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'Fright Night' Star Colin Farrell Finished Every Take With A Dracula Impression, Says Co-Star

Posted 5/31/11 1:49 pm EST by in Interviews, News, Video


by Stefan Doyno

He played the King of Macedonia in "Alexander," the super villain Bullseye in "Daredevil" and now he's Jerry Dandrige, the vampire next door in the upcoming remake of the 1985 cult horror hit "Fright Night." Colin Farrell stars as the anti-Edward Cullen, a menacing vampire who moves in next door to suspicious teenager and eventual nemesis Charley Brewster, played by Anton Yelchin.

MTV News caught up with Christopher Mintz-Plasse (who plays Yelchin's best friend in the movie, 'Evil' Ed Thompson) and director Craig Gillespie last night in Los Angeles as part of MTV Sneak Peak Week, and the pair said that Farrell's natural talents as both a comedic and dramatic actor made him the perfect choice to play Jerry.

"It's a very dark character, but he has a humor about him," explained Gillespie. "He's very sinister. Just trying to get somebody that can play that, walk that line [like] he had in 'In Bruges,' which he's so funny in, and then he's played the very dramatic stuff, so I just felt like he could really walk that tightrope."

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'Fright Night' Earned Its R-Rating With Lots Of Blood And Bad Language, Says Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Posted 5/31/11 11:50 am EST by in Interviews, News, Video


If you had any doubts that "Fright Night" was going to pull its punches — or, in the case of a vampire movie, hide its fangs — then the film's recently earned R-rating should put all of those fears to rest.

Director Craig Gillespie and actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse joined MTV News last evening (May 30) for a special screening of "Fright Night" as part of MTV Sneak Peek Week — and as those who were lucky enough to attend the screening are already well-aware, "Fright Night" isn't shying away from the blood and bad language.

"There were a lot of 'f***s' in there," joked Mintz-Plasse, who teased that his co-star (and fan-favorite "Doctor Who" veteran) David Tennant had the filthiest mouth of them all. "Tennant was swearing like crazy!"

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'Hangover Part II' Director Todd Phillips Is 'Willing To Do' Another 'Hangover' Sequel

Posted 5/27/11 4:00 pm EST by in Interviews, News


No lessons were learned the first time around in the Las Vegas-based "Hangover," and so the wolf pack is back for more antics and debauchery in "The Hangover Part II." Given the excitement around the Thailand-set flick, opening this Memorial Day weekend, is there any chance that Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis could be back for even more good times in another "Hangover" sequel?

We put that very question to director Todd Phillips, who has previously expressed his interest in another "Hangover," when we caught up with him at the New York City premiere of his latest comedy. And according to the filmmaker, he's definitely not closed off for one last shot.

"We've joked about a 'Hangover 3,' but no we haven’t made any decision," he said. "That wouldn’t be made for another few months until we saw you know how the audience responded and reacted. I'd be willing to do it just because I love these guys but that’s something that’s way off."

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'Halloween 3' Is Still On The Horizon, Say Director Patrick Lussier And Writer Todd Farmer

Posted 5/26/11 2:38 pm EST by in Interviews, News


HalloweenWith "Drive Angry" due out on DVD and Blu-Ray Tuesday and "Hellraiser" as the next project on their list, it looks like fans waiting to see director Patrick Lussier and writer Todd Farmer's take on the "Halloween" franchise will have to wait a couple more years. But when MTV News caught up with the directing/writing duo to talk the "Drive Angry" DVD release, they said that their planned "Halloween 3" is definitely still on their radar.

Farmer has completed the script already and they are in talks with the Weinstein company to make the movie, but Lussier said the time just hasn't been right to bring the film to production yet.

"We would love it to go through," Lussier said. "We would make that the second somebody said, 'Yes, go make it,' because it's a script that we love and a script we're really passionate about and it's an amazing character and an incredible franchise, and it would just be a great experience for us to go back to the roots."

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Anthony Mackie Isn't Sure About Those 'World War Z' And 'Gangster Squad' Rumors

Posted 5/26/11 11:51 am EST by in Interviews, News, Video


After diffusing bombs alongside Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" and helping Hugh Jackman with boxing robots in next year's "Real Steel," rising star Anthony Mackie is getting back into the action with the currently shooting "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." But the historical vampire fiction adaptation won't be the last time Mackie gets his hands bloody, if rumors are to be believed.

Mackie's name has been mentioned in connection with two promising projects — "World War Z," a post-apocalyptic zombie tale starring Brad Pitt, and "Gangster Squad," the Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin-starring 1940s gangster flick set up at Warner Bros. But when MTV News spoke with Mackie on the set of "Abraham Lincoln" last month, the actor kept his lips sealed on whether or not he's actually involved in either project.

