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Zac Efron, ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ Cast Recall Ghostly Encounters

‘Everyone’s had those things they can’t necessarily explain,’ Efron said at L.A. premiere of ghost drama. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Kara Warner Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron at the “Charlie St. Cloud” premiere on Tuesday Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Zac Efron’s new drama, “Charlie St. Cloud,” is all about ghosts. It revolves around Charlie (Efron), who works at a cemetery to be close to his dead younger brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan). Eventually he must choose between being close to his brother’s ghost or pursuing love. When MTV News caught up with Efron and the rest of the “St. Cloud” crew at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, which opens July 30, we wanted to know about their spookiest real-life ghost encounters. “Nothing really, but I think everyone’s had those things they can’t necessarily explain at one point or another,” Efron said. “No, I don’t have any ghost stories for you.” Co-star Donal Logue feels that at the very core of life there is a spiritual something. “Every minute of every day is like from [protozoal] soup, man. How did this happen?” he explained. “You know what I’m saying?” Spirituality seemed to be the theme among the cast and guests at the premiere. Stephen Baldwin explained his take on ghosts, saying, “I have real-life spiritual encounters every day, but not with ghosts: with the Holy Ghost.” Similarly, Amanda Crew added, “You know, I’ve never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there’s some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be. There’s been too many times in my life that should have gone another way that there’s someone looking out for me.” Director Burr Steers admitted that there are otherworldly beings that keep him up at night. “In the middle of the night, when you hear things clanging around, I’m a coward and imagine that there are things at work,” he said. “But here, on the red carpet, no.” Matt Ward shared one of his ghostly encounters. “This acting community that I live in, we actually used to be in this building, and there was a ghost in there,” he recalled. “It was weird. You would just be sitting in a room and you would see this little skitter by and that’s probably one of the only experiences that I’ve had other than [when] I used to mess with my friends a lot when I was younger. I would always pretend to be possessed right after we’d watch a scary movie.” That seems like nothing compared to one very spooky moment Augustus Prew once had. “I was doing this job in Manchester and I was staying in this hotel that used to be an old Victorian mill,” he recalled. “About two o’clock in the morning I woke up and it was really cold in the room, And there was this little kid at the end of my bed. It was really weird and it scared the life out of me and then he disappeared.” Do you believe in ghosts? Tell us in the comments! Check out everything we’ve got on “Charlie St. Cloud.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, More At ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ Premiere

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Eminem Makes It Four Weeks In A Row Atop Billboard

Korn come in a distant #2 with Korn III — Remember Who You Are. By Gil Kaufman Eminem’s Recovery Photo: Interscope What a difference a year makes. Last summer, Eminem ‘s comeback album, Relapse, held on to the top position on the Billboard albums chart for two weeks before beginning a slow downhill march that had it out of the top 10 within two months. This time around, Em’s latest, Recovery, is showing some serious hang time. The disc will stay in the #1 slot for the fourth week in a row, racking up another 195,000 in sales for a one-month total just a hair shy of 1.5 million copies, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. The better news for Slim Shady is that sales dropped just 15 percent from the week before, unlike some previous chart-toppers, which have seen steep drops after high debuts. Veteran metal act Korn are way behind at #2 with their Roadrunner Records debut, Korn III — Remember Who You Are, which sold 63,000 copies. The other debuts in a fresh-faced top 10 come from Christian act Newsboys , whose Born Again is in at #4 (45,000); former Police singer Sting , with his orchestral Symphonicities disc (#6, 36,000); country singer Jerrod Niemann with Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury (#7, 34,000); metal supergroup Hellyeah ‘s Stampede (#8, 28,000); and M.I.A. , whose divisive ///Y/ just barely makes it into the top 10 at #9 on sales of 28,000. As for the rest of the top 10, Drake slips a spot to #3 with Thank Me Later, which moved another 50,000 copies as it soared past 833,000 in five weeks. Justin Bieber holds fast at #5 with My World 2.0 (41,000), and the “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack drops six spots to #10 (28,000). It was a short sojourn in the top 10 for Outkast’s Big Boi , as his solo debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty , falls 11 spots to #14 in week two on sales of 26,000 as traffic dropped 59 percent. Warped faves the Maine have a solid debut at #16 with Black & White (25,000). The Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse compilation Dark Night of the Soul — which finally saw official release after a label squabble kept it bottled up last year — lands at #24 (16,000). And An Airplane Carried Me to Bed, the first effort from Owl City mastermind Adam Young’s Sky Sailing side project , lands at #30 on sales of 13,000. Further down the list, the soundtrack to “Inception” hits #53 (8,000) with the latest from rapper Paul Wall , Heart of a Champion, not too far behind at #58 on sales just under 8,000. The news continues to be grim for Christina Aguilera , as her soft-selling Bionic shed another 33 percent of business in its sixth week on the charts, dropping 25 spots to #59 on sales of 7,000; the album looks to be stalling out around 200,000 copies, by far the weakest showing of the singer’s career. Whether because of good word-of-mouth, placement on the latest “Twilight” soundtrack or positive reviews for their major-label debut, Infinite Arms, Band of Horses makes a huge jump up the charts after two months, leaping 58 spots to #70 on sales of 6,000. Over on the iTunes charts, Eminem holds down the top spots on the singles and albums charts again, as his hit collabo with Rihanna, “Love the Way You Lie,” continues to dominate the action. The singles chart remains almost exactly the same as last week, with the only change coming from a flip-flop at #2 and #3 between Taio Cruz and Katy Perry , with Cruz’s “Dynamite” hopping up above Perry’s “California Gurls.” (iTunes does not provide detailed sales figures for its charts.) On the iTunes album side, there was plenty of action, as below Eminem is the debut of the Sting symphonic disc, followed by M.I.A., Sky Sailing, Korn, Drake, the Maine, “Eclipse,” Jack Johnson ‘s To the Sea and Lady Gaga ‘s The Fame. Next week look for chart debuts from Rick Ross with Teflon Don , another Kidz Bop disc and Sheryl Crow ‘s Justin Timberlake-assisted 100 Miles From Memphis. Related Artists Eminem Korn

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Ronnie James Dio cancer hospitalized

Blabbernouth, a Roadrunner Records offshoot has confirmed that Dio is in fact alive: wife/manager Wendy Dio sent back the following message at approximately 11:35 p.m. PST on Saturday, May 15 / 2:35 a.m. EST on Sunday, May 16: “I am at the hospital and Ronnie has NOT passed away!!!! He is not doing good, but he is not dead. “I will let you know if anything changes. “Thank you for your concern.” Twitter is abuzz with rumors that legendary metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio has been pronounced

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