May 8, 2024

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Spoiler Alert: Fan Favorite Character Comes To ‘Batman Eternal #3’

Every week, DC Comics is releasing a new issue of the epic mega-series "Batman Eternal." And spoiler alert with the release of issue #3, the publisher has reintroduced an eagerly demanded, fan favorite character: Stephanie Brown, also known as The Spoiler.

To find out more about her reintroduction, and break down the other epic moments in the issue, we talked to writer Scott Snyder:


MTV News: Let's talk about Stephanie Brown's intro. Why was it important to bring her back this way?

Scott Snyder: The key was bringing her back in a way that would honor her in a way, what she was before the New 52 relaunch, while still keeping her something that has a new purpose, a new status, and a new definition.

It really began with her old title of Spoiler. Back in the day she was referred to as Spoiler because she spoils all the plans of her father and bad guys, and so on. Here, the new definition, the popular definition has so much to do with revealing secrets before you're supposed to.

We thought it would be great if we could reinvent her with a similar origin, but make her one of the key figures in all of "Eternal" because she knows things before anyone else does.

So as the series continues she becomes one of the most wanted women in Gotham. Not just because of the stuff she learns with Cluemaster here, but the stuff she learns as the series goes on. She becomes an incredibly powerful figure, and a really important character to the entire ...

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Jodie Foster Got Married This Weekend

Jodie Foster is no longer — as she said in her quasi-coming-out 2013 Golden Globes speech — single.

The actress married photographer Alexandra Hedison over the weekend, a rep confirmed to E! News on Wednesday (April 23). The couple have been together for about a year. They first got together last summer.

In July 2013, Foster spoke about coming out while accepting the Cecil B. Demille Award for a lifetime of achievement at the Golden Globes, first faking out the crowd: "I'm just going to put it out there, loud and proud, right? So I'm going to need your support on this. I am... single."

The rest of her acceptance was an anti-coming out speech.

"There won't be a big coming-out speech tonight," she said. "Because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the Stone Age, in those very quaint days, when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her to everyone she actually met," she said.

"But now apparently, I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime time reality show. You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child. I'm sorry. That's just not me, it never was, and it never will be, but please don't cry because my reality show would be so boring."

MTV News' request for comment was not returned by press time.

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Sam Claflin Is Scared Of Literally <i>Everything</i>: Watch

Sam Claflin went from YA hero in the "Hunger Games" to horror movie star with his new film So clearly, he's a pretty brave guy.

And our own Josh Horowitz took that assessment to heart when Claflin stopped by the MTV newsroom recently for an episode of

"I guess I'm just going to start calling you Sam Claflin, Master of Fear," Josh said.

"Well, if the shoe fits," Sam responded.

But when Josh began taking the young star around the office, he noticed some strange behavior. Sam seemed a little, well, on edge, especially when Josh took out the scariest of all office supplies: the stapler.

Sam broke out in a cold sweat, though he denied it was because of the stapler. "I'm English," he said by way of an excuse.

Ok, that's not a bad excuse. But things didn't get any better after the stapler, as Sam grew increasingly frightened about everything from a cardboard cutout of Chris Hemsworth to a plush E.T. doll. It all led to a final confrontation involving Sam, Josh ... and a baseball bat.

Watch all of Sam's fears come to life in this terrifyingly hilarious video. We guarantee it's scarier than anything you'll see in theaters. Well, except for "The Quiet Ones," out everywhere April 25.

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Did You Spot Every Hat In Pharrell’s New Music Video?

There may be a lot of girls in the video for Pharrell Williams' GIRL opener "Marilyn Monroe" — duh — but there are also more than a few hats. Yup, Skateboard P. has taken his already solid chapeau game to new heights with this one.

The video, which dropped Wednesday (April 23), features Williams dancing it up with an array of different ladies — including featured vocalist Kelly Osbourne going all Katniss with a bow and arrow.

Every type of woman is represented in the melange, from ballerinas to record store lurkers to a boxer to a bespectacled beauty chomping on an apple. "Girl, girl, girl" — Pharrell's surrounded.

And as if to complement the eclectic collection of female humanity in the vid, Pharrell makes sure to change up his headwear with every scene change: When he courts Marilyn Monroe 2.0, he sports a purple topper; while undulating around Osbourne, he boasts a brown hat with a hole in it (we're guessing from the aforementioned arrow); a red hat goes perfectly with an assemblage of sleek, modish dancers, etc.

Yup, Skateboard P's Grammy night headpiece — inspired by Malcolm McLaren and The World's Famous Supreme Team's music video for their 1982 hit "Buffalo Girls" — wasn't just an idle dalliance. It's apparently now a lifestyle.

Check out all of P's heady looks from "Marilyn Monroe" below:

1. The Purple Hat

2. The Teal Hat

3. The Red Hat

4. The Brown Hat With The Hole

5. The Black Hat

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Sorry Simba, ‘Frozen’ Soundtrack Is Now King Of The Charts

The soundtrack is now officially the all-time animated chart champ. After flirting with the record for most weeks at #1 by an animated movie album, Olaf, Elsa, Anna and Hans have done it, vanquishing Simba and the gang to the #2 spot in Billboard 200 history.

Biggest Week Ever
By notching its biggest sales week to date thanks to a 94 percent increase, "Frozen" easily took #1 for a record-setting 11th week
, besting the previous mark set by "The Lion King." With sales of nearly 259,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan, "Frozen" chugs past the 2.3 million mark, easily making it the year's best seller to date.

No One Else Is Even Close
Despite four new faces in the top five, nobody else even came close to pushing "Frozen" off its icy perch. Singer August Alsina's debut, Testimony, will come in at #2 (67,000), rockers NEEDTOBREATHE's Rivers in the Wasteland at #3 (49,000) and Jason DeRulo's career-high debut for Talk Dirty at #4 (44,000). Rounding out the top five is Ingrid Michaelson's latest, Lights Out, which moved almost 37,000 copies.

Eight months into its chart run, Lorde's Pure Heroine got another healthy bump, jumping up 62 percent and four spots to #8 on sales of 26,000, putting her on the cusp of 1.2 million in sales.

Nas Is Still Ill
The 20th anniversary re-issue of Nas' landmark Illmatic
 album drops in at #14 on sales of 15,000, just behind the Disney karaoke album of "Frozen" songs (#17, 15,000).

Lana Del Rey Reps Hard For The "West Coast"
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