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- Taylor Lautner Is 'Proud' Of New 'Breaking Dawn' Trailer
- Nicki Minaj And More New York Fashion Week Highlights
- Curren$y Echoes Jay-Z's Classic Debut, Ski Beatz Says
- 'Killer Elite' Is 'More Grown-Up,' Jason Statham Says
- Coldplay Debut Another New Song At 'Austin City Limits' Taping
- Brad Pitt And Jonah Hill: The '21 Jump Street' Connection
- R. Kelly's Upcoming <i>Black Panties</i> Will Be 'The New <i>12 Play</i>
- 'Drive': The Reviews Are In!
- Paris Hilton Recalls Her Great Escape On 'When I Was 17'
- Diplomats Reunion Album Coming 'Slowly But Surely'
- Steve-O Recalls Drunk Biking, On 'When I Was 17'
- Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins Faced 'Abduction' Challenges Head On
- Alexander Skarsgard, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden Go Dark For 'Straw Dogs'
- Rihanna Announces Fall Release For New Album
- Brad Pitt Says Jen Aniston 'Interesting' Comments Were Misinterpreted
- No Doubt Delay Album Release
- Scarlett Johansson Nude Pics Removed From Website Following Legal Action
| Taylor Lautner Is 'Proud' Of New 'Breaking Dawn' Trailer Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:01 AM PDT While out promoting new flick 'Abduction,' the 'Twilight' star had a chance to admire the latest trailer.
Generally speaking, Friday is the collective favorite day of the week. For "Twilight" fans, however, Tuesday probably took the cake this week, as September 13 marked the debut of the second official trailer for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1." To celebrate the occasion, we picked our top five favorite "Breaking Dawn" trailer moments and then consulted our trusted panel of "Twilight" experts for their esteemed opinions.
Then we did one better: we managed to snag the opinion of Taylor Lautner at the Hollywood premiere of his new action thriller, "Abduction," on Thursday night. "I definitely saw it. I didn't see the reaction to it, but I've been really busy," he said, sounding slightly apologetic that he hadn't yet been able to scour the Internets for fan responses. "I'm so proud of it. I think the trailer is great. The movie is amazing, and I cannot wait for everyone to see it." Lautner also told us recently that he's done something very few people can say they have: He's seen "Breaking Dawn - Part 1." "I've seen it a few times," he said. "I saw it for the first time while we were still filming, so it was a really rough cut, but I've seen several versions since then, and it's getting better and better." Lautner warned fans to brace themselves for an emotional roller coaster. "You are going to face a lot of emotions, definitely," he teased. "You are going to be angry. I guarantee you [that] you will cry multiple times. There's a good mix. It's definitely different than any of the ones before." Check out everything we've got on "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1." For young Hollywood news, fashion and "Twilight" updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Nicki Minaj And More New York Fashion Week Highlights Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT Betsey Johnson, Charlotte Ronson, Rebecca Minkoff and Tracy Reese present MTV News' favorite Spring 2012 collections.
New York Fashion Week is officially a wrap! Designers, models and fashionistas gathered around Lincoln Center in NYC to get a front-row seat to all the hottest looks for the Spring 2012 season.
MTV News was there to give you a backstage pass to all the top designers and fill you in on all the latest trends. Here are the highlights: Betsey Johnson "I was watching Nicki Minaj and my daughter Lulu, and I'm thinking, 'They are the body type,' " Betsey said of making the looks for her spring line. "I love [Nicki], and she really wears my stuff. She likes real tight. She's just my most, most, most favorite girl right now." Minaj, who was sitting front row in a tutu and blue cotton-candy hair, was in awe that her fashion icon is such a fan. "She's a free spirit," Nicki said of Betsey. "When I met her the other day, I felt like I knew her for my whole life. She's so warm and considerate and caring. She's amazingly talented, and I've been wearing her clothes forever, so to meet her was like, 'Yay!' I was bowing down to her. She's dope!" Charlotte Ronson "It actually first started off being more Victorian: lots of light, sheer dresses and covered buttons and high necklines," Ronson said of the inspiration behind her spring line. "It always falls into more of a Boho, '70s feel, but then each season, we also add a little more grunge factor, and that comes in more with button-downs and pajama pants and patchwork denim and the crop tops and things like that." Celebrity attendees included Kelly Osbourne, Whitney Port, Nicky Hilton and, as usual, Charlotte's sister, Samantha Ronson, was on hand DJing the event. Tracy Reese "I wanted to do something very romantic, an ode to spring," Reese said. "The clothes are very romantic, but very useful, very wearable. A lot of great color: brights, hot pinks, neons, beautiful blues — but the whole range from a sweet misty blue to a dark, strong peacock — pops of yellow and pretty neutrals to balance the whole thing out." Rebecca Minkoff "Her clothes make up half of my closet," Trachtenberg told us on the runway. "[Her line] looks beautiful. You can literally walk it off the runway." Minkoff's spring line showed a collection of day-to-night outfits, complete with neons, beachwear and rocker-chic blazers. "What I love about this collection: It's full of texture, really great color, a lot of brights — just happy spring," Minkoff told us backstage. "I really concentrated on color, texture and just a little bit of sexy with an edge." For complete coverage of New York Fashion Week, visit MTV Style. Related Videos |
| Curren$y Echoes Jay-Z's Classic Debut, Ski Beatz Says Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:39 AM PDT 'Pilot Talk 1 and 2 are like the Reasonable Doubts of this time,' producer tells Mixtape Daily.
