There are a lot of reasons to celebrate Val Kilmer: "Tombstone," "The Doors," "The Salton Sea," "Real Genius," "Willow." The list of goes on and on.

This is not one of those reasons.

"[I created] Mini-Me you know," Kilmer confessed to MTV News, revealing once and for all his own role in skyrocketing Verne Troyer to fame. "[I was] the genesis of Mini-Me."

Doubt if you want. Me? I believe it. And how could I not? The story is so strange and improbable that it absolutely has to be true.

"[On] 'Island of Dr. Moreau' I told Marlon Brando my plan to save my performance just in case there was a giant whole in the second half - I was going to strap the little man to my chest," Kilmer insisted, completely unaware, perhaps, of how terribly strange that plan sounds even in retrospect. "And, you know, you can't get around that visual. And then he [Brando] STOLE my little man!" Read more...

For one brief, shining moment, it seemed as though the worlds of Hasselhoff cheese and Will Arnett chortles were finally coming together as one. The "Arrested Development" funnyman had been cast as the voice of K.I.T.T. in the new "Knight Rider" TV movie, and visions were already running through our heads of G.O.B. sarcastically telling the new young actor in the leather jacket to deploy his own damn grappling hook.

Unfortunately, Arnett was replaced last week by Val Kilmer, largely because of a conflicting voiceover contract he has with a major car company. When the movie airs this weekend, no one will be able to hear Arnett's velvety voice - unless, of course, you're a regular visitor to the MTV Movies Blog.

Thanks to the TV juggernaut "CSI", Marg Helgenberger is one of the most-watched women in the world; in movies, however, it's been a very different story thanks to duds like "Fire Down Below" and "Always." Now, with a sweet-sounding heist flick on the horizon, Helgenberger might have better days on the big-screen ahead.

"Val Kilmer is the star of the film; he's the lead," grinned the perky actress, discussing "Columbus Day", a currently-filming thriller that also stars Wilmer Valderrama. "He plays a man who's a thief." The flick is substantial for two reasons that go beyond Helgenberger. First off, it features Kilmer returning to the cops-and-robbers world he last mined in the 1995 classic "Heat". Secondly, it marks the debut of writer/director Charles Burmeister, an up-and-coming Sundance protege whose "Columbus" script beat out 5500 others to win the coveted Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship.

"You're introduced to [Kilmer's character], and he's carrying a briefcase full of something or other," laughed Helgenberger, revealing the "Pulp Fiction"-esque plot device. "You know he just pulled off a heist, but you never find out what's in the briefcase. He's just trying to sell it - so he makes a series of phone calls in hopes to sell whatever is in the briefcase." But it wouldn't be a true heist flick, she acknowledged, unless there was a fly in the ointment. "While he's waiting to set up this deal, there's a young boy at the park where he's waiting for this all to transpire; this boy and he develop a friendship, and through that relationship he realizes who the important people in his life are." Read more...