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- Miley Cyrus 'Who Owns My Heart' Video Blasted By Parents Television Council
- Lupe Fiasco Teaches Teens To Rap At NYC Event
- 'Life As We Know It' Tops Friday Box Office
- 'Pineapple Express 2' Could Go In 'Scarface' Direction, Director Says
- Kanye West, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco 'Don't Stop' On New Track
- 'Zoolander 2' Draft Done ... With Role For Will Ferrell
- 'Predators' Star Adrien Brody Reveals Schwarzenegger's Planned Cameo
| Miley Cyrus 'Who Owns My Heart' Video Blasted By Parents Television Council Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:29 AM PDT 'It is unfortunate that she would participate in such a sexualized video like this one,' group president says.
Miley Cyrus' new single, "Who Owns My Heart," may question who the pop star's latest boy toy is but the video certainly declares that the teen singer is embracing a sexier persona. However, some believe the 17-year-old singer's racy image is damaging to her legions of young fans. In the clip, a scantily-clad Cyrus gets dolled up in her room and shows a lot of leg while grooving in the backseat of a car on her way to a rager at a mansion. The teen starlet then spends most of the video dancing in tiny shorts, a revealing halter, big hair and heels and partying until the wee hours. Tim Winter, who serves as president of the Parents Television Council, told TMZ that the "Hannah Montana" star's sexed-up clip relays the wrong message to her teen following. "It is unfortunate that she would participate in such a sexualized video like this one," Winter said. "It sends messages to her fanbase that are diametrically opposed to everything she has done up to this point. Miley built her fame and fortune entirely on the backs of young girls, and it saddens us that she seems so eager to distance herself from that fanbase so rapidly." This isn't the first time the Disney star has faced controversy in her attempts to break away from her squeaky-clean, teen idol status. Her pole-dancing move at the at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards grabbed headlines and her latest LP, Can't Be Tamed, features a much more vampy persona than her "Hannah Montana" alter ego. "I'm a completely different person [than when I released 2008's Breakout]. I'm much more confident. You know, I've always been a confident person, but I was going through a lot then," Cyrus told MTV News in June. "There's so many people in your life telling you who you should and shouldn't be," Cyrus said. "And that's what Tamed [is] about. It's about being who you are to the fullest. And now I know who that is." The group has also recently slammed the Britney/Brittany "Glee" episode. Do you think Miley Cyrus' "Who Owns My Heart" video is too sexy? Sound off in the comments! Related Photos Related Artists |
| Lupe Fiasco Teaches Teens To Rap At NYC Event Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:52 AM PDT Chicago MC shows young people how to make a song during Re:Form School and World Up event.
NEW YORK — For many young people, becoming a superstar MC is a much-treasured dream. However, for about a dozen New York City teens, recording a track heard around the world with the assistance of a much-respected lyricist became a fun reality on Saturday (October 9).
Chicago MC Lupe Fiasco helmed a recording session with a crew of young people during an event thrown by hip-hop-oriented nonprofit World Up as part of NYC's Re:Form School pop-up art exhibition. The "Superstar" rapper guided several amped teens through the process of penning lyrics, crafting a hook and laying down the vocals for a track. Two versions of the song were created simultaneously as a production team based in Brazil Skyped in during the three-hour session. The event was truly an international effort as remixers from far-flung locales such as Istanbul, Berlin and Amsterdam were also involved in the project and reworked audio tracks via a digital shared folder. Lupe was a hands-on instructor, motivating kids when they slipped up, coaching outsize swagger from the novice spitters and coaxing shy participants into sharing their ideas. The crew wrapped up with a freestyle cipher, banging on desks, dropping bars and belting out heartfelt vocals. Lupe even spit a few lines and indulged the kids' requests for autographs and pictures. "It was dope. It was real dope today," Lupe told MTV News. "It was a very exhilarating kinda thing to see the youth and the talent that they already have within them and kinda get an opportunity to converse with them and learn some things from them and vice versa." Although the "Dumb It Down" spitter seemed at home in the classroom and has pondered abandoning the music industry in the past, Lupe insisted he wouldn't make teaching a full-time gig anytime soon. "Nah, I'm not no teacher. I ain't no teacher," Lupe said, brushing off the suggestion. "I'm good at certain things that I do but, you know, teaching is a very hard job. I don't low-ball it by any means. I definitely don't think ... 'cause you can rapport with somebody that you can be a teacher with no training or no nothing like that. You gotta have the curriculum and make sure that kids [will be] able to comprehend and make sure you even can fully explain actually what you're trying to teach to somebody at the same time too. I don't have any of those qualities or any of those responsibilities so [these] hour, couple-hour sessions showing kids how to rap is all that got." Would you like to learn how to rap from Lupe Fiasco? What would you ask for pointers on? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists |
| 'Life As We Know It' Tops Friday Box Office Posted: 09 Oct 2010 03:49 AM PDT Romantic comedy debuts with $5.3 million.
