Paranormal ActivityThe ultimate villain, Satan, makes an appearance (twice!) in this week's Horror Bites. To start, "The Hangover's" Bradley Cooper, supposedly in talks to star in "The Crow" remake, has now set his sights on an adaptation of "Paradise Lost" – no, it has nothing to do with the metal band – and Cooper may be playing the big bad himself, Lucifer. Rutger Hauer won't let anyone show him up, though, and is also engaging in a little devilry on screen.

"Paranormal Activity 3" is slipping into "Saw's" place as the new Halloween franchise. Oren Peli and his crew have brought on a team of "documentary" filmmakers to direct their latest installment in the supernatural series. Pants will be peed this October, for sure. Meanwhile, the cast of "Piranha 3DD" is rounding out quite nicely – and may need to increase a cup size – with the addition of some familiar faces, and the "Sexiest Woman Alive."

Find out the full skinny, and relish in more horror goodies, after the jump.

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Despite it's stop-and-start beginnings, everything we've been hearing recently about Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows" feature film adaptation sounds like music to our ears. Johnny Depp as Barnabus Collins? Magic. Another Burton and Depp collaboration? Also awesome. Not to mention a cast of excellent players: Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Grace Moretz, and now up and comer (and Depp lookalike) Thomas McDonell, late of "Prom," starring as a younger version of Johnny.

Another name that had been thrown into the mix was esteemed and accomplished actor Michael Sheen, rumored to have signed on to play Roger Collins. But MTV News spoke with the actor at the "Midnight in Paris" press junket today and learned that, unfortunately, he will not be appearing in the film.

"I, I, can't really talk about it," Sheen said when asked about the project. "I'm not going to be doing it, so..." he trailed off, which totally burst my bubble. I then pretended that since Sheen is not in the film, I was no longer interested in it, which made him laugh.

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"Tron: Legacy" arrives on DVD and Blu-ray next week (April 5), bringing the stylized technological world of the Gaming Grid out of the theaters and straight into your living room.

To mark the occasion, we've got a look at a behind-the-scenes feature from the "Legacy" DVD and Blu-ray with a featurette that chronicles Michael Sheen's transformation into the florescent and flamboyant Castor, the bleach-blond program in charge of the End of Line Club.

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The first six minutes of Zack Snyder's latest have hit the Internet, and they're definitely something of a sucker punch.

Against a narration that speaks of silent guardians and angels, the opening minutes of "Sucker Punch" show how leading lady Emily Browning ends up at Lennox House mental institution. In true Snyder tradition, there are copious amounts of awesome music -- a remix of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" -- and slow motion used in the best possible combination.

After the jump, check out the first photos of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," find out which Hollywood actors are turning gangster and learn the first details of the "Transporter" TV series.

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Hunter Parrish"The Hunger Games" may have found its Katniss Everdeen in the form of Jennifer Lawrence, but the hunt is still on for her two leading men.

A list of actors tapped to read for the role of Peeta Mellark has hit the web, and Hollywood Crush has the rundown on the fan favorites who made the cut (most notably Hunter Parrish) and those who didn't (goodbye, Alex Pettyfer). There were also a few actors noted who were expected to try out for the other lead, Gale, including "Hunger Games" fan Liam Hemsworth.

After the jump, find out which "Twilight Saga" actor is in talks for "Dark Shadows," who has joined the "Three Stooges" as Curly and whether Saoirse Ronan is in or out of "The Hobbit."

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Not much longer now. In six more months we'll finally get to see the awe-inducing glory of Disney's "Tron Legacy." I have no reservations about expressing my unabashed excitement for this movie. The original is a childhood favorite and this new one, based on the trailer and everything else that I've seen, has me totally sold. Now I know there's someone else who shares my excitement: "Twilight" star Michael Sheen.

I spoke to Sheen recently about his role in the new HBO film "The Special Relationship," which brings an end to his Tony Blair trilogy, and of course I had to ask for some info on "Tron."

"I've only seen what everyone else has seen so far," he said. "Everything I've said so far, in terms of giving away facts about the character and facts about the story, I've said everything that I'm allowed to say. So I can't reveal anything more. They keep you on a very tight leash with stuff like this." Fair enough. But what he can discuss is his excitement about being part of the movie, which runs pretty high. Read More...

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One of the major subplots that runs through the entire "30 Rock" TV series is Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) uncanny ability to look for love in all the wrong places. There was an interesting development on that front in the recently ended fourth season: Liz met a man while they were both recovering from dentist's gas. They remembered very little of the meeting, but the impression was notable enough that they took down one another's phone numbers in their respective phones as "Future Husband" and "Future Wife." That new man's name is Wesley Snipes, and he is played by none other than Michael Sheen.

As the season wore on, Wesley came to realize that he and Liz were fated to be together as a future marriage of convenience. He reasoned that they were both too old to find "the one," if such a thing exists, and that they were meant to be together simply because they'd found one another, even though there was clearly no chemistry. In the season finale, Liz proved Wesley wrong by finding her ideal man, airline pilot Carol (Matt Damon). Snipes left the scene in a huff, shouting out his final line of the season: "There's only one Wesley Snipes in this world!" Not true, obviously.

So when I spoke with Sheen yesterday about this weekend's HBO movie "The Special Relationship," in which he stars as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, I had to ask him if we've seen the last of the not-so-lovable Wesley Snipes. Read More...

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Arguably one of the most well-cast roles in recent memory is "Twilight" actor Michael Sheen as former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in a series of films written by Peter Morgan. The so-called "Blair trilogy" started in 2003 with "The Deal," directed by Stephen Frears, a dramatization of the series of events leading to Blair being named prime minister. "The Queen" followed in 2006, with the Frears/Morgan combo proving a potent one for examining how the aftermath of Princess Diana's 1997 death unfolded within the highest levels of UK government.

The "Blair trilogy" concludes tomorrow night when HBO airs the Morgan-scripted, Richard Loncraine-directed drama "The Special Relationship." Rather than dealing with Blair's bell curve popularity during his time in office, "Relationship" charts his career from his appointment as prime minister, through the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Kosovo Conflict, and finally onwards into the first days of George W. Bush's presidency. The aim is to implicitly show how the "special relationship" between Blair and President Bill Clinton informed the PM's missteps in the later years of his political career when he applied the same approach with President Bush. Read More...

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Oscar snubs are nothing new, but the writer of the novel "Up in the Air" came from has a bone to pick with the Academy Awards' invitation gurus. Walter Kirn had fierce words for Hollywood as well, which you can find below.

In other tweets, a "Community" actor apparently found himself in the right place at the right time to sell Super Bowl-winning running back Reggie Bush a pair of glasses, Peter Serafinowicz knows who should have been cast as Percy Jackson, and actress Jamie Chung had a close brush with death in a limousine. Check those out after the jump, along with Elizabeth Banks' beef with figure skating judges. It's all in Twitter-Wood for February 17, 2010. Read More...

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FROM HOLLYWOOD CRUSH: We were all stunned when we got a chance to see Michael Sheen (finally!) in character as Aro. The new "New Moon" TV spot featuring the Volturi gave us a chance to see the bad vamps in action.

But Michael is one of the few actors around (the only one I can think of offhand) who has had the opportunity to play both a vampire and a werewolf. Anyone looking to see a darker modern take on vampire mythology should check out the "Underworld" series, in which Michael plays the werewolf, Lucian.

When we got a chance to talk with "New Moon" director Chris Weitz, we asked him what side Michael would fall on in the battle between the supernatural creatures: vampire or werewolf?

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