Like a power forward who finds his way down to the post and gains solid position on his opponent… Kris Humphries is not budging. Despite Kim Kardashian divorce demands and complaints now actually involving her unborn child – Kim says stress from Kris is threatening the fetus – a source tells People that Humphries has not changed his stance. ” Kris only wants an annulment,” an insider tells the magazibe. “He never wanted to be married more than once and he feels like she cheated him out of the chance to have a real, loving marriage.” Indeed, Humphries continues to insist that the “entire marriage was a fraud” and, no, he doesn’t care about the Kim Kardashian baby on the way. “He feels that even if she’s pregnant, she still has to deal with the mess she made,” the source says. Kardashian is due in July and is urging a judge to begin a divorce trial as soon as possible. She insists, of course, that she never defrauded Humphries in any way. “I wish this issue to be tried immediately so that this false claim can be put to rest and I can move on with my life,” Kim wrote in papers filed last month with the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Winter Storm Nemo, a.k.a. the blizzard going on outside for tens of millions of Americans, is doing its thing. But why does a big snowstorm need a name? You can thank The Weather Channel alone for the moniker, it turns out. It also turns out that the National Weather Service is not amused. The massive New York / Northeast / New England snow storm will be among the biggest on record, but the region has seen plenty of snow in the past. Why is this one so special? And why Winter Storm Nemo of all names? Here’s the Weather Channel’s rationale for naming the blizzard: Naming a storm raises awareness about it, and the weather Naming it makes it easier to monitor the system’s progress A name gives it personality, which adds to the awareness A name makes it much easier to reference in communication A named storm is easier to remember and refer to later It’s not about marketing, or hype, or ratings, or generating more buzz for the Weather Channel, they say. Just doing their part for awareness and safety. Right. The Weather Channel defended the unusual move by saying it’s just stepping up to tackle a task to benefit the public that the government won’t: “There is no national center, such as the National Hurricane Center, to coordinate and communicate information on a multi-state scale to cover such big events.” Therefore, they say, “it would be a great benefit for a partner in the weather industry to take on the responsibility of developing this new concept.” The National Weather Service doesn’t see it that way. After TWC first began the practice by coining Nor’easter Athena in November, the NWS put out a statement disassociating itself with the naming system. The agency urged employees to “please refrain from using the term Athena in any of our products,” while local meteorologists were also unimpressed. Some wondered if TWC was just trying to parlay its peak audience during hurricanes – which are all named by the National Hurricane Center – into winter ratings. The network denies this and insists it’s just trying to help. It’s true that #nemo is trending on Twitter right now, and that’s easier to type than #blizzard. Maybe? And why Nemo? TWC says Winter Storm Nemo is NOT named after Disney’s Finding Nemo or the character in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea . It say that Nemo is “A Greek boy’s name meaning “from the valley,” and means “nobody” in Latin. So, yeah. Read into that however you like. And stay safe people.
Winter Storm Nemo, a.k.a. the blizzard going on outside for tens of millions of Americans, is doing its thing. But why does a big snowstorm need a name? You can thank The Weather Channel alone for the moniker, it turns out. It also turns out that the National Weather Service is not amused. The massive New York / Northeast / New England snow storm will be among the biggest on record, but the region has seen plenty of snow in the past. Why is this one so special? And why Winter Storm Nemo of all names? Here’s the Weather Channel’s rationale for naming the blizzard: Naming a storm raises awareness about it, and the weather Naming it makes it easier to monitor the system’s progress A name gives it personality, which adds to the awareness A name makes it much easier to reference in communication A named storm is easier to remember and refer to later It’s not about marketing, or hype, or ratings, or generating more buzz for the Weather Channel, they say. Just doing their part for awareness and safety. Right. The Weather Channel defended the unusual move by saying it’s just stepping up to tackle a task to benefit the public that the government won’t: “There is no national center, such as the National Hurricane Center, to coordinate and communicate information on a multi-state scale to cover such big events.” Therefore, they say, “it would be a great benefit for a partner in the weather industry to take on the responsibility of developing this new concept.” The National Weather Service doesn’t see it that way. After TWC first began the practice by coining Nor’easter Athena in November, the NWS put out a statement disassociating itself with the naming system. The agency urged employees to “please refrain from using the term Athena in any of our products,” while local meteorologists were also unimpressed. Some wondered if TWC was just trying to parlay its peak audience during hurricanes – which are all named by the National Hurricane Center – into winter ratings. The network denies this and insists it’s just trying to help. It’s true that #nemo is trending on Twitter right now, and that’s easier to type than #blizzard. Maybe? And why Nemo? TWC says Winter Storm Nemo is NOT named after Disney’s Finding Nemo or the character in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea . It say that Nemo is “A Greek boy’s name meaning “from the valley,” and means “nobody” in Latin. So, yeah. Read into that however you like. And stay safe people.
