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New Breaking Dawn Trailer, Poster, and Picture Teasers Released! (Video)

The countdown has officially begun, Twihards! We are quickly approaching the two-month mark for the arrival of the first Breaking Dawn installment, so you know what that means? teasers, trailers, and more teasers to get your blood pumping! We got a little Twilight love at the MTV Movie Awards a couple months ago, but as has been the case with this movie, things have been pretty hush-hush. More power to them for being able to keep things under wraps so well, but it certainly gets under the skin of those of us eagerly waiting for things to get moving! So to appease our hunger for all things Twilight, we have been gifted not one, but TWO posters from Yahoo! Movies. In the first, we find a very enamored (and officially married!) Bella and Edward while the second one offers us a less thrilled Jacob on a Forks beach with his pack in tow. But wait! That?s not all! We also get a pack of movie stills that show what appears to be some previously unseen (and undead) wedding guests and some more shots of the highly anticipated honeymoon, during which they seem to play a lot of chess (not only [...]

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Ke$ha, Adam Lambert, Ne-Yo Have A Few Royal Wedding Gift Ideas

From 'guyliner' to American delicacies like Uncrustables, Kathy Griffin, Mike Posner and more tell us what they'd get Will and Kate.
By Terri Schwartz


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What kind of wedding gift do you give the royal couple who has everything?

The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is on Friday (April 29), so MTV News reached out to some of our favorite Hollywood celebrities — from Ke$ha to Adam Lambert. Fortunately, they had some solid ideas!

"I haven't met them, so it would be kind of awkward," the "Tik Tok" singer admitted to MTV News. "I might paint them something. Maybe I'll paint them a guitar."

Like Ke$ha, other celebs had suggestions that were from the heart, even if they weren't the most practical.

"I will go out on a limb and say these two individuals maybe haven't had Uncrustables before in their life. I would get them a strawberry Uncrustable," Mike Posner said about the pastry.

David Cook followed up on the all-American food idea. "I feel like they have everything except maybe they probably don't have an Applebee's gift card. I'll go [with an] Applebee's gift card," the "American Idol" alum said.

Other stars said they'd gift the British prince and soon-to-be-princess with an item they were personally best known for.

"I'd probably buy William some eyeliner," Lambert said. "He could do that, he could rock that look. I think."

Ne-Yo was more empathetic, saying he would give gifts that could help shield them from photographers and blend in with everyday people. "Three years' supply of sunglasses. Yeah, put them on. A bunch of baseball caps, throw those on, and try to move around like regular people," the singer said. "I can't imagine what it would be like having to live under that big of a magnifying glass your whole life ... and fake mustaches, that's what I'd give them."

Brooke Burke went the more traditional route, saying she would get Will and Kate a journal to record the big event. "I would ask them to really take the time to write down thoughts and phrases and wishes," Burke said. "And not really to lose sight of how they feel about each other now and to really hold on to that feeling."

Kathy Griffin had good intentions but the comedian couldn't resist a puke joke.

"If I had to get the royal couple a gift, I would get them the Royal Couple Vomit Bag, which someone sent me a photo of," Griffin told us. "So you can actually buy vomit bags with their image on it, and I think that that is an honor and I hope that they see it as such."

What would you give to William and Kate? Share your ideas in the comments section!

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Tower Heist' Director Hypes Eddie Murphy's 'Genius

Brett Ratner describes the long road to making the film and finally getting the chance to team up with Murphy, in our Fall Movie Preview.
By Josh Wigler


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Ralph Fiennes, Ian McKellan, Phillip Seymour Hoffman — these are just a few of the acting titans Brett Ratner has worked with over the course of his career. But as he told MTV News, the only time he's really had to pinch himself was his first day on the set of "Tower Heist" with Eddie Murphy (who has just signed on as the host of next year's Oscars, produced by Ratner.

