Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Gaslight Anthem among other acts on June festival lineup. By Gil Kaufman Metallica’s James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ WireImage They’ve headlined stadiums around the world and made an incredibly polarizing album with punk grandfather Lou Reed. So what’s left for Metallica to do to cap off a stellar year? How about launch their own summer festival with a lineup that includes some of their favorite bands? On Tuesday (February 7), the group announced the debut of the Orion Music + More fest, described as an annual “music, arts and lifestyle” gathering that will feature multiple stages and take place June 23-24 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In addition to headlining sets from Metallica each day — during which they will play The Black Album one night and Ride the Lightning the other in their only North American performances of those classic releases in 2012 — the festival will also feature sets from: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, the Gaslight Anthem, Cage the Elephant, F—ed Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, the Black Angels, the Sword and Liturgy. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks. “We’ve had the idea of doing our own lifestyle festival with lots of diverse music and fun and games for years,” drummer Lars Ulrich said in a press release announcing the event. “Finally this year all the practical ducks lined up in a row, and we are beyond psyched to bring Orion to our fans, friends and the curious. After the most incredible of weeks ever in December 2011 celebrating our 30th anniversary at the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA, bringing the spirit of that week, the looseness of that week, the possibilities of that week, the fan interactive elements of that week, and the (fill in your own blank here) of that week to a festival setting is so exciting we can hardly contain ourselves.” Pre-sale tickets for the Metallica fan club start Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET, with the public on-sale slated to begin Saturday. Tickets are $150 for two-day passes for the public and $125 for fan-club members. Head to OrionMusicAndMore.com for details. Will you check out the first Orion fest? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Metallica The Gaslight Anthem Modest Mouse Arctic Monkeys
We can now confirm the whereabouts of Demi Moore. According to an E! News insider, the troubled actress – who was rushed to the hospital on January 23 for “smoking something,” based on the 911 call placed on her behalf – has checked in to Cirque Lodge, an expensive treatment facility in Sundance, Utah. “She’s on total lockdown and only talking to a small group of people,” the source says , adding that the actress is being treated for an eating disorder and addiction issues. Moore had reportedly been consulting with her spiritual adviser and, some claimed, even a psychic before making this decision. Cirque Lodge, meanwhile, is known as a posh facility whose resume of famous clientele includes Lindsay Lohan, Eva Mendes and Mary-Kate Olsen.
The allegory-rich Chronicle opens with a kind of generational statement: “I bought a camera,” senior class punching bag Andrew (Dane DeHaan) says, “and I’m filming everything from here on out.” Andrew is talking to his father (Michael Kelly), a drunkard ex-fireman who punishes his son for the stress of caring for his dying wife, though the announcement is meant for us as well. Chronicle fits into the growing genre of “found footage” films, though that becomes just one formal element of many director Josh Trank meshes together to put a new spin on the subject of teenage alienation and its more extreme social side effects. People don’t respond well to Andrew’s decision to begin filming everything he does, though that may be because nobody responds well to anything Andrew does. Throughout the first part of Chronicle everyone he meets wants to know why he’s filming or tells him to stop; his popular, aspiring intellectual cousin Matt (Alex Russell) is particularly camera shy. In a gesture of great social generosity, Matt brings Andrew and his massive camcorder to a barn party for some fun one Friday night. Together with the ridiculously congenial class president hopeful Steve (Michael B. Jordan), Andrew and Matt explore what appears to be a sinkhole in a ravine outside the barn. What they find inside is a glowing chamber of vascular crystals. They emerge with spontaneously bloodied noses and telekinetic powers. So, you know, another Friday night in Seattle. The trio take the event more or less in stride, so that what ensues is basically a montage of their various attempts to create the best YouTube video ever. The boys treat their superpowers like one more of puberty’s bodily twists, and trade tips on how to manage it. They begin by moving other objects around and creating force fields to shield their bodies from pain. The more they develop the power, like a muscle, the stronger it becomes. Soon they begin moving themselves around, and then up into the sky. What could go wrong? Trank keeps the fraternal tone so light it’s sometimes just shy of forced — the script, by Max Landis (the son of John Landis), is a little heavy on the “Dude, no way!” dialogue. But the first half of Chronicle