The arthouse drama Twice Born (2012) arrives on DVD and Digital Download February 25 , and we’ve got a chance for three lucky Skin Fans to win a copy! Based on the runaway European bestseller by Margaret Mazzantini, TWICE BORN begins as the Italian professor Gemma ( Penelope Cruz ) heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo with her discontented teenaged son Pietro. She longs to show him the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, Diego (Emile Hirsch) – but she is about to discover a long-hidden secret, one that will reveal far more to their knotted past than even her haunted memories can disclose. Penelope plays an infertile woman who adopts a child in the flick, but in real life Ms. Cruz was still breastfeeding her own young son during filming, which is more than evident in her topless scenes. Plus, Turkish actress Saadet Aksoy also makes her nude debut in this flick! More after the jump!
Jody Highroller is assembling a ‘lawyer team’ to make sure he gets compensation for James Franco’s alleged portrayal of him in the flick. By Brenna Ehrlich
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Forget talk of an engagement to Kanye West . A new Kim Kardashian rumor is making the far more interesting rounds: According to The Daily Star , another Kardashian/Ray J sex tape has hit the market! Kim Kardashian Sex Tape Footage This flick is also reportedly from 2003, with a source hilariously “it’s definitely Kim in the video . And it’s even raunchier than her last one. There are all kinds of eye-popping moments.” Kim Kardashian Superstar: The Sequel is allegedly on the market for $30 million and the reality star is supposedly terrified it will leak. Is this story likely bogus? Yes. But would you be surprised if it were not? That’s all we’re saying.
‘He’s focusing on his music right now,’ a rep for Detroit MC confirms of delay on boxing movie. By Rob Markman Eminem Photo: Kevin Mazur/ Getty Images It’s been almost 10 years since fans saw Eminem in his first big-time movie role, but they’ll have to wait a little bit longer to catch him the second time around. The rapper has long been signed on to star in “Southpaw,” a gritty drama about a boxer who tries to mount a comeback in life and in the ring, but it is now being reported that Em will put the flick on the backburner. “He’s focusing on his music right now, so while he’s doing that, while he’s in that space, he wanted to put this on hold for the time being,” Eminem’s rep Dennis Dennehy told
We see a whole lot of Brooklyn Decker’s skin and an alien ship, but blink and you’ll miss Rihanna. By Eric Ditzian Photo: Universal Pictures “Battleship” may be based on a board game, but the action flick’s first trailer shows an influence far more cinematic than anything having to do with little plastic pegs and the faux-sinking of tiny seafaring vessels. The new footage, which Yahoo! premiered on Wednesday (July 27), begins like an ode to a “Blue Crush”-ish beach make-out movie, veers into “Armageddon”-esque father-vs.-daughter’s-boyfriend antagonism, then explodes in an orgy of a couple dozen alien-invasion movie references. Totally original, this one ain’t. But it’s also pretty damn entertaining, and we really are looking forward to checking out the madness when it hits theaters on May 18, 2012. Until then, here are our picks for the five key “Battleship” trailer moments. Brooklyn, Obviously One of these days, Brooklyn Decker is going to get a movie role that doesn’t require her to parade around a beach in a bikini. Or not. One thing is certain after checking out this footage and taking in her performance, such as it was, in Adam Sandler’s “Just Go With It”: Decker, the Sports Illustrated model, has been typecast. In “Battleship,” she finds herself in the middle of one of cinema’s oldest relationship pickles: in love with a bad boy whom her dad can’t freaking stand. Clearly the relationship between the boy (a naval officer played by Taylor Kitsch) and the daddy (Liam Neeson’s no-nonsense admiral) will factor into the battle with these aliens. Let’s just hope it doesn’t become the emotional focus. Don’t Tread on Me Everything in the Navy’s military exercises in the big blue ocean seems to be going well until they encounter a hulking contraption submerged in the water. One unlucky dude (Kitsch) is sent out to touch base, literally, with the alien ship, unleashing a whole lot of extraterrestrial terror. The aliens, we’ll soon learn, are here to utilize our oceans as a power source. This one shot raises a