May 3, 2024

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Dakota Fanning And Elizabeth Olsen Go Topless In ‘Very Good Girls’ Trailer

by 06/04/14

By the time you finish watching the trailer for “Very Good Girls,” you will be raring to torpedo your best-friendship-forever in order to have a hot summer fling with your local ice cream man. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

The film stars Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen as a pair of just-graduated high school besties on a quest to lose their V-cards before college, and now, the very first trailer has hit the web before its June 25 release.

Everything we’ve heard about “Very Good Girls” suggests that we’re in for some fairly steamy action between the leading ladies and the very hunky Boyd Holbrook, who stars as the ice-cream-selling artist who (whoops!) both girls end up falling for. Not only is Dakota Fanning clearly making out with him in the trailer — in some sort of deliciously filthy artist loft, no less — but Fanning also confirmed last year that this movie includes her first onscreen nude scene.

“I was newly 18, so yeah, it was, it’s kind of a sensitive thing, but it’s a part of life,” Fanning told MTV News at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Meanwhile, the opening scene from the trailer shows Fanning and Olsen running topless and shrieking into the ocean, leading us to the question of whether “Very Good Girls” might actually be the most nude movie made this year. We’ll find out soon enough!

“Very Good Girls” will be available on iTunes June 24, and in select theaters June 25.

Amanda Seyfried Raps, And It’s Amazing

by 06/04/14

It is a truth universally acknowledged that once you’ve appeared on the internet, rapping, wearing a giant frog costume, people are always going to want you to do it again… as Amanda Seyfried discovered when she sat down for an interview with BBC Radio 1xtra, where she was on the air with Seth McFarlane to promote “A Million Ways to Die in the West.”

There was no frog headpiece available, sadly, but after learning that her “Les Miserables” co-star Hugh Jackman had recently rapped on the same program, Amanda was game to lay down a few a cappella lines of 5ive’s “It’s All Over.”

Not bad, not bad. But, let’s be real, not her finest performance either. NEVER FORGET, AMANDA SEYFRIED.

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Conan’s ‘Star Wars’ Nerdgasm Choir Moans For All Of Us

by 06/04/14

Although the MTV News crew has been trying valiantly not to totally lose all control over those several dozen photos leaked from the set of the new “Star Wars” film, not everyone in the nerdosphere could be quite as reserved – as Conan O’Brien proved last night.

Dubbed the “Star Wars Nerdgasm Choir,” this video from Monday’s episode of “Conan” shows fans ’round the world creating a great disturbance in the force, as they pant and moan over the sight of an under-construction Millenium Falcon to the tune of “The Imperial March.”

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Jon Hamm Comforting Amy Poehler Is The Most Adorable Story You’ll Read All Day

by 06/03/14

Because Amy Poehler is a glorious queen of comedy and incapable of doing anything that isn’t amazing, we’ve all been waiting so anxiously for news of her upcoming book, “Yes Please.” And at BookCon, the actress finally spoke at a panel about what we can expect from her first foray into publishing.

Per a report from Vulture, this is what’s in store for Amy’s readers: funny observations about social media, a very small peek into her divorce from Will Arnett, and, possibly, the best story ever told about the comforts of having Jon Hamm nearby when you’re pregnant and crying hysterically.

The story: On the eve of Jon Hamm’s “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig — and the day before her baby was due — a very pregnant Amy Poehler called in to her OBGYN’s office from the SNL set and learned that her doctor had died. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t take the news well:

“So it’s my first kid, I’m in a Mad Men outfit, I turn to everybody and I hysterically start crying, and a really pregnant woman crying is terrifying,” Poehler said. “So, juicy tears just like squirting out of my eyes. And it was like the punch line to a joke, it’s like, my doctor just died and I’m due tomorrow. And Jon Hamm, who I am just getting to know, comes over and puts his hands on my shoulder and is like, ‘This is a really important show for me. I’m gonna need you to get your s–t together.’ ...

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Protesters In Thailand Are Using The ‘Hunger Games’ Salute

by 06/02/14

Thai citizens protesting the military coup in the country are catching fire — and international attention — by channeling Katniss Everdeen.

According to a report from Reason, protesters in Bangkok have taken up the three-fingered salute from the “Hunger Games” movies as a symbol of their own rebellion, demonstrating against the government overthrow by Thai army chief and now-self-appointed Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Protesters massed at a Bangkok shopping mall over the weekend, with at least one woman seen flashing the Panem salute out the window of a police car after being arrested.

The coup occured in late May, spawning a nationwide outcry and causing several performers including Taylor Swift to cancel upcoming tour appearances in Thailand.

Hopefully, a peaceful resolution to the protests will be imminent and the three-fingered salute will be the beginning and end of plot elements from “The Hunger Games” manifesting themselves in real life. Either way, the world is watching.

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The Best Sex Advice One Teen Amputee Got From ‘The Fault In Our Stars’

by 06/02/14

It goes without saying that “The Fault in Our Stars” is a heartbreaking, poignant, incredible movie that will rip your heart right out of your chest — just like that one guy did to that other guy in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” — and leave you lying on the floor in a puddle of feelings, forever. But it isn’t only that!

As it turns out, the film is also an unlikely sex education resource that contains at least one piece of useful and necessary advice for aspiring uniped Casanovas about just what to do with your prosthesis when things start getting steamy.

“The Fault in Our Stars” screened at BookCon this weekend, with audience members staying afterward for a presentation with some of the filmmakers, including Nat Wolff, Josh Boone, and John Green. And according to a report from Entertainment Weekly, when the floor opened up for questions, one young man took the opportunity to thank the author of the book for giving him an answer to this pressing personal issue. (Note: Mild spoilers for the film’s very PG-13 sex scene ahead.)