If you didn’t gather this from Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic, then Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan are back from the 1980s to tell us that the 16th President of the United States is most excellent, as is Socrates and Sigmund Freud. Ghengis Khan and Joan of Arc, on the other hand, are Bogus. Those are the verdicts rendered in this infographic, which revisits Bill and Ted’s journey through time and space, in commemoration of the Blu-Ray release of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure . This should whet Bill & Ted fans’ appetites for the new sequel that, back in August, Vulture reported is in the works — with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprising their roles, and Galaxy Quest director, Dean Parisot , helming. Bill & Ted creators, Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, have written the script. Keanu Reeves Talks ‘Bill & Ted 3’ Plot In August, Reeves talked to GQ about the weighty-sounding plot of Bill & Ted 3 — explaining that the main characters “have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven’t done it. So everybody is kind of like: ‘Where is the song?'” The Matrix actor added, “The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future ‘us’ refuses to tell us, and another future ‘us’ blames us for their lives because we didn’t write the song, so they’re living this terrible life. In one version we’re in jail; in another we’re at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.” Heavy, dude. [ Vulture , GQ ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
It’s not always excellent being Bill — or Ted, for that matter. I n a Q & A interview with GQ magazine , Keanu Reeves divulges the core of the plotline to a possible sequel to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure , and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. “We have a nice story. We’ll see if anyone wants to make it,” Reeves says, explaining that “One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven’t done it. So everybody is kind of like:’Where is the song?'” Reeves adds: “The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future ‘us’ refuses to tell us, and another future ‘us’ blames us for their lives because we didn’t write the song, so they’re living this terrible life. In one version we’re in jail; in another we’re at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.” Whoa, dude! That’s some heavy “All-We-Are-Is-Dust-in-the-Wind” thinking, although Reeves, who turns 48 in September, tells the publication that he has been contemplating middle age. “My knees are well aware of it,” he says. “Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.” Dude. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Christian Slater and Donald Sutherland star in the spy action pic Assassin’s Bullet (formerly titled Sofia ), about an ex-FBI agent (Slater) assigned to investigate the vigilante killings of terrorists in Eastern Europe. Action fans will know director Isaac Florentine’s work from Undisputed II and III ; take a look at the trailer debut, along with new images from the film and set, after the jump. Florentine’s earned kudos in the genre world for his action films, but Assassin’s Bullet introduces a new element: Namely, Bulgaria-born Elika Portnoy, who co-stars as an elusive and deadly agent and earns a story credit on the film. Synopsis: When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America’s Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin. Click here for Movieline’s exclusive gallery of images from Assassin’s Bullet . Assassin’s Bullet opens August 3.
