our Stars author John Green’s book. The story revolves around young neighbours Quentin (Nat Wolff) and Margo (Delevingne) who share the jarring experience of finding the body of a man who committed suicide. The two friends grow apart – until the night he finds her at his bedroom window, dressed like a ninja, and requesting help to get revenge on the people who’ve hurt her. The next day she vanishes and he is left to ponder the ramifications of the evening. Then he begins getting clues and follows them in an attempt to find her. Paper Towns reunites several players from Fault, including actor Nat Wolff and screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and is set for release next summer.

Ben-Hur: Jack Houston has been cast in the lead role in a remake of the 1959 classic. The British actor will play Judah Ben-Hur, the Jewish prince turned slave performed by Charlton Heston in the original movie. The story of Ben-Hur takes place in the Roman-occupied province of Judea in the Middle East. The Box Office hit set records at the time for the money spent on vast sets and lavish costumes. One of the most memorable sequences is a chariot race that pits Ben-Hur against his friend turned adversary Messala. The film went on to win 11 Oscars, including best picture, best director and best actor. Huston – of Boardwalk Empire and American Hustle fame – is the nephew of Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston. The updated version, which will also star Morgan Freeman, is scheduled for release in February 2016.

Grumpy cat: Lifetime has found the voice for Grumpy Cat – Aubrey Plaza. The actress behind Parks and Recreation’s April Ludgate is set to star as the surly kitty in the network’s TV movie, Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. Purrfect casting.

Leo's eco role: Leonardo di Caprio Hollywood superstar has been selected as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change. I’d like to select him as my boyfriend.

Action-heroes against pirates: Following the poor opening weekend performance of Expendables 3 last month, producer Millennium Films is going after the pirates who downloaded the film via torrent sites. CEG TEK International, representing Millennium, has been sending out notices of unauthorized use of copyrights to the IP addresses associated with the downloading, directing recipients to a settlement website or risk legal action. Major studios mostly pursue sites that engage in large-scale piracy, not individual torrent users. Distributor Lionsgate initially won a restraining order against six sites that posted pirated copies of the action blockbuster, but it was estimated that the film was downloaded by 2.2 million people before it even premiered. Long-gone are the days when pirated copies are shot with a shaky hand-held camera in a noisy cinema. These days the bootlegged movies posted online are stolen straight from the studio with perfect quality. With cinema tickets now costing the price of a mortgage, it’s no surprise more people are turning to alternative ways to watch films for free. Personally, I love going to the movies and will happily shell out to see a film I fancy. However, I paid to see Expendables 3 at the cinema – and to be honest I wish I hadn’t.

Bourne's new identity: Universal Pictures is reportedly in negotiations with Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass to reunite for another film in The Bourne Identity series. All three of Robert Ludlum’s novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Damon as the CIA assassin with extreme memory loss. Doug Liman directed The Bourne Identity (2002), Greengrass helmed The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Tony Gilroy co-wrote each movie and directed The Bourne Legacy (2012). Legacy introduced new character Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a Department of Defense operative who has to run for his life because of Bourne’s actions in Ultimatum. Damon chose not to return for the fourth film, but his name and image is shown throughout. If the story’s good, I imagine Damon and Greengrass would be up for giving the Bond franchise another run for its money. I’ve always said if it weren’t for the grittiness and realism of the Bourne films, Daniel Craig’s 007 wouldn’t have debuted so strongly. Without competition I found the last Bond, Skyfall, to be boring. Although its $1bn+ takings at the Box Office supports a differing opinion, I personally felt it looked great but lacked substance.

Problem Child: NBC is pushing forward with plans to remake the 1990 movie into a half-hour single-camera comedy TV show. The original film starred John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as a couple who adopt problem child Junior (Michael Oliver), a prankster who had been re-homed and brought back to the orphanage 30 times. It spawned two sequels in 1991 and 1995 and an animated series. US family-friendly shows continue to be high in demand this development season. ABC is moving forward with its Chevy Chase-Beverly D’Angelo comedy, NBC has a shared housing farce from Parenthood’s Jason Katims, Sony Pictures Television is shopping a spinoff to Married... with Children, and Netflix is eyeing a follow-up to Full House.