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EXCLUSIVE: 'Paul Is Undead' Author Alan Goldsher Mashing Up Elvis Presley And Frankenstein Next

Posted 5/24/10 4:00 pm EST by in News


You might remember the exciting news from a few weeks ago that Alan Goldsher's upcoming novel "Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion" -- a clever mock-oral history of the zombie Beatles -- had been optioned for a feature film treatment. I immediately reached out for a copy of the book and an interview. Anyone willing to mash The Beatles together with zombies is someone I want to be talking to, and someone you readers should be hearing from.

While the bulk of the time I spent on the phone with Goldsher was focused on The Beatles, we did touch briefly on the follow-up effort that he's in the process of pulling together now. The title of this new book is "Frankenstein Has Left The Building." It's a project that is still in its early stages of life, but Goldsher has a clear vision for joining what he considers to be two highly complementary tales: those of Elvis Presley and Frankenstein's monster. Read More...

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'Lost' Is Over! Want To Win A Poster Signed By Carlton Cuse And Damon Lindelof?

Posted 5/24/10 3:24 pm EST by in Hot Stuff, News


As multiple posts on the blog today have made abundantly clear, "Lost" came to an end last night. We're all broken up about it too. There's still time to get your two more cents in, thanks to a contest we're running this week.

The prize? A "Lost" poster signed by showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. Winning it is simple: Explain the series finale as you've come to understand it in your own unique way. Submissions are due by Friday, 4pm.

Entrants will be judged not just for putting out an interesting theory (or set of theories) but for backing it all up with a creative presentation. Write a song, record a video, make some art... these are just a few ideas. Fan fiction, poems, sculpture... whatever you can dream up is fair game (so long as you don't hurt anyone or anything!). If you create audio or video content, just make it accessible on the web in some way; I'd recommend just uploading it to MTV's own user-created video resource, Your MTV. For all submissions, make sure you e-mail us directly at tips@mtvmoviesblog.com; include a link to audio/video or simply attach text and/or images, if that's what you've got.

You can see the prize itself at the top of the page. The image isn't as high-res as it could be, but you can clearly see both signatures in the lower left.

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After 'Lost': TV Can Still Entertain You, With These Five Dramatic Series'

Posted 5/24/10 3:03 pm EST by in Commentary, TV


For "Lost" fans, today is the day. The last time to gather 'round the water cooler and discuss the previous night's episode and the story's deeper implications. While the dialogue surrounding the latter will surely continue for some time, last night marked the final episode of "Lost." There will be no more.

Whatever you think of the show's quality, there's no denying that it was a powerful work of television, something that for whatever reason lodged itself in the public's consciousness. It was more than just a story-- it was a sensation. Now that it's over, you might be tempted to just turn the TV off and go outside.

Don't do it. There's still good television to be had. A lot of it is off the air now, or soon will be, as we ease into summer schedules. But that's fine. Anything that's already running, you're going to want to catch up on what you've not seen before diving in with any new episodes. Read More...

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Want To Win Two Tickets To The 2010 MTV Movie Awards?

Posted 5/24/10 2:00 pm EST by in Hot Stuff, MTV Movie Awards


Hey readers! I've got news of a contest to share with you! Not the previously-mentioned "Lost" contest; that's still coming, later on. No, this one is for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, which airs on June 6. Want to see the show? Then keep reading for your chance to win!

MTV is giving one lucky Twitter follower a chance to go to the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday June 6th, 2010! The MTV Movie Awards Ticket Sweepstakes Grand Prize includes 2 tickets to the Movie Awards, along with flight and hotel accommodations! Each day this week, the @MTV twitter account will post a tweet that includes the hashtag #MTVtix. All you have to do to enter the sweepstakes is Re-Tweet all five of those tweets, so keep an eye out! (See Official Rules) The Sweepstakes begins at 2:00:01 pm ET on May 24, 2010 and ends at 7:59:59 pm ET on May 28. 2010 and is subject to the Official Rules. Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States and District of Columbia who are at least 13 years of age at time of entry and meet other eligibility requirements. Void in Alaska, Hawaii and where prohibited or restricted by law. Certain restrictions apply. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

Winner will be notified on or about May 28th via Twitter direct message, and given a shout out on the MTV Twitter. Good Luck!

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Rounding Up Your Winners In 'The Lost Awards'!

