Imagine this, live and in living color on the big screen: a poor girl, her mother dead, reduced to scrubbing the floors under the care of her cruel stepmother until a magical encounter changes her fate.

Yes, “Cinderella” will once again hit theaters with a live remake in 2015, though you wouldn’t exactly know it from the teaser trailer Disney just released. Instead of any footage for the movie — which is still in post-production — it’s just a minute-long, fancied-up clip of a terribly uncomfortable-looking shoe, complete with crystallized butterfly. Talk about a reboot, right?

Disney also released a poster for the flick today, featuring the same foot-chewing accessory. Check it out below.

“Cinderella,” starring Lily James, Hayley Atwell, Helena Bonham Carter and Cate Blanchett, is due in theaters March 13, 2015.

Kase Wickman

The ad’s subject line might have looked like just another creepy Craigslist come-on: “Artist seeking ‘Strange Desire’ (Brooklyn).”

But it was actually the weirdest press release ever. The post came from Bleachers boss Jack Antonoff, and the Fun. guitarist used it to announce the title and release date of his debut solo album.

“‘Strange Desire‘ is something that came to me a few weeks ago when I was working on the last song i wrote for the Bleachers album,” Antonoff wrote. “The lyric is, ‘Feeling like I never was young I followed a dream and a strange desire.’”

Antonoff said the title of the album, due out on July 15, came to him when he was recording a reference vocal off the top of his head, not realizing until later that the lyric had a much deeper meaning.

“That line speaks to my entire life over the past 14 years of writing and being on tour,” Antonoff explained. “I do feel like I’m constantly mourning a childhood I never had. Mostly because I dealt with a lot of loss in the most formative years of my life. that ties into a lot of the lyrics on the album. Specifically ‘I Wanna Get Better’ – ‘while my friends where getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines I was losing my mind.’ I felt completely freaked out at a moment in life that was supposed to be carefree.”

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By Adam Graham

“American Idol” continued toward its inevitable Caleb Johnson/Jena Irene finale on Wednesday, with each coming off a successful hometown visit and performing three songs apiece. Oh, and not that it mattered, but Alex Preston performed three songs too.

Preston actually scrapped together what was likely his best performance of the season, with a strong-if-unexpected version of Rihanna’s ballad “Stay.” But the Caleb/Jena finish is practically foregone, and is how this “Idol” season has been headed for weeks. Sorry, Alex.

Here’s how Wednesday’s show — “Idol’s” 500th episode — unfolded:

Caleb Battles Voice Troubles
The biggest hurdle Caleb Johnson had to overcome in his road to the finale was his own voice, which he lost after going back to Asheville, North Carolina, over the weekend for his hometown visit. At the open of Wednesday’s show, viewers were told Johnson didn’t sing at all during the show’s rehearsal, and a doctor was trotted out onstage to explain Johnson was battling a bruised vocal chord. The doc compared his performing to a runner racing with a badly bruised ankle.

Johnson’s big wail seemed weakened but not entirely sidelined during his first two songs, INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart” (Randy Jackson’s choice) and Imagine Dragons’ “Demons” (the judges’ choice). But he was able to pull out all the stops for his closer, a reprise of his version of Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused,” which had Jennifer Lopez sensually writhing at the judges’ table. Lopez called it “a true ‘Idol’ moment,” though her reaction is more likely ...

You knew it was coming, but “Arrow” spin-off “The Flash” will get a crossover as soon as the first episode. The extended trailer for the pilot has Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen offering Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen a key piece of advice that Barry first gave Ollie back on “Arrow.”

We’ll have plenty more on both shows out of the CW Upfronts later in the day.

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The perfect date and the right outfit is pretty much all you need to make prom night memorable, but unfortunately for Mack Wilds he had neither. Still, the “Henny” singer had a prom night that he’ll never forget.

“It’s a funny story about my prom,” Mack recently told MTV News about his big night. Before he was cutting Grammy-nominated LPs, Mack was busy acting, playing Michael Lee in the Baltimore-based HBO hit series “The Wire.” But being a teenage TV actor came with some sacrifices.

“I kept on asking the producers if I could actually get time to go to prom and if I was able to go,” Mack recalled. “Last minute, literally, a week before prom they moved everything and they were like, ‘You can go — you just can’t cut your hair and you have to make sure you’re back here right after prom.’”

Mack — who was sporting a small afro for the role — knew he didn’t have much time before the big night, and he was having trouble finding a suit. He was left to rely on his father … and his father’s specific tastes.

“My dad took me Downtown Brooklyn to get one of his Steve Harvey classics,” Mack said, poking fun at the over-size suits the comedian and daytime television became know for.

