‘Twilight’ actress tells MTV News she thinks people are being ‘a little uptight’ about the film’s sex scenes. By Fallon Prinzivalli, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Kristen Stewart Photo: MTV News For “Twilight” fans who thought the sex scene in “Breaking Dawn – Part 1” were revealing, Kristen Stewart hasn’t showed you anything yet. When Stewart hits the big screen again in the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s American classic “On the Road,” she’ll be revealing a lot more than skimpy lingerie. The film contains quite a few sex scenes, including a threesome between Stewart and co-stars Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley. Talk about risqu
Actor tells MTV News his character Heimdall will be ‘more involved’ in the sequel. By Kevin P. Sullivan Idris Elba Photo: MTV News A movie like ” The Avengers ” doesn’t just make $1 billion in a little less than 20 days without having a few sequels already in the pipeline. So, of course, the folks over at Marvel are already hard at work on a handful of follow-ups, including ” Thor 2 .” MTV News spoke with Idris Elba while he was promoting Prometheus ” about reprising his role as the Asgardian gatekeeper, Heimdall, for the sequel, once again starring Chris Hemsworth in the title role. “Thor 2,” which is scheduled to head into production later this year, is said to explore the other realms of the universe, outside of Asgard and Earth, so that would mean a heavier workload for Heimdall. Though production has not officially begun, Elba has already started some prep. “I’m actually excited about it,” he said. “I literally just did a costume fitting the other day.” Elba, who has only seen an outline of the story so far, said that he does anticipate a larger role for Heimdall in the sequel, but added that “Thor 2” will also be taking a closer look at the people who populate the mythical world. “Definitely Heimdall’s more involved, but also, what’s more involved is who the Asgardians are,” he said. “I think we’ll see a sense of that.” As past interviews with the cast have indicated, the scale of “Thor 2” is quite large, but Elba suggested that the focus narrows in on character in a way we haven’t seen before. “It’s a huge film, ‘Thor 2,’ but I also think it’s micro in a way that you start to look at people, who they are a little bit more.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Marvel’s The Avengers.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com .
Jay will headline and curate Budweiser Made in America music festival over Labor Day weekend. By Rob Markman Jay-Z gives a press conference at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Photo: Bill McCay/ FilmMagic PHILADELPHIA — Jay-Z once bragged in song that he beat his assault charges “like Rocky.” Well, it’s been more than a decade since, and Hov — the multiplatinum mogul who remains atop music’s food chain — has done more than simply beat the charge. On Monday morning (May 14), rap’s most magnetic man drew a crowd of reporters and media types to the very steps that the fictional boxer Rocky has made famous. Standing triumphantly at the peak of the staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hov and Philly Mayor Michael Nutter announced yet another prolific Jay-venture: Budweiser Made in America , a two-day music festival in Philadelphia, this Labor Day weekend. “Everyone knows my love affair with Philly from the amazing, talented artists I’ve signed from here,” Jay said, prompting State Property MC Freeway to jump onstage beside him. Jay-Z will not only headline the festival, he will also curate the three-stage concert, which will feature close to 30 different acts. Still, for the God MC, there are a few things to consider before pulling off stunts such as these. “Whenever I enter into a project, I try to hit on some touch points. The first thing is: Is it great?” Jay asked rhetorically, addressing the crowd, which braved some clouds and drizzle. “The second one is: Is it gonna push the culture forward?” Forward progress is a safe bet: A press release for the upcoming event promises eclectic acts in multiple genres like rock, hip-hop, R&B, Latin and dance music, but the official roster won’t be announced until May 21. The third item Jay considers is the philanthropic opportunities, so once again, he is partnering with United Way. Together, they put on Jigga’s February Carnegie Hall concert in New York, and this time out, they aim to support local charities in both Philly and South New Jersey. The show will be held September 1 and September 2 on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. Tickets for Made in America will go on sale May 23 through Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com . Related Artists Jay-Z
