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Where Will The Stars Sit At The MTV Movie Awards?

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The MTV Movie Awards are taking place in just two short days, which means that set up for the show is in high gear. We have some awesome behind-the-scenes shots from the inside of the Movie Awards arena that show where some of the hottest attendees will be sitting.

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Check out all of the behind-the-scenes photos for the MTV Movie Awards.

Kerry Washington and Amanda Seyfried are the lucky ladies who get to sit next to Brad Pitt, while “Star Trek Into Darkness” stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana are sitting behind them. Meanwhile Emma Watson will be reunited with her “Perks of Being a Wallflower” costar Logan Lerman, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis seem to have a whole bunch of seats to themselves.

These behind-the-scenes looks at the Movie Awards are some of our favorite parts of the pre-show hype. Besides, doesn’t the stage look so pretty this year? We can’t wait to find out who will win Movie of the Year.

Will Jennifer Lawrence get her silver lining in the form of a Golden Popcorn? Which beefcake will sizzle in our brand-new Best Shirtless Performance category? It’s up to you to decide the winners of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards! Vote now, and tune in Sunday, April 14, at 9 p.m. ET, as star Rebel Wilson takes the stage at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California.

Flavor Flav Will Host Next Movie’s Movie Awards Red Carpet

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Flavor Flav Will Host Next Movies Movie Awards Red CarpetAll together now: “Flavor Flaaaav!” It’s been announced that MTV‘s favorite rapper-turned-”Flavor of Love” reality star is going to be a part of the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday when he hosts NextMovie‘s red carpet show.

“I’m looking forward to rockin’ the red carpet the MTV Movie Awards,” Flavor Flav said of the opportunity. “I can’t wait for the opportunity!”

As it turns out, this collaboration will be historically significant beyond the fact that this will be the best Movie Awards ever (obviously). Sunday is also the 10th anniversary of Public Enemy‘s famous album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.” Make sure you tune in to watch Flavor Flav interviewing everyone on the Movie Awards red carpet, from presenters Brad Pitt and Melissa McCarthy to host Rebel Wilson to nominees Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Downey Jr. It should make for an interesting night.

Will Jennifer Lawrence get her silver lining in the form of a Golden Popcorn? Which beefcake will sizzle in our brand-new Best Shirtless Performance category? It’s up to you to decide the winners of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards! Vote now, and tune in Sunday, April 14, at 9 p.m. ET, as star Rebel Wilson takes the stage at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California.

Who are you most looking forward to seeing at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

New ‘World War Z’ Trailer Still Doesn’t Want To Talk Zombies

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New World War Z Trailer Still Doesnt Want To Talk Zombies

We all know what zombies are, right? They either walk or sprint — depending on your preference — and in general, they tend to feed on the flesh of the living. That##Q##s a pretty basic definition of what was at one time in the last few years the trendiest of all movie monsters.

Ironically, all of the preview material for “World War Z,” which is based on the book by famed zombie writer Max Brooks with the “Z” obviously standing for zombie, is seemingly trying to hide that those crazed hordes chasing after Brad Pitt and his family are something other than the reanimated corpses of the undead.

Let##Q##s say it all together: ##Q##World War Z##Q## is about zombies!!! That feels better.

Check out the new trailer after the jump!

“World War Z” opens on June 21.

What did you think of the new trailer for “World War Z”? Let us know in the comments below and on Twitter!

Exclusive: Jason Clarke Joins Stephen Gaghan’s ‘Candy Store’

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Exclusive: Jason Clarke Joins Stephen Gaghans Candy Store

Speaking with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz and VH1′s Janell Snowden on the red carpet at the Oscars, “Zero Dark Thirty” star Jason Clarke played coy about his latest role, the lead in Matt Reeves’ “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” only giving the vaguest detail about his character. “I play a guy who’s trying to save humanity,” he said, ruling out a motion-capture ape performance. (Or did he?!?!)

But it was the news about Clarke’s project after “Apes” that piqued our interest. “Then I’m doing a film with Gaghan after that, Stephen Gaghan. It’s called ‘Candy Store,’” Clarke said. “I can’t tell you what it’s about.”

“Candy Store,” whether Clarke knows it or not, has been on our radar for quite some time. We first heard about the project, which Gaghan wrote and will direct, when The Hollywood Reporter claimed that Brad Pitt and Denzel Washington were in early talks to join the crime drama, which tells the story of a deep-cover operative that tries to get a fresh start as a beat cop in Brooklyn. Separately, The Wrap claimed that Christoph Waltz had an offer to play a character named Black Zenga.

