For your consideration as Best Male Performance: 2009 MTV Movie Awards host Andy Samberg in the Holocaust drama, "The One Who Dared To Leave," featuring a rousing portrayal of one young man's determination to face down tyranny and those who "really suck." The MTV Movie Awards air LIVE Sunday, May 31.

- What’s next? A “Country Bears” musical? Oh, wait…Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson joins new Disney space movie based on Tomorrowland. (Variety)

- Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, and Sam Worthington set to star in “Last Night,” about a couple testing the bonds of their love. (Variety)

- Diablo Cody proves the high road is for losers. Oscar winning screenwriter responds to “Juno” hate on her Myspace blog, ensuring the hate will only continue. (MySpace)

- Just for fun: Will Ferrell answers internet questions in hilarious new video. (Funny or Die - NSFW language)

- Charlie Kaufman mind-fark “Synecdoche, New York” gets trailerized. (Yahoo)

There are bold proclamations and then there are BOLD proclamations, and Eva Mendes claim about her new movie “The Women” is the latter.

Don’t believe us? Are you a guy dreading having to go to this film? Listen to Mendes guarantee to put your mind at ease, then read the star’s brief chat with MTV News about the new movie also starring Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Candice Bergen.

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Rebuking all the early talk about "Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans," being a remake, star Nicolas Cage recently compared his character to James Bond.

All fine and good – but even James Bond never had a woman like this: "I play a character who is Nicholas Cage's love interest, and she is a working girl, she is a prostitute who is very damaged," Eva Mendes said of her hitherto secret character in the film. "I'm a prostitute so I'm a criminal in that sense, but it's kinda hard to explain. There's actually a very sweet love story between Nic's character and mine, in a very warped and dark, dark world." Read more...

FROM SPLASH PAGE: In an interview with MTV News last week, Nic Cage insisted that, not only were talks moving forward for “Ghost Rider 2,” but they had progressed to a point where both villains and locations were bandied about.

“It looks like it will take place in Europe and the character will work with the [Catholic] Church,” he said. “It’ll be a completely new experience.”

Cage is obviously enthusiastic - but is everybody?

“No, I think ‘Ghost Rider’ had its moment,” co-star Eva Mendes told MTV, more or less echoing statements she made last May. “I don't know about a sequel, but I don’t think it needs one.” Read more...