Behind the Beats: Ski Beatz Ski Beatz knows talent when he sees it. Early in his career, the platinum producer from North Carolina also doubled as an MC in the 1990s group Original Flavor, but after meeting a young, fast-rapping Jay-Z, he decided to put down the mic and pick up producing full time. He hasn't looked back, crafting fan-favorite tracks for the likes of Hov, Camp Lo, Talib Kweli, Lil Kim and Curren$y.
These days, it's the New Orleans spitta who has him most excited. "I feel like the albums I did with Curren$y — Pilot Talk 1 and 2 — are like the Reasonable Doubts of this time," Ski told Mixtape Daily. Comparing Curren$y to Jay might seem like a stretch, but having produced four tracks on Jigga's classic debut, Ski has enough experience with both artists to draw the educated parallel. "The music that I chose and gave Curren$y is timeless music; it's gonna be around," Ski explained. "Older people listen to Curren$y because the beats — it kinda takes them back. But younger cats listen to it because of the lyrical content and the flows; because they are able to relate to what Curren$y is talking about. "That's how it was with Jay: The music that we chose was kinda older-sounding music, but the lyrics was now." For Ski, meeting Jay was life-changing. It was Brooklyn's DJ Clark Kent who introduced the two when he brought Jay to an Original Flavor video shoot. Dame Dash, who managed Ski and Original Flavor at the time, also was impressed by the up-and-coming Jigga. Together with Kareem "Biggs" Burke, Dame and Jay would go on to start Roc-A-Fella Records. Ski just wanted to make their beats. "Jay rhymed, and at the moment when I heard him rhyme, I was like, 'This dude gotta get on one of our songs,' " Ski remembered. "He was dope! He was the best rapper I've ever heard in my life. "He got on [Original Flavor's] 'Can I Get Open,' and after that, me, personally, I decided to stop rapping and just start producing him solely." Ski eventually would move on from working with Roc-A-Fella. According to the producer, he wanted to build his own Roc-A-Blok production company. Ski would build his discography with Camp Lo, Sporty Thievz and Pittsburgh Slim. He has recently hooked up with Dame Dash again, and put out his 24 Hour Karate School compilation in 2010 and its sequel, 24 Hour Karate School Part 2, in August. The new volume features Freddie Gibbs, L.E.P. Bogus Boys and Maybach Music Group signee Stalley. The previous album boasted features from Jay Electronica, the Cool Kids, Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y and Smoke Dza. While nothing can top working with Jay-Z, for Ski, these days it's about discovering what's new. "I love being able to still be relevant and being able to work with these cats: the Wiz Khalifas, the Smoke Dzas, the Dom Kennedys," he said. For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines. Related Artists |
| 'Killer Elite' Is 'More Grown-Up,' Jason Statham Says Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:16 AM PDT Also starring Robert De Niro and Clive Owen, 'This is a thinking man's action movie,' star tells MTV News.
Jason Statham has got nothing against skull-cracking, explosions-for-explosions-sake action flicks. The guy made his name with "The Transporter," after all, and he's getting set for a second go-round opposite Sylvester Stallone in "The Expendables 2."
