Weekend News Roundup! Oyel, Oyel, Oyel, Oyel

Happy Monday! Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.

•  Awards season kicked off with the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Our favorite moment involved David Oyelowo, Brad Pitt, and an altered version of “Olé, Olé, Olé.” [Vulture]

•  Ludacris the rapper is back. He released a new mixtape titled LudaVerses and will release a new album, Ludaversal, in March. [Soundcloud]

•  Judd Apatow once wrote a spec script for The Simpsons. Twenty-five years later, it is finally getting produced. [TVGuide]

•  The Hobbit won the box office for the third consecutive week. [BOM]

•  Mike Leigh threw some shade at Quentin Tarantino. [Indiewire]

•  Michael Jackson’s eldest son is hanging out with Justin Bieber. No good can come of this. [P6]

•  Good news: America’s future psychiatrists are learning about their field by watching sitcoms from the 1990s (well, just Seinfeld, but still). [Time]