Jay will headline and curate Budweiser Made in America music festival over Labor Day weekend. By Rob Markman Jay-Z gives a press conference at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Photo: Bill McCay/ FilmMagic PHILADELPHIA — Jay-Z once bragged in song that he beat his assault charges “like Rocky.” Well, it’s been more than a decade since, and Hov — the multiplatinum mogul who remains atop music’s food chain — has done more than simply beat the charge. On Monday morning (May 14), rap’s most magnetic man drew a crowd of reporters and media types to the very steps that the fictional boxer Rocky has made famous. Standing triumphantly at the peak of the staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hov and Philly Mayor Michael Nutter announced yet another prolific Jay-venture: Budweiser Made in America , a two-day music festival in Philadelphia, this Labor Day weekend. “Everyone knows my love affair with Philly from the amazing, talented artists I’ve signed from here,” Jay said, prompting State Property MC Freeway to jump onstage beside him. Jay-Z will not only headline the festival, he will also curate the three-stage concert, which will feature close to 30 different acts. Still, for the God MC, there are a few things to consider before pulling off stunts such as these. “Whenever I enter into a project, I try to hit on some touch points. The first thing is: Is it great?” Jay asked rhetorically, addressing the crowd, which braved some clouds and drizzle. “The second one is: Is it gonna push the culture forward?” Forward progress is a safe bet: A press release for the upcoming event promises eclectic acts in multiple genres like rock, hip-hop, R&B, Latin and dance music, but the official roster won’t be announced until May 21. The third item Jay considers is the philanthropic opportunities, so once again, he is partnering with United Way. Together, they put on Jigga’s February Carnegie Hall concert in New York, and this time out, they aim to support local charities in both Philly and South New Jersey. The show will be held September 1 and September 2 on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. Tickets for Made in America will go on sale May 23 through Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com . Related Artists Jay-Z
If you were a movie-watching child of the ’90s (or, shall we say, an adolescent girl with a pulse) you knew Devon Sawa as a teen idol golden boy of the decade. But after a little more than a dozen years as an actor — during which time he graduated from kiddie fare ( Little Giants , Casper , Now & Then ) to Tiger Beat bait ( Wild America ) to what he calls his “edgy” phase ( SLC Punk , Idle Hands , Final Destination , Slackers , and Eminem’s “Stan” video), Sawa departed Hollywood to reassess his career, not knowing if he’d return to acting. During his self-imposed exile from the spotlight — and the party culture and poor career choices that he admits marked his mid-aughts — Sawa spent time in Southeast Asia. He trained in muy thai. He restored a heritage building in his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. By the time a script serendipitously found its way to his mailbox, enticing him back into the acting game after his years-long absence, Sawa was ready to start fresh. A celebrated guest turn as reformed assassin Owen Elliot on The CW’s sleeper hit Nikita followed, along with turns in the Toronto Film Festival thriller 388 Arletta Avenue , the indie horror pic The Sibling , and this week’s After Dark Action slate offering, The Philly Kid . Movieline met with Sawa to discuss (OK, obsess over) his beloved ’90s films and the disparate fan followings they inspired, the unexpected similarities between directors Steven Spielberg and Dr. Dre, how he spent his four years away from acting, and why it’s always OK to give your phone number to the Coen brothers . What brought you to The Philly Kid in the first place? You aren’t playing the hero here, but rather a more vulnerable character, which I thought was a more interesting choice. First of all, when I read the script the lead was already cast with Wes [Chatham] and he couldn’t have done a better job, but this was appealing to me because he’s kind of the guy who doesn’t care anymore; he’s got the slouch, and he drinks, and he’s got a gambling problem. It’s a character I’ve never played before and I wanted to be that character that doesn’t worry so much about the way he looks, you know what I mean? You play the friend who sucks Wes’s Dillon back into fighting, part Paulie from Rocky and part Worm from Rounders … The thing about Jake is that he’s a likeable guy, he’s a loveable guy, and that’s what makes Dillon want to help him out. He doesn’t ever mean to do anything wrong, he’s just got no filter and he makes the wrong decisions… a lot. But he means well. Given your sports training, have you considered taking the action hero route? Or do you have a different path in mind? Acting first. I want to do action, but I don’t want to be the guy who does just action. I’ve been working a lot on character, and I want to be able to do what Pacino and Hoffman do. But I still love doing action, so I’m trying to do both. You’ve done a number of indie movies as well as Nikita in the last few years — where did this project fit in? It came at the right time. It was the end of season one of Nikita so I knew for sure I wasn’t working on that. My agent called and said there was this MMA script, and I was like, “Oh, let me read it!” Baton Rouge was a big part of it because I love the South, and being from Canada it’s