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The search for the Greatest Movie Badass of All Time is on! MTV News has asked accomplished filmmakers, actors and you, the audience, to vote for your favorites. Now we've tabulated the results and found our 10 finalists for the top spot. Who will reign supreme as the greatest badass of all time? Find out on February 6 at 7:15 p.m. when MTV announces the winner live at New York's Comic-Con and right here at MTV.com.

Until then, we're profiling the 10 contenders for the Greatest Badass mantle every day, in alphabetical order. Keep checking back to see if your favorite made the list! Making the cut today is bounty hunter to the stars, Boba Fett. Check out the video below and then click here to read our profile of this determined mercenary.

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Fans looking for a first look at the poster art for the upcoming, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" will have to head to the movie theater to see it, though it won't be in the place they might expect.

Mega-Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has hidden the poster inside his latest film, "Confessions of a Shopaholic", appearing as a Times Square advertisement about halfway into the film. It joins posters for a number of other Bruckheimer productions, including the upcoming "G-Force", though "Persia" is unique in that it marks the first time the films' artwork has been seen anywhere. Read more...

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While talking to Isla Fisher at this weekend's "Confessions of a Shopaholic" junket, MTV News learned about an exciting bit of casting; Fisher has joined Gore Verbinski's 2011 animated adventure film, "Rango".

Already set to star Johnny Depp as a household pet who goes on a fantastic adventure, the film reunites Depp with the "Pirates" director. Fisher is set to voice a lizard that Depp's character
encounters on his travels. Read more...

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Aubery O'Day. Sundance. Rocking out on "Rock Band 2" to The Pretenders. Some blogs don't need words. You're welcome.

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There's an awful lot of chatter right now about the possibility of Dakota Fanning joining the "Twilight" franchise. But thus far we haven't heard a peep from the young lady herself. Well it just so happens MTV News spoke to Fanning about the "Twilight" phenomenon all the way back in September of last year. Watch the video below and you'll see she's still a newcomer to the books. But what do you think...would you welcome Dakota with open arms to the cast of "New Moon"?

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FROM SPLASH PAGE: When it comes to casting movies based on the comics world, it's always interesting to play the "What If?" game when we hear about actors who were almost chosen to play certain roles. For example, what if Harrison Ford had indeed become Superman? What if Sam Rockwell had landed the Tony Stark gig in the first "Iron Man" (instead of playing the villainous Justin Hammer in "Iron Man 2")? What if Mark Ruffalo was offered the part of Harvey Dent in "The Dark Knight"?

Now you can add this one to the list of almost-casting points to ponder, folks: What if Billy Bob Thornton played Tony Stark?

Read more about Billy Bob Thornton almost becoming Tony Stark in "Iron Man" over at SplashPage.MTV.com.

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Now available on DVD, Alexandre Aja's "Mirrors" tells the surreal story of an ex-cop trying to pull all the broken parts of his life together. Taking a job as a night watchman guarding the ruins of a horrific fire, Ben Carson (Keifer Sutherland) is haunted by a terrifying alternate world, appearing as monstrous visions within the store's mirrors. Soon, the otherworldly spirits reach out through reflections everywhere, driving Carson mad and threatening even his grasp on sanity.

Aja, famous for his French-language film "High Tension" and later for the 2006 remake of "The Hills Have Eyes," spoke with MTV News about the film and what keeps calling him back to the horror genre.

"I was looking for something different to do after the others," said Aja, "I didn't want to do a survival movie or a slasher movie. I wanted to explore the other side of the genre. I wanted to explore the supernatural side." Read more...

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FROM SPLASH PAGE: While there's been no shortage of attention given to Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker in "The Dark Knight," the record-breaking sequel to "Batman Begins" might've never come to be if it wasn't for the success of director Christopher Nolan's first cape-and-cowl tale -- and the portrayal of its villain, Ra's Al Ghul, by Liam Neeson.

MTV News caught up with Neeson during the Sundance Film Festival, and got his thoughts on both "The Dark Knight" and a potential return for his "immortal" character from the first film.

For more on Liam Neeson and potential "Batman 3" villains, head over to SplashPage.MTV.com.

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When William H. Macy decided to make a film about making a film -- and everything that can go wrong in the process -- he certainly didn’t expect so much to go wrong in the process.

Almost three years ago, after adapting Peter Lefcourt’s Hollywood satire “The Deal,” Macy and his director/co-writer Steven Schachter sent a skeleton crew to Bucharest to begin early filming because their female lead, Lisa Kudrow, had a scheduling deadline. Once there, they discovered that the Canadian company who promised to help finance the project didn’t have any money.

“Maybe they just liked to talk to actors?” Macy wondered in an interview with MTV News. Read more...

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FROM MTV.COM: Frost/Nixon" offers us the pleasure, more common in the theater, of watching two excellent actors simply being, well, excellent. The film is mostly talk, but it's sharp, punchy talk, and the picture is sometimes thrilling to watch.

"Frost/Nixon," which was written by Peter Morgan, did in fact start out as a stage play. It debuted in London in 2006, and had a short run on Broadway last year. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, the stars of both productions, reprise their roles in the film with a combination of fresh endeavor and easy intimacy with the material. Sheen, so breezy and appealing as Tony Blair in "The Queen," here slips smoothly into the role of David Frost, the English talk-show host and infotainment personality who, as portrayed in "Frost/Nixon," is a bit of a fop and a bit of a poseur, but clawingly ambitious at his core. In 1977, Frost conducted a series of four two-hour interviews with ex-President Richard Nixon, who'd been driven from office three years earlier by the Watergate scandal. Nixon, exiled in shame on his palmy estate in San Clemente, California, agreed to the interviews out of a powerful drive to redeem himself in the public eye. And there was the money, too: $600,000 that Frost, desperate to reinvent himself as a real journalist, didn't actually have.

Continue reading Kurt Loder's review of "Frost/Nixon" at MTV.com....

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