Wow. The things you can do when you're wealthy. Kind of astonishing really. Take the amFar Celebrity Auction that went down in Cannes last night in support of AIDS research. One of the highlighted offers on the block was a birthday visit and a kiss from "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson. Not exactly a prize I'll be stepping up for anytime soon, but based on the results of our RPattz "Bel Ami" poll, I am in the minority.

Someone paid big bucks, as the RPattz kiss ended up selling for a whopping $20K. The heartthrob even went as far mentioning the possibility that "something more" could happen depending on how things go, though Stone wisely brushed past the comment without any acknowledgment. She did score a free kiss before Pattinson left the stage, most likely to the chagrin of whomever had just spent $20K for the exact same thing. Check out video from the event here (the RPattz/Stone money shot comes in at around the 2:20 mark):

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Christian Bale in 'Terminator Salvation'by John Constantine

Time travel is simultaneously the most useful and the most destructive tool in the storyteller’s arsenal. Need to bring someone recently and unexpectedly deceased back to the land of the living? Bam! Just go back and save them. Say it’s magic, say it’s a wormhole, say you have a time machine. It’s fantasy, man — you can do whatever you want.

Another classic example: you’re a human-hating artificial intelligence named Skynet and have been enjoying world domination for fifteen lovely post-apocalyptic years. The only problem is this dingus named John Connor. You can’t seem to get your army of robotic Terminators to kill him. Your solution? Send a robot into the past to kill his mom! Wait… that doesn’t make any sense at all. If you already have a time machine, why not just send back all kinds of Terminators to 1862 and have them take over then? That’s the problem with time travel: it never, ever makes any sense. The "Terminator" series, right up to this week's "Terminator Salvation," is one of the worst offenders in this category, creating an entirely new continuity with each new movie. Here are five others that warp the mind. Read More...

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Emma WatsonEarlier this week, MTV's Jocelyn Vena challenged members of Team RPattz to choose a co-star for "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson's upcoming role in "Remember Me," which he's currently promoting out at Cannes. Well the results are now in. The verdict? You love yourselves almost as much as you love Emma Watson. Ya Pattinson-loving narcissists.

"Harry Potter" star Watson took the lion's share of the votes, with 41% favoring her. Trailing behind was the "joke vote" category -- I think I should be cast! -- which earned 30% of your clicks. The numbers take a sharp dip after that: Camilla Belle with 16% followed by Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox, with 7% and 5%, respectively. Read More...

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Cannes really brings out the best in people. For the past few years, either Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie or both have had high-profile premieres at the film festival, which then becomes the event at Cannes. The couple radiate glamor and grace in a way that no one else does, celeb couple or otherwise, and this year the "Inglorious Basterds" premiere was no different.

At the film premiere, the reigning king and queen of Cannes did not disappoint the hundreds of photographers clamoring to take their picture. Easygoing and poised, the couple looked smashing. Brad wore a traditional bow tie tuxedo, while Angelina chose a pale pink draped dress and bright red lipstick. (Check out photos of the couple plus a bonus shot of Robert Pattinson after the jump, or browse the entire "Inglorious Basterds" premiere photo gallery.) Read More...

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Moon Bloodgood in 'Terminator Salvation'With Christian Bale joining the "Terminator" franchise as John Connor, it's no surprise that his co-star, Moon Bloodgood, isn't worried by "Star Trek's" success when "Terminator Salvation" opens this week. Bale did make Batman cool again after all.

So when the film opens Thursday, Bloodgood thinks that "Terminator" has just as good a chance as any movie does to live long and prosper. Why? Because she was expecting a success in "Star Trek." "I knew 'Star Trek' was going to be huge. I'm a Trekkie. I love it," she told MTV News. "You can never predict something to be big." Read More...

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'Terminator Salvation'Forget about your Wall-Es and your R2-D2s. As "Terminator Salvation" will prove to audiences this weekend, like so many sci-fi flicks before it, robots are simply not to be trusted. Their cold logic, susceptibility to tampering and tendency to regard human beings as "inferior" are all red flags. Real world concerns like the threat of nuclear annihilation and global warming are important of course, but killer robots will be the end of us all if we're not careful.

As I mentioned above, Skynet's 'Terminator' machines are just one example of the constant robot threat we all face. Prescient Hollywood creatives have been warning us for years, decades even, that our species will eventually be crushed beneath a cold, metal fist. Consider these examples… Read More...

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“500 Days of Summer” is one of those indie gems that has been building momentum since Sundance and, in the clip below, you’ll catch a glimpse at why; On beyond a great script and no small amount of style, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel share a chemistry that would make you believe that they’ve been working together for years. Doubly surprising is finding out that they have.

“We’ve known each other for almost ten years,” Zooey told MTV News, citing a little-known project called “Manic” in 2001 that brought the pair together. They became fast friends, just as Joseph was leaving acting for awhile to go back to school and Zooey was leaving school to go back to acting.

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'The Brothers Bloom'FROM MTV.COM: "The Brothers Bloom" is set on a planet somewhat like our own, but far wackier. The Bloom brothers of the title — Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and, well, Bloom (Adrien Brody) — have been gifted swindlers since they were kids. (They appear to have been born wearing shifty little black suits and ties.) Stephen is the brains of the team — he composes their elaborate schemes as if they were short stories, each one a chapter in an ongoing, lifelong compendium of cons. His younger brother Bloom is always the protagonist. As we join them in the middle of their latest scam, in Berlin, Bloom is chafing under the dictates of his brother's never-ending narrative. "I've only lived life through these roles that aren't me," he complains. He wants to break free, to live "an unwritten life." Not quite yet, Stephen says.

The boys relocate to New Jersey to case a new job. They're accompanied by their assistant, a mysterious young Japanese woman called Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi, the troubled teen in "Babel"). Bang Bang's face is a mask of deadpan disgruntlement — she seems to have been waiting all her life for a punch line that's never arrived. She only speaks three words of English; one of them is "Campari." Still, she's "an artist with nitroglycerin," and thus handy to have around.

Continue reading 'The Brothers Bloom': Liars In Love, By Kurt Loder

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'Terminator Salvation'FROM MTV.COM: After a half-decade of hope, fans can finally lay their eyes again upon the red-eyed machines of the "Terminator" franchise, as "Terminator Salvation" storms into theaters with a post-apocalyptic update on the adventures of John Connor. But when you go and watch the movie this weekend, will you see the whole picture?

Christian Bale, director McG and the other behind-the-scenes "Salvation" stars have packed the new film full of winks to the franchise's past — some subtle, some more deliberate. Below, we present five spoiler-free nuggets to keep an eye out for while watching the blockbuster.

Continue reading 'Terminator Salvation': Five Things To Look Out For

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Andy SambergOur 2009 MTV Movie Awards host Andy Samberg was on Jay Leno last night to talk about his days as a temp, loving mothers, his early stand-up career... and of course to plug his Best Kiss contender, "Pommel: The Bobby Brooks Story." I don't think we've got a choice on this one, readers ... we're going to have to give it to him!

If you're wondering about the steps one must take to become an MTV Movie Awards host, Samberg revealed his troubled years in the temp scene. One job involved "tying ribbons" for a greeting card company -- a job he and his fellow Lonely Island members Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone were fired from because they were daring to talk while tying ribbons. The Lonely Island trio decided to leave rather than stay silent, but their tragic story has a silver lining: "[while it lasted, temping] worked out perfectly because we were never up that early, and we were able to have McDonalds' breakfast... it was delightful!" Read More...

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