"I don't know man," the cagey Mackie told MTV when asked about "World War Z," adding with a laugh, "I will work for food."

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'Hangover Part II' Star Ed Helms Weighs In On His 'Office' Boss Credentials

Posted 5/26/11 9:04 am EST by in Interviews, News, Video


"The Office" bid Steve Carell's bumbling Michael Scott goodbye this season. In the process, they lost someone to take the reins at the Scranton Dundler-Mifflin branch, TV's most distinguished paper selling company. Several candidates were interviewed in the show's season finale (Will Arnett, Ray Romano, Jim Carrey, Ricky Gervaise and Warren Buffett among the candidates), but the question of who will get the job still remains unanswered… though perhaps the answer is just a "Hangover" away.

When MTV News caught up with Ed Helms at the premiere of "The Hangover Part II," he weighed in on what might happen next season.

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'Hangover Part II': Ken Jeong Explains The Enigma Of Mr. Chow

Posted 5/25/11 5:19 pm EST by in Deep Dive, Interviews, News, Video


Ken Jeong, thank you for existing. Not only have you given us countless quips and one-liners over the course of "Knocked Up," "Community" and more, you've given us the most important gift of all — and his name is Mr. Chow.

The MTV Movie Awards winner reprises his most iconic role in this weekend's "The Hangover Part II," and to hear him tell it, he couldn't be more excited. Watch the video above and click past the jump to find out Jeong's thoughts on the psyche of Mr. Chow, the oft-naked gangster standing in the wolf-pack's path time and time again.

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New 'Hellraiser' Movie 'Defies Explanation' And Features 'Elements Of Origin,' Says 'Drive Angry' Duo

Posted 5/25/11 4:37 pm EST by in Interviews, News


HellraiserThe DVD and Blu-Ray release of "Drive Angry" is right around the corner (May 31), but director/writer team Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer are already looking forward to raising another terrifying creature up from hell: the duo, who previously worked together on "My Bloody Valentine," are currently attached to a new "Hellraiser" film.

When MTV News chatted with them recently about the "Drive Angry" DVD (interview forthcoming!), they shared that they are currently in active development with Dimension Films figuring out a way to bring their vision to the big screen. And judging by their complicated description of what their "Hellraiser" actually is -- it isn't a reboot, it isn't an origin story -- that might be easier said than done.

"[The film] sort of defies explanation," Farmer said with a laugh. "But right now it's a really exciting project that delves into the world Clive [Barker] created and then takes it in sort of a couple different directions, and it has some revisitations of the stuff at the same time it shows you some things you haven't seen before."

Lussier expanded on that a little, saying, "Clive's story has taken place in our world, and we're, uhh, I don't know how to explain it other than there are elements of origin, elements of new mixed together."

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'Hangover Part II': Bradley Cooper Was A 'Superb' Student, Says His 'Actor's Studio' Dean James Lipton

Posted 5/25/11 3:40 pm EST by in Interviews, News, Video


When MTV News was at the premiere of "The Hangover Part II" on Monday night (May 23) in New York City, we were pleasantly surprised to run into "Inside The Actor's Studio" host and the program's dean, James Lipton. We were even more pleasantly surprised when Lipton opened up about the movie's star, Bradley Cooper's, school boy days in the program.

"How about the fact that Bradley was my student?" he told MTV of his reasons for attending the "Hangover" premiere. "I was his Dean at the Actor's Studio Drama School and Bradley graduated from our school in 2000 and is the first of our students to come back and sit in that chair. He was superb. I knew then that he was going to be a star. I said so."

So, what did he study back in the day?

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Angelina Jolie Says 'Maleficent' Has A 'Great Script,' Unsure About Director Rumors

Posted 5/25/11 1:16 pm EST by in Interviews, News, Video


Those of us who have been excited about Disney's "Maleficent" project have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride of on-again, off-again production news.

The proposed live-action feature, which is, in a nutshell, "Sleeping Beauty" told from the titular sorceress' perspective, lost its original directorial candidate Tim Burton, due to his committments on "Dark Shadows," which, although a bummer, might have opened the door for "Black Swan" helmer Darren Aronofsky, who is reportedly being courted by Disney to step up to the plate.

When I happened upon still-attached star Angelina Jolie at the premiere of "Kung Fu Panda 2" recently, I asked her if she'd heard any news about the project or Aronofsky's involvement.

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