Launch Radio Networks reports: MÖTLEY CRÜE is back on the road and planning to record a new studio album this year. But the CRÜE's other major project, a film adaptation of its 2002 autobiography, "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band", is still in the works. Bassist Nikki Sixx told Launch the movie is making significant progress. "The movie is getting some legs," he said. "The script's done. I mean, the people in Hollywood, the movie companies, are just freaking out over the script. They love it. Rick Wilkes wrote it, who wrote the 'XXX' movie."

There's no word yet on when the film version of "The Dirt" will go into production.

Drummer Tommy Lee's reality show, "Tommy Lee Goes to College", will arrive on DVD on April 25. The six-episode series premiered last August on NBC and followed Lee's studies and extracurricular activities at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

MÖTLEY CRÜE plans to convene in the studio on May 1 to begin recording its next studio album.

The group's Carnival Of Sins 2006 tour resumes on February 10 in Columbus, Georgia.