Saturday, March 5, 2011
Farrakhan Still Not A Fan Of Rihanna
You'll recall that earlier in the week, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan made some really vile comments about Rihanna and her fans, particularly one sin the LGBT community.
The minster continued spewing his nonsense during his annual Savior's Day speech, bringing up RiRi's performance at the Grammys [...]
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Kristen Stewart?s New Role
Good news Kristen Stewart fans, it is being reported that the actress is in final negotiations to play the title role in ?Snow White and the Huntsman.?
According to reports, the ?Twilight? babe is working out some kinks before making the official announcement.
Last month, it was rumored that Selena Gomez was also being considered for the part, but Gossip Cop is confident that Stewart is the only in the running for the role.
Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen are also set to star in the film.
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Nickelodeon Star For Straight But Not Narrow!
Check out this very important message from Nickelodeon star Avan Jogia and the Straight But Not Narrow campaign (above), which focuses on straight men learning to accept and support their homosexual male friends!
Like he says:
"It doesn't make you any less of a man or make it look like you're into men if you're [...]
Ke$ha's 'Blow' Director Addresses Lady Gaga 'Unicorn' Flap
Unicorn cameos in 'Born This Way' and 'Blow' videos is 'just weird coincidence,' Chris Marrs Piliero tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena
Ke$ha in her video for "Blow"
Photo: RCA
The brand-new videos for Ke$ha's "Blow" and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" couldn't be more different. But fans on the Web have been comparing the clips, thanks to a special cameo the two videos have in common. With unicorns appearing in both "Blow" and "BTW," some Gaga fans are accusing the K-Dollar of stealing from their Mother Monster.
But MTV News spoke to "Blow" director Chris Marrs Piliero, who explained that it's pure coincidence his video and the Nick Knight-directed video both feature unicorns.
"It's very odd. It's one of those weird things, and I think a lot of people on the Internet don't grasp the sense of time [that goes into making videos]. Some Gaga fans, they don't realize that just because it was announced there might be a unicorn [in Gaga's video], it's like, we didn't film the video after that announcement," he said.
"It's like [the movies] 'Dante's Peak' and 'Volcano' and then there was 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact.' I don't know, I know when things like that happen when I was a part of the audience, I was like, 'That's weird and fishy,' but now being on the other side, it's just weird coincidences," he explained. "What are the odds of that?"
In fact, Piliero had a gut feeling that he should use unicorns many, many moons ago and he thought Ke$ha was the right artist to join with the mythological creatures onscreen.
"Ke$ha was looking to make kind of something different, a video that was cool and random, and I had this idea running in my head with just the idea of unicorns," he recalled. "If I massacred unicorns, they could bleed rainbows. I'm a fan of violence and I'm always trying to find a way to make it OK."
The rainbow-spewing unicorns weren't the only cameo that Piliero hoped to nab. He also wanted "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek to appear in the clip. "He's such an awesome guy. He was down for it," he said. "He had seen the Black Keys video [I shot] and he was stoked on the idea. It was so much fun. He and Ke$ha kind of went for all the craziness. I think he has a fantastic comic side. He's good at being naturally funny. It's about the delivery."
Ke$ha, of course, was onboard for all the zaniness. "Before we started filming, we had quite a few talks. She was adamant you can't back away from the crazy; everything about the idea she loved and she enforced the fact that she wanted to embrace every aspect of it and really go for it," he recalled. "On set, she was having fun. She was like, 'I want to lick a unicorn.' It was rad working with her because there definitely wasn't a sense of her feeling awkward about stuff or detached; no ego. It felt like we had worked together before."
Which video do you prefer: "Blow" or "Born This Way"? Tell us in the comments!
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'Rango': The Reviews Are In!
The critics heap praise on Johnny Depp's animated reunion with Gore Verbinski.
By Eric Ditzian
With top-notch fare at a minimum at the multiplex during these early months of the years, "Gnomeo & Juliet" has slowly crept up the box-office ranks, starting in the #3 slot and narrowly — by $135,000 — missing out on the top spot last weekend.
