Since I announced we were looking for a blogger to join us at the MTV Movie Awards, we’ve had a bunch of great submissions. Then again someone by the name of Jason handed in an essay that consisted of six words, “Tila Tequila is a stupid face.” I like your spunk, Jason, but I’m going to need a little more.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m looking for a film fanatic to join the MTV News gang for the Movie Awards on June 1st. We’ll fly you out to L.A. and everything! Check this out for the details and learn how you can submit your 250-word essay.

For some inspiration and consideration, check out a submission by someone a little less spare with their words than Jason. Here’s why Corina said she should be our guest MTV Movie Awards blogger… Read more…

Kim Stolz spent her Friday interviewing the cast and director of “Sex & the City” (don’t you judge us…we know you’re secretly jealous, OK?) So sure, we talked to star Sarah Jessica Parker about the love, heartache, and fashion you’ll find in the film. And SJP was so taken with Kim’s youthful glow that she kept referring to her as a 13-year-old. Well, at the end of the interview, we couldn’t resist showing her a little something that had come into our mailboxes earlier in the week.

Who says we don’t share the love around here at the MTV Movies Blog? We’re but a few short weeks from one of the holiest days of my year, June 1st — the MTV Movie Awards, and I’m looking for a like-minded film fanatic to join us as we descend upon Los Angeles and do it up as only MTV can. Are you a movie blogger, a fellow worshipper at the altar of film? Do you enjoy blogging about movie award shows? Have you blogged about the MTV Movie Awards in the past? I might have just the thing for you.

Here’s the deal. MTV has seen fit to allow me to choose one of you, our passionate and brilliant readers (always suck up to your audience, let that be a lesson to all bloggers), to accompany me and the MTV News gang to Los Angeles the week leading up to the MTV Movie Awards. You’ll be a part of all the anarchy and tenuously controlled chaos that goes into putting on the best movie awards show this side of the Oscars. Read more…

Wesley Snipes has presumably had rough days before. Say, the day he saw the reviews for “Blade: Trinity” for one. But today’s got to take the cake with the actor being sentenced to three years in prison for not filing tax returns (insert your favorite “Money Train” joke here). Anyway, we like Mr. Snipes; he can be a fine actor when matched up with the right material, but unfortunately it looks like work will have to wait a little while. So in the interest of helping Wesley look on the bright side of life, here now are ten films we’d suggest he check out before he starts paying his debt to society in the big house.

1) “The Rock”
Lesson: If Ed Harris approaches you whilst in the slammer DO NOT engage him. He’s angry. In fact, come to think of it…do not approach Ed Harris anywhere in any setting. He’s always angry. Read more…

As much as we love reporting on the superhero films that are in development, we go nearly as crazy as the ones that never will be. For instance, how would you have liked A “Superman” flick directed by Brett Ratner and starring…wait for it…Brendan Fraser.

When I spoke with Fraser over the weekend at the NY Comic Con, he revealed all. “I wore the suit,” he admitted about his screen test for Ratner. “They were so top secret about it. Somewhere probably in a vault is my screen test.”

And apparently he nailed it in Ratner’s eyes because he says he had the part. “First they offered it to me. Then they didn’t offer it to me,” he laughed. “Then a huge swath of guys came in to put the suit on. We acted scenes as Clark Kent and [Superman].” (Watch video and more after the jump) Read more…

If you thought the cantina in Mos Eisley was a “wretched hive of scum and villainy,” well you’d better be cautious because an upcoming journey back to the “Star Wars” universe is going to reveal the “greasy, seamy underbelly of ‘Star Wars.’”

That’s what Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilm’s Director of Fan Relations, revealed to MTV News at New York’s Comic Con yesterday about the much anticipated live-action “Star Wars” TV show in development. Confirming that the show will “involve some characters we know” along with new creations, Sansweet said the show would be “of epic scale.” Read more…

Remember the last property you worshipped that was bastardized by Hollywood? Alright all of you irate “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” fans, sit down. Now to be fair, thus far most of what we’ve seen of “Iron Man” has gotten we, the die-hards, pretty pumped. Like how they’re using the armor from that first “Tales of Suspense” appearance?!? And the fact that they’re apparently setting up James Rhodes to don his own armor in a sequel? And what about those glimpses of Iron Monger?!?

Okay, sorry. Lost it for a second. But seriously, what do you think? We want to hear from you. It’s T-minus three weeks until “Iron Man” opens. What NEEDS to be in the flick? Hints of Tony Stark’s alcoholism? A cameo by Stan Lee? Some memorable quote or allusion that makes Iron Man the character and franchise you love? We’ll be taking the best comments to the cast, and it might even end up on MTV.

It’s now or never! Sound off. What damn well better be in “Iron Man” to make you, the loyal fan, happy?

