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Here's a good sign that development is moving forward quickly on "Star Trek 2": J.J. Abrams reportedly wants Benicio Del Toro as his villain in the upcoming sci-fi sequel.

Variety reports that an offer is in Del Toro's hands, though there's no word on who the Oscar winner might be playing. Indeed, even Del Toro supposedly doesn't know what the role is in an effort to keep it secret. Needless to say, the baddie will probably be someone even more evil than Eric Bana's Nero, and maybe even a familiar face.

Check out some possibilities for Del Toro's character beyond the jump!

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It's "A Good Day to Die Hard" for a certain group of young actors. The search to find John McClane's son is officially on and down to three possible players, according to reports: Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad," Ben Foster of countless creepy roles, and "Hunger Games" leading man Liam Hemsworth.

Beyond the jump, we're breaking down each of Bruce Willis' potential new co-stars.

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As previously announced here on the blog, we're celebrating the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" on DVD and Blu-ray this Friday with the most obsessive and wonderfully nuts way we could think of: watching all eight movies in sequence in a single day. Thanks to the good people at Warner Bros. I've got all of them here, ready to go. It's roughly twenty hours of magic, so there's no time to waste. Let's get to it!

Year One: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001), Running Time: 2:32
5:20am: Oh my it's early. But I realize that it's actually an hour earlier than I thought. Never before has daylight savings time worked so fortuitously in my favor. Score.

5:25am: We're off and running with the Chris Columbus-directed first film. If one could say Professor Dumbledore ever looked young, this is it.

5:28am: Oh yeah, the Dursleys. I hate the Dursleys.

5:29am: We get our first look at Daniel Radcliffe, who appears to weigh about 90 pounds, including his ill-fitting outfit. One certainly could not see "Equus" coming here.

5:31am: First bit of accidental magic at the zoo, and the foreshadowing of Parseltongue. Happy birthday indeed, Dudley.

5:35am First real magic as the Durleys' house is swarmed with thousands of copies of Harry's Hogwarts invite. It always seemed illogical to me that Mr. Dursley didn't want Harry to leave to go to school. Like, doesn't he hate Harry and want to be rid of him? His later threats to keep Harry out of Hogwarts as punishment seem oddly misplaced.

5:38am: World, meet Rubeus Hagrid.

5:30am: "You're a wizard, Harry!"

5:40am: Cauldron shopping and our first look at the magical world.

5:43am: Oh, that Professor Quirrell seems nice.

5:45am: First real special effects shot as Hagrid and Harry open up the brick wall to Diagon Alley. By today's standards it looks a little flat. At the time this flick was visually ground-breaking. I recall seeing the first trailer a decade ago and thinking "wow, this movie is going to make a billion dollars." If you add up both foreign and domestic gross, it comes to $974,755,371. Partial credit, then.

5:48am: The Sorcerer's Stone is very briefly revealed. Commonly known fact among "Potter" fans: In England it's called the Philosopher's stone. Less-known fact: In France it's called the large delicious hunk of roquefort cheese.

5:50am: OK, not really. First lie of the live-blog.

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FROM MTV MOVIES: With "The Dark Knight Rises" soaring over New York, James Bond officially back in action in "Skyfall" and a new episode of "The Walking Dead" on the horizon, it's a great week to be a geek. It's also the perfect week to kick off "Talk Nerdy to Me," a brand-new weekly online talk show right here on MTV News where we'll bring you up to speed on all of the latest movie, TV and comic book news that's fit to print.

If you're heading out to see "A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas" this weekend, you can expect to be highly entertained by its stars, John Cho, Kal Penn and, of course, Neil Patrick Harris. You should also keep an eye out for the scene-stealing supporting players like Jake Johnson and Tom Lennon.

MTV News was lucky enough to catch up with Lennon recently during the film's press day and in addition to being consistently hilarious, he was very helpful in explaining one of the film's big mysteries: how they managed to get the 2-year-old actresses in the film to appear as though they are high as a kite.

