Jaqen H'GarAll men must die, but first, German actor Tom Wlaschiha will live as Jaqen H'gar during the second season of "Game of Thrones."

Entertainment Weekly reports that the actor has landed the fan-favorite role of the Faceless Man of Braavos, an assassin and one of the criminals being transported to The Wall in the North alongside Arya Stark, currently posing as the boy Arry.

There isn't much more that can be added here about Jaqen without spoiling some cool twists, so let's just leave it at this: read the book and you'll see why Jaqen is so completely awesome!

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American ReunionIt's been a good long time since Jason Biggs made sweet, passionate love to a warm apple pie — so what's happened to his character more than a decade past that pop culture defining encounter?

We'll get the full answer to that question and more when "American Reunion" parties down in the spring of 2012, but for now, how about a tease of what's in store for Jim, Oz, Finch, Kevin and Stifler's next adventure?

Check out a full synopsis for "Reunion" past the jump!

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Game of ThronesGood and obnoxious news, "Game of Thrones" fans: Theon Greyjoy's cunning and cutthroat sister Asha has been cast... but her name isn't Asha anymore!

Gemma Whelan, who's starred in "The Wolfman" and "Gulliver's Travels," will play the fierce ironborn warrior woman in season two, Entertainment Weekly reports. But she won't be known as Asha in the series: instead, her character has been renamed Yara.

The news confirms previous rumors that Asha was on the cusp of a name change, with producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss recently confirming that they were considering the option due to similarities between Asha and Osha, the Starks' wildling captive introduced towards the end of the first season of "Thrones."

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Friday Night Lights"Friday Night Lights" fans, stop your weeping — the show ain't over yet.

Well, the show is over, but the story is looking likely to continue. "Battleship" director Peter Berg, who helmed the "Friday Night Lights" movie some years ago and helped shepherd the critically adored and recently concluded small-screen version, announced during the current TCA press tour that he's working on bringing the televised "FNL" back to movie theaters.

"We're writing a script," he said of the project, according to TV Line. “We’ve been meeting with [fellow 'FNL' EP] Jason Katims for the last couple of weeks. We have a real good script idea. We want to do it. We’re very serious about doing it. We intend to do it.”

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Ryan Gosling"Drive," from director Nicolas Winding Refn and leading man Ryan Gosling, is easily one of my most anticipated movies coming out in the next few months. A thriller about a Hollywood stunt driver by day, getaway wheelman by night, featuring an all-star cast with guys like Bryan Cranston and Ron Perlman? Yeah, I'm on board.

But the new official poster for "Drive" sells something that's… well, a bit prettier than what I'd been led to believe about the movie. For a fierce, hard R-rated flick, this "Drive" poster is a little bit… ah… pink, I guess.

Check it out for yourself past the jump and see what you think.

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Olivia WildeOlivia Wilde as porn star Linda Lovelace? If that doesn't set off some alarms in your head, you might not have a pulse!

"It would be a tremendous honor," Wilde told E! Online of the possibility that she might star in a biopic from Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman about the "Deep Throat" star. "It's such a cool role. She was a fascinating woman—with where she came from to 'Deep Throat' to then working with Gloria Steinem and Nora Ephron. It's really fascinating."

Nothing's confirmed yet, but if Wilde takes on the role, she'll be the second Hollywood star taking a big-screen shot at Lovelace; "Watchmen" actress Malin Akerman is starring in a separate biopic about the topic.

Check out the rest of today's biggest casting news after the jump!

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FROM MTV SPLASH PAGE: "Cowboys & Aliens" gallops into theaters this weekend chased by an armada of gold seeking monsters from space. On the surface, all the ingredients are in place for an all-out wall-to-wall actioner for the books: the director of "Iron Man," the stars of "James Bond" and "Indiana Jones," and a seemingly impossible mash-up of genres. Nothing could possibly go wrong there, right?

Make no mistake, there's a lot to juggle in "Cowboys," and Jon Favreau's task is not an enviable one — so how did he hold up under the pressure? Your mileage may vary, but for this movies writer, I walked away quite pleased with the wild, wild west's suddenly slick space-born sheen.

Check out five reasons you should see "Cowboys" below!

The Man With No Memory
No matter what role or movie he's in, Daniel Craig is one of the most reliably watchable actors in the business. But he takes his badass quota up a few notches in playing Jake Lonergan, a man who wakes up in the desert with a wound on his side, without a memory in his head and a whole lot of questions. Don't expect him to ask nicely, either: Jake's just as likely to punch you in the groin as he is to shut you up with one look from that cool, icy gaze. Lonergan is one of the great Daniel Craig roles, and it's a character I'd love to see explored further somewhere down the line.

Read the full review at MTV Splash Page!

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The Boy Who Lived is now officially the Boy Who Retired, having long ago completed his adventures in novel form and just this month finishing his epic eight-film journey.

But even with He Who Must Not Be Named out of the picture, don't think that Harry Potter is without enemies in his world. In fact, a new nemesis has emerged to challenge the boy wizard and his magical popularity — though, in fairness, this guy is no Lord Voldemort.

None other than real-life magician David Copperfield has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet against Mr. Potter in an all-new (and all-hilarious) video from Funny or Die. Copperfield wants to make it known that there is no greater wizard, and that all of the Chosen One's most prominent magical antics have their roots in Copperfield's work.

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Big news, guys: Peter Berg just sunk your "Battleship."

The trailer for the "Hancock" director's latest big-budget action spectacle, this time based on the classic strategy board game everyone knows and loves, has just opened fire on the web. First premiering at Yahoo, the "Battleship" trailer delivers more carnage and chaos than one might expect from the relatively spectacle free board game — but hey, it's Hollywood. Explosions are par for the course!

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Emma StoneEmma Stone just barely missed out on the police hijinks of "21 Jump Street," but she isn't done playing with cops just yet.

The "Amazing Spider-Man" and "Easy A" actress is in negotiations to join the cast of "Gangster Squad," the 1940s cop drama chronicling the Los Angeles Police Department's war on famed mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) and his fellow criminals.

If her deal goes through, Stone would play Jean, described by Variety as "a sharp-tongued siren caught in a love triangle" between the drug-dealing Cohen and a squad member played by Ryan Gosling.

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