establishes an affable and believable bond between the three characters — something one of them badly needs. They talk about girls and plan to see the world — Andrew wants to make a spiritual mission to Tibet. And yet it’s Andrew who begins pulling away from the pack. The kid’s got a lot of unfocused rage, and it starts slipping out in small acts of aggression. The group’s golden rule — basically don’t hurt anybody — doesn’t preclude letting Andrew earn a little social cred at the school talent show, so he puts on a “magic” act that makes him an instant hero. But a sexual humiliation soon follows, and it proves to be a point of no return. Only his friends are powerful enough to stop him, which means they quickly become his enemies. Andrew starts out with the desire to create a true record of the abuse he is suffering, presumably one that will be witnessed. And yet the fact that Andrew’s persecutors are presented from his vantage, literally and otherwise, reinforces the sense that if the camera doesn’t lie, perspective still tends to exaggerate. This uneven but earnest, often exhilarating film derives its greatest interest from the way it turns the found-footage format inside out: At some point Andrew learns to control the camera’s movement with his mind, so instead of seeing what he sees, we’re watching a self-directed version of his life. When that movie becomes a kind of disaster pic it would seem that the further we move from Andrew’s literal perspective, the deeper we get into his psyche and the hellmouth of teenage rage. By the time he’s putting the entire metro area on notice — having thrashed his father and all the local bullies — Andrew has no camera and the metaphor has run away with the story entirely. The crazy thing is it almost works. The finale, which goes off like an unmanned fire hose, rests on the assumption that everything is in fact being filmed from here on out — a subtext of the found-footage conceit. The question of who has found and edited this thing together is treated as understood, an apt reflection of the genre’s popularity. Doesn’t some part of every self-documenter assume a future curator will rescue him from oblivion? That someday his story will be told? The coda suggests the evidence will exonerate Tibet-loving Andrew for that time he had his revenge on Seattle; the truth is he was just misunderstood. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
From VW’s ‘Star Wars’ spots to Brad Pitt’s Heineken run, advertisers have long used films in their Big Game commercials. By Eric Ditzian Matthew Broderick in his Honda CR-V commercial Photo: Honda Super Bowl kickoff is just days away, and while we couldn’t be more psyched to watch the New York Giants dismantle the New England Patriots (because, folks, that’s what will happen, end of story), we’re nearly as pumped to check out the game’s high-profile movie ads. Every year, corporate America pours millions of dollars into movie-related spots — some starring Hollywood A-listers, others riffing on classic films — in an attempt to convince inebriated football fans to buy cars, beer, junk food, deodorant and whatever else we probably don’t need but which might make our sad, empty lives have more meaning. At least that’s how we think ad agencies approach the biggest sporting event of the year. In preparation for the commercial excellence coming our way Sunday, we took a look at Super Bowls past — as well as this year’s pigskin classic — to pick the 10 greatest movie-related ads of all time. 10. Honda’s Riff on “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” This one sneaks onto the list neither because it’s a great commercial (it’s not) nor because it’s hilarious to see Matthew Broderick once again telling us that life moves pretty fast (it’s just depressing). No, this 2012 Honda ad makes the cut because there’s never, ever going to be a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” sequel, and if this is a close as we get, hey, we’ll take it. 9. Nissan’s “Top Gun” Pigeons Imagine being inside an ad agency when some creative exec pitches an ad in which a bunch of flyboy pigeons take flight, to the tune of “Top Gun” hit song “Danger Zone,” and attempt to poop all over a Nissan Maxima, but the car is too damn speedy and the birds — one of them voiced by “Cheers” mailman John Ratzenberger — can’t unload on it. And the Nissan suits say, “Hell yes! Let’s fork over a million dollars and air this baby during the Super Bowl.” The late ’90s were weird. And awesome. 8. Budweiser’s Alcoholic Dog Would a dog’s most traumatic memory be the time he tried to chase after a Bud truck? Would this be the recollection a dog, in the best tradition of a method actor, turns to on a movie set to cry on cue during a maudlin death scene? Do dogs drink beer? Listen, it’s the Super Bowl. These things don’t have to make sense. 7. Visa’s Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Everyone’s favorite movie-related drinking game made a very amusing appearance in the 2002 Super Bowl, as Kevin Bacon attempted to pull off what just might be a bit of credit-card fraud. Now drink! 6. Heineken’s Brad Pitt Beer Run We suppose there’s a world in which Brad Pitt doesn’t have an army of underlings to send out on a beer run and instead has to stroll, under cover of darkness and as a thousand rabid paparazzi converge on him, to the market to pick up a six-pack. In a far different world, Heineken spent roughly the GDP of a third-world country to hire Pitt, license the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” and produce ad in 2005. 