like the polar opposite — the food, the feel… I just love it down there. So it just fell in place. Obviously many of us have been watching your career from the start, but audiences really caught up with you in recent years thanks to your recurring role on Nikita . I took a break at the age of 25 just to step away from the business and figure things out — figure out if I wanted to do this anymore because I’d been working straight from the age of 11. And when I came back after four or five years, it was kind of like starting fresh again. People hadn’t seen me in a while, the last things they saw me in were some indie horror movies that I’m not really proud of, and the Nikita people were the first to step up and take a shot at me — “OK, let’s see him.” I went in and read with them and it went great, and that opened up a whole bunch of new doors. That’s why I love them so much. A lot of people were like, “Eh, Devon, we haven’t seen him in a while — what’s he been doing?” And Nikita was like, “Sure, this could work.” It was supposed to be for two episodes, but I got on there and it’s still going. It must be curious to have the experience of being famous as a child actor, and getting all the way to age 25 then stepping away and coming back. Between your early work, your Nikita work, and your newfound Twitter fame, what do you think has helped you most get back in the game? Nikita , for sure. I love Twitter. [Laughs] I don’t know if it’s really helped, but it’s a lot of fun. I have friends that are on The Vampire Diaries now that I met through Twitter. It’s a great thing, but I don’t know whether it’s helped or not. In ways you’re more candid on Twitter than most actors, which is part of why I think folks like to follow you. It’s not doing anything wrong, that’s for sure. No one’s told me to stop. I dread the call from my manager saying, ‘Did you really say this on Twitter?’ But you never know. Let’s go back to the beginning. You began acting at a young age, which is when you first made a name for yourself. Tell me about your childhood… I had a great childhood! I started doing Nerf commercials — I was the national Nerf spokeskid, which was my first kind of big thing. Did you know then that you wanted to act for a living? Yeah, I was a very energetic kid in grade 5 and started doing theater, traveling with this group doing all the elementary schools. I just loved it, I loved being on stage. Then I auditioned for the Nerf thing and got that, loved that — I ran around shooting Nerf guns. How can any kid complain about that? Exactly. And at the end of every commercial they’d give me a big box of these Nerf guns that the prop guy would put different springs in to make them shoot farther! So it was great. And then Casper came along. As a kid I was doing school with Christina Ricci and then Jonathan Taylor Thomas, going to Savannah, so it was all great. Then after Wild America when I was 17 I stepped away for two years, and came back, and I was going through that phase where I didn’t want to be in those teen magazines anymore. I was really against those things. That seems like the toughest transition for a child actor to make, out of adolescence and teen years into young adulthood. It really was. I wanted to do edgy, weird stuff, like SLC Punk and Idle Hands and the “Stan” video. That’s when I was in my weird phase. I guess it worked out. I admit I was enamored of Little Giants and Now & Then , but I have a friend who’s obsessed with Slackers . Like a number of your films, it has quite the cult following. There were a certain couple of years in college when I think that was a big movie! My agent’s assistant was like, “I love Slackers !” And he started reciting a scene that I don’t even remember. I’m like, “OK, dude!” I guess people like that. And I was really, really proud that Idle Hands made it to the New Beverly Cinema last year. That’s when you know you’re in a cult hit. Did you go? I didn’t. But the next one… How often do you go to the New Beverly? Because I swear I saw you there once, which is when I became aware that you were a fan of the theater and a huge movie nerd. You did. I am. I used to go all the time, but now I’m in Woodland Hills. I go to the Aero theater more, but I love them both. I really am a movie nerd. I love going to see the old films on the big screen. I just saw a new print of West Side Story at the Aero theater and that was great, I went to see back to back Indiana Jones es, back to back Godfather s… it’s the only way to see them. So, back to this edgy phase. Slackers , Idle Hands — those films came right before your self-imposed break from Hollywood. What prompted that? That was the point when the fame, or whatever — what club or what party I was going to — became more important. Then I started doing some movies that I wasn’t so proud of. They were kind of straight-to-DVD horror movies and whatnot. Why do you think you were doing those movies? They threw a little money at you, and you want to work, and you think they’re going to do better — it sounds good on paper — and then it comes out and somewhere down the line, something didn’t work out. And I wasn’t really proud of them, so I stepped away.
