With its monsters-versus-robots concept and the promise of awesomely catastrophic property damage, "Pacific Rim" feels like the fulfillment of every 12-year-old boy's ultimate fantasy. For actors Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba, who play two of the film's robot pilots, the chance to strap into the suits to control so much gigantic machinery was both an amazing opportunity and an excruciating challenge.

"As soon as I start speaking about the suit, my voice goes [high] because, well, you can imagine," Elba told MTV News' Josh Horowitz. "But it's form-fitting, man. It takes 45 minutes to get in and you need two people to help you, and another 30 minutes to get out. But I'll tell you, when you're walking through 600 extras, they move out of the way."

Elba plays Stacker Pentecost, the leader of the "Jaeger" program, named after the giant robots that humankind has built to battle equally huge monsters — dubbed "Kaiju" — that have emerged from the bottom of the sea. His character enlists Raleigh Becket (Hunnam), who retired after a disastrous showdown with a creature that resulted in the death of his brother, to re-enter the fray and fight on the front lines one more time.

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Hunnam shared Elba's views on the suit, both in terms of its discomfort and the amazing feeling he got from the idea that he looked so cool after enduring that pain. "I mean, they were horrible to wear, but they looked so bad-ass," Hunnam admitted. "It was one of those ...

"Fruitvale Station" doesn't just give actor Michael B. Jordan ("Chronicle") his first major starring role in a motion picture, it tells the incredible true-life story of Oscar Grant, a young man who was shot on New Year's Eve 2009 during a chaotic altercation with the police.

Far from an indictment of either the troubled young man or the cops that killed him, writer-director Ryan Coogler's docudrama takes a sensitive look at Grant's life in the 12 hours prior to his death, and the circumstances that led up to that fateful confrontation. The weight of which Jordan acknowledged was both a privilege and a responsibility to explore.

"Actors, we wait around for the opportunity to show what you can do," Jordan told MTV News' Josh Horowitz. "Especially a movie piece that you really care about that you can put your heart into. And for this one, I remember when it happened. I remember watching it and feeling all types of emotions — upset, angry, frustrated, helpless. I felt like I wanted to do something to help.

"So four years later when Ryan Coogler wrote the script, and the opportunity came up for me to play this role, I just felt a certain responsibility to play it," he said.

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Jordan's other credits include "Red Tails" as well as TV's "Friday Night Lights" and "The Wire." After working on projects with large ensembles, he was happy to get a chance to be at the top of a cast list. "Every actor wants to be No. 1 on the call ...

Karmin is taking it back to the old school. In their new music video for "Acapella," the duo channels some of their retro influences with a Hype Williams-inspired theme.

"There's some of that swagger. Hype Williams would be really great to work with but yeah, we definitely stole some of his ideas," Amy Heideman told MTV News. "He defined those videos I think in the '90s and 2000s."

The twosome, who list Missy Elliott and Brandy as some of their muses, wanted to bring a "throwback vibe" to the set using a monochromatic color palette — similar to retro favorites such as Destiny's Child "Say My Name" and Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" — They brought in a fish-eyed lens and something they've never done before on camera: choreography.

"I actually enjoyed it," Nick Noonan said, regarding his fancy footwork. "To be honest I was a little hesitant in the beginning, I was like, 'I'm sorry, what?' But it wasn't even like someone else was saying it, it was us saying, 'Hey, we want to do this,' but I was still like, 'hey, I'm going to go for it and we're going to do everything and see.' If it looks terrible we've got to be straight up with ourselves though. You don't put a square into a round hole; you know what I'm saying? Is that the right analogy?"

Karmin would also like to add a retro touch to their upcoming LP. The pair is scheduled to drop their debut album sometime this September and for a blast from the ...

It's been almost four years since 50 Cent last dropped a solo LP, and the G-Unit juggernaut is in no rush to do it.

"I don't really need the money off of the record. I want the record to be right. I'm not doing it without a plan; I'm not putting it out like that," 50 told MTV News about his long-awaited fifth studio album.

The multiplatinum rap king points to his label Interscope and says he won't make a move until the record company is ready. "It's a lot of staff changes, a lot of different people moving in and moving out, so you got to kind of wait until everything's right; until it's settled in," he reasoned.

50 likens himself to a basketball player with dominant skills but less team support — someone akin to Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant maybe? "I've been on a team where I take the ball out and throw myself the alley-oop, and I take the ball out and shoot the three-pointer myself, and I take the ball out and I dunk the ball," he said, driving home the analogy.

That's not to suggest that 50 hasn't been releasing music the past few years — he's actually been quite active. After dropping Before I Self Destruct in November 2009, he's dropped two mixtapes (The Big 10, The Lost Tape and 5 (Murder by Numbers)) as well as a number of singles like with Eminem and Adam Levine, and his most recent, with Kendrick Lamar.

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It's been exactly 149 days since Lady Gaga canceled her Born This Way ball, underwent surgery, and disappeared from the public eye to rehab (and get fitted for a gold-plated wheelchair, naturally).

But doesn't it feel so much longer than that?

And not just because in the time Gaga's been gone, Justin Timberlake, Daft Punk, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Jay-Z all released albums, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis topped the Hot 100 twice, DOMA was repealed, Miley Cyrus discovered twerking and Amanda Bynes went crazy.

No, the past five months have felt like an eternity because they have been entirely bereft of Gaga, who went from being one of the most visible, successful and controversial artists on the planet to a mere afterthought, almost overnight. Rarely — if ever — has a star of her magnitude vanished so quickly, or as completely. Gaga was pop music's perpetual-motion machine, always moving toward something (at the time of her injury, it was the much-discussed ARTPOP album), and when she went under the knife, it was as if someone pulled the plug. Everything stopped.

And when her activity stopped, so did the endless font of over-the-top proclamations, out-there fashions, and outspoken support of worthwhile causes. In short, she went silent, and whether you like her or not, you've got to admit that the entire music biz — and pop music in particular — has been pretty boring because of that.

Of course, on Friday, with one florid, fantastic Facebook post, that machine started humming again. Gaga is ...