Murphy is just one of the many all-stars in the cast of "Tower Heist," Ratner's upcoming heist comedy that centers on a New York City high-rise building's staff working together to rip off one of the residents, a wealthy businessman (Alan Alda) who lost all their pension funds in a Ponzi scheme. It's a heavier comedy than some might be anticipating, Ratner said, and it didn't come easily: The movie went through multiple incarnations over several years of development.

Now, with the "Heist" finally set to commence in November, MTV News' Fall Movie Preview continues with an exclusive look at the film and a chat with Ratner, who spoke about the project's difficult development process, working with Murphy and the dramatic weight this comedy carries.

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MTV News: "Tower Heist" took a long time for you to pull off, but now we're finally weeks away from release. Can you walk us through a bit of the process you went through in setting this movie up?

Ratner: I was actually developing "Beverly Hills Cop [4]" with Eddie. He called me at my house one day and said, "I have an idea for a movie." He pitched me the idea of a bunch of guys who work in the Trump Tower going and ripping off Donald Trump. To the urban community, Donald represents wealth, and I thought it was such a good idea. We pitched it to Brian Grazer, who came on as a producer, and we sold it to Universal. But it became very difficult to crack. It became very similar to "Ocean's Eleven," just ripping off a rich guy for the sake of ripping off a rich guy. We went through a bunch of writers, just trying to crack it and crack it, and we couldn't crack it. Then this guy Ted Griffin, who I'd hired to write "Ocean's Eleven" before Steven Soderbergh did it — I'd been attached to it, but I never did it, and I missed my opportunity to work with Ted — I sent it to him and asked if he'd give me his opinion. He said, "I have good news and bad news. Good news: I'm going to write it for you. Bad news: I'm throwing the script away."

He came up with this pitch about a guy living in a building who does a Ponzi scheme and loses all of the employees' pension funds. We didn't know the economy was going to get f---ed up. This all just coincidentally happened. We weren't looking for [the Bernie Madoff connection], but we loved the idea, and we just had to do it. Ted wrote an incredible heist movie that's reminiscent of the '70s heists, which spend the first 40 minutes setting up the characters, which are different from the heist movies of today that tend to start with these big set pieces.

MTV News: Was Eddie still involved at this point, or had the idea moved so far away from what he initially imagined?

Ratner: Well, Eddie's original idea was he'd do the movie with Dave Chapelle, Jamie Foxx, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock — all these guys together. [When Ben Stiller came onboard], Ben and I were talking about who we could get to play [the movie's co-lead]. He went, "Wouldn't it be the most incredible thing to have Eddie Murphy?" And I told him that this movie actually was Eddie's idea. And he was like: "What? We gotta go to Eddie!"

But I didn't know if Eddie wanted to do it anymore, because [his character] wasn't the lead anymore. It was his idea to be the manager of the building, but there was always a character from the 'hood who'd go out and help with the heist. It was a completely different script. I didn't expect Eddie to [be onboard], but I showed him the script and he said, "I'm in."

MTV News: You and Eddie had been planning to work on "Beverly Hills Cop 4" for a while, but obviously, this movie came first. What was it like getting to finally work together on set?

Ratner: You know, I've been around some big stars, some of the greatest actors who've ever lived. The only time I ever really had to pinch myself was the first day of shooting with Eddie Murphy. [Laughs.] This guy is a genius! He delivers the lines on point, and he brings so much. He'll give me what's on the page, and then he'll give me stuff ... for instance, the scene in the trailer with him and Gabby Sidibe, that was completely improvised. I just had the idea last minute to put those two together, having her show him how to crack the safe. It was supposed to be one shot, and then I told Gabby that she should flirt with Eddie and see what happens. [Laughs.] And, oh my god, it was just incredible. It was genius! The outtakes of that are going to be some of the funniest outtakes in the history of outtakes. There's stuff I can't even put in the movie of them just going at it.

For me, this cast, it was like a dream come true: Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick and all these actors ... I was 12 when Matthew was the coolest movie star in the world, so directing him was like the ultimate.

