The day that some women have been waiting for has finally arrived! The teenage superstar celebrates a milestone birthday March 1 when he turns 18 years old — making him legally allowed to do such things as vote and get a tattoo, though that hasn’t stopped him from getting some ink before. Let’s take a look back at 2011, which was a was a whirlwind year for the pop star, both professionally and personally. The biopic about his rise to fame, “Never Say Never” was released in February 2011 and was a box office boom, and his “My World” tour had fans screaming around the world to get a glimpse of their idol up on the big stage. While Bieber is preparing for a new album to drop this spring, he didn’t leave his fans empty-handed this Christmas, and released a holiday album, “Under the Mistletoe,” as a special treat. Bieber certainly grew up over the past year. He and girlfriend Selena Gomez made their red carpet debut at Vanity Fair’s 2011 post-Oscars bash, and the two piled on the PDA while on vacation together in Hawaii and have been spotted on dates all over the world together. While things seem to be going well on the relationship front, Bieber got his first taste of some adult drama last fall, when Mariah Yeater claimed that the teen singer had sex with her backstage at one of his concerts and was the father of her baby. DNA tests were submitted, and the matter quietly went away after some serious legal threats from Bieber’s camp. Keep it 100, have any of you caught Bieber fever and fantasized about bedding the young Canadian heartthrob? Despite all the thirsty hoes that wanna get a piece of Justin’s “Bieber” he still loves his bish. Image via WENN Source More On Bossip! TwitterFiles: Out-Of-Pocket Nicki Minaj Stans Go HAM On Jill Scott After She Tweets About Exorcism Grammy Performance! Which NBA Player Was Hanging Out With This Boobed Out Beck During All-Star Weekend? A Lil Black Matrimony-dom: Comedian Kel Mitchell Weds His Boo Thang Asia Lee Take The Advice: People That Got Together When Everyone Told Them Not To
A Lakers fan’s wet dream… The ever-raging debate concerning Kobe Bryant and LeBron James has so many different aspects and opinions that I could go on for about 10,000 words here and not even scratch the surface of this discussion. Regardless, there’s no question that Bryant and James respect the skills that each player has. While the two will team up this summer at the 2012 Olympics in London, Bryant has expressed his desire to play with James and stated what James brings to the table. In an ESPN interview Kobe says: “It’s a tough question because I’ve played with a lot of great players being on the Olympic team. I think that the player I would probably play with the most where the pieces would fit would be myself and LeBron [James], believe it or not, because he’s more of a facilitator and I’m more of a scorer. … He’s a modern version of what Oscar [Robertson] was. He just puts up genius numbers.” Kobe has said many times before that because he practiced basketball on his own during his time in Italy, he would beat James in an one-on-one game. Although Bryant and James have had the ball in their hands throughout their careers, joining forces would make them a dominate duo. LeBron is an underrated passer and there is no doubt he would enjoy dishing the ball to Kobe. Still, don’t expect to see these two on the same NBA team, the Olympics will be the only time Kobe and LeBron will share the same jersey. Awwww isn’t that sweet? Source More On Bossip! For The Conspiracy Theorists: A History Of Alllll The “Evidence” That Bey Was Never Carrying A Gut Full Of Anything Ho Sit Down: The Most Hated Sports Wives And Girlfriends Of All Time Are You My Daddy? Khloe Heats Up The DNA Debacle By Posing With Kris Jenner’s Ex-Jumpoff Hairdresser The Side-Eye: Ne-Yo Makes It Rain In An Atlanta Strip Club With His Baby Mama To Convince Us That He Isn’t Rooty-Tooty Fresh And Fruity [PICS]
We don’t believe, you need more people Kris Humphries is still trying to make it clear to his soon-to-be ex-wife, Kim Kardashian , that he doesn’t want any money from her, but wants the divorce granted on his terms, including admitting that the marriage was really one big SHAM! Via Radaronline : Even though the couple does have an iron clad pre-nup, Kim’s camp is open to some financial negotiation to end the marriage amicably, however Kris’ lawyer has conveyed to Kim’s attorneys that he isn’t seeking a cash settlement. “There have been informal settlement talks going on between Kim and Kris’ respective lawyers. Team Humphries has made it crystal clear though that Kris isn’t seeking any money from Kim. Kris doesn’t want one penny from her. His lawyers have said the only terms acceptable for a settlement would be if Kim agrees to Kris’ contention that the marriage was a fraud. There is a stand-off at this point because Kim will never agree to that, she says the marriage wasn’t a fraud. It just didn’t work out,” a source said. Do you think Kris has a point or just more attention sloring? More On Bossip! For The Conspiracy Theorists: A History Of Alllll The “Evidence” That Bey Was Never Carrying A Gut Full Of Anything Ho Sit Down: The Most Hated Sports Wives And Girlfriends Of All Time Are You My Daddy? Khloe Heats Up The DNA Debacle By Posing With Kris Jenner’s Ex-Jumpoff Hairdresser The Side-Eye: Ne-Yo Makes It Rain In An Atlanta Strip Club With His Baby Mama To Convince Us That He Isn’t Rooty-Tooty Fresh And Fruity [PICS]
