November 28, 2024

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Miley Cyrus Was Forced To Run Onstage In Her Undies, But Did Anyone Notice?

Miley Cyrus is not the type to keep her fans hanging. Even if it means performing even more naked than she already does.

Case in point: During Sunday night's show at Milwaukee's BMO Harris Bradley Center, Miley ran off stage after an acoustic set with her band to change into her signature sexy ball jersey for "23," but just ran out of time.

"Not a new outfit for '23,' " she wrote. "I didn't make my quick change and I couldn't come out for the song, so I just had to run out in my undies :("

She said she'd never had that issue before, but she loves her fans too much to let a wardrobe malfunction throw her off.

And when she's not beefing with fellow pop starKaty Perry about their recent mid-show make-out, Cyrus also continues to post POV videos from the stage. She was at it again on Sunday night, swinging the camera out to show the audience and then turning it back on herself.

She posted another from Sunday's show, a black and white clip in which she's singing a cover of the Irma Thomas soul tune "Ruler of My Heart." The show featured her usual cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene," as well as OutKast's "Hey Ya!" and Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go."

If nothing else, her videos prove how hyped audiences are on this tour, especially the one where everyone in the arena is just flat-out freaking.

Even before she took the stage, Miley tested out her camera, hanging off the rig and ...

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‘Oculus’: How To Eat A Light Bulb And 6 Other Scary Secrets

One thing we know for sure about the upcoming mirror-based horror movie "Karen Gillan, writer/director Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy is that like any good mirror, it hides its fair share of secrets.

You Can't Predict How Scary It Is
The day after the big premiere at SXSW, Gillan told us that the movie is so terrifying, even professionals can't handle watching the film.

"Someone told me there was a professional medium in the audience who couldn't watch. That's it! We've done it!" Gillan said, laughing.

It All Started With A Fear Of Mirrors
Originally shot as a short film in 2005, Flanagan used the inherent weirdness of mirrors to spin the story into a full-length movie.

"I've always found mirrors to be inherently creepy," Flanagan said. "We all have this image of ourselves, what we think we look like, and it's totally wrong. For one thing, it's backwards. And for another every mirror has its own imperfections and distortions built in that we don't think about. Mirrors freaked me out as a kid."

The Portable Overlook Hotel
Before the story expanded into being about two time periods, and two very different groups of people all entangled with the mirror, it was going to be an anthology.

"We looked at it like the mirror was this portable Overlook Hotel that you could pick up and put anywhere," Flanagan said. "So initially we wanted to do a whole anthology of shorts.

"Expanding it into a feature was tough, because it's a short about one guy alone in a room with some cameras. So everyone who saw the short ...

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Diplo And The Clash Talk Blending Punk And EDM On New Track: Watch Now

Brooklyn, NEW YORK — The idea of a track made by The Clash and Diplo may be difficult, especially when you layer in the voice of Frank Ocean. But for Converse's Three Artists, One Song campaign, that's exactly the point.

The song "Hero," out Monday (March 10), brings together these three seemingly unrelated artists, for an equal parts doo-wop, punk and garage track, anchored by Ocean's soulful voice.

The Converse sneaker brand has been iconic in the music industry for decades, but Converse wanted to make even more of an impact with this campaign. "We value as a company to be a contributor," Converse Chief Marketing Officer Geoff Cottrill explained to MTV News. "We want to contribute something to youth culture, and not just sponsor it."

Any song that can bring British punk pioneers Mick Jones and Paul Simonon and electronic/hip-hop producer Diplo to the same recording studio in 2014 is unquestionably a contribution to the culture. On the surface, it might be hard to see what two members of the Clash and the head of Mad Decent have in common, but all three agreed that punk and dance music have more similarities than meets the eye.

"Dance music is pretty basic: It's the voice of the kids that are making it," Diplo told MTV News during the Three Artists, One Song campaign launch in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Thursday. "It's cool that we have something happening. Our generation has created something out of nothing with dance music. Kids are making music and going straight to SoundCloud or YouTube; they're 17 years ...

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‘The Following’s’ Shawn Ashmore Breaks Down His Toughest Scene

If you're fully caught up with the thrills of "The Following," then you already know that Shawn Ashmore, who plays FBI agent Mike Weston, has had some hard-to-stomach scenes this season — with none more brutal than the climactic moment in the most recent episode, when a text message from antagonist Lily ended up containing a video of Mike's father being murdered.

Watching Mike watch that video was agony for the "Following" audience. But for Ashmore, it was a different sort of challenge entirely. Because — and hold on to something, because we are about to blow your mind — when we watch Mike watching the video, the actor playing him wasn't watching anything at all.

"The crazy thing about that final scene, where I see my dad die, is that they hadn't actually shot the video of my dad being killed," Shawn revealed to MTV News in a recent interview. "I didn't know what my dad looked like, I didn't know the actor they were going to get to play him. It was a really tough scene, a really emotional scene, and I'm really happy with how it turned out."

In other words, the actor had to create that horrified, tearful reaction out of whole cloth, and play it to a blank, green screen: no small feat when it came to filming one of the most wrenching moments ever on a show where hard punches to the feelings are de rigueur. For Ashmore, though, having to play with incomplete information is just part and parcel of making one of the ...

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Justin Bieber Deposition Video: Watch Him Get Heated Over Selena Questions

Justin Bieber was back in Miami on Thursday, not for the first trial date in his DUI/resisting arrest case
, but in connection with yet another of his legal entanglements in the Sunshine State.

