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Larry King announced this week that he'll be retiring from his post at CNN. For 25 years, King has served as the host of "Larry King Live," making up roughly half of a career as a radio and television host that spans more than 50 years. He's now chosen to pack it in gracefully, and we here at MTV applaud the superlative work he's done over the years.

Sure, King probably wants to just chill and enjoy his retirement by sticking close with his family. But he's been planning this change for awhile, and he's leaving the game in style. King is all set to appear in a range of upcoming movies, as these beautifully Photoshop'd posters (big ups to MTV producer Sohyung Kang!) illustrate. Click the image below to check out the full gallery for yourself!

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While making the press rounds on "The Kids Are All Right," actor Mark Ruffalo spoke with MTV News about a new project he just recently signed on for — "The Normal Heart," based on the semi-autobiographical play written by Larry Kramer.

According to Ruffalo, he would play the lead role of Ned Weeks based on a screenplay written by Larry Kramer himself. "Glee" and "Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy is also involved, though it's currently unknown whether he's participating as a director, producer or something else.

"I just signed on tentatively with Ryan Murphy to do 'The Normal Heart,' which is the Larry Kramer play," Ruffalo told MTV. "It's really beautiful. Larry Kramer did a script adaptation. It's really powerful and strong and beautiful." Read more...

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After announcing that he would end his talk show's run on CNN, Larry King got some advice from a talk show host who knows a thing about leaving programs behind. I don't know if Conan O'Brien's circumstances are comparable to King's, but his insight was good for a laugh.

In other tweets, "Eclipse" cast members are still pumped for their film's release week, and that's more than evident on Twitter. Check out one shout-out for today along with a Fourth of July contemplation from Michael Ian Black, an actor's thoughts on auditioning for "Weeds" and Neil Gaiman's thoughts on being a Russian spy.

I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is Twitter-Wood for June 30, 2010. Read more...

Tags Conan O'Brien, frank marshall, michael ian black, mindy kaling, neil gaiman, olivia wilde, steve agee, tinsel korey, Twitter-Wood

Later this summer, Bow Wow will star in "Lottery Ticket." In the movie, he plays a lucky young man who finds himself with a winning lotto ticket worth a whopping $370 million. Unfortunately for him, he's not able to claim his prize before the weekend arrives. Not just any weekend either: the long summer holiday weekend that is home to July 4th. So he's got three days to get through, three days of keeping that valuable scrap of paper safe and secret. Check out the video below to hear Bow Wow's take on the character and his unique situation.

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A few missteps aside, Tim Burton turned in a solidly entertaining film with his live-action adaptation -- more a sequel, really -- of "Alice in Wonderland." This is thanks in large part to the performance turned in by Mia Wasikowska, who led the cast as Alice. The movie ends in an interesting place as compared to many other blockbusters: while there certainly could be a sequel, the conclusion could also just as easily serve as an end point. For Wasikowska, it is just that... for her character at any rate.

"I don't think [a sequel is] really necessary," she told MTV's Josh Horowitz in an interview at the press junket for "The Kidd Are All Right," the Lisa Cholodenko-directed comedy that opens next week. "I think it was left in a really good place. I think it's sort of good where it is." While she may not necessarily be willing to put on the blue and white dress again, Wasikowska admits that she continues to feel the aftershocks of taking on such a high-profile role in her professional life. Read more...

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A couple of years ago, I saw a film at Sundance that I really enjoyed: "Pretty Bird." The movie stars Paul Giamatti, Billy Crudup and David Hornsby as a trio of mismatched business partners who set out together to build and market a rocket belt. Hornsby is the group's moneyman, a successful mattress store owner who uses his earning to invest in the project. Crudup is the one with the ideas; or, more specifically, the guy with the stolen set of incomplete plans. And Giamatti, he's the brains, an engineer rocket scientist with a nasty temperament and a not-unwarranted distrust when it comes to dealing with business-folk.

Together, the three men slowly come to realize their dream of creating this rocket belt... only to have everything fall apart when lies and mistrust paved the way for a much darker turn to occur. It's all actually based on a true story, one which skews close to the reality laid out in Paul Brown's book, "The Rocketbelt Caper." Giamatti was immediately taken by the story when it first came his way, as he told MTV in a recent interview. Read more...

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Everyone has their own unique way to kick off the day after hopping out of bed. Hit the gym early, eat the same breakfast every day, what have you — but I'm pretty sure that most of us aren't used to watching terrifying trailers for highly anticipated horror movies first thing in the morning. That wasn't the case for some of us today as the "Paranormal Activity 2" trailer burst online and took the fan community completely by surprise. Now, it's nearly impossible to think about anything else for the rest of the day.

Of course, they call these things teasers for a reason. Frankly, we still don't know a whole heaping lot about the story of "Paranormal Activity 2," but that doesn't mean we can't make a few educated guesses here or there. After the jump, we're offering some ideas for where the sequel might take us based on what we already know and speculation from the trailer. Spoilers for the first film are in full effect! Read more...

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It's always great to see Andy Serkis' name attached to things. Especially this latest thing, the "Planet of the Apes" sequel. The cast of the movie is slowly coming together: James Franco, John Lithgow Freida Pinto, maybe Don Cheadle... and now Serkis. But while the others are all set for human roles, the Gollum actor will instead take on the part of Caesar, the ape that starts humanity's decline into servitude. Not only do I like the idea of seeing just how the grim future presented in "Planet of the Apes" comes to pass, I also now look forward to seeing Serkis as the ape who makes it all happen.

The news was confirmed via Twitter by Fox bigwig Chris Petrikin. In fairness, Petrikin doesn't have a Verified Account, so it could conceivably all be a big hoax. I don't think so though... largely because I don't want to believe that Serkis won't be one of those damn, dirty apes.

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"Tentative" is the operative word here. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the fifth movie in the "Final Destination" series is now going by the title "5nal Destination." This is... kind of silly, I have to say. That's sort of in the spirit of the series, I'll grant you. But, as MTV Multiplayer editor Russ Frushtick pointed out, it sort of looks like "Anal Destination" (all royalties from the inevitable porn spin-off can be sent to Russ directly).

I kid, I kid. "Final Destination" has always been about goofy horror mixed with elaborate, Rube Goldberg-ian deathtraps. But the newly number-fied title got me thinking about other ridiculous movie titles. What's funny is, in a lot of cases these are great movies we're talking about! That doesn't mean we can't take a few jabs at the title though, right? Read more...

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Director Gore Verbinksi earned plenty of acclaim from "The Mexican" (2001) and "The Ring" (2002), but it was "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and the two follow-ups in that trilogy which really broke him out for the mainstream. He's now promoting his upcoming CG animated flick "Rango," which stars Johnny Depp while also figuring out what's going to happen next. One likely possibility is a remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," which Verbinski is currently in negotiations with Fox to helm, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Verbinski also confirmed to IGN that work continues on video game adaptation "BioShock" as a producer, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo still set to direct. Bringing the budget down is a chief concern right now, though Verbinski is very focused on ensuring that the eventual adaptation maintains a "hard R" rating.

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