“As an amputee myself, I just wanted to say thank you, John, for answering a lifelong question of mine, which is: whether, during sex, to keep my leg on or off,” he said.

The comment earned a chorus of delighted squeals from everyone present, as well as a hug from Green himself. And for those who want to make amore in the manner of Augustus Waters, consider this ...

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Angelina Jolie’s ‘Maleficent’: The Reviews Are In

by 05/30/14

A Disney villainess getting her very own big-screen origin story; a production designer from “Avatar” at the helm; the magnificent Angelina Jolie wearing prosthetic cheekbones, blood-red lipstick, and a leather horned helmet like something out of a dizzy dominatrix daydream.

For all of these reasons and more, “Maleficent” was the summer-season release that everyone was waiting for, a longed-for peek into the backstory of the woman who responded to an ordinary party snub by putting a death curse on a baby. But did the movie live up to its promises of greatness? MTV News has rounded up a selection of reviews from those who loved it, those who loathed it, and those who thought the movie’s message was more than the sum of its parts.

Angelina Jolie: Best Bad Guy Ever
“This is Jolie’s film because of the Maleficent she makes. Everyone else, even Aurora, fades in her presence. When she is on the screen, she is all you really see. In addition to an uncanny resemblance to the animated queen — those legendary cheekbones enhanced to an even sharper edge, those horns — the actress creates a queen who may not be easy to love, but she is hard to hate.” — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

Fracturing the Fairytale
“Consciously or not, coherently or not, ‘Maleficent’ tells a new kind of story about how we live now, not once upon another time. And it does so by suggesting, among other things, that budding girls and older women are not natural foes, ...

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The Janoskians Are Getting Their Own Movie

by 05/29/14

They’ve conquered YouTube, toured worldwide and been the cause of at least half a dozen moral panics — and now, the Janoskians will get to showcase their shenanigans on a much bigger screen.

Deadline reports that the Australian quintet, who are best known for viral video stunts in which they pretend to wack off on strangers at shopping malls (among other things), have signed a deal with Lionsgate to develop and star in a new feature film. The flick might see them following in the famous footsteps of high-profile pranksters like the “Jackass” crew.

The plot of the movie will center on the Janoskians’ attempts to throw a huge party in Los Angeles, but it’ll be the promise of spontaneous, testosterone-fueled craziness on the part of group members Beau Brooks, Jai Brooks, Luke Brooks, Daniel Sahyounie and James Yammouni that should make this movie a hit. The report on the deal promises “stunts, public pranks and wish fulfillment,” which might mean some exciting opportunities for avid fans to participate.

With a modest budget, producers will be relying on the guys’ charisma and screen presence to lure audiences to the theater. But considering that they’ve already caused crowd-control crises at malls worldwide and singlehandedly shut down Times Square, packing a bunch of movie theaters to capacity should be a piece of cake.

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Rihanna Joints Scout Willis In #FreeTheNipple Topless Instagram Campaign

by 05/29/14

Instagram’s zero tolerance policy against nipples has just made another high-profile enemy. Scout Willis, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, went topless on the streets of New York yesterday, baring her breasts in protest of the photo-sharing application’s banning of the female nipple.

“Legal in NYC but not on @instagram,” Willis wrote, captioning a photo that showed her topless and browsing the produce at a Lower East Side grocery. (New York City is one of the few places in the U.S. where women can walk around naked from the waist up without risking arrest for indecent exposure.)

Scout Willis in NYC

The original (NSFW) tweets can be seen here and here.

This isn’t the first time Instagram has been called out for its seemingly hypocritical policy when it comes to photos of female breasts. In addition to reportedly suspending Rihanna’s account in April after she posted a photo of her topless cover for Lui magazine (which Instagram cagily described as having happened “by mistake”) the application has come under fire for removing pictures of breast cancer survivors and breastfeeding moms — while simultaneously allowing photos of bare-chested men, or photos posted by leery men of nearly-nude women, to stay up.

Rihanna jumped on the topless bandwagon, supporting Scout on Twitter with the battle cry “FREE THE NIPPLE.”

Instagram shut down Scout’s account, and she later posted the photo-sharing site’s response, informing her that she can reactivate her account if she adheres to ...

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26 Things To Do When You Can’t Watch ‘Game Of Thrones’

by 05/25/14

Do you need a break from the drama of HBO’s “Game of Thrones“? Neither do we, and the fact that there’s no new episode this week feels like a cruel and unusual form of torture which we are not entirely sure we’ll survive.

But with the show on hiatus until June 1, there’s no choice to be had: we must find a way to cope. And so, during this long and terrible week-and-a-bit before “The Mountain and the Viper” airs, we’ve come up with a list of activities with which devoted fans can busy themselves.

1. Build your own Winterfell replica out of hamburgers. Slap the everloving business out of the tiny entitled monster who destroys it.

2. Teach your dog to unleash hell on the command, “Dracarys.”

3. Rename your cat “Ser Pounce” and declare him your household’s official feline cockblocker.

4. Practice swordplay.

5. Practice swordplay with your other hand.

6. Burn a replica of Daenerys Targaryen’s blue-leggings-with-breeches traveling outfit as a sacrifice to the Fashion Gods, while praying it never returns. (When you take what is yours with fire and blood, you need to also occasionally wash what is yours with water and detergent, dragon lady.)

7. At your Memorial Day barbecue, serve your guests a large sausage in a small wooden box. Call it the Theon Greyjoy Special. Gleefully threaten to flay everyone who doesn’t want to eat it.

8. Attending a wedding this weeknd? Wear chain mail under your formal wear, and tip the band $10 ...

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