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In addition to producing "Twelve Years A Slave," Brad Pitt will also be starring in the upcoming Steve McQueen-directed flick.

He'll join Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the cast, The Playlist confirms. The movie follows a free black man who was tricked into years of slavery under various owners until a white Canadian carpenter helped launch a court case and finally set him free. It's unclear which role Pitt will be playing, but it likely will be of the carpenter.

Check out the rest of today's film news after the jump!

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Tags ben barnes, brad pitt, Emilia Clarke, karl urban, ken jeong, Overdrive, prometheus, The Chung Factor, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the great gatsby, tobey maguire, Twelve Years A Slave

Amber Heard, an actress best known on the big screen for playing sexy man-eaters (sometimes literally, as in the case of "Zombieland"), is snagging headlines today for coming out as a lesbian. The 24-year-old made her sexuality public at GLAAD's 25th anniversary party on Friday when she walked the red carpet with her girlfriend, photographer Tasya van Ree.

Just in time to honor Heard for her courageous move, MTV Movies Blog has scored an exclusive clip of the actress from the upcoming thriller "And Soon the Darkness."

In the film, two girlfriends, Stephanie (Heard) and Ellie ("Cloverfield" star Odette Yustman), head to exotic Argentina for a relaxing girls' getaway filled with bar-hopping, sun-soaking and flirting with the local dudes. All is grand until Ellie goes missing, seemingly part of a string of unsolved tourist kidnappings. Distrusting the local sheriff, Stephanie teams with a kindly American ex-pat (Karl Urban) to find her friend. But who can she really trust? And can she find Ellie -- dun, dun, dun! -- before darkness falls? Read more...

Tags amber heard, and soon the darkness, Drive Angry, karl urban, odette yustman, rum diary, Video

There's no getting around it: Snake Plissken is a badass. It even says so in his contract. In John Carpenter's "Escape from New York," Kurt Russell put forth a truly memorable performance as the eyepatch-wearing former Army lieutenant charged with rescuing the U.S. President from the self-appointed Duke of New York (Isaac Hayes). So iconic was the role that the star of the coming remake is going to have his work cut out for him in matching it.

Fortunately, there are some very talented performers out there. Among them are a select few who possess the chops to strike the right balance between menacing badass and one-liner spouting... something. Who are they? Hit the jump and see for yourself. And click the image up top to check out our awesome image gallery of potential Plissken players. Read more...

Tags dwayne johnson, karl urban, kiefer sutherland, Quinton Jackson, sam worthington, Tom Hardy

J.J. Abrams' fresh take on "Star Trek" is looking like it's gonna be huge, taking in as much as $75 million at the box office through the weekend. The film features a whole new cast of predominantly little-known actors taking over the iconic roles of James T. Kirk, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew. So which of these up-and-comers will be the movie's breakout star? Who will everyone be talking about on Monday? Will it be Chris Pine as the young and cocky Kirk? Maybe "Heroes" villain and brand-new Spock Zachary Quinto? Perhaps Zoe Saldana’s sultry Uhura, Anton Yelchin’s navigator Chekov, Karl Urban’s doc Bones, or Simon Pegg’s beam-me-up engineer Scotty.

A case can be made for any of them. But MTV News wanted to know what you had to say, so we sent our own Tim Kash into the heart of Times Square to get your take on who will be "Trek"'s breakout star.

Tags Anton Yelchin, chris pine, karl urban, simon pegg, star trek, zachary quinto, zoe saldana

You never know where secrets will be revealed, and such was the case when we received a pack of trading cards for J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek." While most of the cards featured scenes and characters we're well familiar with, a handful of them broke new ground. Along with a glimpse of Zachary Quinto giving the fabled Vulcan salute to none other than Leonard Nimoy, we also get new peeks at Karl Urban as McCoy, Eric Bana as Nemo, various starships including the Enterprise, and a broader view of Starfleet Academy.

Click here or on the image below to check out all the new "Star Trek" images.

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Additional reporting by Shawn Adler

Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise make their highly anticipated return to the big screen next year in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek," and now MTV has your first look at the bridge of the famous starship, as well as some thoughts from co-producer Damon Lindelof ("Lost") on what we see in this new photo.

Click to see the photo at full size!

(Click the cropped version above for a full-size photo, then read Lindelof's comments about the image -- and see more of the exclusive "Star Trek" photos from around the 'Net -- after the jump!)

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Tags chris pine, damon lindelof, john cho, karl urban, star trek, zachary quinto