But "Killer Elite" (September 23), despite a title that suggests it's another in a long line of empty-headed, Statham-starring adventures, is an altogether different creation. Based on a true story that spans the globe from France to Australia, the film stars Statham as an ex-special ops agent on a mission to save his mentor (Robert De Niro), who's being held captive by a secretive military clan and its menacing leader (Clive Owen). There's a grittiness simply not seen in much of Statham's previous work. "This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time," Statham told MTV News at the Toronto International Film Festival. "This is a thinking man's action movie. It's a bit more grown-up than things in the past I've done. In order to do movies like this, I have to go through and do a few of those as well. There's a lot more going on." That extends from the words on the page to the guy behind the camera to the dudes mixing it up with Statham when writer/director Gary McKendry yells, "Action!" "The quality of the script, the quality of the filmmaker — those are two elements that attract living legends like Bob De Niro and Clive Owen," Statham said. "Once I start boxing around with those two, the whole quality of what we're doing changes. It's a big step up." Check out everything we've got on "Killer Elite." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. |
| Coldplay Debut Another New Song At 'Austin City Limits' Taping Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:01 AM PDT Ballad 'Up in Flames' is the final song the band recorded for their upcoming album Mylo Xyloto.
AUSTIN, Texas — For any English band, playing this Texas hipster mecca's long-running PBS music show "Austin City Limits" is a big checkmark on the rock-and-roll bucket list. Coldplay got their second hash mark on Thursday night, taping a 90-minute special edition of the 37-year-old show just 24 hours before they take the stage for a much bigger crowd just around the corner at Zilker Park as part of the three-day Austin City Limits festival. Like plugging in at New York's Radio City or Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, it's the kind of honor that most bands would kill for just once. Only this time, unlike their 2005 appearance, there was also some "Masterpiece Theater"-style acting involved, as they were taping a show intended to air on New Year's Eve. That time-travel twist required a bit of cold-weather thinking in the midst of one of the hottest summers in Lone Star State history. As they've done all year at other festival appearances, the band mixed such crowd favorites as "The Scientist" with half a dozen new songs, including one singer Chris Martin said they just finished last month. (And, as they've been doing on this tour, this was all after they walked out to the theme from "Back to the Future"; see above time-travel reference.) Martin started the night at the piano for the album's gentle coda, which segued right into the driving, triumphant "Hurts Like Heaven," during which the room filled with candy-colored laser blasts from a pair of neon target set pieces at the back of the stage. The new downtown 2,700-capacity "Limits" studio was decked out like a neon blacklight wonderland, with audience members handed paint-splashed T-shirts as they walked in, which were to be kept under wraps until a big reveal later in the show. The band's gear was also colorized, with brightly hued chalk-like scribblings covering their amps, piano and drums. It's hard to describe the rush of watching a band that plays to tens of thousands on stages so tall you have to crane your neck to see them from the front row as they plug in and play just a few feet off the ground, easily within arm's reach. And if you thought "Yellow" sounded huge in a field with 30,000 of your closest friends, imagine what it's like when you can count the veins popping on Martin's forehead. For the new, ripping, U2-esque "Major Minor," I took a trip up to the control room and watched as the show's director called out rapid-fire cues while watching a bank of 28 monitors. You can't get a better feel for the band's subtle, easy dynamic than watching isolated hi-def close-ups of all four members loping their way through "Lost!" and observing the unspoken internal rhythm that makes their shows so seamless. Drummer Will Champion cranked it up for "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face," whip-cracking his kit with abandon as if for a moment he thought he was in the Foo Fighters. Ever polite, Martin apologized for being so sweaty — joking that his profuse perspiration is the very thing keeping his band off "The Bachelor" — before he unwrapped the world debut of the final song they finished for their upcoming album Mylo Xyloto. He said the gentle ballad "Up in Flames" — which features a memorable falsetto chorus and hypnotic tick-tock rhythm — was completed just five weeks earlier, just in the nick of time to make the cut. That tune moved into another new mellow one, the acoustic "Us Against the World," which Martin started over again after dropping a barrage of not-safe-for-PBS f-bombs following a guitar mishap. The second time he got it right, as Champion joined him in perfect harmony on the line "slow it down," with guitarist Jonny Buckland adding in some tasteful, sustained-note Morse code soloing. It wasn't quiet for long, though, as "Politik" exploded with driving drums and piano. By the time Martin tinkled out the first notes of "Viva La Vida" on the piano, the audience was already whoa-oh-oooh-ing along. As it cranked up, they were on their feet, ecstatically clapping and singing along as the song built to its familiar crescendo. When the whoa-ooohs really kicked in, Martin jumped up on the drum riser and bounced on his toes, his arms held up like a triumphant prizefighter. With the crowd decked out in their paint-splashed T-shirts, Martin counted down to midnight, pretending it was cold outside, even though everyone in the chilly studio knew 85-degree nighttime swelter shortly awaited them. Confetti canons shot out paper butterflies and three screens covered the Day-Glo toys that descended for the new tune "Charlie Brown," whose final line, fittingly, is about glowing in the dark. The set crashed to a close with another fresh track, the dark, funky "Paradise," which seems ripe for a beat-heavy remix (perhaps with a hip-hop break from pal Jay-Z?). The encore rolled out the driving 1-2-3 punch of the swelling "Clocks," slow-burn epic "Fix You" and recent uplifting single "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," which had Martin pogoing along with, and for a brief moment in the middle of, the ecstatic audience. It was one of those special nights when a band with a major arsenal finds a way to take its giant energy and squeeze it down into a much smaller space, without losing any of their arena-packing magic. Related Artists |
| Brad Pitt And Jonah Hill: The '21 Jump Street' Connection Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:34 PM PDT Hill adapted the '80s TV series — one of his 'Moneyball' co-star's first acting gigs — for the big screen.
