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Chris Pratt Begins A 'Five-Year Engagement' As This Week's Hump Day Hottie

Posted 4/25/12 2:30 pm EST by in Eye Candy


Chris Pratt has been on our radar for a while now, but it seems lately his star is on the rise in a major, major way. Between roles on the small screen and increasingly high-profile big-screen parts, Chris is certainly worth staring at. Also, he can make us laugh. Any man that can combine comedic chops with goofy adorableness is worthy of our Hump Day Hottie honor.

Check out this dreamy photo of Chris and keep reading for more details about him!

Vital stats: This Washington-by-way of-Minnesota native, 32, has quite the colorful back story—like so many Hump Day Hotties before him. He was working in Hawaii at Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Company when he was plucked from obscurity by actor-director Rae Dawn Chong. The rest is history.

As much as we love him, his equally funny wife, Anna Faris, probably loves him even more. Lucky lady!

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Jason Segel, Emily Blunt Assure Us That 'The Five-Year Engagement' Is Not Your Average Rom-Com

Posted 4/25/12 1:23 pm EST by in Movie News, Movies, Rom Coms, Videos


Are you suffering from rom-com fatigue after too many tired meet-cutes and seen-it-a-million-times storylines? Of course you are! Which is why you might want to pay special attention to Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as they discuss all the ways in which their new movie, "The Five-Year Engagement," is not going to follow the well-trod path of the traditional romantic comedy—not least because both of these talented actors are just as sick as you are of all the cookie-cutter films in the genre. In fact, when Jason and Emily sat down for a conversation with MTV News about what makes this film different, Jason was the first to bemoan how predictable the usual Hollywood fare has gotten.

"I think that most romantic comedies are very formulaic, and you know exactly what's going to happen," he acknowledged, before listing off the usual timeline of events that almost all rom-coms follow. "But this starts with the engagement, and I think it's a very real exploration of how a couple—how the power dynamic changes over five years."

In other words: Don't be looking for a boy-meets-girl setup that runs into trouble and finally culminates in a boombox-over-the-head-style romantic gesture that leads to a happily-ever-after. Even if, as Emily pointed out, that sort of plot has become Hollywood shorthand for what love ought to look like.

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Peep EXCLUSIVE Trailer For Rebecca Serle's 'When You Were Mine'

Posted 4/25/12 11:30 am EST by in Crush Exclusive!, Movies, Page Turners, Videos


For hundreds of years, people have been captivated by the passionate, heartbreaking love story of Romeo and Juliet—the two teenagers from warring families who fell in love, suffered greatly, and finally chose to die rather than live without each other. It's the most romantic thing ever!

...Or is it?

Enter "When You Were Mine," the hotly anticipated YA novel by author Rebecca Serle that looks at the star-crossed lovers through the not-so-starry eyes of Romeo's jilted ladylove, Rosaline—and discovers the hidden, sinister truth behind the greatest love story ever told. And if your imagination is already running wild with excitement over how this story could play out on a modern landscape, you're not alone: "When You Were Mine" is already on track to be made into a feature film, with Lily Collins in talks for the lead role and screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber giving the story a cinematic once-over. (Which means that you'd better get ready to cry: those would be the Hollywood heartbreak specialists who not only wrote "(500) Days of Summer," but are currently adapting "The Fault In Our Stars" for the big screen as well.)

But while it'll be awhile yet before we get a sneak peek at the "When You Were Mine" movie, we've got the EXCLUSIVE book trailer right here, right now! What would this story of woe look like in today's teenage world?

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'Glee' Recap: 'Dance With Somebody'

Posted 4/25/12 10:41 am EST by in TV Recaps


GleeWhat has it been, a week since the last tribute episode? We all knew that it was coming, and last night "Glee" did an entire episode dedicated to the late Whitney Houston. New Directions did not take the singer's passing well, and two months on, they were still spontaneously breaking out into "How Will I Know" and placing an empty spotlight on the stage.

Will took the prolonged grieving period as a sign of something more. He told Emma that he believed the mourning had to do with the kids' fear of leaving high school. He was wrong.

And they told him so. Will suggested that the week's lesson be about Whitney and learning to let go. Sam brought up the singer's "problems," but Mercedes dismissed him and that entire aspect of Whitney's life immediately.

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'L.A. Complex' Cutie Brett Dier Hangs With Dr. Seaver!

Posted 4/24/12 6:30 pm EST by in The Twitter Nation


Anyone else seriously excited for "The L.A. Complex" premiere tonight?! We were on board even before we chatted with star Cassie Steele. I mean, what's not to love about a series set in glitzy La-La-Land? Not to mention the seriously attractive boys that have become a trademark of The CW.

Speaking of which, Brett Dier is one such hottie. While he won't appear in tonight's episode, he's already begun filming scenes with Cassie—and "Growing Pains" father Dr. Seaver, apparently! It was announced earlier this month that Alan Thicke joined the cast to play Donald, though the details of his recurring character are being kept under wraps.