That was all we heard about what sounded like an interesting project, until Clarke revealed his involvement to MTV News at the Oscars.

Clarke has been steadily adding promising titles to list of future projects. In addition to starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” Clarke has a big 2013 planned with roles in “White House Down” and “The Green Blade Rises,” the Terrence Malick-produced film where he’ll play Abraham Lincoln‘s father, Tom.

David Fincher’s ’20,000 Leagues’ Starts To Come Together (Without Brad Pitt)

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David Finchers 20,000 Leagues Starts To Come Together (Without Brad Pitt)

So much for the plan for Brad Pitt to star in David Fincher‘s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” According to a new report, the actor is no longer a prospective part of the project.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed Pitt’s departure (if he ever was attached), but it’s not all bad news for the Jules Verne adaptation. Apparently the Australian government has offered Walt Disney Pictures a 30 percent rebate if the studio opts to film the movie down under.

According to THR, that rebate would be worth about $19.2 million, which is a big hunk of change considering how pricy “20,000 Leagues” is looking to be. This would be the biggest film to film shoot Australia. Disney scouts are said to be considering Queensland’s Village Roadshow Studios or Sydney’s Fox Studios (where “The Wolverine” filmed) to shoot this movie. It would apparently create more than 2,000 local jobs for Australian residents. Sounds like everyone would be a winner!

When “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was about to hit theaters, Fincher told MTV News about his fascination with the “20,000 Leagues” novel.

“The idea of a post-Civil War version of science fiction and the notion of being able to breathe underwater was so radical in its thinking. That’s pretty cool,” he said. “If you’re going to do big tent-pole teenage PG-13 summer movies, it’s kind of cool that it would be this.”

Who do you think should star in “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

What Are You Seeing This Weekend?

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After two weekends of battling it out, three weathered combatants will once again square off at the weekend box office.

With the only new release being “Killing Them Softly,” the R-rated crime film from “Assassination of Jesse James” team Brad Pitt and director Andrew Dominik,” the three holdover from the previous weeks are expected to dominate once again.

But what will you be seeing? Are you finally going to get around to seeing “Lincoln“? (Because you really should.) Or is “Skyfall” more your cup of tea? But of course, there’s also “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.” Decisions, decisions.

Vote in our poll afer the jump!

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Brad Pitt In ‘Killing Them Softly’: The Reviews Are In!

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“Killing Them Softly,” director Andrew Dominik‘s tale of a poorly thought-out heist and the mob enforcer (Brad Pitt) who has to clean up the mess, has proven to be a divisive film when it comes to the critics. Some have heralded the rise of a modern classic, while many, many others can’t stand the heavy-handed allegory at the heart of the theme.

Whether the parallels to the 2008 financial collapse hold down the latest from Pitt and his “Assassination of Jesse James” director or raise it up is up to you, but this is what the critics are saying about “Killing Them Softly.”

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“This is one of those effortless Pitt performances that exemplify how beautifully he manages to be both a serious actor and a superstar; the slicked-back hair, aviator sunglasses and gold chains are a showy shorthand to signify he’s a dangerous guy, but the consistently surprising choices he makes with the rat-a-tat dialogue reveal his character’s intelligence.” — Christy Lemire, The Associated Press

The Director
“Dominik is two directors in one, really: He’ll sit back and content himself with framing simple, clean two-person verbal sequences when called for. He’s also skillful in staging violence on the move, as in the scene where Liotta’s bantamweight bigwig is dragged through and then out of his office trailer by extreme force. The picture offers some easy, brutal laughs and some harder ones, and now and then, it finds a way to make the laughter stick in your craw.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

The Message
“It’s a clumsy device, a feint toward significance that nothing else in the movie earns. Perhaps the bankers and speculators who ruined the economy are linked in some way to the punks and lowlifes who ruin themselves, and maybe Cogan is the allegorical double of Ben Bernanke. Anything is possible, since the movie is more concerned with conjuring an aura of meaningfulness than with actually meaning anything.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times

The Final Word
“Everything in ‘Killing Them Softly’ that springs from George V. Higgins’ 1974 crime novel ‘Cogan’s Trade’ is very fine: grimly amusing then shockingly brutal. It’s when New Zealand-born director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik veers off course to give us his deep thoughts on the American character that it’s a head-slapper. The effect is genuinely odd.” — David Edelstein, New York

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Brad Pitt: ‘Killing Them Softly’ Comes Together At The Very End

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His status as a celebrity and paparazzi magnet aside, Brad Pitt doesn’t get enough credit for picking great directors to work with. We know he’s homeboys with David Fincher, and the man likes working with Soderbergh, but his work with “Killing Them Softly” director Andrew Dominik should be filed alongside those other two.