It’s hard to know exactly how to review something like The Invisible War , how to step back and look at it as a movie through the steady barrage of emotional devastation it presents. The stranger sitting next to me at my screening spent the latter half of the runtime sobbing into a fistful of tissues, and I couldn’t blame her — the film, the latest documentary from the Oscar-nominated Kirby Dick ( Outrage, This Film Is Not Yet Rated ) presents a sickening chorus of accounts not just of rape but of institutional betrayal, of a system that’s utterly failed to protect or serve those who’ve joined it. The Invisible War is brutal in the cases of sexual assaults in the U.S. military it runs down, but it’s even harder to take when it then explores the lack of follow-up, the victim blaming and self-serving protection of those in charge and the status quo. Again and again, the interviewees in the film — who are mostly but not entirely women — tell stories of enlisting out of idealism, patriotism or family tradition, thinking they’ve found a place for themselves, only to realize that for some of their colleagues, they’ll only ever be a target, and for others, they’re going to be held responsible for their own safety and taken to task otherwise. The film offers a variety of stories from military rape victims from different branches of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard and the Marines. Disturbing patterns quickly emerge. A woman ends up on assignment somewhere where she’s usually outnumbered. She gets harassed; she gets raped. She reports what happened to her superior officer, who either warns her off, or is a friend of the attacker, or would just rather the problem go away. And usually, at least for the perpetrator, it does — an appallingly low number of cases actually get brought to any kind of justice. Dick skillfully weaves together interviews with presentations of some damning numbers — like the fact that 20% of active-duty female soldiers get sexually assaulted, and the military itself acknowledges that a lot of cases are underreported because accusations of rape are so discouraged and can also permanently damage careers. To listen to someone talk about how she ended up getting charged with adultery and conduct unbecoming an officer after being assaulted by a married colleague is to feel that these structures aren’t just fundamentally flawed, they actually encourage this kind of horrific behavior because there are no consequences. The Invisible War follows a few of its interviewees in their current, non-military lives. One, Kori Cioca, is a young mother trying to get the VA to help her with the surgery she needs for her facial injury — she had her jaw broken by someone with whom she was serving in the Coast Guard, a man who raped her. Struggling with PTSD and in constant pain, she’s able to eat only soft food and is told she hasn’t served long enough to be covered because she left after the assault. Navy Seaman Trina McDonald was drugged and raped repeatedly while on a remote assignment in Alaska — the men attacking her were the military police to whom she’d need to report an assault. Now married to a woman and living in Seattle, she still struggles with trauma that, for a while, left her addicted and homeless. There are others — Marine Ariana Klay was told she must have wanted the harassment she received because she wore her military-standard uniform skirt. Elle Helmer, another Marine, and Navy Seaman Hannah Sewell had their rape kits “lost.” The film delves into what’s been done to change the present military culture and comes up with some laughable in-house poster and video campaigns that feature a woman soldier being angrily quizzed about why she’s out by herself and another that urges guys to “ask her when she’s sober,” suggesting that the problem in the military’s eyes is drunk girls with morning-after regrets rather than the kinds of attacks described by the interviewees on screen. The Invisible War also suggests, though doesn’t pursue the way perhaps it should have, that the military has a higher percentage of sexual predators than the outside world — because they’re drawn to the macho imagery with which enlistment is sold. The film certainly offers a solid case for military service being a great environment for someone with those inclinations, because there’s little recourse for a victim to report what happened outside of going to his or her commanding officer (one spokesperson earnestly suggests one could also write to one’s congressperson as a secondary option), and that goes against military sentiment of solidarity and strength through suffering. But solidarity’s worth nothing if you’re not actually a part of the whole, and both the accounts on display here and the way so many of the interviewees conclude that, initial positive experiences aside, they couldn’t recommend that anyone serve, show just how warped the system is and how many scars it’s left. The Invisible War might be best judged as a piece of activism, in which case it’s already succeeding — after seeing the film in April, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta took the responsibility for sexual assault investigations away from commanding officers and put them in the hands of higher-ranking officials. It’s a step in the right direction, but this doc makes it clear there are many more serious changes to be made. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
New clip gives fans a precious — though tantalizingly brief — glimpse at the newest member of the Cullen family. By Kara Warner Kristen Stewart in ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2’ Photo: So how about that new “Twilight: Breaking Dawn- Part 2” trailer ? Now that we’ve watched it a few dozen times, we can take a step back to analyze our favorite moments. First, how great is it to finally get a glimpse of all those other vampires we’ve been talking about? Finally a first look at Garrett the nomad, played by the divine Lee Pace, as well as Benjamin, Irina and a few others. But there’s one character we wish we saw a little bit more of: Renesmee. Not that we blame Summit and Co. for waiting to reveal more of little Mackenzie Foy-as-Renesmee closer to the film’s release, but it would have been nice to see her in action with her parents, interacting with the other Cullens or playing with Jacob. The moments that we do get to see are very sweet. Fans around the world have been expressing their delight over one scene in particular: when Bella is putting her daughter to bed and tells her “I’ll never let anybody hurt you.” “The way vampire Bella looks at Renesmee reminds me of Edwards quote from Twilight… ‘You are my life now’ :’),” one Mackenzie Foy fan tweeted . A fellow fan called the moment “10 seconds of perfection.” In addition to the high praise from fans, that tender moment between mother and daughter has already been given the GIF treatment on several Tumblr blogs. With all this love for the happy family and that precocious young lady Renesmee, we surely hope we’ll get to see more of her in the next trailer. Check out everything we’ve got on “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com .
