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.

It's one thing to feign "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance," but try to muster up some of the real thing for Charlize Theron, who's remaking the 2005 Park Chan-wook insta-classic – but only because she was asked to!

"He made an almost perfect film [but] he came to me and said he really wanted us to do this. He wanted to see that story told in an American society," Theron said of Park Chan-wook, whose "Lady Vengeance" completed a revenge trilogy that included "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" and "Old Boy." "If he wasn't so encouraging I don't think I could go through with it. We're intimidated almost beyond belief." Read more...

Every few years, a film comes along containing a performance far better than the movie as a whole; some characters just deserve to have more interesting things happen to them. I'm thinking of Forrest Whitaker in "Ghost Dog," Paul Giamatti in "Lady in the Water," or Giovanni Ribisi in, well, anything.

I have now seen the Superbowl of such movies, and it is called "Sleepwalking." Read more...

Sundance continues even as the acting and filmmaking community reels from losing one of its own, Heath Ledger. When we spoke with Charlize Theron yesterday, the actress took a moment during press for her film "Sleepwalking," to convey her utter shock at the young actor's passing. The latest news concerning the death of Heath Ledger can be found here. For more reaction from Sundance, click here.

Describing the upcoming Will Smith vehicle "Hancock" as "really funny and really dramatic," co-star Charlize Theron recently dished to MTV News about the tale of the homeless superhero. We spoke to numerous folks from the cast, as well as the film's director Peter Berg, so read all that here, and listen to Charlize's comments below.

In getting your news from MTV, you have chosen...wisely. News from Michael Moore, Peter Jackson, John Lasseter, and Steven Spielberg highlight our links of the day.

- Throw me idol, I'll throw you the link! Indiana Jones is back in action in this exclusive video. (Indiana Jones.com)

- Michael Moore's next documentary is going to be so "Gay." (JoBlo)

- Charlize Theron to star in "The Burning Plain," an interconnected love story from "Babel" screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. (Variety)

- Dead like her. Saoirse Ronan to star as murdered Susie Salmon, the central character in Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones." (Hollywood Reporter)

- Pillow fight! Katharine McPhee joins Anna Farris's sorority in a still untitled comedy. (Hollywood Reporter)

- Put them in the Iron Maiden (Excellent?): Bill and Ted sequel coming straight-to-DVD. (LA Times)

- Ka-chow! Pixar working on "Cars" sequel? (JV Pixar News)

Earlier this year, "Easy Rider" icon Peter Fonda paid tribute to his motorcycle movie lineage with an enjoyably evil role in "Ghost Rider." Now, his legendary partner-in-crime is eager to do the same...with some help from Quentin Tarantino. "I am doing a motorcycle movie this year that Quentin Tarantino is producing," Dennis Hopper told us this week, confirming rumors that he'd been cast in the currently-filming action film "Hell Ride," which co-stars the pic's writer and director, Larry Bishop.

The old-school flick, which tells the story of three tough guys (veteran "Kill Bill 2” actor Bishop, Michael Madsen and "24” heartthrob Eric Balfour) settling a score between them, is described as a modern day "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," and is currently filming in the Los Angeles area. "I am playing Eddie 'Scratch' Zero," laughed Hopper, a "Blue Velvet"-like wickedness growing across his face. "And I couldn't possibly begin telling you who that is, but he is weird enough."

Adding that "I know Quentin and I love all of his work," the actor who so memorably delivered Tarantino's dialogue in "True Romance" added that when Tarantino and Bishop asked him to hop back on a hog one more time, he couldn't say no.

In other news, Hopper revealed to MTV that he hopes to step behind the camera again soon. "I am going to direct another movie this next year," said the tireless counter-culture icon, who recently turned 71. Hopper also will be seen in two more films coming out later this year. "I just did a thing with Charlize Theron, who produced her first movie," he said of the drama. "I play her father in it, and it's a terrific thing called 'Ferris Wheel.' [Another is] a wonderful thing with Penelope Cruz and Sir Ben Kingsley called 'Elegy,' based on the Philip Roth novel 'The Dying Animal,'" Hopper said of the impressively-cast sexual drama, which also includes Patricia Clarkson, Deborah Harry and Peter Sarsgaard. "I play Ben Kingsley's best friend. We are both womanizers and college professors, and I am giving him advice on how to have an affair with a younger woman."