'John Carter of Mars'In an exclusive interview with MTV News, “WALL-E” writer/director Andrew Stanton dished the most details yet about the progress of his next feature, “John Carter of Mars,” an adaptation of a nearly hundred-year-old serialized novel about a Civil War vet mysteriously transported to the Red Planet, where he encounters all manner of alien adventures.

“It’s real,” Stanton assured us. “We’re full bore on it right now. We’re over the hump of the writing phase, and we’re certainly far from rewrites.”

Before he could even get to that point, Stanton had to solve a problem that had stymied filmmakers for eighty years: How do you turn the six separate installments of the novel into a coherent whole? Read More...

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We've gone ahead and named our Pop Rookies for 2009, and one of those names may be familiar. That's right, Jackson Rathbone made our list with his band 100 Monkeys (click here for a full run-down of the artists).

Not content to simply talk to Jackson, we gave him a video camera to capture his first-person experience at one of his 100 Monkeys shows. Watch it below and check back tomorrow for more with the "Twilight" star.

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'Terminator Salvation'Of all the questions surrounding the May 2009 “Terminator” reboot -- did the epic failure of “T3” kill the franchise forever? Can Christian Bale convincingly play both Bruce Wayne and John Connor? -- perhaps the biggest one is why Warner Bros. would hand the keys to such an important, beloved property to the director of such vaunted fare as “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and an episode of NBC’s “Chuck”?

Yet when McG played about 15 minutes of footage from “Terminator Salvation” at a special screening on Monday, he went a long way toward assuring skeptics our worries were unfounded. The clips the director unveiled made for a fantastically noisy spectacle of carnage and fire, speeding trucks and exploding tankers, cool-looking mechanical creations and old school hand-to-bot combat. Read More...

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Brendan FraserIt's a pairing made in tomb raider heaven. Brendan Fraser, man of all those Mummy installments, will finally pair up on screen with his archeological predecessor, Harrison Ford. But if you were actually hoping to see them fight mummies and dig for treasure, well, that will have to wait for your fan fiction. According to industry magazine Production Weekly (via ComingSoon), they're pairing up for the medical drama "Crowley."

The drama is based on the true story of John and Aileen Crowley, whose two children suffered from a rare genetic disorder. Rather than watch their children die, the desperate parents contacted a researcher who was developing a potential cure. Ford will play the researcher, and Fraser will play the father, John Crowley. Read More...

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'American Teen'Contributed by Jem Aswad

We're fans of movies and we're fans of music -- but perhaps not to the same degree as Rodrigo Perez, whose excellent blog The Playlist explores, as he puts it, "that sweet spot where music and movies meet." Well, dude has assembled a whopping 3,500-word survey of his favorite soundtracks, scores and movie music moments of 2008, with photos and clips GALORE, and he's come up with some pretty genius categories as well, like "Best Song From A Crappy Mainstream Movie That Went On To Become An Unexpected Hit," "Film Score That Was Actually Better Than The Movie," "Best Winning Wimpy Moment With Dignity," "Best Atonal Score To A Gigantically Budgeted Superhero Blockbuster," "The Most Spectacularly Retarded/Awesome Music Moment In A Movie," and so many more that our eyes are crossed from reading it.

And just in case you're not sold yet, and he's got a special place in his liver (or wherever bile is created) for the "Twilight" soundtrack! Enjoy ...

Read The Playlist's favorite soundtracks, scores and movie music moments of 2008 here!

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Mickey RourkeFROM THE NEWSROOM: You know how everyone always talks about how insane and mind-bogglingly surreal awards-show red carpets are? As the long-time king of camp cynicism, I was ready to chalk all that up as just more Ryan Seacrest hyperbole (not everything can be that amazing, can it?).

I stand corrected. Last night was my first tangle with the Golden Globes carpet. (Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry: “Aw, you’re a virgin!”) And dare I say it? It was a draw. Here, now, are some of the shenanigans that transpired. Relive it with me, why don’t you?

» In my seven-second interview with Mickey Rourke, I got him to talk "Iron Man 2” for the first time. Sort of. That was only to be outdone by my “interview” with Angelina Jolie. Total words uttered by Angie? One. That’s all you need when you’re one half of Brangelina.

Continue reading our favorite awkward, beautiful and enlightening Golden Globes moments on Newsroom.MTV.com!

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Cate BlanchettImagine that you’re an actress not even forty years old, and you’ve already been nominated for the Oscar four times, won it once, and worked alongside everyone from Steven Spielberg to Leonardo DiCaprio to Peter Jackson and many others. Where does Cate Blanchett go from here?

Naturally, she finds increasingly difficult material to make into movies, then does her best to help steer it to the screen. And her current pet project is “Cancer Vixen: A True Story,” Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s humorously serious depiction of how the C-word knocked her out of her Carrie Bradshaw fantasy and into reality.

“Yes, it’s a comic novel, which I’m hoping will come up,” enthused Blanchett, who hopes to someday play the part of Marchetto in a feature film based on her graphic novel. “It’s a really unique book.” Read More...

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'Slumdog Millionaire'Contributed by Akshay Bhansali

By late Sunday afternoon, the New York Giants were out of the playoff race, but I had to move on. I had another team to route for, this time at the Golden Globes.

Team Slumdog' is proud: The success of "Slumdog Millionaire," has virtually the entire Desi (a.k.a. South Asian) population on the planet energized. What was the last film with Indian subject matter to win an Oscar, "Ghandi"? “Water” and “Lagaan” came close. Heck, an Indian film star had still never presented an award at a major U.S. award show before! Read More...

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Drew BarrymoreDear Drew,

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the '80s (besides banana clips). And I'm sure everyone who went to their prom during that decade had just as much good, clean fun as I did at mine [Editor's note: Speak for yourself, Rachel!]. But that doesn't mean you should bring it back to haunt fashionistas everywhere, Drew Barrymore, now that most of those pictures have long been burned.

The more I stare at your Golden Globe look from last night, the more I realize that this disaster had nothing to do with your dress. The gown was lovely, elegant, even a little edgy. Your makeup was fine, even though I personally wouldn't have chosen a blue shadow.

But! The! Hair! Read More...

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It's fitting that a pair of dark rags-to-riches stories in which the underdog endures great pain to rise up triumphed Sunday night at the Golden Globes. The biggest winner of the evening, "Slumdog Millionaire," overcame odds just to get made and has built the kind of word-of-mouth buzz most filmmakers only dream of, especially for a small picture filmed in the slums of Mumbai.

And especially on a night when it was up against some major Hollywood heavy hitters like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon," all of which were shut out of the major categories. Read More...

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