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Gabourey Sidibe is getting her chuckle on as the host of "Saturday Night Live" this weekend. I have to say: it's a welcome change from her Oscar-nominated role in Lee Daniels' dark and depressing Oscar winner, "Precious." In a new photo provided to MTV News, Gabby is seen chilling with castmate Kenan Thompson on the legendary sketch comedy show's set. What were these two crazy kids up to? We won't know until we tune in on Saturday night. Read more...

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All the way back in June of last year we heard that plans were gearing up to unleash an "Alien" prequel on the world. Now, almost a full year later, we've got some news from Ridley Scott, creator of the franchise and director of both the first movie and the coming sequel, about what fans can expect.

"It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]," the "Robin Hood" director said in an exclusive interview, in advance of next week's summer preview week on MTV.com. "It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's chair. Remember that?" Read more...

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Based on the response, I'm guessing many of you saw the post on Movies Blog yesterday about "South Park" episode 201, fittingly titled "201." The short version is: creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, to celebrate the milestone of hitting 200 episodes, crafted a heavily self-referential two-part story in which Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was depicted as a character.

Amidst many other throwbacks to past episodes in "200" and "201," Muhammad is the most noteworthy: he appeared as a character in an early season, but was later censored in the 2006 two-parter "Cartoon Wars," which was written in part as a response to the censoring of a Dutch newspaper for comic strip representations of Muhammad. The funny thing about "201" is that it was heavily censored. All mentions of the Islam founder's name were bleeped out as was Kyle's summarizing message at the end of the episode. Many of the edits were implemented by Comedy Central, not Parker and Stone, and the series creators have now responded to the move. Read more...

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Episode Title: "The Man From The Other Side"

Written By: Josh Singer & Ethan Gross

Story: The shape-shifters are back as Thomas Jerome Newton (Sebastian Roche) makes a deadly play in support of the alternate reality. Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) and the rest of the Fringe Team race against the clock to find out what's going to happen tomorrow at 3:31 PM, leading Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) to learn a thing or two about his own disturbing history. Read more...

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It was a big day in Twitter-Wood for sports with the NFL Draft kicking off and the Los Angeles Kings' series-tying loss to the Vancouver Canucks last night. Alyssa Milano got in on the pre-party NFL action, according to her tweets, while one "Twilight" actress showed up at the Kings/Canucks match to root against L.A.

Elsewhere, Earth Day was on people's minds and was even powerful enough to get Michelle Rodriguez back on for a post. You can check out what she said, along with Jim Carrey's prediction for a Sarah Palin presidency, Lee Unkrich's continuing thoughts as "Toy Story 3" production winds down and a shot of Eliza Dushku having fun. Read more...

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-- Teresa Palmer is the latest hire on "I Am Number Four," the science fiction movie directed by D.J. Caruso based on the upcoming novel from James Frey and Jobie Hughes. Sharlto Copley was cast in a pivotal role just last week. [Heat Vision]

-- Seth Rogen and Chris Pine are reportedly circling "This Means War" for 20th Century Fox. Reese Witherspoon stars as a woman who finds herself at the center of a war for her affections fought by two best friends and fellow spies. [The Wrap] Read more...

Tags broken lizard, chris pine, Christopher McQuarrie, Darren Bousman, emma roberts, Freddie Highmore, Friday the 13th Part 2, Homework, i am number four, Jack Nicholson, Jack the Giant-Killer, Last Vegas, Mustache Riders, Ninety, seth rogen, teresa palmer, the dailies, This Means War

Paul Verhoeven needs a hug. The dude just doesn't give himself enough credit. How else to explain why he dismisses himself as a cinematic "follower"? "RoboCop"? "Total" goddamn "Recall"?! If ever there's a director worthy of his own coterie of wannabe sci-fi auteurs, it's Verhoeven. (For the sake of this discussion, let's just forget about "Hollow Man" and "Showgirls," 'mmmkay?)

Nonetheless, when talking about James Cameron's "Avatar," Verhoeven told MTV's Josh Horowitz the following: "He's always so ahead of everybody. I'm not a technical innovator. I'm a follower. Everything that Cameron has done, I can do too...later." Read more...

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Today is Earth Day. Another year, another 365 days of successful survival on this planet. If movies have taught us anything, it's that it can all come to an end in the blink of an eye. Maybe global warming finally catches up with us. Maybe an oversized asteroid smacks into the western hemisphere. Maybe a global pandemic turns everyone into a raving beast. However the end comes, it can wipe out humanity on a global scale. Film history is filled with examples of last-minute saves, bleak moments when it looks like we're all screwed... but the end never comes. After the jump you'll five a collection of films in which the world is going to end, but then it doesn't. Read more...

Like the once-frozen body of its shag-happy hero, "Austin Powers 4" has been in stasis for a while. Word of a fourth installment of the $473 million-grossing franchise first popped up (like machine gun jubblies, you might say) in May of 2007, when Mike Myers told MTV News that he'd started writing a script.

That was at the time "Shrek the Third" hit theaters. Three years later, as a new "Shrek" opened the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday (April 21), there's still been no concrete movement on "Austin Powers 4." So what's the hold up? Scheduling, Myers told us at the "Shrek" premiere.

"Things are on track," he said. "It's hard to keep a Stanley Cup team together and I'm very happy how insanely well it's gone. Then it gets hard to get everybody all together." Read more...

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The 2010 NFL Draft gets underway tonight, giving sports fans something new to argue about for at least a couple of weeks. The draft's rules and the selection process are significantly more complex than your typical playground pick-'em method for splitting teams, but thankfully, we here at Movies Blog play by our own set of rules.

If given the opportunity to draft a team based on the many fictional football players out there in movie land, this is what you would want your starting roster to look like! Read more...

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