Someone listened during their Stranger Danger safety classes , and it’s 7-year-old Brittney Baxter who fought off a would-be kidnapper in a Bremen, Georgia, Walmart. Luckily, authorities were able to track down Woods when surveillance cameras outside the Walmart caught him getting into his car and he was arrested an hour later about 10 miles away. Not only is that perv a punk for trying to kidnap the little girl but a BIGGER punk for getting his a$$ beat by her! More On Bossip! For The Conspiracy Theorists: A History Of Alllll The “Evidence” That Bey Was Never Carrying A Gut Full Of Anything Ho Sit Down: The Most Hated Sports Wives And Girlfriends Of All Time Are You My Daddy? Khloe Heats Up The DNA Debacle By Posing With Kris Jenner’s Ex-Jumpoff Hairdresser The Side-Eye: Ne-Yo Makes It Rain In An Atlanta Strip Club With His Baby Mama To Convince Us That He Isn’t Rooty-Tooty Fresh And Fruity [PICS]
‘I did try to look at every single thing that exists,’ he tells MTV News of his research for the role. By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Andrew Garfield Photo: MTV News Most Spider-Man fans would agree that the man who plays the iconic hero should be a fan. In that respect, Andrew Garfield fits the bill perfectly. When Garfield spoke with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz before a screening event for fans , he explained his process of tackling the role for “The Amazing Spider-Man,” and it involved lots and lots of comic books. “I did try to look at every single thing that exists. That is impossible, I discovered, but I did my best,” he said. But naturally, as a fan, there would be certain incarnations of the web-slinger that resonated with Garfield and helped him conceive his take on Spider-Man. For Garfield, those insights came from many different comic book sources. “There were certain things that I loved for his physicality. There were certain things that I loved for his wit. There were certain incarnations that I loved for his body type,” Garfield said. “The Ultimates, I love the body type in the Ultimates and his physicality in the Ultimates, but I also love the artwork in the ‘Torment’ series, the [Todd] McFarlane series.” Once those pieces were found, it was a matter of stringing them all together into an in-depth conception of the superhero. Garfield and his stunt team attempted to go through every level of Peter Parker’s life and think of the implications of his powers. “Me and the stunt boys, we created a room where we just had a shrine to everything Spidey and to everything Peter Parker, because we wanted to make sure the physical language wasn’t just a guy in a suit being a guy in a suit and throwing punches and throwing kicks,” he said. “We didn’t want it to be Jason Statham in a suit. We wanted it to be a half-spider, half-boy, who has spider DNA running around his blood system.” To realistically pull this off, the team went step-by-step to imagine how Spider-Man would realistically act, something necessary for bringing him to the big screen. “We wanted to understand deeply what that meant in terms of how he moves, in terms of skin sensitivity, in terms of his abilities of awareness. Imagine if he had six eyes. Imagine if he had more legs and what that means, not just within the suit but in day-to-day life,” Garfield said. “He can eat Chinese takeout with his feet, while he’s also writing a note, while texting with his shoulder. What does that mean? We tried to approach it from as organic a place as possible.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Amazing Spider-Man.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: Andrew Garfield Related Photos The Amazing Spider-Man
Here is a video featuring Artist wonder dog and awards-season gadabout Uggie telling viewers what movie made him cry and offering some insights on his Oscar chances. Some guy named George Clooney is in it, too. Did I mention that it’s Friday ? [ W Magazine via PeoplePets ]
It can be difficult to remember who we’re meant to be rooting for in the Underworld universe, with its unending werewolf/vampire feud, betrayals, hybrids, bloodlines, forbidden romances and immortal daddy issues. But that’s OK: Underworld: Awakening sloughs off much of the convoluted gothic backstory of the first three films in the series in favor of skipping forward a dozen years and landing vinyl-clad bloodsucking heroine Selene (Kate Beckinsale) in a near future in which the world has gone into martial law lockdown after the discovery of non-humans in their midst. An introductory news clip montage presents talk of infections, purges and a “mass cleansing,” showing Lycans and vampires being exterminated by soldiers wielding ultraviolet lights and silver bullets. This would, you’d think, make the enemies in this film the humans, an element in which the franchise has otherwise shown relatively little interest. Yet halfway through, it’s back to wolves fighting vamps with no end