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The MTV Movie Brawl 2012 is officially on! After the initial play-in, wild card and Sweet 16 rounds, only eight movies remain to compete in a series of head-to-head single elimination matches in our March Madness-style bracket. In the end, only one of these flicks can be crowned the can't-miss movie of the year, and the choice is entirely up to YOU. Which movie will win the brawl for it all? Vote at MTV Movies Blog and make your choice known!

If you thought the choice between "Cosmopolis" and "Bel Ami" was difficult, it gets worse. Robert Pattinson fans were literally divided in half with the seemingly impossible decision, ultimately voting the David Cronenberg thriller into the Elite Eight by only three votes. Not exactly a wide margin!

Still, if it was that hard to choose between two indie Pattinson projects, how can fans possibly pick between "Cosmopolis" and the final round of the "Twilight" films? On the one hand, "Cosmopolis" represents the next stage in Rob's career, a life after "Twilight." On the other hand… it's "Breaking Dawn," guys! The grand finale! It's what we've all been waiting for! Not an easy decision, to say the least, but it's a decision that needs to be made all the same. Good luck, voters — you're going to need it.

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The MTV Movie Brawl 2012 is officially on! After the initial play-in and wild card rounds, 16 films have been selected to compete in a series of head-to-head single elimination matches in our March Madness-style bracket. In the end, only one of these flicks can be crowned the can't-miss movie of the year, and the choice is entirely up to YOU. Which movie will win the brawl for it all? Vote at MTV Movies Blog and make your choice known!

Sixteen movies. Fifteen battles. One must-see movie.

Those are the stakes of the MTV Movie Brawl 2012, which after a weeklong play-in round, officially kicks off today with our March Madness-style bracket. Voting for the Brawl's Sweet 16 competitors is officially open, and we begin with a showdown between one of the most popular franchises in modern history as well as a series that first began a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

(1) "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2" Vs. (8) "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D"
Despite being one of the mouthiest headlines of the MTV Movie Brawl 2012, "Twilight" versus "Star Wars" isn't exactly the first battle you think of when considering heated movie rivalries. But in this case, you have one series — "Twilight" — that took the world by storm in recent years, presenting us with a new trio of Hollywood's hottest actors. In the other corner is "Star Wars," a saga that isn't producing new movies these days (though the 3D theatrical rerelease of "Phantom Menace" is definitely worthy of fans' excitement) but still has one of the strongest fan bases of any film series out there. On paper, based on round one results, this shouldn't be much of an obstacle for "Twilight." But if "Star Wars" fans (and others who want to see "Twilight" go down early) band together, we could be in for one heck of a surprise.

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The week is drawing to a close, but MTV Movie Brawl 2012 round one rages on through the weekend! Voting doesn't close until 12:00 PM EST on Sunday (January 8), so there's still time to get your favorite movies into next week's March Madness-style bracket.

Today, we're closing out our preview of brawlers with a look at an agent with a license to kill, the fairest maiden of them all, and vampires who sparkle in the sunlight.

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Tags breaking dawn, MTV Movie Brawl 2012, rock of ages, Skyfall, Snow White and The Huntsman, Taken 2, The Woman in Black, Wrath of the Titans

Vampires and werewolves are apparently as popular as ever, seeing that "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1" is still the box office leader after three weekends in theaters. The first part of the "Twilight" conclusion netted $16.9 million this weekend for a $247.3 million domestic total to date. But there's no reason to be so green: "The Muppets" hung in there with a $11.2 million second place finish, bringing Kermit and friends up to $56.1 million total after two weekends.

Get the rest of the weekend box office results at MTV Movies!

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If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a movie's cast is only great as its worst actor. This year we saw some of 2011's best films held together, not by one stand-out star, but by a group of amazing actors working together to make one great movie.

As we here at MTV News start to look back on the year of movies, we want your input for what you think are the best films of the year. Today, we kick things off for the award for Best Ensemble. Come back every day this week for a new poll and a new chance to decide which movies ruled the multiplex this year.

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Tags Best of 2011, breaking dawn, Bridesmaids, harry potter and the deathly hallows, Horrible Bosses, The Help

FROM MTV MOVIES: The box-office battle of Thanksgiving weekend has come and gone, and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" once again emerged as the victor.

The penultimate entry in the vampire romance series pulled off an impressive haul of an estimated $62.3 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. The weekend brought the film's domestic total to roughly $221 million, and survived formidable competition from "The Muppets," which earned a respectable $42 million.

But what do the upcoming weeks hold for "Breaking Dawn - Part 1"? We consulted some box-office experts to find out.

Read the full story at MTV Movies!

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FROM MTV MOVIES: "Twilight" fans raced to theaters faster than Jacob running to stop Bella and Edward's wedding and gave "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" the fifth-biggest opening weekend of all time.

The fourth film in the romantic vampires-and-werewolves phenomenon collected $139.5 million domestically (more than $30 million of which was from midnight showings early Friday) for an estimated $283.5 million worldwide haul.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" stands behind only "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" ($169.2 million), "The Dark Knight" ($158.4 million), "Spider-Man 3" ($151.1 million) and 2009's "New Moon" ($169.2 million) on the all-time opening-weekend scorecard. It's worth noting that the "Twilight" grosses haven't relied on pricier 3-D or IMAX tickets like "Potter" or "Dark Knight." The new movie's numbers were within roughly 2 percent of the "New Moon" franchise best and helped propel the series' overall numbers past $2 billion worldwide.

Read the full story at MTV Movies!

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It began last night at midnight and will continue this weekend across the country. Millions of Twilight fans will travel in droves to see "Breaking Dawn - Part 1," and, inevitably, among those moviegoers will be thousands of reluctant boyfriends and husbands, dragged along to appease their eager significant vampire-obsessed other.

Our friends over at NextMovie put together a helpful "Twilight" guide for dudes that will help you prep for the movie, but once you're in the theater, it's a whole other monster. Here are some survival tips for making it through "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" alive.

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Even if you're not as smitten with "The Twilight Saga" as the legions of screaming tweens around the country currently skipping school to see "Breaking Dawn – Part 1," the movie might be worth checking out just for the bananas birth scene at the film's end. Young Bella Swan, impregnated with Edward Cullen's vampire seed, goes into labor, and when a scalpel can't penetrate the placenta and unleash the bloodsucking fetus, her hubby starts noshing on her tummy. The whole scene is bloody and campy and ridiculous and, while not exactly worth the price of admission, is undoubtedly one of the most memorably nuts movie sequences of 2011.

In this way, the "Breaking Dawn" childbirth joins a long and occasionally venerable list of gruesome movie birth scenes. Read about some of them below.

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Rami Malek has it good. He'll tell you so, just like he told MTV News on the red carpet for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1."

Aside from getting to play a vampire in one of the most popular film franchises of all time, on a set that's filled with beautiful women, no less, Malek shared that he got to do a little more.

"I'm lucky," he said. "It's one of the perks of being on a movie like this. You wake up, show up on set and kiss beautiful girls all day long. You can't beat it."

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Tags angela sarafyan, breaking dawn, paul thomas anderson, philip seymour hoffman, rami malek