5. FedEx’s “Cast Away” Resolution Who didn’t want to ring Tom Hanks’ neck in “Cast Away” and be like, “Dude, just open that FedEx box, ’cause there’s totally a satellite phone, a GPS locator, a fishing rod and a water purifier in there”? This 2003 Super Bowl ad gave us the next best thing. 4. Noxema’s Cream Ad with Farrah Fawcett and Joe Namath This ad, starring the movie star and the New York Jets QB, might not make it by today’s network censors. So it’s simply amazing that it aired during the 1973 Bowl and had Namath cooing, ”I’m so excited, I’m going to get creamed!” as Fawcett slid into frame. 3. Pepsi’s Michael J. Fox Apartment: “Apartment 10G” (1987) In 1987, Michael J. Fox had it all — except some Diet Pepsi to offer his very new, totally bodacious next-door neighbor. So MJF does what anyone in his position would do: He jumps out his window in the rain to fetch her some calorie-free pop. Gentlemanly! Of course, when he returns with soda can in hand, he learns the new gal has an equally gorgeous roommate. Both of them love Diet Pepsi. And Michael J. Fox. City living is the best! 2. Volkswagen’s Bark Side Eleven dogs. One “Star Wars” theme song. Nothing more needs to be said. In fact, nothing is said the entire time (in the same, savvy style as spot ). Just Budweiser’s 1995 frog watch it before it airs during this year’s game. Genius. 1. Volkswagen’s Force When a little boy clad as Darth Vader held up his hands, attempting to use the Force to start a Passat, he also jumpstarted the hearts of every Super Bowl viewer on the planet. Last year’s classic ad was the perfect synthesis of everything a Big Game spot should aspire to be: cute but not too cute, funny without trying too hard, nostalgic yet utterly fresh. Though we somehow doubt parents raised on “Star Wars” rushed over to the local VW dealership seeking the sense of familial togetherness apparent in the commercial, that’s not really the point (at least outside ad agencies and automobile manufacturers). Honestly, most of the people talking about the ad probably couldn’t even name what kind of car the kid Force-ifies. What’s key is people were talking — and still are talking a year later. For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
Queen of Pop confirms she will be ‘singing three old songs and one new one’ during halftime show. By John Mitchell Madonna at a press conference for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show on Friday Photo: Getty Images Madonna wowed the crowd with some impromptu moves at a press conference today in Indianapolis, Indiana, readying the world for the spectacle she’s planning for Sunday’s halftime show at Super Bowl XLVI . Intimating that she’s rooting for the New York Giants (she famously got her start and currently resides in New York City, after all), the Queen of Pop complimented Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz on his end-zone salsa dancing, telling reporters, “I have absolutely no criticism of his moves. In fact, he’s inspired me. I’m going to show ’em to you and you tell me what you think.” She then stepped away from the podium and playfully began to salsa , eliciting hoots and applause from the assembled press. “You think he’d approve?” The often-provocative diva also assured curious reporters that her focus was firmly on putting on the best show she could. “The envelope I’m pushing is just for a spectacular show, which I think will entertain all age groups and hopefully will be a feast for the eyes and the ears,” she said. Judging from early glimpses of her reported stage design , there’s no doubt she’s got quite the spectacle planned for Sunday. She also revealed that she’s performing four songs — three classics and her new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the video for which will be previewed on “American Idol” Thursday (February 2) ahead of the single’s release Friday on iTunes. “I promise I will be singing three old songs and one new one,” Madonna told reporters. If an early leaked set list and photos of rehearsals are any indication, the vintage Madonna songs audiences can expect to hear will be “Vogue,” “Ray of Light” and “Music.” She would not divulge any further details about the show, however, explaining that she didn’t want to “give anything away” because she wants viewers to be ” knocked out of their seats from beginning to end.” “I’m so excited to be here,” a clearly excited Madonna told the crowd. “This is a Midwesterner girl’s dream to be performing at the halftime show.” Making the press rounds ahead of what is certainly one of the biggest performances of her three-decade career, Madonna has not been shy about admitting she is nervous and contentious of how big a deal the Super Bowl is. “Oh my God, I’m so nervous, you have no idea,” Madonna told Anderson Cooper during a pre-taped appearance Thursday on his daytime talk show. “First of all, it’s the Super Bowl. I mean the Super Bowl is kind of like the holy of holies in America right? … I have to put on the greatest show on earth, in the middle of the greatest show on earth. I have eight minutes to set it up and seven minutes to take it down and 12 minutes to put on the greatest show on earth. That’s a lot of pressure.” It sure is. Are you excited for Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show? Tell us in the comments below. Related Photos Madonna Gets Psyched For Super Bowl Related Artists Madonna