Posted 5/24/10 1:20 pm EST by in Poll, TV


All last week and into the weekend, we put up a series of polls asking your readers to share you favorite elements of "Lost" across a number of categories. You responded with your votes and I'm here now to reveal the winners. Who was the most devious island-dweller? Which love story stuck with you the most? What was your favorite season? Episode? I've got answers to all of those after the jump. And stay tuned to MTV Movies Blog later today; we'll be announcing a fun contest for you "Lost" readers, with a cool reward for the most creative entrants.

More on that later though. For now, on to The Lost Awards! Read More...

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'Lost' Series Finale And The Golden Glowing Silliness: An Assessment

Posted 5/24/10 12:42 pm EST by in Commentary, TV


'Lost'I've watched with increasing disappointment as "Lost" lowered its sci-fi, time-traveling, Numbers-obsessed freak flag and turned its attention toward the mystical Heavens. That's just the type of "Lost"-phile I always was.

And so my grievance about Sunday night's series finale is not that we didn't get enough answers to the show's pressing questions, but that we got the wrong answers. You think I'll not feel cheated when you take away my Hatch and give me a golden glowing whirlpool? You want to trade me Daniel Faraday's equation-crunching geekery for a hippy-dippy theory about the nature of good and evil? And in place of explanations about the motives and machinations of the Dharma Initiative and the Others, you slide in a season's worth of Purgatory phantoms struggling to join the gobsmacking Afterlife? Read More...

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Martin Scorsese Wants Al Pacino And Robert De Niro For Frank Sinatra And Dean Martin

Posted 5/24/10 12:11 pm EST by in News


As MTV Movies managing editor Josh Horowitz put it when I shared this news, "bazonkers." Martin Scorsese has long had a Frank Sinatra biopic on his docket. True, it's just one of a torrent of other in-development Scorsese project. But it's also something that people want to see, so perhaps he'll be able to squeeze it in between "Hugo Cabret" and "The Irishman." Hopefully, because he's now on record as saying that he'd like Al Pacino for the Sinatra role and Robert De Niro for the crooner's longtime collaborator, Dean Martin. He also said that the plan involves going through "three or four different Sinatras" in order to best capture the singer's colorful career. This is all hoped-for casting of course, but Scorsese is generally the kind of director who gets what he wants. Check out the full report on The Playlist (via Indian newspaper The Hindu).

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'Lost' Comes To An End, But Was The Island Real?

Posted 5/24/10 11:17 am EST by in Commentary, TV


Whatever else you want to say about it, "Lost" was a TV series that constantly kept its viewers asking questions. Now that it's all over, the biggest question of all has been posed: what the hell just happened?

I'm not here to give you an all-knowing "this is what the end means" explanation. Some, like our own "Lost" expert Josh Wigler, are content to just absorb the finale and leave the theorizing for everyone else. I'm not. Even running on a mere four hours sleep, I'm still raring to explore the complex concept that creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof dropped on us in the final minutes of their series. That said, spoiler ahead.

A lot of the discussion right now is centered on the nature of the Island. I posited in my show report last night that the events we saw unfold after the series-opening plane crash happened in some sort of pre-afterlife purgatory. As many rightly pointed out, Christian Shepard tells Jack in the final scene that (I'm paraphrasing) the Island was definitely real, as were the players on it. Still, something doesn't sit right. Read More...

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'Lost' Finale: Did The Ending Leave You Satisfied?

Posted 5/24/10 10:29 am EST by in Poll, TV


It hasn't even been 12 hours and theories are already running rampant across the Internet concerning what the series finale of "Lost" means. The larger view among fans seems to be that the show ended satisfyingly on an emotional level but not so much on the functional level of answering many of the questions that were raised over the course of six seasons. Personally, I feel fulfilled. Not only did we get a reasonable explanation of what these characters have been going through, but we also got ample helpings of Vincent the dog and Frank Lapidus. So I'm good.

What do you all think though? The results of our "Lost Awards" will be revealed later today, but for now I'd like to get a more general sense of how the fanbase out there feels about the series finale. Let us know in the attached poll, and in the comments section below.

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A Newcomer's Experience With The 'Lost' Finale

Posted 5/24/10 8:47 am EST by in Commentary, Reviews, TV


by Matt Harper, written last night

Tonight I agreed to participate in a pop culture experiment. I am minutes away from exposing myself to the eagerly anticipated two and a half hour hour series finale of "Lost"… but I when I sit down in front of the TV, I will do so without ever having watched an episode. Why would anyone ever willingly do this to themselves? Why would a reasonable adult immerse himself in what is arguably the most cleverly complex (or excessively convoluted, depending on your outlook) TV shows of all time at the 11th hour? Hell if I have any idea. But I've agreed to it, so let's get this party started! Read More...

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