You have to admit, NOBODY does promotion like Sacha Baron Cohen! He visited ‘Today’ this morning in his character for his new movie, ‘The Dictator,’ Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen. In these pictures Sacha was outside the studio. Matt Lauer looks like … Continue reading →

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Gone Too Soon

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I’m here! I’m here! And I saw my first gang-banger get arrested yesterday so I feel like a total Angeleno.

I’m getting ready to go to the gym (again, like a total Angeleno!) so I will update later about my run-ins with Alexander Skarsgard, Pauly Shore, and Jeremy or Jason London (I’m not sure which one it was and seeing if I could force him to do drugs to find out seemed unfair. Besides, as it turned out, he was telling the truth?)

Anyhoo, I’ve got a lot to tell you about gardening! (Did you know if you get dirt wet it turns into mud? Yuck.)

And bumpers! (They don’t bump off anything… they go, “Scraaaaaaaatch!”)

And there’s probably more but, again, I have to go because I have to get to the gym!

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Taking on the role of John le Carré’s master spy, George Smiley, involves navigating two enormous obstacles. First, the legendary Alec Guinness claimed the character for himself in the beloved BBC miniseries of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” from 1979. Second, outside the more descriptive world of the novels, Smiley is a mystery, a silent, poker-faced [...]

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You won’t see a film all year that holds you like David Fincher’s thriller.
By Eric Ditzian

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It was our fault for underestimating David Fincher.

Honestly, though, we weren’t the only ones going, “Wait, really?” when the Oscar-nominated helmer (who got straight-up robbed by the Academy last year in the Best Director category) cast his sweet, dimpled, couldn’t-even-really-intimidate-a-tech-nerd “Social Network” actress Rooney Mara as hard-edge hacker Lisbeth Salander in his adaptation of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Then, this past January, we got our first look at Mara in character: She was Salander. And we were wrong, wrong, wrong. How do you say “mea culpa” in Swedish?

Maybe like this: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is MTV’s Best Movie of 2011!

The movie hasn’t even hit theaters yet (that’ll happen on December 20), but trust our panel of experts on this one, OK? For all the sizzling cool of “Drive” and all the 3-D majesty of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” you won’t see a film all year that holds you — that’ll haunt you — like “Dragon Tattoo.”

Based on Stieg Larsson’s international best-selling crime thriller (you know, the one half the people in any subway car in any city in the world are reading at any given moment), Fincher’s film followed up on the Swedish original, a critical and fan fave in its own right. What these three fictional treatments have in common, of course, is the story: Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist, is hired to investigate a decades-old missing-persons case. He convinces Salander, a motorcycle-driving ward of the state who’s not adverse to violent confrontations with anyone who crosses her, to assist in the search.

Where Fincher separates and ultimately distinguishes his picture, then, is not in plot particulars (though he and writer Steven Zaillian do take a few liberties, especially with the ending), but in how he unfurls the story. Moviegoers might never need to travel to Sweden after watching his “Dragon Tattoo,” so fully does Fincher immerse viewers in an atmosphere of foggy Nordic islands and gritty Stockholm back alleys. There’s really no sense arguing: David Fincher is the finest working director in Hollywood.

He’s also one hell of a casting director. There could be no other English-language choice for Blomkvist than Daniel Craig. Fincher fought for Mara against the wishes of his studio, even as A-listers like Scarlett Johansson competed for the role. To say Mara transformed herself to play Salander doesn’t quite capture the enormity of what the actress pulled off — butchering her hair, piercing her body, shedding weight, picking up a Swedish accent and almost re-sequencing her DNA to create the character. We’d say she came as close to becoming Salander as anyone born outside of Scandinavia could possibly be, if we hadn’t already seen Noomi Rapace’s impressive performance in the Swedish original and been sure Mara’s is the more absorbing portrayal.

“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is by no means a prefect film. It drags at times. It’s probably confusing to anyone who hasn’t read the book and committed the names of the huge cast of characters to memory. The ending, regardless of Fincher’s tweaks, remains a letdown. But these are quibbles. Let the Oscars and Globes anoint a silent black-and-white film as their favorite of the year. MTV knows “Dragon Tattoo” is the Best Movie of 2011.

See for yourself on December 20.

Stick with MTV as we count down the Best of 2011, including the top Artists, Songs, Live Performances and EDM Artists of the year.

Check out everything we’ve got on “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

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‘Slave’ is facing off against ‘Criminal’ in the finals of MTV News’ Britney Spears tournament — vote now!
By Jocelyn Vena

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The competition was stiff in MTV News’ Britney Spears Tournament: 30 Videos for 30 Years, but we’re finally at the homestretch.

After narrowing 30 videos down to the final two — Brit’s sweaty, old-school clip for “I’m a Slave 4 U” and her newer, equally sexy one for “Criminal” — it’s all up to fans to decide which video will reign supreme on Friday (December 2), Britney’s 30th birthday.

But before you cast your vote, let’s take a deeper dive into the Francis Lawrence-directed video for “Slave.”

Up until the raw clip, Britney’s sex-kitten antics had been reserved for the PG set, but with “Slave 4 U,” the singer launched herself into full-on sex-siren status. Appearing in the video drenched in sweat, it was the most provocative look (including her thong over her jeans!) that the then 19-year-old vixen had ever given her audience.

Spears told MTV during a taping of “Making The Video” that the theme of the song and the video, which put Spears right in the middle of a sexy dance party (with an appearance by celeb DJ du jour DJ Skribble), really matched who she was at the time.

“We’re in Los Angeles shooting my first single off my new album,” she said of the clip, shot over Labor Day weekend in 2001. “It’s basically saying ‘I’m a slave for the music.’ Like, when you go into a club, you can’t help yourself; you’re enraptured in it. When I go to a club, I can’t just sit there and chit-chat. I’d much rather be on the dance floor, just dancing. And that’s what the song’s talking about.”

Lawrence, who would later go on to direct Spears in 2008′s “Circus” as well, wanted the video to move far beyond the sleek dance clubs of L.A. or New York. He wanted it to go global. “I came up with this concept of having this club be in this abandoned Asian bath house and having it be filled with young world travelers, the kind of people who would go to these far exotic places to go to a place like this.”

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Many of Spears’ clips up until “Slave” had been very high-concept. This one, however, focused on Spears and her dance moves. “Really, the concept of the video, it’s not this deep, drawn-out concept story line,” she said. “It’s just me going to a really cool club, the kind of club that you watch on TV and [you go], ‘I wish I was there.’ ”

Lawrence added, “Everything we do incorporates a lot of dance, every little vignette [is] all really done through dance.”

The video, which debuted in September of that year, follows Spears as she makes her way through the club, dancing and sweating the night away. As the party progresses, anything and everything that can hydrate the revelers has completely disappeared. So Spears and her pals take the party elsewhere.

“I walk in, and everyone’s just hanging out. Everyone’s in their own world,” she said. “And it ends up being really, really late and the sun comes up, and we’re all out of drinks, and we get really thirsty and it’s raining, and we drink the water.”

Do you think “Slave” or “Criminal” should come out on top? Let us know in the comments!

What’s your favorite Britney video? Make sure to vote at Britney30.MTV.com or the MTV Newsroom blog, and share your picks in the comments below!

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