Posted 8/11/11 10:39 am EST by Terri Schwartz in Photos
Tom Cruise is on another impossible mission to try to look any more recognizable than he does in the latest still from "Ghost Protocol."
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 15 years, you know Tom Cruise stars in this franchise. And unless you're a really bad criminal mastermind, you probably know what Agent Ethan Hunt looks like.
Still, Cruise looks like he's trying to be a bit covert as what appears to be Russia burns to the ground behind him.
Posted 8/10/11 5:12 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Dailies
Catwoman's suit in "The Dark Knight Rises" might not look like much on the surface, but apparently it has a violent streak.
The images of Anne Hathaway that hit the web last week showed her riding an all-terrain bike down a set of stairs, and according to reports things went a bit awry during the stunt. When Hathaway's stunt double was performing that scene, the bike ended up running into one of the production's IMAX cameras. Apparently neither the camera nor the cameraman were injured in the crash, but we're hoping that wasn't the extra 90 percent Hathaway was talking about in her recent MTV interview:
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Posted 8/10/11 1:09 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
Rose Byrne is headed into the forest for a role in "The Place Beyond The Pines."
The "X-Men: First Class" actress will be replacing Greta Gerwig as the wife of Bradley Cooper's character, a police officer turned politician, Vulture is reporting. "The Place Beyond The Pines," which also stars Ryan Gosling, is currently filming in Schenectady. "Blue Valentine's" Derek Cianfrance is directing the crime drama.
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Posted 8/10/11 12:58 pm EST by Kara Warner in Interviews, News, Video
While we await the production start and release dates for J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" sequel - which he told us last week is about a month away - it's fun to try and find out what the cast members would like to see their characters do in another movie.
Therefore when MTV News caught up with the lovely Zoe Saldana at the Teen Choice Awards (where she introduced the adorable "Harry Potter" tribute, our "Choice Farewell"), the actress shared a few fun thoughts about what kind of action Uhura should see in the sequel.
Posted 8/10/11 11:51 am EST by Jocelyn Vena in News
FROM MTV MOVIES: In 1987, Patrick Swayze famously declared, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." Now it seems a new generation of moviegoers will get the chance to fall in love with Baby and her coming-of-age story all over again.
"High School Musical" director Kenny Ortega has announced that he will direct a remake of the classic film, which starred Swayze and Jennifer Grey. No cast has been announced, but in a statement to EW.com, Ortega said, "The opportunity to direct 'Dirty Dancing' is like returning home for me. ... Patrick Swayze set the bar for men dancing in the movies as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire did before him. I believe everywhere you look there is evidence that the talent is out there and I can't wait to begin the process of discovering the next breakout triple-threats."
Ortega certainly has the résumé to tackle such a project. He was once attached to the "Footloose" remake before passing on that project. He was behind the "HSM" flicks, helmed "Michael Jackson's This Is It" and back in the day directed movies like "Newsies" and "Hocus Pocus."
Read the full story at MTV Movies, and check out our open letter to Kenny Ortega!
Posted 8/10/11 11:27 am EST by MTV Movies Team in After Hours
Danny McBride is hardly a stranger to the mad house that is MTV's After Hours, and while he's forced beer down fearless host Josh Horowitz's throat in the past, it's his own belly he should be worrying about in this latest round… because in today's After Hours, McBride goes up against world famous competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi in a pizza-eating throw down!
Luckily, Danny isn't alone — he's got Josh on his side for back-up, though based on his performance, we feel pretty confident in saying that McBride could have taken Kobayashi on all on his own and produced a similar result. See the ultimate chow-down for yourself in the latest episode of After Hours.
Posted 8/10/11 11:11 am EST by Josh Wigler in Casting Call, News
Fighting for freedom wherever there's trouble, Bruce Willis is there! The "Die Hard" hero has been drafted for a starring role in "G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation," previously known as "Cobra Strikes."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Willis is in negotiations to play General Joe Colton, considered to be the founder of the Joe squad. The character never appeared in the original "Joe" cartoons, and he'll make his live-action debut with the sequel.
Posted 8/9/11 5:30 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Dailies, Posters
Prepare yourself to be infected with excitement for Steven Soderbergh's upcoming "Contagion."
Six new character posters for the thriller have hit the web courtesy of Yahoo! Movies, each one touting the warning, "Don't talk to anyone. Don't touch anyone." The cautionary words are paired with each of the flick's stars -- Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet -- in various degrees of distress. A seventh poster teases, "The world goes viral September 9," with a biohazard warning for many of the world's biggest cities. "Contagion" certainly isn't beating around the bush when it comes to its end-of-the-world premise here.
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Posted 8/9/11 4:03 pm EST by MTV Movies Team in Video
FROM MTV GEEK: The Force is strong with me for a Monday morning as I was able to score an EXCLUSIVE CLIP with over FIVE MINUTES of movie clips, footage and interviews for the new book coming out "Star Wars: The Blueprints."
From TheBlueprintsBook.com...
Star Wars: The Blueprints brings together, for the first time, the original blueprints created for the filming of the Star Wars Saga. Drawn from deep within the Lucasfilm Archives and combined with exhaustive and insightful commentary from best-selling author J. W. Rinzler, the collection maps in precise, vivid, and intricate detail the very genesis of the most enduring and beloved story ever to appear onscreen.
Posted 8/9/11 12:30 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
Gerard Butler is returning to the good side of the law in Millennium Films' latest acquisition, "The Bricklayer."
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that the "Law Abiding Citizen" star has been brought on board to play former FBI agent Noah Boyd in the book adaptation. Boyd is working as a Chicago bricklayer when he is called in to stop a criminal organization demanding multimillion-dollar ransom payments. "Enigma" scribe Hanna Weg is writing the screenplay.
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