“I enjoy these strange and possibly creepy videos, although I’m not entirely sure why — there’s something weirdly special about memorializing a child’s untimely death with clips of her sliding across the floor in a football helmet or staring round-eyed into strobing TV static. As camp artifacts they’re unbeatable, but occasionally music and image collide just right and I get a little choked up, despite myself.” [ The Hairpin ]
It’s so hard to find a reasonably enjoyable thriller these days that anything with a marginally intriguing premise and fewer than 10 plot holes has come to seem like a minor miracle. Man on a Ledge might have been that kind of modest miracle: Sam Worthington stars as Nick Cassidy, a pissed-off ex-cop who’s been convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Somehow – and the whole of Man on a Ledge deals with the whys and wherefores of that somehow – he springs himself from Sing Sing, suits up in some phenomenally nice-looking threads, and checks himself (under an assumed name) into a room on one of the upper floors of a midtown Manhattan luxury hotel. After a room-service breakfast of champagne, lobster and French fries, he creeps out onto the ledge and greets the cops who respond to the call with some very specific demands. Chief among those requirements is that he’ll speak with only one NYPD psychologist, Lydia Spencer (Elizabeth Banks). Spencer has been having a rough time on the force of late: When we first see her, she’s barely able to rouse herself from her bed – she’s having some sort of killer morning after, and her messy tumble of blond hair makes her look like a discarded Barbie doll. Cassidy, of course, has specific reasons for wanting to speak with Spencer. And even if he makes her day tougher than it was at the beginning, it’s clear from the way her superiors order her around – they include a sarcastic nutbuster played by Edward Burns and Titus Welliver as an overly caricatured, gum-chewing NYPD bossy-pants – that they don’t take her as seriously as Cassidy does. Somewhere in there, Jamie Bell and Genesis Rodriguez sneak around as part of a carefully orchestrated plan to… well, to tell you too much would give the game away, but it involves a giant honker of a diamond that Cassidy supposedly stole from a loathsome Donald Trump type (played with great relish by Ed Harris, who usually gets to portray only principled guys). Meanwhile, Cassidy’s close friend and former partner (played by Anthony Mackie), frets about Cassidy’s fate. Because Cassidy is, after all, clinging somewhat daintily to a narrow strip of stone some 20 stories off the ground: This is a guy who doesn’t care if he lives or dies as long as he ultimately proves his innocence. And as you watch Man on a Ledge , you’ll have good cause to wonder why he’s going to such extremes. Director Asger Leth (son of Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth and also the director of the 2006 documentary Ghosts of Cit
‘Jackass’ star lends his voice to ‘very handsome’ extreme athlete Johnny Krill on upcoming episode. By James Montgomery Johnny Knoxville Photo: Getty Images You would think Johnny Knoxville is a pretty big deal around the offices of Dickhouse Productions, but, apparently, you’d be wrong. It seems no one paid much attention to him until late last year, when he let it be known he’d be appearing on an upcoming episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Then everything changed. “It was a real attention-getter. Everyone around the office was immediately psyched. Lots of street cred around the office,” the “Jackass” star laughed. “It went over huge. Everyone’s big fans of ‘SpongeBob’ around here. It’s a tough office to get a reaction in, but this got it.” In the upcoming episode, Knoxville plays Johnny Krill (“some extreme sports, motorcycle guy,” as he put it), the leader of the high-octane Drastic Radicals sports team, which SpongeBob and his pal Patrick are dying to join. And while we suspect he’s kidding about the cred thing, Knoxville was dead serious when he said lending his voice to an upcoming episode of the long-running Nickelodeon cartoon was not only a total thrill, but an automatic no-brainer — for reasons other than just office acceptance. “It took me two seconds to say ‘yes,’ ” Knoxville said. “I know my 16-year-old daughter was very happy, and my other two kids, one’s 2 and the other’s three months, so one day, hopefully they’ll be proud of pop. “I also need to add that Johnny Krill is very handsome and very well hung, so, you know, it’s really suspending belief,” he continued. “And that’s also probably why it took me two seconds to say ‘yes.’ ” And the benefits didn’t stop there: “They loaded me up with a bunch of schwag! Every toy they ever made — skateboards, wristbands, all kinds of great stuff. They just don’t quit with the perks. Then I got to do a photo shoot with SpongeBob. They let me do my own stunts for this episode. It was amazing.” The Knoxville episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” — called “Extreme Spots” — is set to air this summer on Nickelodeon.