bunch of questions. Why are the ship’s defenses activated by simple touch, rather than the proximity of the Navy? What kind of tech do the aliens possess that they can send a sort of shockwave that hurtles a man so far, so quickly? And what’s inside the ship that we don’t yet see? What a Big Bubble You Have! Speaking of alien weaponry, the ship is capable of unleashing some kind of bubble force field that encompasses an enemy and, so it seems, destroys everything within it. We’ll just ignore, for now, how the bubble reminds us of that containment unit in “The Simpsons Movie.” Instead, let’s concentrate on the alien tech. We’re hoping for originality and cool visuals to join forces and deliver us a satisfying early summer movie experience. The bubble, perhaps, is the harbinger of fun, absurd, eye-popping stuff to come. She Needs an Umbrella “Battleship” marks Rihanna’s big-screen debut . In the trailer, blink and you miss her. But she’s there, standing up in a raft and looking wet as the alien craft flies overhead. She certainly looks freaked out. But we can’t yet get a sense of her acting chops from this footage; and hey, we might not be able to even after this popcorn flick’s credits roll. All we can say for now is she had a blast on the production. “Working with [director] Peter Berg is unbelievable,” she told us last fall. “I love doing movies now. It’s something I want to do more of. I just want to pick films that are wise for me and roles that I can pull off, nothing that is too big for me.” Taking Flight We have to say we’re surprised how much of the alien ship we get to see in this first trailer. We see how it’s a craft that can both plunge into the water and also take flight. We see how it can transform and shift and hover; quite a lot of control, those aliens have on this sucker. We see its cylinder-shaped weaponry. We see the front of the ship almost seems to have a face. So the question is: How much did filmmakers hold back? We haven’t, for instance, seen the aliens themselves. With so many alien flicks hitting theaters each year, it’s getting harder and harder to surprise audiences with those creatures. Can “Battleship” do it? Stay tuned. Check out everything we’ve got on “Battleship.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos Five Important Moments In The ‘Battleship’ Trailer Related Artists Rihanna
Since finishing ‘Super 8,’ Abrams working on ‘Trek 2’ script. By Terri Schwartz JJ Abrams Photo: Getty Images Trekkies and J.J. Abrams fans alike can rejoice, for the “Super 8” director is at long last close to committing to helm “Star Trek 2.” Now that Abrams can no longer use his stock answer — “The truth is that my focus has been so much on finishing ‘Super 8’ ” — to avoid giving any “Star Trek 2” updates, Deadline has confirmed that he is working with the flick’s writers and is close to committing to direct the sequel to his hit “Star Trek” reboot. This must have been the “announcement” Abrams promised MTV News would be coming “soon” back at the “Super 8” premiere in June. But it also means that the film will miss its intended June 29, 2012, release date. That’s good news for “G.I. Joe: Cobra Rises,” though, which Deadline is calling “G.I. Joe: Retaliation.” The entertainment news site has learned that Paramount is planning on giving the June release date to the “G.I. Joe” sequel and slating “Star Trek 2” for either winter 2012 or summer 2013. Either way, Paramount has agreed to be ready to jump into production on the flick whenever Abrams is. Abrams is now sitting down with writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman to polish up the “Star Trek 2” script, which Deadline is guessing will begin production in January. MTV News caught up with Damon Lindelof at San Diego Comic-Con, where he chatted about the current status of the script. “There was a lot of work going on over the course of the last year between Bob [Orci] and Alex [Kurtzman] and I,” Lindelof said. “We generated, like, a 90-page half-script half-treatment based on some meetings that we’ve had with J.J. [Abrams]. Now that J.J. is finally finished with ‘Super 8,’ we’ve kind of, not thrown out that material, but we’re reworking a lot of it.” He added that the final product of the script will hopefully improve upon the sequel the same way “Batman Begins” improved upon “The Dark Knight.” ” ‘Trek 2’ has to be better than ‘Trek 1,’ ” Lindelof said. “It has to.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Star Trek 2.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