With a slew of movie debuts on Friday, the rom-com "Life As We Know It" won over audiences. Starring Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl as friends who adopt their late pal's tot, the movie made an estimated $5.3 million during its first day on screens. The Facebook-themed drama "The Social Network" slipped to second place after opening in the top spot last week. Moviegoers continued pull themselves away from the ubiquitous site itself to check out Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake in the David Fincher-helmed story of how the website began. The flick racked up $4.9 million and Friday's numbers bring the film's total tally to an estimated $35 million. Another theater newbie is Disney's feel-good, equestrian tale "Secretariat." The big-screen story of how an underdog racing horse galloped to three inspiring wins in 1973 opened in third place. Featuring Diane Lane and John Malkovich, the movie debuted just behind "The Social Network" with nearly $4.1 million. Hitting theaters in the weeks before Halloween is "My Soul to Take," the latest thriller from horror-master Wes Craven, who put in work as both writer and director on the project. Craven's 3-D enhanced screamfest entered the Friday top five in fourth place with roughly $2.7 million. The cops-and-robbers drama "The Town" continues to rake in cash at the box office. Since opening on September 17, the Boston-based, Ben Affleck-directed flick is still hanging in the top five. The movie hauled in nearly $1.9 million on Friday, which bumps the film's overall gross to just over $69 million. Check out everything we've got on "Life as We Know It," "The Social Network," and "Secretariat." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. |
| 'Pineapple Express 2' Could Go In 'Scarface' Direction, Director Says Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:02 AM PDT 'I want to see them in the Miami coke scene. It could get a little gruesome,' David Gordon Green tells us at New York Comic Con.
Someone make a dinner reservation for James Franco, Seth Rogen, David Gordon Green and the rest of the folks involved in "Pineapple Express," OK? That's the first stumbling block preventing a sequel to their 2008 comedy, and not until everyone breaks bread together will there be any hope of "Pineapple Express 2" kicking into action.
"We talk about it all the time," Green, who directed the film, told MTV News while promoting "Your Highness" at New York Comic Con. "We keep talking to the studio. They're going to organize a dinner someday. This dinner has been talked about for about two years now, where we're going to get together and throw all the millions of ideas we have into a pot and see if there's any reason to make that movie." While hanging out in our skybox at NYCC, Green revealed a few story ideas that, in our humble opinion, most definitely seem a worthy extension of the story of two stoners - Franco and Rogen - pulled into the violent world of high-stakes marijuana dealing. "The most interesting spin is to go in the 'Scarface' direction," Green told us. "I want to see them in the Miami coke scene. It could get a little gruesome." "Or take it in the 'Clear and Present Danger' direction and go to South America," he added. Green's not the only one interested in a sequel. Franco told us earlier in the year about his enthusiasm for another "Pineapple," and Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote the original script, is excited as well. And Rogen told us, "Of all the movies we've done, that's the only one that I would actually like to do a sequel to and we talk about it." For now, though, Sony Pictures has got to get all these guys around a dinner table. "There are a few avenues that are maybe worthy of a little bit more than a barroom napkin scribble of an idea," Green said. Check out everything we've got on "Your Highness." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more - updated around the clock - visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Kanye West, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco 'Don't Stop' On New Track Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:23 AM PDT 'Ye recruits CRS members for G.O.O.D. Friday song.
