If you haven't already watched it, our "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" preview includes chats with Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf, a trip to Skywalker Ranch and as you'll see below, Fall Out Boy bassist (and Ashley Simpson groom) Pete Wentz raving about his favorite archaeologist during a visit to his home. After you check that out, click here to see the rest of the cool vids, including the Ranch tour.
So, through the magic of MTV (and American Airlines), I recently found myself down in Belle Glade, Florida -- town motto: "Her Soil Is Her Future" -- on the set of the upcoming teen-sex romp/road trip flick "Sex Drive." The location was the University of Florida's Everglades Research Center, which on this day had been made up to resemble an Amish community in the middle of Indiana (think horse-drawn carriages, butter churns and weathered barns.) And to add to the overall Amish-ness, the producers even decided to import a platinum-plus pop-punk act: Fall Out Boy. Read more...
Alright, so my brain is about to shut off after a day of Oscar coverage, but I've just seen the best piece of comedic content of the day and sorry Jon Stewart, but it wasn't on the Oscars. Remember that awesome Sarah Silverman/Matt Damon video a few weeks back? Tonight on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Jimmy saw his girlfriend one and raised her ten-fold.
"I'm f*&king Ben Affleck" featured Ben Affleck of course, and detailed the heretofore unknown love affair between Kimmel and the Oscar-winning star of "Gigli." And it was brilliant, from start to finish. The start featured Brad Pitt and just when you thought it was winding down, everyone from Don Cheadle and Huey Lewis to Pete Wentz and Joan Jett, appearing in a "We Are the World"-style group ballad. Read more...
We knew we had a mystery on our hands when Fall Out Boy's frontman Pete Wentz revealed to us that the writer of "Cloverfield," Drew Goddard, told him that he "based much of the film" on Fall Out Boy's Infinity on High album...so much so that if you played the flick and the record simultaneously, they would sync up like "Wizard of Oz" and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
So...what's the whole story? Well, as we report exclusively, Wentz may have gotten some things lost in translation. When we reached out to Goddard, he told us: "To clarify ... I was playing their album the whole time while writing 'Cloverfield.' I don't want to undercut [the idea that the movie was inspired by FOB's album], but it was just that the album came out at the same time as I was writing the script, and the way I work, I need music on in the background, and I was playing it, so it was inspiring in that sense, so I told them it was inspiring." For more on this story, watch the video below and then click here to read our full report.
As a rule of thumb, Pete Wentz is excited about pretty much everything, so when I was talking to him yesterday about Fall Out Boy's upcoming arena tour -- which he's dubbed the "Young Wild Things Tour," in a nod to Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" -- it wasn't exactly breaking news that he was super-pumped to hit the road. But what was rather interesting was just closely he was following the upcoming Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of the book, which is tentatively due from Warner Bros. next October (see our first look from the film here).
"I'm so excited to see the new movie. I've only seen one picture but it was stunning - I think it's an Eggerts script. This movie was a long time coming," he wrote me in an email. "When I was a kid I wanted to be Max when I grew up, which was insane because he was another kid. I think every parent should read this story to their kid." Read more...
Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump are like the most tireless dudes in the industry. Not content to lord over an empire that includes two hit records, a clothing line and a sold-out arena tour, they're now branching out into screenwriting. Though details are a bit scarce, Wentz did give MTV News the scoop on the project:
"We are writing a story that we kind of want to end up animated. Not too sure on whether it will ever go or how much of a 'Hollywood' project it would be. But it is kind of a narrative that seems to be non-existent in recent animated stories."
We have no idea what that means … but we're pumped. What can we say, we're big fans of "narrative."
Want more? Read our full interview with Pete Wentz, covering Ashlee, the next FOB video and more.