Much to Ben Stiller’s chagrin, the cat is now officially out of the bag about Tom Cruise’s cameo in “Tropic Thunder” (check out our new Ben Stiller interview here). This morning, the New York Times reported at length about Cruise’s performance in Stiller’s upcoming big summer comedy. So the surprise is gone. Oh, well. But I am here to tell you that it will do nothing to detract from your enjoyment of “Tropic Thunder” when it opens August 15. And it all comes down to one man. No, not Cruise. Robert Downey Jr.

I’ve seen “Tropic Thunder” and as I’ve been telling anyone who will listen since, Robert Downey Jr.’s performance is absolutely one of the funniest I have seen in years. Read more…

He nearly super-sized himself after eating nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days a few years back, but now Morgan Spurlock’s got bigger fish to fry (that was not intended as a McDonald’s joke) with his very amusing new documentary, “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” (out in theaters April 18th.)

We got a chance to check this flick at Sundance and we’re very pleased now to show you the first nearly five minutes of the film here. Truth be told, they might be my favorite moments of the film. Check out Morgan taking on Osama in HD right here. Or, if you’re not a stickler for that sort of thing, just click below.

Clearly Keanu Reeves has become perhaps THE go-to guy for cool sci-fi/genre properties in recent years (funny how a mega-blockbuster trilogy like “The Matrix” will help something like that). By the end of the year Keanu is going to add Klaatu to his roster of iconic roles in “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, but there could have been even more on his geek-friendly resume. Just the other day he admitted to MTV News that there were two other high-profile roles he recently turned down, in the form of Dr. Manhattan AND Racer X!

Yes, Reeves confirmed the long whispered of rumors that he’d been offered the role of Dr. Manahattan in Zack Snyder’s eagerly anticipated adaptation of “Watchmen.” Saying he was absolutely interested in the role but had to pass because it simply “didn’t work out,” Reeves still expressed his enthusiasm for the “Watchmen” project. Read more…

Frank Darabont is one of those guys we’re always rooting for. Any guy who’s got both the touchy-feeliness of “The Shawshank Redemption” AND the utter blackness of “The Mist” in him is alright by us. Well, pity poor Frank today, because his passion project, the long in-development film of “Fahrenheit 451″ is once again without a leading man. Tom Hanks is out, Darabont revealed to MTV News exclusively.

Only months ago, Darabont told us Hanks was his Guy Montag. Now it’s not to be. “Mr. Hanks sadly and regretfully had to back out,” he said. “I was really looking forward to working with him again but his other commitments just precluded it. He had to take a step back.” Read more…

Next to a big screen version of “King of Queens” (Leah Remini just got very excited somewhere), is there a better idea in the history of the universe than turning “The Hills” into a movie? Probably, but I can’t think of one at the moment.

Well, none other than Lauren Conrad told me the other day that it may happen (check out my full report from my interviews with all the ladies of “The Hills” here). “We have kind of talked about it,” she said with a big smile that seemed to say, “we have ABSOLUTELY talked about it.”

So that begs the question, what the hell would a movie of “The Hills” be? Read more…

Imagine the coolest email possible and you probably can’t top the one that Simon Pegg once received from “Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams. “I got off a plane and switched my blackberry on. It had an email from J.J. and it just said, ‘Do you want to be Scotty?’ That was it!” Pegg recalled to MTV News about how he received the offer to reprise James Doohan’s iconic role in the film.

Pegg admitted that his first reaction was fear, namely fear of commitment. “I said, ‘What am I going to do?’ I thought about it for a bit because you have to commit to a series of films and that puts you in a situation where the studio has some control over what you do. I called up J.J. and I said, ‘the idea is amazing but I’m worried.’ And he said, ‘what’s the worst that can happen? We hang out every three years and make a fun film?’” Read more…

Sad news this morning. Word just hit the wires that Anthony Minghella has died. Just 54 years old, Minghella was a director very much in his prime. His trio of films (”The English Patient,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” and “Cold Mountain”), released between 1996-2003, garnered an impressive 24 Academy Award nominations.

Minghella’s filmmaking recalled the masters of another time. Films like “Cold Mountain” and in particular his Best Picture-winning “The English Patient” bore the scope and romantic classicism of a David Lean. Put simply, few filmmakers were doing the kind of work Minghella clearly had a gift for. In recent years Minghella had released “Breaking and Entering,” starring Juliette Binoche and Jude Law to decidedly mixed reviews. His son, Max, has embarked on an acting career as well, with roles in “Art School Confidential,” and “Syriana.” Reportedly Minghella was to direct one portion of the anthology film, “New York, I Love You.” Read more…

Usually it’ll cost you top dollar to get a beautiful woman to swear at you with a smile (insert Eliot Spitzer joke here) but for me the opportunity presented itself earlier this week when I came to face with Charlize Theron. In addition to her calling me unprintable names on at least three occasions, she talked about her love of Jason Bateman’s rear end, and how she almost came to star in “Showgirls” way back when. Read the Charlize Theron interview here. Check out the full video here. Or if you’re lazy, watch the first part of it below.