A movie musical heads down the wrong path, Hugh Jackman heads down the right one, and Christian Bale is huge in China.
Today in publishing: Joseph Heller was of two different minds about his time in the service, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will not let Roland Emmerich's aggression go unchecked, and the co-author of the Left Behind series gets a rich new contract.
Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography tops the digital and print sales charts, JRR Tolkien's newly-unearthed illustrations for The Hobbit will be seen for the first time, and Roland Emmerich's new Shakespeare authorship thriller gets fact-checked.
Plus: Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln movie won't come out until after the 2012 election
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