"New Moon" has invaded every part of my life, so why not my stomach too? That's about the only explanation I can find for why I decided to head just south of Times Square during lunch to hit up our local Burger King and get my journalistic hooks into some collectible "Twilight" franchise cards (click on the photo below to see more).
What this required is purchasing a value meal of BK Burger Shots, six mini burgers I can only describe as warmish pillows of burger-like mush that will give you both nightmares and indigestion. But I wasn't there for the 32 grams of fat, the 105 milligrams of cholesterol or the 1290 milligrams of sodium with which these burgers gifted my arteries. I was there for the cards. And I came away disappointed.
Maybe you were one of the thousands of kids lined up overnight to get into one of the "New Moon" mall tour stops. Maybe you spent hours putting together the perfect gift for one of the stars. You should know that not only do the actors appreciate the prezzies, they think they should be the ones handing them out.
"The fans are always so loving and caring and supportive," Kellan Lutz told MTV News at a tour stop in suburban Chicago. "It's really interesting when they bring us gifts. We're so thankful, we should be giving the fans gifts because they're allowing us to continue on with the saga."
If you ask me, Angelina has a pretty darn impressive personal and professional resume — one nearly any human being on earth would kill to possess — but, hey, who am I to question Kristen's dreams and nightmares? I've admired her gritty acting talents since 2002's "Panic Room," and with "New Moon" coming up in a matter of weeks, her career is only on the rise. But if she doesn't want to model her career after Angie, who should she aspire to be? And, almost as important, whose Hollywood fate should she do everything she can to avoid?
When a 20-year-old Robert Pattinson auditioned for the role of Art, a struggling singer/songwriter, in the indie comedy "How to Be," he certainly had personal experience to bring to the character. Though the British actor had appeared in the "Harry Potter" franchise, he had not yet broken through to superstardom, as he would after being selected to become Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" franchise.
Thus the audition footage that accompanies the upcoming "How to Be" DVD — and which Access Hollywood posted a short clip of on Thursday — is a fascinating insight into the way RPattz's life used to be, as well as the process by which he creates a character.
Just in time for Halloween, Jimmy Fallon was back last night on "Late Night" with a candy corn-obsessed version of "Robert is Bothered," a bit that has increasingly little to do with RPattz or the "Twilight" franchise that has made him a star, but which still makes me chuckle.
Fallon's imitation is less heartthrob and more boozy Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, less Hollywood cool and more anxiety-ridden Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm." In past episodes, Fallon-as-Pattinson has skewered targets as diverse as Harry Potter and sharks. Last night he decided to metaphorically egg, toilet paper and shaving cream the sugar-coated holiday of Halloween.
We already know what Selena Gomez wants: a whole lotta Jason Mraz, as the "Wizards of Waverly Place" star admitted to us with an aw-shucks grin earlier this month.
"He is very talented musically and lyrically," the 17-year-old told us after checking out one of the singer/songwriter's concerts. "He is beautiful!"
Now we also know what she wants in her film roles: a girl who can magically read the thoughts of guys. That's the premise of "What Boys Want," the New Line project to which Gomez is now attached to star, according to a report in Variety. She'll play a teen who is gifted with the nifty ability to hear what the opposite sex really thinks but never actually says.
It's not often I get to play gossip columnist. That's probably a good thing, because it's been my experience that most tabloid journalists are generally only a rung or two above pond scum on the evolutionary scale. But when some of my MTV News colleagues heard I would be chatting with "Devil Wears Prada" star Emily Blunt, they all had one request: "You gotta ask about her engagement to John Krasinski!"
For the uninitiated, John, of "Office" fame, slid a ring onto the finger of the beautiful British brunette Emily in August. My task, so it seemed, was to find out the dishy deets: How'd it happen? What does the ring look like? When are they getting hitched? And then I thought, "Hey, I've been dating a great girl for a while. Maybe I can get some engagement inspiration for these two Hollywood lovebirds! And maybe in the process Ms. Blunt will spill some of her own secrets!" Everybody wins!
And so there we were, having a good laugh about her new sci-fi flick with Matt Damon—"I really would love to do a movie where I kick ass!" she cried—when I decided to ask for engagement advice based on her own personal experience.
Everyone knows that pop culture is suffering from a serious plague of vampire-itis. Seems like I can't turn on my computer each morning without being greeted by news of a fresh outbreak on the big screen or boob tube or Xbox or book shelf. While all this bloodsucking madness is going on, though, the vampire's fellow flesh-nosher, the zombie, is making a comeback on the entertainment scene.
This Friday sees comedy/action/horror flick "Zombieland" hit theaters, and star Emma Stone is thinking zombies are well positioned to overtake vampires in the pop culture future.
"The thing about zombies is they're conceivable," the 20-year-old actress told MTV News. "I don't really know vampires, in a real world, if those kind of people can really exist, because they don't breathe anything. Zombies could really happen."
In the days after a Hennessy-emboldened Kanye West lurched onto the VMA stage and sullied Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech on Sunday night, the country star's peers have chimed in with their thoughts on the hip-hop star's mic-snatching move. Close pal Miley Cyrus called the incident "disrespectful," while "iCarly" star Miranda Cosgrove labeled it "this insane thing."
On Wednesday, 20-year-old "The House Bunny" star Emma Stone spoke up and smacked 'Ye down. "Oh my god," she said when asked about the controversy. "Taylor's one of my really good friends. It's just ridiculous."
Speaking with MTV News while promoting her upcoming action-comedy, "Zombieland," Emma said she's chatted with her buddy since Sunday night and reported back that Taylor is "so awesome and so gracious and fine." Check out the video to see what Stone had to say and why she ended her thoughts with an exasperated, "Oh, Kanye!"
FROM MOVIES BLOG: A couple weeks ago, in an exclusive chat, Tim Burton told us that he plans to film his delightfully peculiar supernatural movie “Dark Shadows” next year. Adapted from a cult classic ‘60s soap opera, the film will star Johnny Depp as the lover/biter Barnabas Collins.
That’s right: Tim Burton is making a vampire flick, and making one at time when the blood-suckers, from “Twilight” to “True Blood” to “The Vampire Diaries,” are experiencing a pop culture resurrection. How does Burton feel about joining the vampire zeitgeist? How will his “Shadows” stack up against “Twilight”?
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It's not often I get to play gossip columnist. That's probably a good thing, because it's been my experience that most tabloid journalists are generally only a rung or two above pond scum on the evolutionary scale. But when some of my MTV News colleagues heard I would be chatting with "Devil Wears Prada" star 