After years of pleading and promising, Jonah Hill has reportedly landed Johnny Depp for a cameo in the big-screen adaptation of the '80s TV series "21 Jump Street."
Hill actually had another connection to a "Jump Street" vet in Brad Pitt, who appeared in one episode as a long-haired high school kid. The actors now star in "Moneyball," a film that had wrapped production a year before cameras began rolling on "21 Jump Street." But Hill never hit up Pitt about joining in the new "21 Jump Street," as MTV News learned at the Toronto International Film Festival. "I did '21 Jump Street,' " Pitt told his co-star. "It was one of my first jobs." "Yeah, I know!" Hill responded. "I didn't bring it up with him just because I didn't think he'd want to talk about it that much. You were on '21 Jump Street,' because I had to watch all the episodes before I adapted it. You were fantastic!" "I don't even know what I did!" Pitt said. "That was the first big gig. You get a gig, man, you get a line! I think [my one line was] yes or no. I don't know what I said." Hill, meanwhile, is still refusing to confirm reports that Depp will appear in "21 Jump Street," which is set for a March release date. "You'll have to see," he told us earlier this month. Depp himself is not nearly as circumspect, dishing us the details this past summer. "I went and did my bit as I was hoping to, and it worked out really well. It was really fun," he said. "I got to spend some time with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and the wonderful directors [Phil Lord and Chris Miller] on that. It was a great experience." Check out everything we've got on "21 Jump Street." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos |
| R. Kelly's Upcoming <i>Black Panties</i> Will Be 'The New <i>12 Play</i> Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:01 PM PDT Kellz talks throat surgery, getting nasty again and Trey Songz's dis in new radio interview.
R. Kelly is ready to put the "R" back in R&B. After undergoing throat surgery in July, Kelly stopped by 107.5 WGCI's Morning Riot radio show in Chicago for a rare interview in which he dropped the title for his next album, Black Panties, and talked about the shots Trey Songz has fired in his direction. "It was really scary," Kellz said of his surgery. "At the end of the Love Letter Tour, towards the end, I started feeling it. I thought I had a cold, but, man, I had like a cyst as big as a golf ball on my tonsils. The doctor's though, they cut it out, they took care of me really good." While he is known for super sex anthems like "Your Body's Callin'," "Ignition" and "Half on a Baby," R. Kelly took a gentleman's approach on his 2010 album Love Letter. But don't put him in a box. For his upcoming 11th solo LP, the Pied Piper is going to get nasty once again. "I just did the whole Love Letter joint and everybody thinking, 'Oh that's the direction he's goin' now,' " Kelly said on the Morning Riot on Thursday. "Nah, that was a moment in time, just like 'Ignition' and 'Bump n' Grind' and all this stuff was a moment in time. Now this Black Panties album ... it's the new 12 Play." In 1993, the 12 Play singles like "Your Body's Callin' " and "Bump n' Grind" helped propel Kelly to the top of the charts, while low-key album cuts such as "I Like the Crotch on You" showed a more explicit side that fans ate up. Kellz didn't reveal much more about the new album, but did say that the first single, titled "10 Minutes" would be coming soon. At his peak, Kelly was untouchable when it came to male R&B singers. But after his infamous 2008 child pornography case (in which he was found not guilty) and a few less-than-stellar albums, he wasn't as flawless as he had been in the 1990s and early 2000s. New artists like Chris Brown and Trey Songz emerged as R&B's leading men. Despite working together on Trey's second album (R. Kelly produced "Grub On" on Trey's 2007 Trey Day), the "Say Ahh" singer has been throwing shots at the R on songs and in interviews, criticizing Kelly for hopping on current trends like using Auto-Tune instead of standing as an innovator. Kellz shrugs it all off. "I was pretty numb. I don't feel those type of things. It's like I'm bulletproof when it comes to beef. I don't deal with beef, I love steak," he said about Trey's shots, before paying his rival a compliment, sort of. "I know Trey Songz is a guy that if he keeps with the hits and he humbles himself a little bit more, he will definitely be one of the runners up." Related Artists |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:12 AM PDT Critics enjoy film's intensity and performances, especially Ryan Gosling's.
