It made its grand premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and now John Cusack's political satire "War, Inc." marches towards a May 23rd limited run. The story? A tacky music artist (pop princess Hilary Duff) is caught in an assassin's scheme to take out a rogue Middle Eastern dictator. The assassin is Cusack, but what you really care about is in the clip below...and that's Duff's dirty raunchy dance number that's shaking up the blogosphere ("I want to blow you...up"). Dig it.

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If there's one thing I learned from sitting down with John Cusack for a half hour last week, it's that the "High Fidelity" star contains multitudes. Apparently, so do his movies.

"It's a kind of a mercenary Samurai movie," he said of "War, Inc."

"It's kind of a satiric, adult comic strip," he added later.

"It's very much like 'Strangelove' set in the future, very dark and twisted," he amended finally.

Forget the tone, Cusack's next flick is the movie so nice they named it twice. "It's called 'Brand Hauser,'" Cusack corrected. "It's on the web right now as 'War, Inc.' but that was for the foreign sales guys." Read more...