Next up in our 2009 VMA director spotlight is Marc Webb, who is also up for a Moonman in the Best Direction category. Webb has been in the game since the late '90s, though he only recently made the jump into feature film directing. His "(500) Days of Summer," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, scored a lot of buzz at Sundance earlier this year and has continued to score well with critics since its August 7 release.

For Sunday night's 2009 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony, Webb hopes to pick up a statue for his work directing the video for Green Day's "21 Guns." Check out that video below and hit the jump to compare it with some footage for "(500) Days."

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Having scored considerable praise during its run at Sundance, "500 Days of Summer" is coming to theaters and we've got an exclusive first look at the quirky romantic comedy. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young professional who falls for co-worker, Zooey Deschanel, and chronicles the journey through their relationship.

Watch the clip below to see how they first meet, and how it was love at first sight.

Are those wedding bells or screams? Universal and Imagine Entertainment are getting set to resurrect the 1935 horror film “Bride of Frankenstein.” The original Mrs. F was played by Elsa Lanchester, a British character actress who first appeared in silent shorts by H.G. Wells. More than eighty years later, word is that filmmakers are gunning for an actress high on sex appeal. Of course, she’s also got to be able to invite audiences into her convincing, hair-raising Crazytown—population, one fiery bridezilla.

While there’s neither a writer nor a director officially attached to the project—Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”) is in talks for both jobs—it’s never to early too speculate about which Hollywood starlet is best fit to take on the title role.

Helen Hunt: The loveable spouse from “Mad About You”? The harried, vulnerable waitress from “As Good as It Gets”? Well, yes and no. Hunt may have graduated to everywoman parts, but in the early ‘80s she appeared in an after-school special—a cheesetastic performance in which she snorts PCP, goes insane, hurls herself out a window and starts screaming like a banshee, “I’m invincible,” as she slices her arm with glass shards. Hunt can bring the crazy, and Hollywood is always in need of a reminder that women in their 40s can also bring the sexy.

“500 Days of Summer” is one of those indie gems that has been building momentum since Sundance and, in the clip below, you’ll catch a glimpse at why; On beyond a great script and no small amount of style, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel share a chemistry that would make you believe that they’ve been working together for years. Doubly surprising is finding out that they have.

“We’ve known each other for almost ten years,” Zooey told MTV News, citing a little-known project called “Manic” in 2001 that brought the pair together. They became fast friends, just as Joseph was leaving acting for awhile to go back to school and Zooey was leaving school to go back to acting.

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One of the quirkiest romantic films of the year, "Gigantic" stars Paul Dano as a high-end mattress salesman from a dysfunctional family, who falls for a customer played by the always lovely Zooey Deschanel. In our exclusive clip below, you can see the seeds of the romance being planted as Dano meets Deschanel for the first time as she falls asleep in his store.

"Gigantic" hits theaters in limited release on April 3.

Zooey Deschanel is more than an adorable actress who told me she liked my sweater after I interviewered her a few days ago. Like that? It's called subtlety. Yes, Ms. Deschanel is so much more. She can sing. She starred in my favorite movie at Sundance this year, "500 Days of Summer," and perhaps most importantly for this blog entry, she's pretty damn photogenic. Click here to see the entire Photo Booth gallery, featuring photos by John Krasinski, Kristen Stewart, Spike Lee and dozens of others.

In "500 Days of Summer, a crowd-pleasing romantic comedy, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play loves who drift in and out of each other's lives. So what is there real view on romanticism? We asked them here at Sundance, which you can see below. And then click here to watch all of our celebrity Sundance interviews with everyone from Kristen Stewart to Spike Lee.

Way back in January, we visited the set of "Yes Man" and watched along as Jim Carrey took a long dive off a bridge (tethered, of course). Well now the film's nearly in theaters (December 19), and we've got some exclusive footage from the flick -- co-stars Zooey Deschanel -- which finds Carrey as a man who tries saying yes to every question.

Check out the featurette below after the jump, and when you're through with that, click here to watch all of our exclusives from our new movie show "Spoilers," including "Watchmen," "Day the Earth Stood Still," "The Spirit" and more. Read more...