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'Glee' Star Chris Colfer Reveals 'Bump In The Road' For Kurt And Blaine

Posted 4/24/12 5:34 pm EST by in TV News, Videos


Hot off the premiere of his Tribeca Film Festival flick "Struck By Lightning," Chris Colfer will belt out Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing" on tonight's episode of "Glee"—a tribute to the late singer. Talk about intimidating. We can't imagine having the guts to perform one of her songs on national television. But then, that's why Chris is on "Glee" and not us.

When MTV News caught up with the actor-turned-writer, who not only starred in "Struck by Lightning" but penned the script, he told us singing the Whitney song "terrified" him. "I've never been that scared singing a song 'cause there are so many runs and riffs and, oh God, it was so scary," he said. "I was doing it in the original key that she sang the song in, which was terrifying and hard... I've never been that scared or nervous. I literally was warming up my voice like a week in advance, like going to the vocal Olympics."

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Vote In MTV's Battle Of The Boy Bands!

Posted 4/24/12 4:54 pm EST by in Eye Candy, Music News, Videos


Ah, boy bands. The hip-thrusting, lyric-crooning, hair-gelled hunks of our daydreams. It started with our mothers swooning over the Monkees and the Beatles and streamed into the 90's and early aughts with 'NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys. Now with the current US takeover by British sensations One Direction and the Wanted, boy bands are making a comeback...and thank the pop gods! We can finally listen to our O-Town Pandora playlist without getting funny looks.

With the re-birth of the boy band, MTV is hosting the first-ever Battle of the Boy Bands, where fans will determine who earns the title of Greatest Boy Band of All Time. (*cough* 'NSYNC *cough*) Along with the bands mentioned above, the first round has Westlife, LFO and 98 Degrees among the 32 crews competing for the title. Round one of voting closes on Thursday at noon ET so make sure to vote for your favorite boy band ('NSYNC!) so they advance to the next round! It all leads up to the announcement of the winner on May 7. In the meantime, our beloved boys are campaigning for your support (how could you ever turn down the Wanted's cute British accents?)

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Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly Series Lands Syfy Adaptation

Posted 4/24/12 3:48 pm EST by in Page Turners, TV News


After whisperings back in 2010, it looks like another series based on the supernatural stylings of Charlaine Harris is finally making its way to the small screen: Entertainment Weekly reports that the author's Harper Connelly mystery series (not to be confused with the Southern Gothic vampire sex chronicles that inspired HBO's "True Blood") is being eyed by Syfy for a new show called "Grave Sight."

Fans of the Harris signature style will recognize some familiar elements in this show-to-be: a small town, a psychic protagonist, a buried filthy history of SECRETS and LIES and MURDER, and, of course, characters with names so ridiculous that anyone sporting them in reality would be subject to a lifetime of playground beatdowns at the hands of a bully named Biff. (Current favorite: Harper's stepbrother, whose name is "Tolliver Lang." Tolliver!)

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'Chaos Walking' Finds Screenwriter In Charlie Kaufman

Posted 4/24/12 2:03 pm EST by in Movie News, Movies, Page Turners


Lionsgate's newest dystopian acquisition, Patrick Ness's "Chaos Walking," has found its screenwriter. Deadline is reporting that Lionsgate has tapped "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's" scribe, Charlie
Kaufman, to adapt the first book in the series.

The three novels—"The Knife of Never Letting Go," "The Ask and the Answer" and "Monsters of Men"—are set on an alien planet inhabited by colonists from Earth who have been infected by something called the Noise that makes all their thoughts audible (and allegedly killed off all the women). The main characters are a boy named Todd Hewitt and a mysterious foreign girl named Viola.

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'Smash' Recap: 'Publicity'

Posted 4/24/12 10:26 am EST by in TV Recaps


by Erin Strecker

In the middle of dinner at an Indian restaurant on last night's "Smash," there was a full-blown Bollywood number, "A Thousand and One Nights" with lead vocals by Dev and appearances by essentially everyone in the cast all dreaming of what they truly wanted. There’s nothing else to talk about. That’s all that you need to know. I could run down all of the updates we got about various cast members' personal lives, from Rebecca being (surprise, surprise) a drama queen with a peanut allergy, and Ivy going back to her less-than-friendly ways. I could discuss how Eileen’s new boyfriend, Nick, was the opposite of Jerry, or how Julia’s son Leo ran away for 72 hours. We’ll get there. But first we have to discuss what happened about 40 minutes into the episode. "Glee," the other fantastical musical show, has done a lot of weird, head-snapping crazy during its three seasons. But it never has done a Bollywood number. It only took "Smash" 13 episodes and one Indian dinner.

The lead up to The Dance didn’t exactly leave many clues. Rebecca, being a famous movie star, naturally wanted to hang out with super-nice Karen. The show tried to explain it away as Rebecca either sizing up her competition (when she had Karen sing in the VIP club) or just as a way for her to deal with her loneliness, but it strained believability. Karen’s not that great, regardless of what everyone on that show kept telling us.

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