Scarlett Johansson really made an impression on music video director Samuel Bayer during the making of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around...Comes Around" mini-movie -- so much so that the two will team up again later this year.
"Scarlett is one of the sexiest actresses around," Bayer told MTV News. "And she can just become her characters. Look at what she did during the Corvette scene, which a lot of people won't catch. She was shooting that on a green screen, and right before we were rolling, she was laughing. We start, and she's crying. It was just unbelievable. It's stuff like that which makes you know someone's a star."
So it was a no-brainer for Bayer that when Johansson mentioned her next project was hunting for a director, and she'd like to work with him again, to come aboard. "It's called 'Brilliance' and it's about diamond thieves, and we start shooting this winter," Bayer said. "So many things came together in all the right ways. It really was a case of 'what goes around, comes around.' In a good way."
After the jump, watch Bayer's full nine-minute music video for "What Goes Around...Comes Around," featuring Scarlett driving really fast and making out in a pool with our boy JT. Read More...
When I caught up with Neil Gaiman recently (
During press conferences in London over the weekend, the cast and filmmakers from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" answered lots of questions -- do they want to see Harry die in Book Seven? What was it like to film Harry's first kiss? -- but one tantalizing tidbit remained unanswered: Which character were they referring to, when discussing how they were going to cut someone out of the film, until J.K. Rowling advised them to keep the character in instead? "Jo reads each draft," producer David Heyman had said on Saturday, "she reads each screenplay, and she said, 'You know, I wouldn't do that if I were you. Or you can, but if you get to make a seventh film, you'll be tied in knots.'" "Which character was it?" the Boston Herald asked. "I thought you might ask that," Heyman teased. "I'm not going to say." 
So now that "Stardust" is getting ready to hit theaters this summer (
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'The Golden Compass' Trailer: What Does It Reveal?
Posted 5/23/07 5:28 pm EST by Jennifer Vineyard in Commentary, Trailers
It's at the top of our list of must-see films of 2007, so we called upon resident 'Golden Compass" expert/MTV News writer Jennifer Vineyard for her take on the just released trailer for the flick. Check out the trailer and her analysis below (she also filed this 'Golden Compass' for newbies if you're interested).
So, finally, with the trailer for "The Golden Compass," we get to see that New Line's version looks as close to as what Philip Pullman described as possible -- but how does it feel? Does Nicole Kidman make a good Mrs. Coulter? How's Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel? And can Dakota Blue Richards act well enough to make us forget that other Dakota kid? Because as loved as the "His Dark Materials" books are, they're a tough sell -- and any movie based on them is going to run into the same problems. Read More...
Tags daniel craig, eva green, his dark materials, nicole kidman, the golden compass