The 20-year-old singer flew in for a nearly five-hour deposition in connection with a lawsuit filed in June by paparazzo Jeffery Binion, who claimed that Justin and one his bodyguards roughed him up and tried to take a memory card from his camera.

TMZ has just posted a number of clips from the legal proceeding which show Bieber getting upset when lawyers turned their attention to the singer's ex, Selena Gomez.

Binion's lawyer, identified in reports as Mark DiCowden, asked Bieber if he knew on-and-off flame Gomez
 and was dating her at the time of the incident. Bieber shook his head in disbelief, as his lawyer, identified as Howard Weitzman in reports, asked what the relevance of the question was. "Journalism, this isn't journalism?" an annoyed Bieber asked. When DiCowden persisted and again asked Bieber if he'd ever discussed his feelings about paparazzi with Gomez, Justin sighed heavily, rubbed his chin and then put his hand over his eyes in seeming frustration.

"Don't ask me about her again," he finally said in response, waving his finger and repeating the request several more times at increasing volume as DiCowden kept at it. Bieber's team eventually asked for a break and left the room, seemingly to allow the singer to cool down.

In another clip, Bieber again shook his head and half-smiled as DiCowden asked why the defendant ...

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Mark Wahlberg To Receive MTV Generation Award

Over the past week, the 2014 MTV Movie Awards have come together in a big way. First, we heard that late night legend Conan O'Brien will host the show on April 13 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and now voting for all of the categories is open over at MTV.com. But ... ...

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‘Walking Dead’: 17 Questions About ‘Alone’

"What about Bob?"

If that was your burning question entering the latest episode of then you must have walked away satisfied. This week's hour, titled "Alone," was very heavy on Bob Stookey, the former medic and alcoholic newbie on the run with Maggie and Sasha. "Alone" began with Bob, and nearly ended with him — but there was plenty of Daryl and Beth to enjoy as well, if you didn't get enough of them in last week's hour.

As is the case with most "Walking Dead" episodes, "Alone" left us with several burning questions. Seventeen of them, to be precise — and here they are:

1. Where's Wallace? Sorry, I had to.

2. What's Bob's safe word? Clearly, it's not "ow."

3. How awesome does Beth look with a crossbow? Pretty awesome. The Daryl Dixon School of Marksmanship produces strong students!

4. How would you prefer to travel: On Daryl Dixon's motorcycle, or on Daryl Dixon? The choice is obvious here, people. Piggyback, every time.

5. How many people have held Daryl's hand before? Other than Beth, I'm betting not too many, based on what we now know about the bowman's past.

6. What good reason does Sasha have not to go in search of Terminus? I can't think of a one. It makes all the sense in the world to seek out sanctuary, when there are no other leads. I like Sasha, but lord, I just don't understand her thinking sometimes.

7. Did anyone else half-expect Nathaniel Fisher Sr. to pop up with some beyond-the-grave advice in that funeral parlor? Or am I the only "Six ...

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‘True Detective’ Finale Closes The Book On A Modern Television Classic

In its final hour, "True Detective" served both aspects of its personality — the mystery of Dora Lange's murder and the lives of Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart — without ever betraying the series' soul. The Yellow King, the Man with the Scars, Carcosa, the Tuttles, Reggie Ledoux, Marie Fontenot and every other string on the cork board pushed the story forward for eight hours, but in the end, the ultimate, most satisfying conclusion amounted to nothing more than two men having a conversation in the parking lot of a hospital.

The answer to the central mystery of "True Detective" was simple, even by the standards of a police procedural. Errol Childress was really nothing more than a lunatic capable of unspeakable evils. Sure, he had connections to a senator and a powerful pastor, but what Errol did to Dora Lange and the rest of his victims was just the workings of a messed up dude.

And it never had to be anything more than that. (My sincerest apologies go out to the Lovecraftian conspiracy theorists out there. Perhaps Cthulhu and the "Cloverfield" monster for #TrueDetectiveSeason2.) The writings of Robert W. Chambers and "The King in Yellow" added color to the scenery and painted a layer of dread over the proceedings, but what made "True Detective" a week-to-week phenomenon was always these characters and the performances by Woody Harrelson and Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey.

If there is a complaint to be had, it has to be about the beginning of the final episode and the time spent exclusively with Errol ...

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‘Girls’: Every Soul-Shattering Thing Marnie’s Annoying Friend Said

We all have that friend. The up-talking, obnoxious, soul-shatteringly entitled one who somehow seems to succeed despite all odds. (No? Don't we? Look harder, you'll find them.) Or even when this person says something that sounds like a rational sentence, they immediately follow it up with an incongruous and totally unacceptable remark.

What we're trying to say is, holy eff, isn't Marnie's gallery gal-pal Soojin just the living, breathing worst? For posterity (and for authenticity in our Halloween costume, because we're so totally dressing up as this chick in October), we've recorded the most cringe-worthy Soojin remarks from the March 9 episode of "Girls," "Role Play."

» "So are you in for a little more? Because it's an important investment in our space's future. My appointment just got here. Okay. Love you. Bye, Daddy."

» "Opening Cemetery. Their prices will be the death of me."

» "Sorry, we're in such disarray. There just like aren't enough hours in the day."

» "I can't be a woman and a girlfriend and a gallerist and an electronic musician and all these things all at once. It's too much for one person. I love your beanie."

» "Totally, all of that. I've been saying all along that what I really need is an assistant who's more qualified than I am."

» "I mean, my best homo friend Jeremy is already gallery director, so I thought yeah, you'd start off as an assistant. My assistant."

» "Two-four, girl. But for the cred and intrigue of the gallery I'm gonna tell people I'm 22. So."

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