MTV News: It's interesting, because the film does have such a hilarious cast of actors and comedians, but when looking at the "Tower Heist" trailer, this doesn't feel like an out-and-out comedy.

Ratner: It's heavier. There are scenes in this movie that would never be in "Ocean's Eleven," and that's what I loved about it. It's like one of these '70s cool movies where there are real stakes. And I really learned that from watching Eddie Murphy movies as a kid: great, real villains with real stakes, real drama, and Eddie does his thing. Eddie's funny in the movie, but everyone is very real. It's funny you bring it up: Eddie's always said that his comedy comes from the characters and the situations they're in.

You know, I kind of feel like "Rush Hour" and all my movies were really preparation for this movie, really. To me, as a filmmaker, I feel like I've done my best work. I took all my experiences of working with an ensemble like I did on "X-Men," of doing comedy like "Rush Hour," suspense like "Red Dragon" and brought it to "Tower Heist." Growing up being a fan of Eddie's, and later being a friend of Ben Stiller's, it felt like I just knew what this movie needed to be. I'm hoping people come wanting more than just a comedy, which is what's great about it. There's funny sh-- and people are going to have a great time with it, but people need to care about these characters and get invested. It's not a false thing. You get to know each of these characters; they just all pulled it off. They have such individuality.

From "Abduction" to "Muppets, "Moneyball" to "Breaking Dawn," the MTV Movies team is delving into the hottest upcoming flicks in our 2011 Fall Movie Preview. Check back daily for exclusive clips, photos and interviews with the films' biggest stars.

Check out everything we've got on "Tower Heist."

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Ke$ha Touched By Fan's Tattoo

Singer tells MTV News about gay fan inspired by her song 'Animal.'
By Gil Kaufman


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Ke$ha knows all about the perks of being a headliner. On her Get $leazy Tour, the singer gets to call all the shots, blast her fans in the face with tons of glitter and handpick which dudes she wants to party and share the stage with.

But it's not all backstage shenanigans and groupie love. When MTV News sat down with the "Blow" singer in New York earlier this week before her gig at Roseland Ballroom, Ke$ha said that amid the nightly onstage parties there have also been some poignant moments on her first headlining outing.

"Best moment? There are so many. Every night's amazing. I have kids outside right now chanting my name and it's awesome," she said of the first leg of the tour. "There was one night a fan came onstage, I invited him onstage, and he had a tattoo of the dollar sign. I was like, 'Oh, that's awesome! Badass. You're part of the cult, man.' "

And then, she said, he began to cry and explained that he was able to come out of the closet to his friends and family thanks to her song "Animal."

"And I'm standing onstage about to sing a song about growing back a pair of testicles ["Grow a Pear"] and I had tears rolling down my face and chills all over my body," she said. "Because that's really the reason I do music, to inspire people to be themselves."

Ke$ha has been a vocal supporter of the "It Gets Better" video project, which aims to help gay, bisexual and transgender youth find hope in the face of teasing and bullying.

The "Get $leazy" juggernaut continues on Saturday night with a show at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

Are you planning to see Ke$ha on her Get $leazy Tour? Tell us in the comments.

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'Moneyball' Is All About 'Underdogs,' Jonah Hill Says

'If you're not a baseball fan, it doesn't mean you're not going to love the movie,' he tells MTV News in our Fall Movie Preview.
By Kara Warner


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In addition to his trimmed-down figure, Jonah Hill fans will see a new side of the "Superbad" and "Get Him to the Greek" actor come September 23, when "Moneyball" drops into theaters: his dramatic acting chops.

The film is inspired by Michael Lewis' 2003 best-seller of the same name, which revolved around Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane and how he recruited undervalued yet extremely talented baseball players to build successful teams. In the film, Hill plays Peter Brand, a statistician who helps Beane (Brad Pitt) select players based on in-depth analysis of complex baseball statistics.

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When MTV News caught up with Hill recently, he was excited to talk about his dramatic work and emphasized the fact that the film is more about life than baseball.

