FROM MULTIPLAYER: We've known for some time that MTV and Jerry Bruckheimer have been ambling down the road together towards a video games-related partnership. MTV has seen a world of success with their "Rock Band" rhythm game/platform and mega-producer Bruckheimer... well... he's good at making explosions look awesome. It's a natural pairing then; MTV gets to expand their games lineup while Bruck inserts himself into a fast-growing entertainment industry with a well-established partner to back him.
Late last night, Variety reported that there's finally been some serious movement with regards to this partnership. The newly-minted Jerry Bruckheimer Games Studio will be run by the powerhouse gaming tag team of Jim Veevaert and Jay Cohen. The Variety piece also reveals that Cohen and Veevaert will handle development and production, respectively.
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FROM NEWSROOM.MTV.COM At Wednesday night’s New York premiere of “Two Lovers,” Joaquin Phoenix avoided any and all questions as he rushed past reporters on the red carpet. This being his last movie, many people are wondering if Phoenix will actually turn his full attention to the rap game.
Shedding some light on the situation was “Two Lovers” director James Gray.
Continue reading about Joaquin's hip-hop aspirations at Newsroom.MTV.com.
If the future of video is online, then Craig Brewer is already there. As the writer and director of "Hustle and Flow," Brewer rode his film into one of the biggest deals in Sundance history, and saw it launch Terrance Howard's career.
Now Brewer is back, teaming with MTV New Media, to launch a music-flavored webisode series titled $5 Cover. The concept is a novel one: each roughly 8-minute webisode follows a local musician in Memphis, Tennessee. The players are real, but their stories are often fictionalized, and the "characters" will drive in and out of other episodes. There will be 15 webisodes in total, so click here to check out Craig Brewer's "$5 Cover," and get the low-down in the video below.
I have a friend who told me a story once about getting invited to a celebrity's house for a party and somehow managing to nab a peak at the guest list. "The only person whose name I didn't immediately recognize was my own," he says.
That's a little like how I felt today when crashing a closed door production meeting for the MTV Movie Awards, which DIDN'T have super producer Mark Burnett, but DID include just about every important person who helps make the show tick. And me (off to the side, on the sofa).
Fine, we get it. The logistics on a live project like this are insane. It takes a lot of people (and then some) to pull it off. Blah, blah, blah.
This isn't an ode to them. This is an ode to what they're doing. Read more...
It took over 25 years, $150 million, and some of the biggest names in show business to bring "Transformers" from an idea, to the big-screen, to a front row seat at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.
It could take you as little as three minutes to join them.
MTV is calling all filmmakers, provocateurs, and amateur comedians for their "2008 Movie Spoof Contest," with the winner eligible for a free trip to Los Angeles for the MTV Movie Awards on June 1 and their very own Golden Popcorn.
Think "Transformers" would have been better with Micro Machines? Does "Dis-Enchanted" sound more like your kind of fairy tale? Do you ponder over a version of "Into the Wild" where Emile Hirsch brought a friggin map? Read more...
We don't like to pat ourselves on the back here at MTV, but when one of the the industry's most legendary filmmakers tells you that he decided to go back and re-edit his film because of you, well that's when you begin to feel a little special. That was the case with Ridley Scott, who told our MTV News crew that seeing "Blade Runner"-ish music videos on our channel caused him to move forward with his "Final Cut" DVD edition. But we'll let him tell the story. Watch below.
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MTV's "Inside the Action" takes you inside the hottest action flicks by re-creating their most explosive stunts. On deck this week is "Live Free or Die Hard," (the show premieres on MTV Sunday night at 11:30pm) and we brought together co-stars Bruce Willis and Justin Long and director Len Wiseman to witness our fiery carnage first-hand. Watch a segment below -- or see the entire show here -- and then keep reading after the jump for the full behind-the-scenes report from the show's writer.
I've been going on MTV shoots for 8 years now (wow, that freaks me out), but this "Inside the Action" was certainly unusual. I mean, I'd never blown up a car before. Read more...