During ‘MTV First’ premiere of ‘Wide Awake,’ Katy talks about upcoming documentary, which shows her at her most unpolished. By James Montgomery, with reporting by Sway Calloway Katy Perry Photo: Katy Perry may have closed the book on Teenage Dream with her new “Wide Awake” video , but next month, she’ll wrap that book up (and put a tidy little bow on top) with “Part of Me,” the 3-D documentary that not only captures her meteoric 2011, but her unheralded early days as well. “The movie is all of last year; I had these two guys from London come out [to film], and I said, ‘Will you just capture everything that goes on?’ ” Perry told MTV News’ Sway Calloway during the “MTV First” premiere of the “Wide Awake” video. “Because I felt 2011 would be an important year for me; you could feel it, like tremors of an earthquake. I didn’t know what I was going to catch, but I was going on this extreme tour, playing venues I never dreamed I’d play … I was either going to go bankrupt, have a breakdown or have the greatest success of my life; and I’m sure I did a lot of those things. But we caught all of it and put it together in a film.” Perry wrote “Wide Awake” specifically for the film — the video ends with her triumphantly ascending to the stage during her California Dreams Tour — so it’s little wonder that the clip also features plenty of nods to her past . “Part of Me” also tells the story of how she rose from an unknown to one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, and watching it now, Katy can’t help but be amazed at how eerily prescient she was in her younger days. “There’s some backstory of how I got here, because a lot of people have heard about where I come from, but there’s actual footage … the movie, when it opens up, it’s me at 18 talking about how I want all these things, like, all the things I have now and achieving my dreams,” she said. “But then I’m kind of biting my lip going, ‘But then there’s all this responsibility.’ And then it cuts to me at the arena with thousands of people, essentially being a boss of sorts, a CEO, having to give out orders; it’s pretty crazy.” And unlike many other high-profile docs, this one is delightfully unpolished. There are moments where Perry appears unguarded and unfiltered — which, to her, is one of the most important aspects of the film. It not only documents her rise to fame, but her acceptance of herself too. It’s called “Part of Me” for a reason, after all. “There’s some scenes that I know people will screenshot and be like, ‘Oh, she looks like a fat cow with zits.’ But I put those in there because that’s a part of me, that’s reality, and I’m OK with that now,” she explained. “It’s been a process of learning it’s OK, and I’m accepting of my own skin, but I think it’s important for young kids to see that you don’t have to be perfect in order to achieve your dreams, because I think that the world has this strange, skewed perception of successful people, that they’re just so perfectly made up, and they have all these possessions that make them who they are, and that’s not at all how I got here; I came from nothing, I didn’t have anything. “I just had a dream, and I worked very hard at achieving that dream,” she continued. “And that’s exactly what it takes; it takes a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of focus, and hopefully that will open the door for you. But it’s not about being perfect.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Katy Perry: Part of Me.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV First: Katy Perry’s ‘Wide Awake’ Related Artists Katy Perry
Admit it. You’ve been waiting for it. That moment when your favorite Hip-Hop group gets back together, that once dominant crew returns to its reign supreme or that one album that’s been promised for over a decade now finally hits the shelves damb you Dr Dre . There are certain instances in time that connoisseurs of the culture have been sitting on the edge of their seat waiting for… Continue