Also in Thursday morning’s Biz Break: Another star may be leaving Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained , getting to know this year’s Cannes competition jury and a new ‘bear’ animation heads for production. Russell Brand to Host MTV Movie Awards Brand will host the awards show for the first time on June 3 from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City in California. Drive, Like Crazy, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and My Week with Marilyn are among this year’s nominees . Thai Cannes Palme d’Or Winner to Head Locarno Jury Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2010 for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , will lead the jury at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland this summer. The 65th edition will take place August 1 – 11. Vulgaria to Open New York Asian Film Festival The comedy by Pang Ho-cheung is described as a “movie about making movies,” featuring gangsters with names like Brother Tyrannosaur, sleazy lawyers, the sex-film industry, and men who “love donkeys perhaps a little too much.” The 2012 NYAFF Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Korean action director Chung Chang-Wha. Around the ‘net… Guillermo Del Toro Boards Pinocchio Del Toro will co-direct Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio along with Mark Gustafson, animation director on The Fantastic Mr. Fox . The project is a 3-D stop-motion animated production from the Jim Henson Company. Shooting begins in summer 2013, Variety reports . Sacha Baron Cohen Unties from Django He was originally attached to play the role of Scotty Harmony, a role described in the screenplay as an overweight 24-year-old who receives a female slave as a gift from his father. Dictator commitments are keeping him away from the Quentin Tarantino-directed feature. Kurt Russell may also be on the way out, Cinemapulse reports . Meet the Jury Who Will Decide the Cannes Palme d’Or Actors, directors and a fashion designer are among this group of people who will decide on Cannes winners this year, including the top prize, the Palme d’Or. THR reports . Producer David Heyman and StudioCanal Team for Paddington Bear Paul King will direct the story of the curious young bear who travels from Peru to London’s Paddington station where he’s taken in by an English family, Deadline reports .
Among Wednesday morning’s Biz Break: Rebecca Hall chases Iron Man 3 , Clifford the Big Red Dog is headed for the big silver screen, and word of a possible “Hollywood studio” for Queens. Rebecca Hall In Line for Iron Man 3 Role Hall would take over the role in the Marvel franchise recently declined by Jessica Chastain via her Facebook page . Gwyneth Paltrow, who was in the previous two Iron Man movies, will return as Pepper Potts, Deadline reports . Illumination and Universal Team for Clifford the Big Red Dog Matt Lopez has been set to write the script for the project, which will be a live-action and animated hybrid. Clifford follows the adventures of a 25-foot-tall red dog and his owner, a child named Emily Elizabeth, THR reports . Susan Sarandon Joins Mother’s Day The actress and her daughter Eva Amurri Martino are set to star in the indie drama which follows 12 sets of mothers and daughters over the course of a Mother’s Day, Deadline reports . NY Senator Schumer Pushing for Hollywood-style Studio in Queens New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is asking the feds to make it easier for New York City to build a movie studio that would compete with Hollywood. The federal government is holding up the final approval for Kaufman Astoria Studios to build an architecturally flashy movie lot gate at 36th Street and 35th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, CBS New York reports . Clark Gregg Joins Jason Reitman’s Labor Day Reitman is adapting the script from the novel by Joyce Maynard. The story follows a boy, played by Gattlin Griffith and his divorced mother (Kate Winslet) who offer a stranger (Josh Brolin) a ride during Labor Day weekend. The man is an escaped convict who teaches the boy life lessons, THR reports .
