Posted 1/3/12 2:39 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
Demi Moore toplines the new additions to the cast of the Amanda Seyfried-led Linda Lovelace biopic "Lovelace" as female rights activist Gloria Steinem. Meanwhile, Elton John knows which famous pop star he wants to play him in a biopic and a new rumor says Arnold Schwarzenegger might be an angel in his upcoming film.
It's January 3, and you're tuning into today's Casting Call!
Posted 10/31/11 1:43 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
It seems like Justin Timberlake was just in time with landing his first leading roles in films this year. Just days after his new sci-fi thriller "In Time" hit theaters, word hit the Internet that he has been offered a role in the Coen brothers' upcoming movie "Inside Llewyn Davis."
"Drive" star Oscar Isaac will be playing the main character in the flick, a struggling folk musician from Queens. Timberlake has been offered the other lead role role of a folk musician who is married to Carey Mulligan's character in the flick, according to Variety. Showbiz411 adds that Coens regular John Goodman also has recently joined the cast.
Check out the rest of today's casting news after the jump!
Posted 8/3/11 4:33 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Trailers
Ever since Comic-Con, we've been seeing a heck of a lot of footage of Justin Timberlake's latest flick "In Time," but the latest trailer to hit the web is definitely its best.
First off, it's a good minute and a half shorter than the previous trailer released. In this case that's a good thing, because it gives a much more concise look at the plot while still keeping us intrigued. And we certainly are intrigued.
Second reason? It gives us our first look at Olivia Wilde as Timberlake's mom, which is something we have been looking forward to for a while.
Posted 7/28/11 4:00 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in After Hours
FROM MTV SPLASH PAGE: Forget booth babes, could it be that the celebrities are the real posers at Comic-Con? MTV News decided to get to the bottom of this curious dilemma in the special SDCC installment of After Hours: "Geeks or Posers?"
With nerdy stars like Patrick Stewart and Jon Favreau flocking to the convention center, we figured that the five-question quiz would be easy picking for actors of their caliber. Little did we know how few Hollywood leading men and ladies had any idea what manga was, or how most of the world has forgotten the full title of "Superman IV."
Posted 7/25/11 10:45 am EST by Terri Schwartz in Comic-Con, Interviews, News, Video
It's been a busy few days for the MTV News crew covering 2011 San Diego Comic-Con, but fortunately we've been hard at work bringing scoops from the biggest and most buzzworthy stars on the hottest to a computer screen near you. See some of the highlights below!
Eliza Dushku Talks "True Lies 2"
Eliza Dushku took some time out of promoting "Batman: Year One" to stop by the MTV livestream and chat about her upcoming film projects. Unsurprisingly, a "True Lies" sequel question was thrown her way by a Twitter follower. Her response? It might be a little while.
"I think there's been a little a little snafoo with the star. With the Schwarzenegger. I think it's going to be a minute," she said with a laugh. "For a while I was never even talking about it. And all of the sudden I started getting calls from the Governor's office in California saying, 'You aren't allowed to talk about 'True Lies.'"
Posted 7/23/11 1:22 pm EST by Kara Warner in Comic-Con, News
When Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried stopped by MTV News' San Diego Comic-Con headquarters yesterday, they came directly from their Hall H panel for "In Time," and were therefore full of the Comic-Con-fueled adrenaline and giggly energy that comes from appearing in front of 6,000 screaming fans.
We did our best to get them to talk seriously about their Andrew Niccol-directed thriller, but first they engaged in a back-and-forth about their Hall H experience and the use of the phrase "sizzle reel" to describe teaser trailers and footage.
"It was really short and I stood there and got nervous and didn’t say anything," Seyfried said of their "In Time" presentation.
Posted 7/20/11 2:52 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Casting Call
"The Lone Ranger" just got a whole lot freakier.
Helena Bonham Carter, Dwight Yoakam and Barry Pepper are saddling up for the Johnny Depp-starring Western, according to THR. Carter's set to play the madam of a brothel, Yoakam the leader of a gang that attacks Armie Hammer's Lone Ranger, and Pepper's set to play a military officer. Tom Wilkinson rounds out the cast while "Rango" helmer Gore Verbinski directs.
Get the rest of today's casting news past the jump!
Posted 6/6/11 11:39 am EST by James Montgomery in MTV Movie Awards
During Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards, Justin Timberlake proved just how "totally platonic" his relationship with Mila Kunis was when he groped her like a crowdsurfer at Ozzfest.
Of course, Kunis was all too happy to return the favor, going low and grabbing JT's junk while the two — who, it should be noted, star in the upcoming comedy "Friends With Benefits" (and whose relationship has been the subject of much speculation in the past) — announced the nominees for "Best Male Performance."
Not surprisingly, in the hours following the Awards, Kunis and Timberlake's rather, uh, unique embrace became the most-searched thing on the Internet, and since the zeitgeist clearly loves some good old fashioned genital-groping, we'd be remiss if we didn't point out the fact that, over the years, MTV's award shows have basically set the standard for inappropriate touching ... we're sort of pioneers in that regard.
So, with Mila's and Justin's pawing still fresh on everyone's mind, here's a look back at some of the most inappropriate touches in MTV award-show history.
Posted 6/4/11 3:30 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in MTV Movie Awards
Here's a sure sign the MTV Movie Awards are just around the corner: the celebrity seating cards are in place!
That's right, we have the scoop on where everyone from Robert Pattinson to Nicki Minaj is sitting!
The "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" cast is representing the upcoming flick, with Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley sitting front and center next to each other. Costar Patrick Dempsey is rounding out the trio sitting the row behind them for some emotional support. Read More...
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Justin Timberlake's 'In Time' & 10 Other Extremely Confusing Movie Premises
Posted 10/28/11 1:50 pm EST by Eric Ditzian in Commentary
Originally, Justin Timberlake's new sci-fi action flick was called "Now." Apparently, though, that title didn't effectively communicate what the movie was all about, which isn't exactly surprising because what the movie, now called "In Time," is all about is kinda high-concept and confusing.
Go with us (and JT) for a second. In this cinematic future, overpopulation was a biiiiiiig problem, so scientists figured out how to slice and dice the human genome to the point where aging stops when you're 25. Seeing as how people like living and don't want to die young, time has become the new currency, something earned during work and spent like cash. How exactly time can be earned, stolen and kept track of on a fancy neon clock on your arm (as well as why everyone in the future is so damn good looking) is never really explained.
And why should it be? Confounding high-concept plots are a Hollywood staple. In this sense, "In Time" joins the sometimes glorious, sometimes grating pantheon of movies with extremely confusing premises.
"The Jacket": An amnesic Gulf War veteran takes an experimental drug, locks himself in a morgue chamber and is able to travel 15 years into the future, where he learns he might already be dead in one timeline but not another. Or something. Somebody revoke Adrien Brody's Oscar.
"Primer": An excellent low-budget time-travel flick so sciencey you need a PhD or two tabs of acid to understand it.
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