or sense in sight. Chalk it up to a hobby — what else is there to keep you busy when you live forever? Underworld: Awakening is directed by Swedish filmmakers Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, and it checks off all of the signature visual (fluttering trench coats) and thematic (must find the hybrid) tropes of the preceding films with even more narrative disjointedness than those earlier installments. Selene awakens in a lab in which she’s been kept in cryogenic stasis as “Subject 1,” her DNA used for experiments. She’s set free by Subject 2 (India Eisley), a young half-werewolf, half-vampire girl who turns out to be her daughter (the mechanics of this are not explained, nor does Selene seem at all curious about it or anything else in this crazy scenario). The film starts off at an awkward gallop and doesn’t slow down lest it tumble into one of the many giant plot holes — Selene’s escape from the lab is followed by the discovery of her connection to the girl, and soon the pair are running from werewolves and holing up with one of the few remaining vampire covens, where the leader (Charles Dance) clashes with his son David (Theo James) over whether to fight or hide and hope to simply survive. Underworld: Awakening ‘s world-building is so lackluster that a ridiculous mid-film revelation about the real motivations behind the experiments going on at the lab scarcely registers among the other larger questions about how all these badass immortal creatures were so easily hunted down in the first place and what the larger population actually thinks of them — the way the chief villainous scientist (Stephen Rea) refers to Selene’s daughter as “it” suggests the vampires deserve sympathy and have become victims instead of predators, but Selene also kills and/or snacks on a bunch of people right off the bat, which is pretty good reminder that humans have a point in this whole “extermination” thing. The story mechanics exist only to allow Selene to bounce off walls and strut in slow motion in her leather battle bustier with her hundred-bullet pistols, but even the action sequences have a rote familiarity to them, the Matrix -lite choreography paired with generic-looking monsters that appear to have been whipped up with a few CGI presets — “slimy,” “lumpy,” “clawed.” Aside from a moment or two of imaginative gore, the fighting has a sameness to it, Selene’s climactic tangle with a massive beast displaying as numbingly little tension as an early sequence in which she slices through a hallway full of guards. Most curious in Underworld: Awakening ‘s expedition into absurdity is the fact that while franchise alum Scott Speedman doesn’t really appear in the film aside from flashbacks in the introduction and a few glimpses of what looks to be stand-in digitally fudged to look like him, his character is referenced and searched for all the time. Rather than definitively kill his character Michael off, the filmmakers chose to hold on to the possibility of bringing him back while saving on talent salary costs by having the girl be his stand-in as the film’s MacGuffin and theoretical emotional element. The result is an odd Waiting for Godot quality in which everyone talks about Michael and waits for him to show up, and yet — he doesn’t. Wes Bentley does show up, jarringly, in a role that seems like it could be important, and then dies almost instantly. Michael Ealy plays a cop who comes to Selene’s aid for no reason other than that she’s run through her other potential allies. Murky and perpetually bluish in tinge, Underworld: Awakening does and gets little with the 3-D in which it’s being offered, and ends by shamelessly setting up a further and fatally unnecessary installment. The only interesting aspect to this film, other than its odd dance around its love interest in absentia, are its retro qualities — these days, all the other werewolves and vampires seem to be too busy trying to date teenagers to clash in tastefully grimy underground lairs with claws and double-fisted guns. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Blue Ivy Carter , the newborn baby of musicians Beyonce and Jay-Z, is only a couple of days old, but Illuminati, Satanist and Freemasonry conspiracy theories are already being hatched about the young child. The most prominent of the conspiracy theories, which spread like wildfire (no pun intended) across the internet after the girl’s Saturday birth was announced has its roots in Satanism and related studies. This theory alleges that Blue Ivy is a reworking of the name Eulb Yvi, which Twitter users and other conspiracy theorists allege is the name of Satan’s daughter, though there has been no evidence to prove such a concept. Who better to dispel this theory than the great Maury Povich??? Click for the DNA test results…