With an imminent debut at one of the numerous, unrelated Riviera events orbiting the Cannes Film Festival, The Lucifer Effect has issued a trailer and a press release detailing the horrific, publicity-friendly happenings undergirding what its makers seem to believe will be the industry’s next found-footage phenomenon. It has footnotes and everything — as though David Foster Wallace and William Castle collaborated on some sincerely unholy afterlife marketing effort. You should see this! The pitch, that is, not the movie (though maybe that, too). First the trailer, which was hovering at a very, very spooky 13 views this morning: And now the press release just over the transom at Movieline HQ, which I really must provide without commentary, if only because it’s kind of its own commentary after a while. (To wit, who’s a fan of this new number order 1, 6, 3, 5, 2? Never mind.) ========= CONTROVERSIAL NEW BRITISH HORROR MOVIE, ‘THE LUCIFER EFFECT’ TO DEBUT AT CANNES NEXT WEEK Film reported to be ‘cursed’ and contain subliminal messages in a hidden frame storyline The controversial new British horror movie, THE LUCIFER EFFECT 1 will overcome its alleged ‘curse’ to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next week. The film has been in and out of the headlines following a number of bizarre incidents, disappearances and even police intervention during filming last year. ‘The Lucifer Effect’ first hit the headlines last year when one of the participants 6 was almost throttled by another cast member. Police seized the footage and the film was put on hold. However, despite the film’s original director 3 also having gone missing, the film has been completed by a new documentary film crew headed by Edward Boon and is now set to premiere at Cannes on 16 May. The film studies the social condition known as ‘The Lucifer Effect’ 5 – a psychological consequence that is said to occur when ‘good’ people are given power over others in an evil place. The effect was first investigated in the 1970s during the infamous Stanford Prison experiment. The Lucifer Effect producers recreated a modern day equivalent in an abandoned mental asylum 2 . The film also uses subliminal imagery and has a secret secondary storyline interwoven in hidden frames beneath the main storyline – the first feature film in the world believed to use this controversial technology. The use of subliminal scenes has added to the rumours of a curse. Reports of a curse originally surfaced due to the fact that the film features footage of disturbing events which occurred when the participants in the film held a Ouija board session during their brief stay in the asylum. Unlike other films that it has been compared to, such as ‘The Blair Witch Project’ or ‘Paranormal Activity’, the footage and events in ‘The Lucifer Project’ are actually real, there was no script, and the reactions of the participants are genuine, including the unfortunate assault. As a result police in Lincolnshire seized the footage and the film was put on hold, creating a lot of international media attention. The story was also widely covered in the British press. The film centers around eight people who volunteered for a role in a movie on buyamovierole.com , only to be locked inside a reportedly haunted mental asylum 2 for three days and nights, with no communication from the outside world and little food to eat. Since these events, two of the cast have been hospitalized with other cast members receiving counseling and treatment for depression and any possible after effects. All involved had signed release forms and given their consent before entering the asylum, although some of the actors are now looking to sue the film company for false imprisonment. It is reported that some of the cast believe the producers are still pulling their strings one year on. Adding to the stories of a curse is the fact that the director who oversaw the filming of the original events is also now missing. This is coupled with rumours that one of the actresses has been sectioned in South America. In order to investigate whether the alleged ‘curse’ can have any effects on the public at large, the film has added an innovative social media angle. When the trailer on the film’s Facebook and social networking pages is viewed, their webcam is activated, thereby involving the viewer in what is seen onscreen. Already, there have been reports of doors mysteriously opening and closing, shadows appearing and lampshades moving in the background. The producers added the webcam feature