What do you get when you cast pretty, popular, Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling in a violent action thriller, directed by gritty director Nicholas Refn, featuring a stirring performance by celebrated writer/director/comedian Albert Brooks? A critically acclaimed potential award candidate, that's what.
"Drive" is the story of an intense, introverted driver-for-hire (Gosling) who is an automobile stuntman for Hollywood pictures by day and a getaway man for armed crooks by night. All is going relatively well until Gosling's driver becomes involved with his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and offers to help her estranged ex-convict husband, who wants to rid himself of unpaid debts to a group of dangerous criminals (one of whom is Brooks). Naturally, things get heated and really violent. With a 95 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, most critics are enjoying the violent intensity of the film and the performances. So let's dig a little deeper into the "Drive" reviews: Gosling As Gritty Action Star The Direction The Violence The Final Word, Pro-Con Style "Before long, and then with grinding relish, 'Drive' becomes one garishly sadistic set piece after another. Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini, adapting the novella by James Sallis, don't have the interest or the guts to examine Driver from the inside, if there is one. The sanctimonious '80s-sounding pap on the soundtrack keeps singing about "heroes" and the little guy. When an unlucky accomplice gets her head blasted by a shotgun, the imagery politely points your attention to how the blood on the wallpaper contrasts with the green of the palm tree outside, against the blue sky. Refn has a compositional eye and considerable craft, as was clear in the earlier "Bronson." He's also a bit of an airhead when it comes to the moral implications of the brutality he portrays." — Michael Phillips, The Chicago Tribune Check out everything we've got on "Drive." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. |
| Paris Hilton Recalls Her Great Escape On 'When I Was 17' Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:34 PM PDT The hotel heiress had to sneak out of the Waldorf-Astoria to elude curfew.
Like many teenagers, Paris Hilton felt like "nothing in this world" could stop her rebellious 17-year-old self from having a good time. In this week's episode of MTV's "When I Was 17," airing this Saturday at 11 a.m. ET/PT, the hotel heiress recalls the lengths to which she went to get out of curfew.
"When I was 17, I was living in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel," she explained. "My parents were very strict. So a lot of the times, what I would do is actually sneak out at night." Usually when sneaking out, all most kids have to worry about is successfully climbing out of their bedroom window, but Paris had to have a very different escape plan. The young socialite wasn't too worried about dodging paparazzi just yet but keeping herself out of a different lens' view. "So basically one day I went through the whole hotel and figured out the best route where the [security] cameras wouldn't spot me," she said. "I would literally run down, maybe, fifteen flights of stairs, through the fire exit." Her friend Allison told the show about the second part of Hilton's deception: "She would put pillows in her bed and cover them with her comforter." Paris added, "And then I'd put a blonde wig, with the hair coming out. This actually worked for a few months. My mom had no idea. Then one night for some reason she needed to talk to me and came in the room and lifted [the comforter] up and ..." Busted! Paris may have once sang that "the stars are blind," but Mama Hilton certainly wasn't. "When I Was 17" — this week featuring Paris Hilton, Steve-O and Miguel — airs on Saturday at 11 a.m ET/PT on MTV. Related Videos Related Artists |
| Diplomats Reunion Album Coming 'Slowly But Surely' Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:47 PM PDT Diplomatic Immunity 3 being stalled by 'contractual obligations,' Jim Jones tells 'RapFix Live.'