The actor also spoke with MTV News about the ‘very subtle’ use of 3-D in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Joel Edgerton Photo: MTV News PARK CITY, Utah — Joel Edgerton could tell you about Kathryn Bigelow ‘s untitled Osama Bin Laden movie, but then he’d have to kill you. OK, perhaps it’s not as dramatic as all of that. Still, the “Wish You Were Here” actor spoke briefly with MTV News about starring in the Navy Seal thriller alongside Chris Pratt and Jessica Chastain , and while he’s “very excited” to start shooting the film, his lips are sealed on the top-secret op. “I can’t really tell you anything about it,” he told MTV during the Sundance Film Festival . “I don’t know that I can’t tell you anything about it, but I’d be very ill informed to talk about it at this point. But I’m just excited to work with all of those guys.” Edgerton was much more inclined to talk about “The Great Gatsby,” Baz Luhrmann ‘s upcoming adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic. The Australian actor, who stars in “Gatsby” as drunken socialite Tom Buchanan, spoke at length about Luhrmann’s “very subtle” use of 3-D in the film. “3-D is absolutely the right thing for [the film],” said Edgerton. “I’ve seen sections of the movie and it sort of invites you in. It’s not like spectacle 3-D; you’re not being confronted by things blowing at your head. But it invites you in. What it does psychologically is very interesting, and I think you’ll forget you’re watching 3-D.” “Also, it’s lavish,” he continued. “That era was so lavish. The ’20s was about excess, so why not add a bit of excess to the filmmaking as well?” For those who remain skeptical of the use of 3-D in “Gatsby,” Edgerton expects negative opinions to change when the movie is released this December. “Baz knows absolutely everything he’s doing,” he said. “I’m really excited for all the people [groaning] about 3-D to see the movie. I hope everybody is crossing their arms and frowning to begin with, because I think they’ll unfurl by the time they see it.” What do you think of the use of 3-D in “The Great Gatsby”? Sound off in the comments! The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is officially under way, and the MTV Movies team is on the ground reporting on the hottest stars and the movies everyone will be talking about in the year to come. Keep it locked with MTV Movies for everything there is to know about Sundance. Related Videos Sundance 2012: Interviews From Park City Related Photos Sundance 2012: MTV Celebrity Photo Booth Celebrities Hit The Ground At Sundance 2012 Film Fest
I will never understand why anyone would sit through an award show at their own will. Shit is torture. It’s like a bunch of awards that mean nothing for people who are already living a life of a lottery winner who don’t need more awards….making speeches about nothing…in efforts to validate that what they do actually matters on an artistic level…even though the shit are bought, bribed and totally bullshit….because their bank accounts aren’t enough validation….. I don’t see any appeal whatsoever in hearing a shitty comedian tame down his shitty jokes for money like a sell out while pretending he’s not being tame or that his jokes aren’t shitty….when he had to hustle to get to the level of hosting bullshit awards…and knows a good joke from a bad one….opting for the bad one cuz that shit pays the bills he already has no problem paying… The only thing remotely interesting is that the bitches show off some tit…but even that got boring by the 9th grade when all bitches had cleavage and we became desensitized….in desperate need of the pussy….but here are the pics anyway… Jessica Alba Showing Some Titty So People Don’t typecast her as “mom”…. Sofia Vergara Looking Like She’s at a Hispanic High School Grad… Kate Beckinsale for the Virgin Losers who like Hot Moms…. Elle Macpherson looking like a tampon at a beauty pageant… Salma Hayek’s Big Fucking Mexico Titty…. Charlize Theron South African HIV risk Wouldn’t Stop Me… Stacy Keibler Looking like she’s won the lottery now that she’s finally allowed at these events all thanks to her vagina…. Some Maria Menounos Round Greek Booty She Uses as a Vagina when She’s on her period or really whenever cuz that’s what Greek girls do…
