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Now Dr. Dre has one more activity to help him procrastinate the recording/releasing of Detox: making movies. The good doctor and New Line Cinema have agreed to a multiyear feature deal, with Dre producing "dark comedies" before moving onto "other areas, such as horror," according to Variety.com. No word yet on whether or not he will journey into anything a little less morbid.

Dre has created a film company called Crucial Films (huge out-of-court settlement ahead!) to accommodate his new position, and he will deal heavily with the music aspects of his films. Phillip Atwell, the director of many Aftermath music videos, will co-produce with Dre, and it was New Line's Toby Emmerich who approached him a year ago about the move to movies. "He said, 'I want to be your Jimmy Iovine.' There was nothing more he needed to say," Dre said to Variety. But doesn't Dre already have a Jimmy Iovine?

Klaxons recently told MTV News UK that they would love to record an r&b album with the producer, but with this deal in place, we assume they'll get about the same treatment he gave the Game.