after the ‘curse’ reports surfaced to pick up on any paranormal activity once the film trailer had been watched. The producers say if anything interesting or unusual is recorded whilst watching the trailer there is a chance that the recordings will be featured in the final cut of the film when it is released. Watch the trailer here: http://www.thelucifereffectmovie.com – END – 1. For further information and Movie Trailer: www.thelucifereffectmovie.com [ Back ] 2. Rauceby Mental Asylum in Quarrington, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, was originally opened in 1902 as the Kesteven County Asylum, and from 1924-1933 the Kesteven Mental Hospital. In 1940, it was taken over by the RAF and renamed No. 4 RAF Hospital Rauceby with 1,000 beds treating crash and burns victims. The pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe worked here on members of his so-called “Guinea Pig Club”. The main hall burnt down in 1947 and the RAF handed the premises over to the newly formed National Health Service, which then returned to using it as a mental asylum. The site was closed in 1997 amid allegations of abuse. The site includes two graveyards, a mortuary, and a series of underground tunnels connecting wards. [ Back ] 3. Original Film Director, Tim Burke was Born 8 May 1979, Kensington, London, UK. Grew up in Bristol, Avon & Somerset. Bought a film camera at the age of 12, and formally learned his trade at the Panico Films School (now part of the London Film Academy), London, where he passed out top of his class. Using his extensive celebrity and entertainment industry contacts, Tim Burke founded the charity BuyaMovieRole, which, in 2010, raised money for charity by auctioning off donated movie roles. [ Back ] 4. “Enigmatic technique” takes acting improvisation to its extreme and is the complete opposite of the discredited “response directing” where actors are told what they should be feeling. Instead, he keeps actors as much in the dark as possible, as detached as possible from any production crew, then subjects them to frighteningly realistic situations and lets the actors react naturally to whatever happens. In this way, he seeks to film emotions that are genuinely felt rather than put on. The Lucifer Effect was Tim Burke’s first real exploration of this technique. [ Back ] 5. Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is the title of an academic textbook for college psychology students by Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment in which 24 normal students were assigned to be either “prisoners” or “guards” in a mock jail set up in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The planned two-week experiment was terminated after just six days due to the emotional trauma suffered by the participants where the “guards” rapidly became sadistic and with the “prisoners” descending into extreme passivity or depression. In 2004, Zimbardo testified for the defense in the court martial of a US military police sergeant guilty of torturing prisoners in Iraq. Zimbardo argued that few people could resist the powerful situational pressures of a prison and that the sergeant should not be given the maximum sentence. He drew on his study of this case to write Lucifer Effect. [ Back ] 6. Emrhys Cooper, Mohammed Al Turki, Hofit Golan, Natalie Celino, Liziane Villamil, Anouska O’Hara, Ryan Lutz, and Jack Walther all appear as themselves. [ Back ] ###
In his next movie, fans of Robert Pattinson will see this actor like never before. Seriously, watch this Cosmopolis trailer to see what we mean. The same can be said, meanwhile, for shots of R. Patt in this month’s special Cannes-based issue of Parade. Don’t believe us? Feast your eyes on the following photos: Pattinson tells the publication that working with director David Cronenberg has had a profound effect on his career. “Filming Cosmopolis with David changed something in me.” Rob says. “It gave me balls. I have five projects lined up right now that follow the path that movie opened for me. Before, I spent my time doubting myself. As soon as I read a script that I liked, I was working myself up, asking myself if I was good enough. Now, I tell myself: ‘F-ck it! If they want to hire you, go!” And hire him they have: Pattinson has signed on to star in Mission: Blacklist as a soldier who helps bring down Suddam Hussein. It’s based on a true story. Cosmopolis , meanwhile, makes its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later this month.
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