November 27, 2024

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Celebrate Hellboy Day With These Exclusive B.P.R.D. Artifacts

Have you made your Hellboy Day plans yet? Better hurry up, because March 22 is the 20th anniversary of the big red hero who has graced comics' pages and movie screens for the past two decades.

Created by writer/artist Mike Mignola, Hellboy has spawned a mini empire of graphic novels and collectibles, with new issues of "Hellboy" and its spin-off comics — most notably "B.P.R.D." which follows the adventures of Hellboy's former team-mates as they battle apocalyptic monsters — hitting stands weekly.

And sure you could celebrate the festivities at your local comic book shop wearing a lightly used "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" T-shirt; or you could go a little more high end, with one of Skelton Crew Studio's many superbly crafted collectibles based on the Mignola-verse.

The company is known for their finely manufactured pieces based on comics properties, including "Locke & Key," "Chew," "Mouse Guard" and most appropriately for the topic at hand, "Hellboy/B.P.R.D."

They've previously released four items from that last collection, all packaged as if they were artifacts rescued from supernatural sites by the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. And now, in honor of Hellboy Day, MTV News is exclusively revealing two more items in the collection.

The two new releases in Skelton Crew Studio's Artifact Archive line, in conjunction with Mike Mignola himself are: Vasilisa's Comb and Handkerchief; and the Ogdru Jahad Amulet from "Hellboy: The Island."

Both are based on storylines/items from the comics themselves. The pewter replicas are hand-numbered, limited to 1,000 ...

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Chris Hemsworth And Elsa Pataky Welcome Twin Boys

Chris Hemsworth and wife Elsa Pataky have welcomed twin sons. The "Thor" actor, 30, and the "Fast & Furious 6" star, 37, confirmed the news to People on Friday (March 21). The two were married back in December 2010, and welcomed daughter India Ro... ...

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This Civil Rights Leader’s Reaction To Lil Wayne’s Emmett Till Lyric Might Surprise You

Lil Wayne landed in hot water last February when a line name-checking tragic civil rights figure Emmett Till on Future's 
 raised eyebrows and drew complaints from Till's family.

The verse featured the line: "Beat the p---y up like Emmett Till," drawing a dark reference to the teen who was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman in 1955. Till was beaten beyond recognition, but his mother insisted that he have an open casket funeral, so the world can see and remember the brutality. Future's label quickly removed the lyric and then remixed the song again in a version featuring Birdman, Rick Ross and French Montana, but no Weezy.

At the time, the rapper attempted to reach out to the Till family in an apologetic open letter
, a gesture the family said at the time 
 The controversy also lost Wayne an endorsement deal with Mountain Dew
.

But a year later, does the lyric still sting?

MTV News recently sat down with civil rights icon and Congressman Rep. John Lewis to get his take on the incident. "I think when a star, a singer, uses the name of someone like an Emmett Till in music ... a lot of young people grow up not even knowing anything about Emmett Till," he said. "So maybe it would help people go and [say], 'Who was Emmett Till?'"

In fact, Lewis said that if it hadn't been for music the civil rights movement might have been like "a bird without wings." Imagine not having songs like: "We Shall Not Be Moved," ...

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This Civil Rights Leader’s Reaction To Lil Wayne’s Emmett Till Lyric Might Surprise You

Lil Wayne landed in hot water last February when a line name-checking tragic civil rights figure Emmett Till on Future's 
 raised eyebrows and drew complaints from Till's family.

The verse featured the line: "Beat the p---y up like Emmett Till," drawing a dark reference to the teen who was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman in 1955. Till was beaten beyond recognition, but his mother insisted that he have an open casket funeral, so the world can see and remember the brutality. Future's label quickly removed the lyric and then remixed the song again in a version featuring Birdman, Rick Ross and French Montana, but no Weezy.

At the time, the rapper attempted to reach out to the Till family in an apologetic open letter
, a gesture the family said at the time 
 The controversy also lost Wayne an endorsement deal with Mountain Dew
.

But a year later, does the lyric still sting?

MTV News recently sat down with civil rights icon and Congressman Rep. John Lewis to get his take on the incident. "I think when a star, a singer, uses the name of someone like an Emmett Till in music ... a lot of young people grow up not even knowing anything about Emmett Till," he said. "So maybe it would help people go and [say], 'Who was Emmett Till?'"

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In fact, Lewis said that if it hadn't been for music the civil rights movement might have been like "a bird without wings." Imagine not ...

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Kanye And Kim’s ‘Vogue’ Cover: How They Finally Landed An Epic Spread

It's been in the works for more than a year now, but, finally, Kim Kardashian has her "Vogue" cover ... with Kanye West, of course.

Yes, the happy couple graces the April issue of the iconic magazine, and inside, they're the subject of an Annie Leibovitz photo spread. Looks like the reports of a feud between "Vogue" Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Kardashian were just slightly overblown.

And based on a new behind-the-scenes clip posted by the mag today, Kanye and Kim aren't the only ones who appear in the new issue: Their daughter, North West, is also featured, posing with her parents in a garden and solo with Kim. And, yes, she looks adorable.

The shoot is appropriately over-the-top, featuring Kim and Kanye strolling down an abandoned stretch of highway (they must've ditched the motorcycle), posing on board a private jet, and getting steamy on a black Lamborghini. And then, there's the glossy cover shot, where Kanye nuzzles up to Kim above the headline "Kim & Kanye: Their Fashionable Life and Surreal Times. #WORLDSMOSTTALKEDABOUTCOUPLE."

Hashtag please! Their "Vogue" spread is a definite — and decidedly demure — departure from the coital cover shoot the couple did for French fashion magazine "L'Officiel Hommes" earlier this year, which showed them in a passionate embrace (to put it mildly).

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‘Divergent’ Takes On ‘Muppets’ At Box Office, But Which Is ‘Most Wanted’?

Many would-be successors have tried and failed to match the success of "The Twilight Saga" and "The Hunger Games." Box-office forecasters are confident that will break the young-adult adaptation curse, succeeding where "The Mortal Instruments," "Vampire Academy" and many others have failed.

may very well open north of $60 million at the box office, according to projections from The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and ComingSoon.net. Box Office Mojo was more conservative, pinning the number closer to $50 million. The Los Angeles Times split the difference at $55 million.

The entire movie industry and its observers are in agreement on one point: "Divergent" will succeed where so many recent attempts have failed. As our own Kevin P. Sullivan recently pointed out, Shailene Woodley built serious indie cred prior to this franchise kickoff, just like Jennifer Lawrence before her.

In the last year and a half, "Vampire Academy," "The Mortal Instruments," "Beautiful Creatures" and "The Host" all came and went with little fanfare. "Percy Jackson" and "I Am Number Four" didn't fare well, either. "Twilight" opened in November 2008 to the tune of $69 million, launching a franchise that eventually made over $3.3 billion around the world. With just two films thus far, "The Hunger Games" series has made $1.5 billion already.

Of course "Divergent" isn't the only youth-friendly franchise in theaters this weekend. Aiming at a much younger audience in addition to nostalgic parents, looks to capitalize on the success of the 2011 franchise reboot, "The Muppets." The film starts literally where the last one ended, but the ...

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