“There was a baby whisperer on set, which was the only way we really did anything because when I first read the script I was like, ‘Oh [my character] has a baby with him the whole time,’ and I thought, 'Oh that’s great, babies are super easy,'" said Lennon. "I’ve had a baby, they don’t do anything. Well, they cry once in a while but then they mostly kind of sleep and go, ‘Waaaaa’ and look at you."

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In honor of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" hitting DVD and Blu-ray on Friday, November 11th, the MTV Movies team wanted to do something special to celebrate the occasion.

After much debate, spell-casting and dueling, we decided only one thing would truly do the epic franchise justice: I'm going to watch every second of the entire series, in order, in a single day.

By my math, the eight movies total just under 20 hours. We're not exactly sure how I'm going to pull this off, but we're definitely going to. It goes down live on the internet this Sunday, November 6th. Follow along here on the MTV Movies Blog as I keep a real-time running diary of every magical moment. From "You're a wizard, Harry!" to "That wand's more trouble than it's worth" I'm going to re-watch and enjoy (probably for the last time) every moment of the landmark franchise.

Hopefully the DVD player won't overheat and catch fire. Hopefully I won't go blind or insane. Either way, it sure to be as epic as "Harry Potter" itself. But with fewer dragons and way more tortilla chips.

So re-watch the trailer, wake up bright-and-early on Sunday (I certainly will be) and get psyched for your own Potter-thon on 11.11.11 when "Deathy Hallows 2" comes to home video.

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"Breaking Dawn" remains the hot item on Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner's dance cards for the foreseeable future, but it's certainly not the only movie either actor has in development. Pattinson's breaking away from his Edward Cullen image in a big way with director David Cronenberg's upcoming "Cosmopolis," for example, while Lautner's name has been attached to a wide range of projects including "Cancun" and "Stretch Armstrong."

Beginning with Pattinson, the sometime vampire has found himself at the center of rumors that he'd be starring in two upcoming musically-driven projects: an adaptation of the Green Day musical "American Idiot," for one, and a Jeff Buckley biopic for another. Perhaps he was merely playing coy, but Pattinson claimed ignorance regarding both films during this week's "MTV First: 'Breaking Dawn - Part 1'" interview.

"I don't know why," he told MTV News when asked where these rumors came from. "I don't know. Not really. The Jeff Buckley thing, I just love Jeff Buckley's music. 'American Idiot,' I don't know where that came from."

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It's been 13 years since Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd starred together in the often-forgotten "The Object of My Affection," and now they're reteaming for a romantic comedy of a different sort.

In "Wanderlust," Rudd and Aniston play over-burdened New Yorkers, who are forced to leave the city and look for a life elsewhere after Rudd's character loses his job. So the couple packs up and heads to Atlanta where a job waits for Rudd with his brother's company.

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FROM MTV MOVIES: For the past few days, following an early Times Square screening, the MTV Newsroom has been buzzing about "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas." "Can you believe it was actually damn funny?" one movie nerd would say to another. "I mean, the last one stunk."

That's the buzz in here. And out there too, a fact that our friends at NextMovie have made abundantly clear with their new MovieTracker, a cool application boasting a fancy-schmancy algorithm that measures what people are saying on Twitter and Facebook and lets us know which movies people are psyched about. Think of it like a Billboard music chart, but instead of tracking album sales, it tracks Internet movie buzz in real time.

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Out of nowhere, Peter Bishop has been dropped back into the "Fringe"-verse, much to the delight of the show's fans. Without giving away too much, this week's episode, "Novation," sees the back-to-life Bishop struggling to return to the fold that he was once the center of. As he works to convince his girl, Olivia, his dad, Walter, and everyone else for that matter that he's actually Peter Bishop, Walter's deceased son, fans are also trying to figure out just what the deal with Peter is these days.

"He comes back to a pretty bad situation here," Joshua Jackson told MTV News this week about Friday's episode. "One: he's completely confused because the time that you have spent in season four with the characters, for him happened in one second. So the whole thing has to be explained to him. But then he gets dropped out of his world and brought back and all of sudden it's 'ut-oh, it's not good.' It's a bad, anti-'It's A Wonderful Life.'"

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