LOS ANGELES — Captain America will get to keep top billing in most of the world when his superhero adventure hits the big screen.

Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios gave distributors around the world the option of shortening the title of “Captain America: The First Avenger” to simply “The First Avenger,” out of concern about anti-American sentiment.

But the only countries that took them up on it were Russia, Ukraine and South Korea.

In other territories, the movie will go out with the full title, a sign that the brand value of the Marvel Comics hero trumps any potential anti-U.S. feelings in some parts of the world.

Movie titles often are changed in foreign countries for cultural reasons or because the original names don’t translate well.

Starring Chris Evans as the patriotic super-soldier, “Captain America” opens in U.S. theaters July 22.

Yoakam returns to Warner Music Group from indie land

LOS ANGELES — It’s fairly common for a major-label recording artist to switch to an indie label as time goes by and his impact on the charts waxes and wanes, which is just what happened to country singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam in the ’90s, after his seven-year streak of top 10 country singles slowed.

That makes it all the more unusual to get news Monday that Yoakam, 54, has not only returned from indie land, where he’s been living musically in recent years, to a major label, but to the same parent company, Warner Music Group, he left a decade ago.

The Kentucky musician-turned-actor is set to release a new album for Warner Bros. Nashville early next year, the company has announced. It will be produced by Yoakam and Joe Chiccarelli, who has worked with such alt-rock acts as My Morning Jacket, the Shins and the Strokes. Yoakam also has been recording some tracks with Beck.

His “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.,” came out 25 years ago.

Sheen agrees to ‘epic’ roast

NEW YORK — There should be no shortage of material.

Comedy Central said Tuesday that Charlie Sheen has agreed to be the subject of its next celebrity roast. It will be taped in Los Angeles and air Sept. 19.

That also happens to be the same night that Ashton Kutcher debuts as Sheen’s replacement in the CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men.” Sheen was thrown off the show after his hard partying forced a production shutdown.

The two programs won’t compete directly. The Comedy Central roast is scheduled for 10 p.m., an hour after “Two and a Half Men.”

Sheen says: “You could say I’ve been providing kindling for this roast for a while. It’s time to light it up. It’s going to be epic.”

Duran Duran cancels its tour

LONDON — Veteran New Romantic band Duran Duran has called off its summer tour because frontman Simon Le Bon is recovering from voice problems.

The European tour had been due to start in Dublin next week and continue through mid-September.

Le Bon said Tuesday he had damaged muscles controlling his vocal cords and had been advised to undergo physical therapy.

He said it was unclear how long he would take to recover. But he added: “I am doing everything I can to work through this and get back on track as soon as possible.”