MTV: Did you read the book before you started the film?

Jonah Hill: I had just been told that [director] Bennett [Miller] wanted to meet me and I should read the book "Moneyball" in preparation, and so I did, and I really, really loved it.

MTV: Were you a baseball fan beforehand? And how did your appreciation for the game evolve over the course of working on the film?

Hill: I grew up with baseball and really respect and appreciate the game, but in the past, since I was probably 12 or 13, I haven't followed closely. So I wouldn't say I was an avid fan, but I grew up being a Dodgers fan. But if you're not a baseball fan, it doesn't mean you're not going to love the movie. We used baseball as such a metaphor for life. The movie is about these guys trying to create a baseball team with no money, but it's really about choices and being an underdog, so I really can start to relate the game to the people playing it and seeing them as people and wondering about them, and I couldn't help but start wondering about all the players as people and do their stats represent them and their value — that's a lot of what the movie's about.

MTV: How is the film not just a sports movie?

Hill: I hesitate to even call it a sports movie, because if you love baseball, you're going to love it obviously that much more, but for people that I know that have seen it that don't know the first thing about baseball, [they] love it because it's a movie about underdogs. It's really about being undervalued and proving your worth and value and the decisions you make in life.

MTV: Everyone raves about Aaron Sorkin's scripts and dialogue. What was your impression of the script? How does it rank versus some of the others you've seen?

Hill: The script was written by Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian. ... I don't think there's any debate they are the two of the most successful and respected screenwriters in Hollywood, so between them and Scott Rudin and Mike De Luca, our producers, and Bennett Miller and Michael Lewis, who wrote the book, and Brad and Philip [Seymour] Hoffman and Robin Wright, I can say it was pretty crazy to be second lead in this movie. It was a laundry list of people I admired and respected, and it kinda didn't seem real for the first few weeks I got the part.

MTV: Was there a learning curve for you? Did you feel like more of a student on this production?

Hill: I think I always feel like a student. I always work with people I admire or else I don't go to work. To me, it's about learning from people. The best advice I ever got was "Shut up and listen." ... This was obviously the most different. Drama, I had only done one other one, this movie "Cyrus," and for me, those were two experiences, because I had done so many comedies, where I learned something totally different.

MTV: What was your experience like with Brad Pitt, as far as the actor and the person?

Hill: He's great at both. I think he and I are really close in the movie. The movie is really the two of us playing off of each other a majority of the time, so if that chemistry wasn't there between us, I think the movie would have completely failed. So I think we both knew that going in, and I think we both happened to like each other a lot. We definitely played some pranks on each other. That part of [Brad Pitt] lore is true, that he likes to do that. We played some really funny pranks — his a lot funnier than mine — and we became cool. He's a really admirable dude, and I think he has inspired me in a lot of ways, both creatively and personally. If you look at his filmography, his choices are so diverse and cool and eclectic that it's something I really just took away. He was really cool about sharing his history with me and really pushing me in a great way to make interesting choices.

MTV: Can you give me a couple of those pranks?

Hill: There were some golf-cart wars. We had these golf carts, and we would race them all the time to set and crash into each other. And he started messing with mine and eventually turned mine into a full-fledged Wham! mobile — the band Wham! — where eventually there was a bigger-than-life-sized portrait of myself as a member of Wham! next to George Michael on the front of it. It was bright pink, and eventually, by the end, if you turned on my golf cart, it blasted "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and could not be turned off unless the engine was turned off. Sometimes I feel like he has a team of scientists working on f---ing with me.

MTV: So what was your best retaliation you think?

Hill: I got him with a prank to his car that I'm not going to reveal yet. It's a secret.

From "Abduction" to "Muppets, "Moneyball" to "Breaking Dawn," the MTV Movies team is delving into the hottest upcoming flicks in our 2011 Fall Movie Preview. Check back daily for exclusive clips, photos and interviews with the films' biggest stars.

Check out everything we've got on "Moneyball."

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