This weekend, however, those animated garden statues will make way for a CGI lizard who will dominate the box office. With Johnny Depp voicing the title character and his "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski at the helm, "Rango" has collected enthusiastic reviews. The only criticism, it seems, is whether the PG flick is most squarely aimed at children or their parents. For that critique and a whole lot of praise, read on.
The Story
"Depp plays a zonk-eyed pet lizard traveling cross-country through the Mojave Desert when a freak accident leaves him stranded in the blistering sun. Far removed from his natural habitat, the green-skinned, Hawaiian shirt-wearing reptile finds it virtually impossible to camouflage himself in his new all-brown environment, choosing instead to pass for something he's not, a fearless gunfighter named Rango. With no real-world experience but a near-inexhaustible supply of good luck, Rango looks exactly like what the naively optimistic denizens of Dirt need right now: a hero. Their old-timey desert outpost is beset by predators and ruled by a corrupt mayor (Ned Beatty, playing a less huggable villain than he did in 'Toy Story 3'), who clearly has a hand in the mysterious drought making all their lives miserable." — Peter Debruge, Variety
The Visuals
"The technical production sparkles. The first feature-length animation from Industrial Light and Magic effects studio, 'Rango' is a holiday for the eye. Its action is set against grandiose, panoramic Southwest landscapes, whose epic vistas are rendered in rich color and vivid detail. Every mote of dust in a shaft of light, each facet in a barroom shot glass, the individual wrinkles in Rango's reptilian skin — there's not a pixel on the screen that hasn't been art-directed to within an inch of its life. The action sequences are dizzying, death-defying marvels. The animated cast — a menagerie of gila monsters, horned toads, rattlers, rats and other frontier wildlife — is sharply individualized and expressive. The lizard's asymmetrical poker face, with pop-eyed peepers that rotate like gun turrets, isn't very mobile in human terms, yet it's effortlessly easy to read." — Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Comparison to Other Animated Flicks
"A marvelous mash-up of Old West and newfangled, 'Rango' rewrites the animation playbook with its eye-popping critters and varmints, and its hero's tale (tail?) of a chameleon desperate for a SAG card and a town desperate for a sheriff. What fun. In a world choked with animated films — the good, the bad and the ugly — it's hard to be either original or great. Yet director Gore Verbinski has done both — and without 3-D — breaking the rules and new ground." — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
The Dissenters
"[I]t's completely soulless. I may be in the minority. But seeing this sour riff on everything from to 'Cat Ballou' to 'Chinatown' to 'The Shakiest Gun in the West,' with a big suburban preview audience, was instructive. Not much laughter. Moans and sobs of pre-teen fright whenever Rattlesnake Jake slithered into view, threatening murder. Any one crowd's response to any movie may not be indicative; nonetheless the audience's mood seemed in synch with my own." — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
The Final Word
"[T]he spirit is closer to those old Bugs Bunny cartoons in which Bugs would cross paths with real movie stars or perform Wagnerian opera. In other words, it is not self-conscious knowingness that drives 'Rango' but rather a quirky and sincere enthusiasm for all the strange stuff that has piled up in the filmmakers' heads over the years. ... In spite of a profile that should place it alongside 'Megamind' and 'Despicable Me' and the long list of other overblown, have-fun-or-else cartoons, this rambling, anarchic tale is gratifyingly fresh and eccentric. Much of the time you don't quite know where it is going, which is high praise indeed given the slick predictability that governs most other entertainments of its kind." — A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Check out everything we've got on "Rango."
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After 'The Adjustment Bureau' And 'Blade Runner,' Hollywood Should Adapt These Philip K. Dick Stories
Today's "The Adjustment [...]
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Sirius XM Gets The Charlie Touch, Tiger Blood Radio Is Coming!
On Saturday, Sirius XM will launch Tiger Blood Radio, a station that will "explore the breaking news, facts, fallout and career implications" of Charlie Sheen, for 24 hours straight.
The station will run Sheen-related news non-stop [...]