“It was crazy, it was like a beige suit and a top hat and a pimp cane,” Mack recalled. “It was terrible. It sounds like something out of a ...

Was it worth it?

That’s the question you have to ask yourself, after reports surfaced of how much the now-fired employee who reportedly sold the video of Solange Knowles violently attacking Jay Z in an elevator received for leaking the recording.

Click Here To See Which Jay/Solange Story We Found Out Is Totally Fake.

While the reports could not be independently confirmed at press time, the New York Post’s Page Six said that the tape might have been sold to TMZ for up to $250,000.

“This was being shopped for five days to the highest bidder,” an unnamed source said, noting that famed Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer has been hired to find out who the source of the leak was.

Another source, also unidentified, reportedly told E! Online that the sale price for the tape sold by an unnamed female security guard was closer to $50,000-$100,000.

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One day after his family filed a missing person’s report, radio legend Casey Kasem’s location has been confirmed. According to reports, the 82-year-old former “American Top 40″ host, who suffers from a progressive type of dementia, was tracked down in Washington state in an undisclosed location.

“The family has grave concerns about his medical care,” a Kasem family spokesperson said in a statement. “The Kasem family will do everything in their power to bring their father home.”

Daughter Kerri, who was granted a temporary conservatorship by a judge on Monday, added, “We are grateful to local authorities for finding my Dad… We are one step closer to bringing him home.”

According to CNN, sheriff’s deputies in Kitsap County, Washington, performed a welfare check on Tuesday at an address provided by California Adult Protective Services. While there, authorities found Kasem and his wife visiting some unidentified people at a home, where the couple told deputies they were on vacation. Deputies left after determining that Kasem, who is no longer able to speak due to his illness, was not in any distress.

Gil Kaufman

Who out there is currently packing for Hangout Fest? Show of hands? Well, while you’re trying to cram one.more. pair of fancy shorts into your duffle, might we suggest a few additions to your luggage sitch?

Back in January — when the sun was a distant memory — we asked a cadre of Hangout performers what they planned to bring to the beach. The results ranged from the practical (“Don’t dress too much, because it’s going to be hot,” according to Zedd) to the “Okkkk, suuuuure” (“I’ve never been to a beach party before,” Portugal. The Man singer John Gourley said. “We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska”).

This time around, we dug deep down into our brains — before they get fried by sunshine and awesomeness — to bring you the 11 essentials you must have at Hangout 2014.

Better factor in another carry-on.

Brenna Ehrlich

Brenna Ehrlich is a reporter for MTV News as well as the senior writer/editor for the O Music Awards. In the past, she served as associate editor at Mashable, penned a netiquette column for CNN and co-authored the blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." She likes trying not to die in moshpits and listening to songs on repeat. Follow her on Twitter @BrennaEhrlich ...

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Sorry ladies, Ed Sheeran‘s off the market.

The “Sing” singer revealed that he’s indeed in a relationship and it looks like it’s pretty serious, since he introduced her to a very important woman in his life. No, not his mom — Taylor Swift!

Sheeran told US Weekly that the trio went for dinner in London and that his “Everything Has Changed” collaborator “likes her.”

Ed wouldn’t give up the identity of his mystery girlfriend, who he calls “nice” and “really cool,” but he did say that she “works for a food company — well, not a food company, [but] she works for a chef.”

So what’s her signature dish? Since Ed’s new GF is Greek, her specialty is, well, “anything Greek.” And while this lucky lady may be winning Ed over with her cooking, Sheeran, on the other hand isn’t using his talents to score any extra points. He revealed that serenading his girl would be “really creepy and weird.”

“If someone did that to you,” he said, “like legitimately, if someone sat you down like, ‘Hey baby, I’ll come play some,’ you’d be a bit awkward about it, right?”

Nope, wouldn’t be awkward about it at all, Ed!

The British singer, who drops his sophomore album, Multiply, next month, has also been spending some time with another new lady: Hilary Duff. To nearly everyone’s delight, the pair hit up a studio together to work on a “really good song” for Duff’s upcoming album.

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In every generation there comes a selfie that outselfies all other selfies. A selfie that stands apart in its quality, content and adorable factor. A selfie that is, simply put, the king of selfies. Let me take a selfie? No, don’t bother. You have no chance of winning.

Ansel Elgort just posted that selfie.

Elgort, star of the upcoming “The Fault in Our Stars,” snapped an arm’s-length pic of himself, “Fault” author and fan-favorite John Green and pop star Ed Sheeran, whose song “All of the Stars” appears on the film’s soundtrack.

Don’t mind the screaming, it’ll die down … someday.

Kase Wickman