MTV News walks you through the garbled dialogue and intricate plot of the Batman teaser. By Kevin P. Sullivan Bane in “Dark Knight Rises” Photo: Warner Bros. Even two weeks after “The Dark Knight Rises” prologue debuted before select IMAX showings of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” everyone who saw it can’t seem to stop talking about Bane and what he says — or at least what people thought he said. Ever since the preview’s premiere, there has been talk of tweaking audio levels and lowering background noise in order to make Bane more intelligible. Just Tuesday, a rumor circulated that Warner Bros. had provided IMAX projectionists with an adjusted soundtrack for the prologue . Warner Bros. denied the claim, but talk of changes persists. If you’ve already seen the prologue, adjusting audio levels now won’t help you until the July release of the finished film, so we’ve gone over the footage and decoded each story element and every line of Bane’s dialogue for you. ( Major spoilers ahead! ) The Setup Most of the confusion about what’s going on starts before we even see Bane. We jump right into the story without much explanation of what’s going on. “Leaked” CIA documents, used as part of a viral campaign, fill in some of the blanks. Dr. Pavel, a missing Russian nuclear physicist, seeks asylum in the United States with the help of the CIA. Pavel believes he is in immediate danger and goes into hiding. A group of mercenaries find him and negotiate with the CIA to deliver the scientist over to them safely, at the cost of $3 million. The prologue begins with that exchange. Bane The mercenaries bring along three unexpected guests to the party with the CIA. The leader of the soldiers informs the head agent that the men work for Bane. Eager to learn more about the masked man, the CIA agent brings the three men onto the airplane but only promises safe passage to the one who talks the most. Bane then speaks his first line as the agent threatens his men. “Or perhaps he’s wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.” Bane and the agent exchange some words, during which we get some background on his character. His mask keeps him from experiencing severe pain caused by a yet-unknown ailment. It also was what made people pay attention to Bane in the first place. “No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.” The Plan From here, we see Bane’s master plan play out. A large plane hooks onto the smaller one flown by the CIA and drags it into a nosedive. There’s a small fight inside, but Bane and his men win handily. They lower a dead body in a bag into the plane and perform a transfusion with Dr. Pavel, so when the wreckage is found, the DNA matches the missing doctor. As the group prepares to exit, Bane informs one of his younger partners in crime that he must stay behind in order to avoid suspicion. When the man asks Bane if they have started a fire, he replies with the now-famous line: “The fire rises.” Pretty straightforward, right? Check out everything we’ve got on “The Dark Knight Rises.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos ‘Dark Knight Rises’: The Year In Review Related Photos On The Set Of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer: 5 Key Scenes
Pop star debuts ‘Happy New Year,’ a swaggerfied slow jam featuring Jaden Smith. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber Photo: George Pimentel / WireImage Justin Bieber isn’t new to creating holiday songs using his new-millennium, R&B swagger, as evidenced on his Christmas album, Under The Mistletoe . And this weekend, he gave New Year’s a try. The singer tweeted a New Year’s-themed track, “Happy New Year,” which features his pal Jaden Smith rapping. The slow jam is certainly swaggerfied but also reflective, featuring lyrics that both play up the singer’s pop-star image and look ahead to a more hopeful year. “I’m gonna make your cheeks red when I kiss your neck/Girl I’m never leavin’ ’cause you are the best baby,” he sings. “I wanna give you everything/Never feel ’cause girl you’re coming home with me.” In a spoken breakdown, he says, “2012 is the year to be better, stronger and closer to the people around you. So grab someone special, and just, you know.” Smith also shows some bad-boy personality and proves that rapping runs in the Smith DNA. He raps, ” ‘Cause 2012 is the year of the love/And we gon’ start it off/We can get a plane today and get a car toma’/We don’t do it small at all/No girl tell me what I gotta to do/I can be the beat that you rockin’ to/I can do anything, nothing is impossible, especially with you girl/And I never need a new girl/This love is true girl/Aye welcome to the crew girl.” Not only was Bieber gracing fans with new tracks over the weekend, but he also took the stage during “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2012” in Times Square, not far from where his lady love Selena Gomez was hosting “NYE in NYC 2012.” The twosome later partied together at Glass House, E! News reports. A source says, “He…danced with Selena, showing off, picking her up and swinging her around like it was ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ ” Bieber recently debuted another track “Be Alright,” during his holiday special, “Justin Bieber: Home For The Holidays.” He’s expected to drop his new album, Believe , later this year. What do you think of Bieber’s New Year’s track? Sound off in the comments below! Related Videos Best Artists Of 2011 Debate MTV First: Justin Bieber Related Photos Justin Bieber Takes Over The Bodies Of Other Teen Idols Best Artists Of 2011 Related Artists Justin Bieber