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Speaking with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz, Pitt shared what he looks for in a director.

“Certainly one, great skills with the camera, with the frame,” Pitt said. “More importantly, all having a distinct point of view with a specific voice and what they’re telling me. They know exactly what they’re after. You need that at the helm. You need for the film to have some kind of impact, needs to have that weight behind it.”

In the case of “Killing Them Softly,” the weight behind the film is a deep and angry allegory about the 2008 financial collapse. Dominik makes parallels throughout the crime drama, and it’s that aspect that drew Pitt in.

“It’s absolutely that in that it’s an undercurrent to the film. We think we’re watching a crime drama, and it is a crime drama on the surface and entertaining on those levels,” he said. “It’s being sold that way, but there is this undercurrent to the film that I think speaks to our time specifically, as one view point of what we just come through and not completely through and a warning for the future in some way, and it doesn’t crystalize until the very last line in the film.”

“Killing Them Softly” opens in theaters on Friday.

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Brad Pitt Opens Up About ‘Killing Them Softly’ — And Those Chanel Ad Jokes

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If you turn on your television and just happen to catch an ad for the newest Brad Pitt film, “Killing Them Softly,” it should look like a fairly familiar movie. There’s a tough guy (Pitt) who has to find the people responsible for robbing a mob-staked card game. A normal crime movie, right? Not quite.

It’s really about the economy.

While that doesn’t necessarily sound like the thrilling mafia picture you’re expecting, it’s actually much better. “Killing Them Softly” comes from Pitt’s “Assassination of Jesse James” director Andrew Dominik and is based on the book “Cogan’s Trade” by legendary crime author George V. Higgins, and there has not been an angrier movie made about America post-recession.

MTV News’ Josh Horowitz caught up with Pitt to discuss the politics of “Killing Them Softly,” whether he plans to work with David Fincher again and what he thought of all your Chanel ad jokes.

MTV: Shouldn’t you be fighting zombies [on the set of "World War Z"] right now instead of talking to me?

Pitt: I actually am. I literally wrapped Sunday. Working Sunday, got on a plane, got here this morning.

MTV: So you’re done now? You’ve killed all of the zombies?

Pitt: No, I’ve got another week, so I got to get back on the red eye, land and go straight to set to fight more zombies.

MTV: A zombie killer’s job is never done.

Pitt: It’s a dirty business.

MTV: It strikes that you’ve worked with a couple filmmakers repeatedly, obviously Fincher, Soderbergh and Andrew. Is there a common denominator of filmmakers you keep going back to?

Pitt: Certainly one, great skills with the camera, with the frame. More importantly, all having a distinct point of view with a specific voice and what they’re telling me. They know exactly what they’re after. You need that at the helm. You need for the film to have some kind of impact, needs to have that weight behind it.

MTV: It’s fascinating for somebody when they sit down to watch this film, it’s a very unusual film in that it works on multiple levels, and that other level is certainly is in the foreground and the background at different times in terms of the economic collapse that’s going on. Are you somebody that talks back to the TV during something like that in 2008, when the economy is going to hell, someone that really gets into it, or can you bottle that up and channel it?

Pitt: What do you mean? At the time?

MTV: At the time. I’m curious. Not during the making of the film.

Pitt: Yeah, I’ve certainly suffered from audience participation when watching the news.

MTV: Is that something that excited you in terms of the way that Andrew was going to weigh in?

Pitt: It’s absolutely that in that it’s an undercurrent to the film. We think we’re watching a crime drama, and it is a crime drama on the surface and entertaining on those levels. It’s being sold that way, but there is this undercurrent to the film that I think speaks to our time specifically, as one view point of what we just come through and not completely through and a warning for the future in some way, and it doesn’t crystalize until the very last line in the film.

MTV: Then you have to watch the film all over again.

Pitt: Then you go, “That’s what it was about.” I find that a rather grand design.

MTV: I mentioned Fincher at the outset. Are you two going to get back together for “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?

Pitt: We would love to. He’s my man.

MTV: Him doing that kind of a film is also very intriguing to me.

Pitt: He’s got a great take on it. That’s just going to be about schedule and time allocation, but he’s my man.

MTV: Were you surprised about the reception to the Chanel ads, that people had some fun with it?

Pitt: Man, fair play.

MTV: All good?

Pitt: Yeah, fair play.

“Killing Them Softly” opens in theaters Friday.

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