Kanye West's recent jaunt to Japan didn't stop the MC from dropping his latest G.O.O.D Friday track right on time. Hours after the superstar lyricist tweeted about heading to Asia, West released "Don't Stop," a collaboration featuring Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco. Together, the rappers make up the Child Rebel Soldier supergroup, Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco. Compared with many of West's weekend-kickoff offerings, the jangly, dancefloor-ready number boasts a more celebratory vibe. About three seconds into the track, Pharrell starts things off with an amped delivery, dropping lines like, "I'm on some BBC Bape sh--/I'm on some cake sh--/In the kitchen with the heat making beats in my apron." The N.E.R.D. frontman paints more images of the glossy high life with lyrics such as, "My flow interrupts your homeostasis/I Rolls Royce it on a regular basis." Fresh from a newly hammered-out deal with Atlantic Records, Lupe appears to reference his past label drama in his verse. "F--- the property or give me my props properly/high off life this high technology, DeVry," the Chicago MC spits. "My policy's not to be dishonestly deprived." Kanye closes out the track pumping the return of CRS, which has been in the works for a while. Yeezy starts with "Mr. West turn that new child rebel/loud as a badass child level," and follows up with bars such as, "Brand new Ferraris, I gotta make the donuts/CRS is like a hip-hop Christmas bonus." The track is the latest offering from the group, which materialized when the trio collaborated on a cut from one of Lupe's mixtapes. "Pharrell came up with the idea — 'Let's do a group, Child Rebel Soldiers,' " Lupe told MTV News in 2008. "So I did a song. Took Thom Yorke's 'Eraser,' cut it up, put 'Us Placers' on it, because I was going to do a mixtape called Us Placers and remake Thom Yorke's album [The Eraser] and Radiohead's stuff. I sent the record out, and it was initially supposed to have Kanye, and I wanted [British artist] the Streets. The Streets, I got no response. He asked me to do the song for one of his artists. Then Kanye jumped on it and was like, 'I'm going to send it to P.' Then P sent it back, and it was like, 'This is the first song right here. Let's do it.' That was, like, a year and a half ago, and the whole time we've been figuring out what to do." What do you think of Kanye West, Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco's "Don't Stop"? Sound off in the comments! Related Artists |
| 'Zoolander 2' Draft Done ... With Role For Will Ferrell Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:52 AM PDT 'I think you're going to see Mugatu,' movie's co-writer Justin Theroux tells us at New York Comic-Con.
"Zoolander 2" has taken its time sashaying down the development runway, but have no fear: Everyone's favorite vapid supermodel is on track to arrive in theaters, reportedly in 2012. Justin Theroux, who's co-writing the script with Ben Stiller, assured us of that fact when he stopped by the MTV News skybox at New York Comic-Con on Saturday (October 9).
The script is essentially done, he revealed, and there are roles for both Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill. "The script is in good shape right now," Theroux told us while promoting "Your Highness." "I'm feeling very optimistic about it. We're doing a few little tweaks before we submit it, but I'm very hopeful that I'm going to be working on that soon." Theroux said he's still on track to direct the movie, but declined to dish many details about the plot. "It's too funny — it'll blow your mind," the writer/director said, though he did share the plot's starting point, in which Stiller's Derek Zoolander and Owen Wilson's Hansel find themselves pushing 40 and no longer the white-hot center of the fashion world. "[W]e start off with them in a pretty bad place," he said. "They're about to ring 40's bell. They have to claw their way back into the fashion industry in some way or another." As for the villains in the sequel, Theroux said we should expect Ferrell to reprise his role as Mugatu and for Hill to pop up as a brand-new character. "Fingers crossed, anything is possible in Hollywood, but I think you're going to see Mugatu. We are planning on seeing Mugatoo," he told us. "There are a couple new villains that step onto the stage, which we are all very happy about. And yes, Jonah is the inspiration for one of them." Check out everything we've got on "Your Highness." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more - updated around the clock - visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
| 'Predators' Star Adrien Brody Reveals Schwarzenegger's Planned Cameo Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:54 AM PDT 'There was a version we were going to do that had a different ending ... it would have really been fitting for Schwarzenegger to be there,' actor says.
Everyone wanted Arnie. "We've talked about hopefully seeing if he could be involved if we see there's a place in the script," producer Robert Rodriguez told MTV News last year.
He was talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger and the chances of getting the "Predator" star involved with the latest installment of the sci-fi/horror franchise. But in the end, the cameo never happened. Arnie stayed put in the California Governor's Mansion, and Adrien Brody and his co-stars traveled alone to the alien world in which "Predators" takes place. The movie arrived in theaters earlier this year with an impressive $25 million opening. It turns out, though, that not only did they want Schwarzenegger in the film, but they scripted an entirely different ending in which the actor would have appeared. Brody, who stopped by the MTV News skybox at New York Comic Con to promote the film's DVD release, dished us some details about that Governator-centric ending. "I was hoping he would be in this film," Brody said. "There was a version we were going to do that had a different ending that it would have really been fitting for Schwarzenegger to be there. It would have been like him passing the gauntlet to my character and the bravery of my character proven. That would have been just epic." Without a moment for Schwarzenegger to shine, it was left to Brody to pay respects to the muscle-bound action hero who first battled with that nasty Predator alien in 1987. "There was a moment where I added a 'Run! Get to the chopper!' moment, which my fellow cast made fun of me for for, like, most of the movie," Brody told us earlier. "But that's what's in this little teaser that's about to drop. It was like an homage to [Schwarzenegger]." Check out everything we've got on "Predators." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more -- updated around the clock -- visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
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