Upstart MC ends label bidding war and signs with Def Jam, the historic label announces Thursday. By Rob Markman Trinidad James Photo: Aaron Davidson/Getty Images
Red singer soaks up birthday wishes before premiering her ‘I Knew You Were Trouble.’ video Thursday on MTV at 4:40 p.m. ET. By Emilee Lindner Taylor Swift Photo: Kevin Kane/Getty Images
Mac Miller, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and others join the rapper for his album release Tuesday. By Rob Markman The Game Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images
‘The bottom line is he got the votes,’ Recording Academy spokesperson says of Walser’s surprise Best Dance Music nom. By James Montgomery Al Walser Photo: Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images
Shane Carruth has traversed back from the future to deliver us the first teaser trailer to his upcoming film Upstream Color . The writer/director/star of 2004’s Primer (and, eerily, NOTHING ELSE!!!!) is bringing his secretive new project to Sundance next month. (Between this and Zal Batmanglij’s The East , the Sundance team should seriously consider rechristening the 2013 Fest as “Paranoid Futurists Hit The Slopes!”) After a few days of sending out cryptic twitpics from the @UpstreamColor account (close-ups of text on a page, which some sleuthed were actually taken from the works of Henry David Thoreau) today we finally got a link to a short teaser on Apple. Before this, all we knew about the film was that “a man and a woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism.” After watching the teaser, we don’t know much more. The opening shot includes: A jug of independently spinning ice water, a copy of Thoreau’s Walden (thematic constant!) and a man calmly explaining that his head is made from the same material as the sun. Why not? Some creepy rumbles follow, then the sound of rising strings, then a dude wearing headphones, a shot of a pig, followed by a whole lot of God-knows-what including a man angrily landscaping. Personally, I was taken by the shot of colored vapor emerging from – I dunno, cells? Grapes? It reminded me of the “Bring home the motherlode, Barry!” sequence of Panos Cosmatos’ remarkable head film Beyond The Black Rainbow. Hey, upstream COLOR and BLACK RAINBOW? Could this be some sort of cross-universe dealie? (No, it can’t. Unless you are on the right drugs when you see it, in which case, it’s all one big film, man.) RELATED ARTICLES: Sundance 2013 Images: ‘Fruitvale,’ Shane Carruth’s ‘Upstream Color,’ Rooney Mara & Casey Affleck In ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Sundance 2013: Where Stephenie Meyer, Harry Potter & Pussy Riot Worlds Will Collid e [via Apple ] Follow Jordan Hoffman on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
MTV News team aboard Rih Rih’s 777 twinjet describes the ‘rowdy as hell’ atmosphere as journalists lash out after a lack of sleep and food. By MTV News Staff Rihanna performs in Berlin Photo: Target Presse Agentur Gmbh/Getty Images
Joey always finds a way to make things interesting Joe Budden Talks New Album, Tour, And Role On Love & Hip-Hop New York The next couple of months for Joe Budden should be pretty interesting to say the least. His mixtape, A Loose Quarter, will hit the net this Friday and he will be dropping his next solo album, No Love Lost on January 26th. He will also be a featured cast member on the upcoming season of VH-1′s Love And Hip-Hop. Read more at Hip Hop Wired
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