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Things Are Heating Up Between T-Swizzle And Chord!
Her fling with Glee's Chord Overstreet is beginning to turn into more as friends say the two are really hitting it off together.
An insider says:
"Taylor reached out to Chord. After the [hockey game], Taylor and Chord grabbed a bite. He's into her. She's getting to [...]
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Has Charlie Sheen?s Obituary Already Been Written?
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J.Lo?s #1 On iTunes!!!!
Right now, Jennifer Lopez's latest single, On The Floor, is the #1 downloaded song on iTunes!
Consider her comeback in full swing! (Didn't hurt that they premiered the video during American Idol last night either!)
Congrats, gurl! Enjoy the moment!
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'Take Me Home Tonight' Star Topher Grace Falls For MTV After Hours Host Josh Horowitz
But no matter how inexplicable the sensation might be, there's simply no denying the urges of the heart when one falls for another. Take MTV After Hours host Josh Horowitz and "Take Me Home Tonight" star Topher Grace, for example. They met for [...]
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Johnny Depp Says There's A Little 'Rango' In All Of Us
'We find ourselves in certain situations that you have to adapt to,' Depp tells MTV News of his cartoon chameleon.
By Kara Warner
Rango, voiced by Johnny Depp, in "Rango"
Photo: Paramount
Johnny Depp is one of those actors who disappear so fully into the characters he plays onscreen that with each new film, it's hard to know what to expect from the Oscar nominee. Depp's latest, the animated pic "Rango," is no exception.
In the film — directed by Depp's "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski and featuring the vocal talents of Abigail Breslin, Isla Fischer and Bill Nighy — Depp plays the title character, a chameleon living a lonely life in a cage as a family pet. But Rango is also an aspiring actor so he stages elaborate plays within the confines of his little glass home. He suddenly finds his life turned upside down when his cage is accidentally thrown out of his owners' car during a cross-country move, landing him in the strange town of Dirt in the Nevada desert.
MTV News caught up with Depp and we asked him if, given his chameleon-like abilities as an actor, he felt a sense of kinship with the little green reptile, and whether Rango is perhaps the closest he's come to playing himself.
"What I saw early on with the character, and something that Gore and I talked about, is that it is in sort of all of us, in a way," Depp explained. "There is a chameleonic side to all of us in which we find ourselves in certain situations that you have to adapt to, sitting across from personalities that you have to adapt to in order to survive the moment or survive the day," he said. "That's kind of how I saw Rango."
Who's your favorite Johnny Depp character? Tell us in the comments!
Check out everything we've got on "Rango."
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Courteney Cox: Relaxing in Hawaii
She?s been hard at work on location in Oahu, Hawaii, and yesterday (March 3) Courteney Cox was finally spotted taking some time off.
The ?Cougar Town? babe caught some rays on the beach with a few of her crew and cast mates as local paparazzi snapped up pictures.
During her time in the Island State, Courteney has been more than happy to show off her fabulous bikini body.
And of course, Ms. Cox has been bringing her adorable daughter Coco with her to the set to experience the beautiful scenery.
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First Rule Of Glee Fight Club?
We gather its been a pretty rough week for the dream team of Glee. They've obviously been working very long hours in an attempt to finish up the season before their upcoming tour and perhaps all this hard work is taking its toll [...]
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Oscar Producer Says Avoiding Javier/Josh Kiss Was An Honest Mistake!
We're not sure we can tell!
After ABC's telecast of Sunday's Academy Awards cut away from presenters Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin sharing an impromptu on-stage kiss and dance number, the network has received criticism once again claiming that they did this deliberately to avoid airing a same-sex lip lock!
However, [...]
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Reported Plot Details From ?The Dark Knight? Rises Leak To The Internets
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
This Is Great, Craig Ferguson!
Like everyone else, Craig brought up the Charlie Sheen situation in his opening monologue last night on The Late, Late Show. However, unlike everyone else, he urged us all to take a step back and really look at the man we've been mocking. Craig points out that Charlie is obviously [...]
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