It's been a year since the Diplomats reunited, and though they haven't yet turned around their long-awaited Diplomatic Immunity 3 album, the crew's Capo tells fans to be patient.
"Everybody's been working," Jim Jones said Wednesday on the "RapFix Live" one-year anniversary show. "We took a brief hiatus; we came back together. When we came back together, there were still things that we had to figure out. "And everybody's on the same page, but above all we all still have contractual obligations, so it kinda makes it a little difficult to get what we want to do done because we want to put total efforts and total concentration on the new things." In 2007, Jones began speaking publicly about a rift between himself and Dipset head Cam'ron. A number of interviews revealed that both Jones and Juelz Santana had been estranged from the Harlem hitmaker. By 2010, the childhood friends had put their differences aside and reunited, performing together in concert. In January 2011, Dipset (minus Juelz, who was dealing with a legal issue) appeared on but aside from their 2010 single "Salute" and a few street tracks here and there, the group doesn't seem any closer to releasing its album. "We been recording slowly but surely," Jones explained. "Me and Cam been going back and forth. Juelz been trying finish his obligation up with Def Jam — he got a lot of pressure on his back. "But, above all, we here. Me and Cam gonna put out a Fly Boys album, because we got a little bit more leeway right now than Juelz, per se, because he's caught up with a hell of a workload." Much of the delay is due to the solo contracts each group member signed, but Jones said he's ready. "I'm done, I'm a free agent, so I'm just waiting for everybody else to join," he explained. "But it's definitely coming: Diplomatic Immunity 3. The camaraderie is there; the brotherhood is back. It feels good." Are you awaiting the Diplomats' reunion album? Tell us in the comments below! Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| Steve-O Recalls Drunk Biking, On 'When I Was 17' Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:02 PM PDT 'Jackass' star, Paris Hilton and Miguel featured on new episode, airing Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on MTV.
"Jackass" star Steve-O has been wreaking havoc since an early age. Known as MTV's bad boy and quasi-professional stuntman, Steve-O is always pulling an outlandish prank or stunt. At 17, things were no different. In the latest episode of "When I Was 17," airing at 11 a.m. ET Saturday on MTV, Steve-O recalls bicycling while intoxicated.
"My way of getting around in London when I was 17 was my bicycle. One night, I filled my glass with some sort of hard liquor and chugged the whole glass," remembers the co-author of the recently published "Professional Idiot: A Memoir." "Every time I did that, something bad happened." In typical "Jackass" fashion, after chugging a glass of hard alcohol, Steve-O decided to hop on his bike and ride around London. "The next thing I remember is waking up on the hood of a parked car, which I had blatantly ridden head-on into," he recalls. Steve-O claims he doesn't recall the accident. Although he didn't get in trouble for BUI (biking under the influence), he ended up with a mouthful of broken teeth. "My bike was in this mangled heap. My teeth were broken really majorly," he says. For more stories from the "Jackass" star's youth, don't miss the new episode of "When I Was 17," also featuring Paris Hilton and Miguel, airing Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on MTV. Related Videos |
| Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins Faced 'Abduction' Challenges Head On Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:34 AM PDT Between kissing and action scenes, Lautner says, 'One's a little easier than the other.'
HOLLYWOOD — MTV News has been hot on the case of Taylor Lautner's big action thriller, "Abduction," ever since it was announced. As such, in recent months, we've chatted with Lautner and co-star Lily Collins about everything from the film's complex and stylized action to its sweet, believable romance, to the actors' action-star influences and intense prep work.
Naturally, much ado has been made of the steamy kisses Lautner and Collins share, as well as how much action and stunt work they do in the film. So on Thursday night, when MTV News headed out to the star-studded premiere, where Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were among the VIP attendees, we asked the leading man and lady to compare and contrast the challenges involved in filming action scenes vs. kissing scenes. "Ooof. Two different kinds of action, right?" Lautner said with a smile. "We've got both of them in this movie, that's for sure. One's a little easier than the other," he said, hinting at the kissing scene. Click here for photos from the red carpet. "Well, the action scenes, we shot the majority of them in the middle of the night so those were kind of difficult because we were tired," Collins said. "The kissing scene, everyone was laughing all around us, everyone was making it really fun, but at the same time trying not to laugh in the middle of it, so that was kind of difficult." "There was a lot of laughing," Lautner agreed. "We're good friends, so it was all easy." Back in April, during his "MTV First: Taylor Lautner" interview, he explained what makes for a good onscreen kiss from an actor's point of view. "It depends on the person and your vibe together, 'cause sometimes it can totally be awkward," he explained. "But if you're in the moment and you are literally living these characters, you forget about everything else, then it's fine. It was totally fine." Check out everything we've got on "Abduction." For young Hollywood news, fashion and "Twilight" updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Alexander Skarsgard, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden Go Dark For 'Straw Dogs' Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:51 AM PDT Actors felt they had 'big shoes to fill' in remaking the 1971 cult classic.
