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We are a little worried about "Cop Out" star Bruce Willis. In the last few days we've noticed that he seems to be a little down about something. MTV News has had the opportunity to meet up with Willis several times recently, as he's been promoting his new Kevin Smith-directed buddy comedy, "Cop Out." And with each interview it becomes clearer that Bruce seems to be going through some existential crisis.

When MTV News caught up with Willis at the junket for "Cop Out" he revealed that John McClane isn't actually a real human being. This was in some ways like having your mom and dad tell you that both Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren't real.

At least, the script for "Cop Out" made Willis laugh. We were worried that nothing did anymore. Cheer up, Bruce! We still love you! And we still believe John McClane is real! Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er!

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Over the weekend, BAFTA Awards winners were honored in London. And as with any major awards ceremony, the event brought stars out from all corners of the entertainment game. As a result, interview opportunities were flying around everywhere.

One such interview was with Matthew Goode, whose "A Single Man" co-star Colin Firth was up for (and won) the Leading Actor award for his performance. Goode sat down for a chat with the UK newspaper Telegraph and he dropped a very interesting tidbit about a possible upcoming trip to Middle-earth in "The Hobbit." Read more...

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Peter Berg's "Battleship" movie may be based on a classic table-top game and have an epic confrontation between humans and aliens in store for Memorial Day Weekend in 2012, but the summer action flick won't begin with a fight, and Universal doesn't plan to shoot it in 3-D. Those details alone may set it apart from its competition in two years.

"I think it’s a really unique story and unlike a lot of those other alien stories this is really not about aliens that came here to do us harm," producer and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner told MTV News. "So I think you’ll find the story really interesting in that it doesn’t begin as a fight." Read more...

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Director Richard Kelly's had a wild ride in Hollywood. His debut film "Donnie Darko" didn't survive long at the box office, but found renewed life and hordes of fans after its release on DVD. The high-concept Jake Gyllenhaal-led pic was breathtakingly original, a dark sci-fi thriller that brought together tangent universes and an evil-looking man in a rabbit costume. But for Kelly, the true measure of his career would be whether the freshman filmmaker could follow up "Darko" with something just as clever and unique.

Five years later we got "Southland Tales," an ambitious, pre-apocalyptic, musical-tinged film narrated by Justin Timberlake and starring everyone from Dwayne Johnson to Mandy Moore. While it opened to dour critical reviews, it showed there was nonetheless still promise buried within the then-32-year-old Kelly. So what would come next? Our answer came with "The Box," Kelly's most mainstream project to date and an expansion of a short story by "I Am Legend" author Richard Matheson. Starring James Marsden and Cameron Diaz, the film begs the question: Would you take a million dollars in return for pressing a button that will kill someone you've never met? Read more...

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Liev Schreiber had a busy first half of 2009, appearing in two major theatrical release: "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "Taking Woodstock." The back half of the year seemed quieter, but that's only if you focus solely on the actor's film career. Schreiber is also an accomplished stage actor; he picked up a Tony in 2005 for his performance in "Glengarry Glen Ross" and was in the running for another for his star performance in "Talk Radio."

He was busy late last year preparing for his latest role, a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge," directed by Gregory Mosher, in which he shares the stage with the lovely and talented Scarlett Johansson. MTV's Josh Horowitz got a chance to chat with Schreiber recently about his latest stage role, and the thrill of stepping into such an accomplished playwright's world. Read more...

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FROM MTV.COM: After collaborating on some of the most popular and distinctive films of the past two decades, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are celebrating a special milestone: 20 years together. Next month they'll be on the big screen once again with their seventh film, a new take on "Alice in Wonderland." But aside from the obvious — they're friends, fans love them, etc. — we has to ask: What is the process that keeps bringing these two talents together?

"I think we always treat each thing as what the project is," Tim Burton explained, insisting that it isn't simply automatic that any movie he makes star Depp (even though the last four have). "[Whether I cast Johnny depends on] what the character is."

Continue reading Johnny Depp, Tim Burton Talk About Their Long History

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Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" is no simple retelling of Lewis Carroll's 19th century children's tales. The kooky director's story finds Alice as a 17-year-old who has forgotten her original adventure in Wonderland and suddenly tumbles once more down the rabbit hole. With this updated take, naturally, comes updated influences.

For example, the White Queen was modeled in part after celeb chef Nigella Lawson and some of the inspiration for the Red Queen was billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley. Read more...

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In January we heard that a planned big screen treatment of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta character starring Angelina Jolie was finally moving forward. It was surprising, given that Jolie's involvement was originally announced in April 2009 and nothing was heard after that.

Now we learn that Jolie is a primary reason there's been any movement at all on the project, thanks to an interview Cornwell gave to the Los Angeles Times. "When Angelina came out of left field last year, I was floored," she said. "[Angelina] had pithy things to say about what she wanted to do. She was direct and goal-oriented." Read more...

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It looks like Paul Giamatti is facing a "Win Win" situation after all, as the actor has signed on to star in Tom McCarthy's upcoming film for Fox Searchlight.

New York Magazine reports that Giamatti and Amy Ryan are joining "Win Win," McCarthy's newest project described by the magazine as "'The Blind Side' for indie literary types." The story centers on "a suburban New Jersey family and the teen runaway who changes their lives and turns around the sagging fortunes of a high school wrestling team." Read more...

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It's not often that you hear Dan Brown, "The Matrix" and "Star Wars" all mentioned in the same breath, but those are exactly the descriptors being used when it comes to the Fourth Realm Trilogy, a novel series that "Watchmen" co-writer Alex Tse is set to adapt for film.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has picked up the rights to John Twelve Hawks' science fiction series and has hired Alex Tse to adapt the novels for the big screen. First up on the agenda is "The Traveler," the first book in the series published in 2006. Read more...

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