Friday, 22 July 2011
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Let The 'Abduction' To The 2011 Video Music Awards Begin!
by Danielle Genet If you?re anxiously awaiting tonight's star-studded reveal of the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards nominations (like the rest of us!), here's a little treat to tide you over. MTV and Lionsgate, the studio behind the upcoming Taylor Lautner action film "Abduction," are giving you a chance to be abducted on an all-expense paid [...] -
'MTV News: Comic-Con Takeover' Continues Tomorrow With Taylor Lautner!
In case you just didn't get enough of Taylor Lautner during our "Breaking Dawn" livestream earlier today at San Diego Comic-Con, I'm here to say you're in for a twofer. That's right! The abilicious star is returning for our Friday livestream to chat about his other upcoming release, "Abduction," out in September. And that's not [...] -
'Captain America': Chris Evans Reveals The Secret Of Skinny Steve
We all know that you can't make a superhero movie these days without a few fancy special effects, given all the flying, web-slinging, good vs. evil fighting that goes on. Not so for "Captain America: The First Avenger," however, in that the standard VFX challenges on this film were the opposite of what we're used [...] -
'Twilight' Fans Dying To See Sex Scene At Comic-Con
'Let's get real: We all want to see the sex,' one fan tells MTV News of what she's expecting at 'Breaking Dawn' panel.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Eric Ditzian
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in "Breaking Dawn - Part 1"
Photo: Summit EntertainmentSAN DIEGO — There are a plethora of newsworthy stories coming out of San Diego Comic-Con throughout the next few days, but the biggest on Thursday (July 21) is the squeal-inducing appearance of the "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" cast at their highly anticipated panel in Hall H.
MTV News sought out the most dedicated fans Wednesday night, many of whom have been camping out for the panel for several days, to find out what footage from the film they hope to see during the panel.
"Let's get real: We all want to see the sex," Melissa Miller admitted of Edward and Bella's first time. "We all have interpretations in our minds of what happens, but now we actually get to see it."
Sisters Kristine and Aprille Lacayanga echoed Miller's sentiments, though in a less direct way.
"We're not sure what they rated the movie yet," Kristine said. "But the intense scene when they first make love, because in the book it was very, ah, intense," she said with a smile.
Fan and admitted hopeless romantic Elizabeth Castellanos revealed that she's looking forward to seeing Bella and Edward get married.
"I heard [Bella's wedding dress] is supposed to be really beautiful, and they took awhile designing it," she said. "I'm excited to see the wedding," she added. "I'm a die-hard romantic. I'm so excited to see Edward and Bella tie the knot."
The one male fan we happened upon gave us an expectedly masculine answer to what he hopes to see.
"More fighting," Alex Gilder said. "I'm not much of a lovey-dovey guy, so [I want to see] more fighting."
"What I really want to see is the arm-wrestling competition between Bella and Emmett," Arianna Ruiz said, before her friend Elaine Malmrose reminded her that the arm-wrestling scene could be in the second film.
"Oh, that 's true," Ruiz conceded. "OK, so then the sex scene."
"I'm looking forward to seeing some of the more exotic vampires," Annie Dorado added. "Like the guys from Romania."
"I would like to keep some things a mystery," Malmrose said. "I don't want to see the wedding dress, but there is one scene where they're getting ready to take Edward out for his bachelor-party type of thing."
"I'm a Jacob fan, so I'm dying to see some of his reactions at the wedding," Candy Hattori said. "Just a little bit. Not enough to spoil it, but enough to make it exciting."
At 6 p.m. ET/ 3 p.m. PT, shortly after the "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" panel wraps up, we'll be presenting a live-stream event with special appearances by Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. You'll get to hear from the Big Three about what it's like to bring their film to the SDCC masses. We'll also be welcoming in a slew of live "Twilight" guests — including Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser and Julia Jones — to give you exclusive insight into the "Breaking Dawn" panel and what we can expect in the months leading up to the film's November 18 release date.
By the end of the hour-long live stream, you'll know everything there is to know about the "Twilight" experience at Comic-Con — plus a whole lot more. That's because we're inviting you to take part in the action, submitting the questions you're dying to have answered by sending them via Twitter to @MTVNews using the hashtag #mtvsdcc.
What do you hope they reveal in today's panel? Tell us in the comments!
Check out everything we've got on "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1."
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Jay-Z, Kanye West Try Dubstep On Watch The Throne
Producer Verse Simmonds opens up to MTV News about WTT track 'Who Gon Stop Me.'
By Rob Markman
Kanye West and Jay-Z
Photo: Getty ImagesJay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative Watch the Throne LP is shaping up to be the year's most anticipated release.
So far, fans have heard the Southern-fried, Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." and the soul-drenched "Otis," which premiered Wednesday night on New York radio. While the two records both feature hard-nosed lyrics from Hov and 'Ye, their sounds couldn't be more different.
Well, the sonic versatility doesn't stop there. Singer/songwriter Verse Simmonds revealed to MTV News that the multiplatinum rap tandem will also be experimenting with dubstep on the new album.
After getting a call from Bu Thiam, Def Jam's VP of A&R, to submit tracks for WTT, Simmonds and his production partner, Sham "Sak Pase" Joseph, immediately went to work. "What we did is, we locked in a week, we just went crazy on everything Jay and Kanye," Simmonds told MTV News. "I remember telling Sham, I was like, 'Yo, I think this dubstep stuff is going to be the next new flavor that everybody gotta be on. It gotta have a hip-hop feel to it still.' "
The result is "Who Gon Stop Me," a track that, according to the "Buy You a Round" singer, is influenced by the U.K. style of electronic dance music. Together, Verse and Sak Pase make up the Jugganauts, and for "Who Gon Stop Me," Joseph made the beat and Simmonds wrote and referenced the chorus.
"We started creating the track, and it just started to come crazy, so we came up with the concept," Simmonds said before reciting a loose rendition of the song's lyrics. "It was like, 'Who gon stop me, huh? Black cards, Black cars, whole lot of money.' "
To pen the hook on the track, Verse said he first imagined himself in Jigga and Yeezy's shoes. "When I recorded it, everybody was like, 'Yo, you sound just like Kanye, you sound just like Jay-Z,' " he remembered. "It's just crazy, because I felt like, at that moment in time, I was them. I got into that mode of: 'What would these guys say? How would they say it?' I think they heard it the first time and loved it."
Hopefully, the fans will too.
What do you think about the Watch the Throne tracks released so far? Let us know in the comments!
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