NEW YORK — Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård and James Marsden have teamed up for a new millennium re-imagining of the classic 1971 Dustin Hoffman thriller "Straw Dogs." The violent, dark film revolves around a young couple (Bosworth, Marsden) who move back to her Southern hometown and find themselves pretty unwanted by the locals, including Bosworth's ex, played by "True Blood" vamp Skarsgård.
"I had not seen the original film when I was offered the role; I had read the script first," Bosworth told MTV News at the premiere on Thursday. "I knew the original was a real cult classic. I read it and it was really intriguing, and then I watched the film, and I was pretty blown away; big shoes to fill. I thought, 'Oh my god, this is going to be quite an intense one,' but I love a challenge." Marsden was thrilled by the chance to tackle a character that was very new to him, even if it had been done before. "That's honestly one of the reasons I was drawn to it," he said. "It's a terrific role [and] in the 1971 original, my role was played by Dustin Hoffman, and I'm hoping most people will forget that. But, you know, it's an actor's dream role. So it was a tough thing to turn down. "I knew of the original, but I hadn't seen it," he added, noting he wanted to make sure "I had my own responses to [the story] before I was ever affected by seeing the original." He said that he didn't want to go into shooting "aping" Hoffman. Skarsgård also found himself with a major challenge. As the film's bad guy, he wanted to make sure he wasn't totally unlikable. "There was something that I felt there was a potential of exploring the relationship between the three of them, the dynamic there where I felt it could be interesting if you almost like Charlie in the beginning of the movie, and you're not sure if you want Amy to stay with David or go to Charlie," he said. Charlie's motives come from a really deep emotional place, Skarsgård added. "And, there was a sadness there that I wanted to capture," he said. "I didn't want to make it easy for the audience. I wanted to be more interesting than that." |
| Rihanna Announces Fall Release For New Album Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:45 AM PDT Pop singer hints that the studio effort will include dubstep influences.
After teasing details about her upcoming album earlier this week, Rihanna continued delivering details about the record on Friday (September 16) when she tweeted that her sixth studio album will drop this fall. When one of the Barbados beauty's Twitter followers asked, "When's the next album due?" Rihanna exuberantly replied, "THIS FALL!!!!!" With the singer's celebratory party anthem "Cheers" currently riding high on radio airwaves, Rihanna hinted that the forthcoming LP may include dubstep influences as heard on her 2009 effort Rated R. "You KNOW how I been lovin Dubstep since Rated R," she tweeted. Don't expect the songstress to take a break from the biz anytime soon either. Asked if she can take some time off, the 23-year-old chart topper wrote, "Yes, when I'm tired!!!" Collaborators for the forthcoming project began dishing details on the LP months ago. Back in July, producer Verse Simmonds, who worked on the Rihanna's reggae-infused hit "Man Down," talked to MTV News' Mixtape Daily about the album's progress. "From what I understand, she's closing the album up now, and we did two records for her that she really, really loved, and I'm really excited about them as well," Simmonds said. "They are records that we wrote and produced as the Jugganauts." Simmonds admitted that he was "99.999 percent" his Jugganauts' contributions will make the final cut, adding that his tunes on the LP will not sound similar to "Man Down." Are you excited for Rihanna's new album? Tell us in the comments. Related Artists |
| Brad Pitt Says Jen Aniston 'Interesting' Comments Were Misinterpreted Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:34 AM PDT Actor explains his Parade quote about not 'living an interesting life' during marriage.
Brad Pitt made headlines this week when he opened up to Parade magazine about his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston.
