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One doesn't typically equate fan boys and horror buffs with the Sundance crowd (heck, they've got Comic Con, after all). But when Rutger Hauer is in town, it's a different story.

The 67-year-old Dutch actor, perhaps best known for his roles in films like "Blade Runner" and the original version of "The Hitcher," came to Park City, Utah to screen his latest venture, an over-the-top gore fest called "Hobo With a Shotgun," much to the delight of movie fans with particularly off-kilter taste.

Hauer sat down with MTV News to discuss all the slaughter in the flick about a town gone very awry. "This is not that serious," Hauer said of the film's grindhouse-style violence. While he acknowledges the film's violence walks "a fine line," he argues that in the shock-value horror genre, "The buttons have already been pushed."

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It's pretty exciting for a young (busy) actor like James Franco to be asked to host the Oscars, but that doesn't mean he's necessarily going to look to his elders for advice. Well, at least not when his elder is Ricky Gervais. When MTV News caught up with Franco at the Sundance Film Festival, we asked if he was taking pointers from Gervais' controversial hosting gig at the Golden Globes.

"I haven't really read any of the reviews, but my sense is that he was not really winning in that room," Franco told us. "People were asking me, like, 'Are you going look at Ricky as a model for how you're going to host?' and I'm just not going to take too much from Ricky."

Franco went on to add that, even though the folks attending the Globes might not have been big fans of Gervais' hosting style, he knew plenty of people his own age who loved it.

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Tags james franco, Jon Stewart, ricky gervais

Clint Eastwood's cast for his upcoming biopic, "J. Edgar," just keeps getting hotter and hotter. After the news came out that Charlize Theron actually wasn't involved in the project, Deadline is reporting that Naomi Watts is filling her shoes as J. Edgar Hoover's loyal secretary, Helen Gandy.

The casting news comes just days after Variety reported that Screen Actors Guild president Ken Howard would be joining the production as well. He'll play Harlan F. Stone, the man who served as U.S. Attorney General before being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court during Hoover's rise to power in the FBI.

Watts and Howard join the already star-studded cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Damon Herriman, Josh Lucas and Ed Westwick.

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Sometimes it's hard to get a good read on James Franco. The actor is up to a lot -- I mean, a really lot -- of stuff recently, and some of it seems a little random and not James Franco. MTV's Josh Horowitz tried to get a read on the actor, who was at Sundance to promote his "Three's Company: A Drama" multimedia exhibit, and figure out whether the rumors Franco is just pulling a huge joke on everyone actually had some grounds.

At first, it didn't go over so well.

"It's no stupider than 'Jersey Shore,' okay," Franco said, half joking. "Don't act like I'm crazy or something. You're on a network that plays 'Jersey Shore,' and gets the most viewers out of everyone, so I'm not the crazy one, okay? You play 'Jersey Shore,' let's just say that."

When Horowitz tried to backpedal and rephrase his question, Franco jumped back on the attack. "[My current work] is no dumber than 'Jersey Shore!' You're presenting it as if I'm some weird crazy guy," he said, and then went for the jugular: "You guys don't even play music videos any more!"

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Paul Rudd's latest, "My Idiot Brother," has been getting a decent amount of love at the Sundance Film Festival, but one of the more surprising parts of the film comes when Rudd has to perform a nude scene. As I wasn't lucky enough to get to see the film I'm not sure entirely what it entails (maybe we want to keep that suspense alive anyways), but apparently it got pretty graphic for at least one person on the set.

Though the film hasn't been rated, Rudd and director Jesse Peretz didn't want to go all out for the film's nudity, and so the camera shot the scene from the side. That meant only place the man holding the boom mic could be and not be in the shot was right in front of Rudd's genitalia, unfortunately.

"This guy was holding up the boom mic, and he has to look at me while I'm talking, and all he saw was just a shot of my hairy ta--t and just some balls hanging," Rudd said while laughing heartily. "Also, also, it was like our normal sound guy couldn't work that time, so it was this guy's one day on the shoot. He was like, coming in and filling in. and I look at him and I'm just like, 'Sorry man!' "

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Tags jesse peretz, my idiot brother, paul rudd

James Franco is one busy man. He's hosting (and nominated for) the Oscars, teaching at Yale, premiering a new multimedia "Three's Company" piece at Sundance, headed to Broadway in the fall and planning to direct two and star in at least three upcoming films.

Well, make that potentially four. According to Deadline, Franco is in talks to star in the Linda Lovelace biopic "Lovelace" as the porn star's husband/pornographer, Chuck Traynor.

Before you get confused, no, this is not the same biopic Lindsay Lohan and then Malin Akerman were attached to. That one is called "Inferno" and is being directed by Matthew Wilder. This Lovelace biography has Kate Hudson in talks for the role of the titular star and will be directed by Franco's "Howl" helmers, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

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Tags howl, james franco, Jeffrey Friedman, kate hudson, Lovelace, Rob Epstein

The cast of Garry Marshall's upcoming ensemble romcom "New Year's Eve" has grown so big, from now on, we're just going to report on who isn't going to be in it. For instance, Tom Hanks is not cast in it. Neither is Kristen Stewart. And neither is Britney Spears.

Give it a week; we're sure one of them will have signed on by then.

But since we aren't here to report non-news (most of the time), Seth Meyers and Jon Bon Jovi have joined onto the cast. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on Bon Jovi and Meyers' characters and how they fit into the larger celeb-packed plot.

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Tags Garry Marshall, halle berry, jessica biel, Jon Bon Jovi, New Year's Eve, seth meyers

There were many surprises and snubs when it came to who was nominated for this year's Oscars, but one of the most interesting predicaments to come out of the announcement had to deal with one of this year's hosts. When James Franco and Anne Hathaway landed the hosting gig, many questioned whether this would be a problem as they both were contenders to be nominated for awards. As it turns out, Franco did.

This morning, it was announced that Franco had received a Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination for his work in "127 Hours." The film was also recognized with nods for Best Picture, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay and Original Score. Read more...

Tags academy awards, james franco, nominations, nominees, Oscars

By Aly Semigran

Despite every prediction about the Oscar race in the weeks leading to the announcement of the Academy Award nominations, there are always a few (wonderful) surprises that throw the whole thing off. This year was certainly no exception.

As last year's Best Supporting Actress winner Mo'Nique and Academy President Tom Sherak announced the nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, there were some names (and numbers, for that matter) that were nothing short of shockers.

While it's no surprise that current movie-to-beat "The King's Speech" garnered the most nods today with 12, Joel and Ethan Coen's version of "True Grit" came in a close second with 10 nominations. The Western was all but entirely shut out at the Golden Globes, but its mass critical and box-office reception helped catapult it into an Oscar front-runner. Read more...

Tags academy awards, jacki weaver, Javier Bardem, michelle williams, nominations, nominees, Oscars

By Ryan J. Downey

With all of the early morning celebrating surely going on in Hollywood from folks like Javier Bardem ("Biutiful") and Michelle Williams ("Blue Valentine") after the Oscar nominations were announced, there are surely several other folks whose disappointment very likely sent them straight back to bed in their PJs.

Mila Kunis earned Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards for "Black Swan," generally a great indicator in the race for Oscar gold, but was left in the cold today as the 2011 Academy Award Nominations were announced in Beverly Hills by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Tags Andrew Garfield, christopher nolan, mark wahlberg, nominees, oscar nominations