"It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself," Pitt said about the tail-end of his marriage to Aniston, which lasted from 2000 to 2005. "I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn't." He also lamented that he spent much of the '90s "trying to hide out," adding, "I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out." But following the story's publication on the Web, according to Reuters, Pitt issued a statement lamenting that people are taking his quotes the wrong way. "It grieves me that this was interpreted this way. Jen is an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious woman who remains my friend. It is an important relationship I value greatly," he explained in the statement released through his talent agency. "The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself — and that, I am responsible for." Aniston and Pitt divorced in 2005, after he began dating his "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-star Angelina Jolie, with whom he now has six kids. While he may have come off as critical of his ex, Pitt does say very favorable things about his current partner in the Parade story. "I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss," he said. "That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. ... One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her." Pitt is currently making the rounds promoting his film "Moneyball" and spoke to MTV News at the Toronto Film Festival, where he remained more tight-lipped about whether he has a cameo in Jolie's directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey." "I will say nothing," he declared. "Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing." Related Photos |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:11 AM PDT 'There is still more work for us to do,' the band says in a statement.
Considering how long No Doubt fans have been waiting for the release of their next album, it should come as no surprise that they'll have to wait a little longer. The group took to their official site this week to let fans know it's going to take a little longer than planned before they drop anything new. "Ideally our new record would be coming out this year but it's just not ready yet," the statement reads. "We don't want to rush this album just to get it out. This collection of songs means everything to us and our only priority right now is to make sure that it's the best album we can possibly make. There is still more work for us to do. ..." The band noted that while no new music will be coming out in 2011, it's been a big year for them in other ways. "The past twelve months have been eventful; we performed for Paul McCartney and President Obama at the Kennedy Center Honors, three beautiful new No Doubt babies were born, and we've recorded in studios all over Los Angeles." They added at the end of the statement that the delay will actually benefit fans. "We love our fans and are doing this for your ears and want you to know how much we appreciate your patience and support," they wrote. "There have been some stories circulating about us collaborating with outside producers and artists. Please don't believe anything you hear unless it comes from us." The group has been keeping fans up-to-date on the progress of the album through interviews and on Twitter. It will be their first studio release since 2001's Rock Steady. Related Artists |
| Scarlett Johansson Nude Pics Removed From Website Following Legal Action Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:15 AM PDT TheDirty.com founder says he 'felt bad' for the actress because the photos are obviously 'personal and private.'
When nude pics of Scarlett Johansson hit the Web this week, the actress and her team quickly worked to make sure that they were taken down from any sites that had published them. The man behind one of those sites, Nik Richie of TheDirty.com, told E! News that he felt bad for the actress when the shots hit the Net. "I usually never remove images I get from hackers or third parties," he explained. "When you're a public figure, you're looking for attention as far as press and media. But in Scarlett's case, I felt for her." The photos include one featuring Johansson topless and another of her nude backside. "In this case, Scarlett Johansson's images were definitely an exception. I actually felt bad," Richie said, adding, "These images were a little more personal and private. Scarlett doesn't need to leak photos, she's pretty established. So this wasn't a press play. This was someone hacking into her phone, stealing her text messages and leaking them onto the Internet." Richie said it wasn't so much the fear of legal action from Johansson's team that prompted his decision. In fact, in his line of work, cease-and-desist letters are standard business. "When I got the cease-and-desist from [Johansson's attorney] Marty Singer, I wasn't really afraid. I've gotten cease-and-desists from him before previously with other celebrities," he said. "It wasn't Marty that motivated me to take things off the TheDirty.com. It was the more I looked at the images, I really thought they were hacked," he continued. "I really felt bad for Scarlett Johansson in the situation, so I thought, 'Let's take them down, let me be the bigger person for once.' " Johansson is reportedly working with the FBI to investigate who hacked her phone and released the photos. Fox News reported that the actress had actually been interviewed by the FBI months ago in connection with the stolen photos. A number of other celebrities have allegedly also been affected by the hacker, including Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. Photos stolen from Mila Kunis that feature Justin Timberlake are also reportedly floating around. However, that reportedly didn't stop Timberlake from hanging out with his former "What Goes Around" video co-star Johansson in New York. "They were dancing and talking to each other all night like old friends," a source tells Life & Style. "People were surprised that she showed up with him, but they both seemed happy to see each other." The friends were reportedly seen hanging out at New York City hotspot 1Oak on early Thursday morning. "He was all smiles with her. Scarlett and Justin left together with two of his friends around 5 a.m. and hopped into a black SUV," the source added. "You can tell the two are great friends and had a blast together. Scarlett seemed really into him, but he didn't seem interested because of Jessica Biel. It was like he just considers it a friendship." Related Photos |
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