Initiates, get ready to see Octavia Spencer‘s kind side: The Academy Award winning actress will appear in “Insurgent,” the follow-up to this year’s “Divergent,” as Johanna, a major player in the Amity faction.

For those of you who have only seen the film version of “Divergent” and aren’t quite familiar with what lies ahead, there’s plenty to be excited about here. Spencer can expect a lot of time in the makeup chair, as well as a lot of screen time, if the film version of “Insurgent” follows the book closely. The character of Johanna is described as nearly pretty, but for the very distinct scar that runs across her entire face, leaving her with one eye and a speech impediment from the damage. She’s a member of the Amity faction, and as close to a leader as the technically collective and headless faction has.

“Divergent” left off with Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) on the run with their friends. There’s nowhere to turn, until they find Johanna and Amity and have to decide whether to trust them to keep their rebel band hidden from the view of Janine (Kate Winslet) and her power-hungry army. Johanna also appears in the third book of the Veronica Roth young adult series, “Allegiant.”

“Insurgent” is due in theaters March 20, 2015.

Kase Wickman

Young Thug may be one of the hottest new rappers around, but no one can seem to sort through his exact label situation. And while that remains a bit unclear, there’s one thing we do now know for sure: Birdman is not offically his manager.

In an interview with Complex for their recent cover story on Thug, Birdman debunked the rumor that he manages the Atlanta rapper. He did confirm that they’re close and that he plans to officially bring him to YMCMB “in time.”

“I always dealt with things differently than the labels,” Birdman said. “I’m part of the life and I’m a part of hip-hop culture. The major labels, they don’t come out here on these streets. They’re sitting in a building and they don’t really know what the f–k is going on. I don’t ever want to be like none of them.”

In March, Buzzfeed attempted to get to the bottom of Thug’s label situation. They talked to a number of sources, and ultimately it came out that, no matter how you sliced it, it seemed like a sticky situation with a number of players. He had paperwork with Gucci Mane’s 1017 Bricksquad, as well as with an Atlantic Records imprint, and had voiced plans to sign with both Future’s Freebandz and YMCMB.

None of that apparent messiness, nor the fact that he’s not Thug’s official manager, appears to soften Birdman’s support of the up-and-comer.

“Really, he’s like my little brother,” he said. “I just want to make sure ...

As I’m sure you’re aware, Miley Cyrus rode a giant, inflatable, pink penis around her Bangerz Tour on Friday night. But there’s a perfectly good reason behind that: it’s all directed at the guy who broke her heart. So take that, Liam Hemsworth.

Before launching into her next song, Miley took a quick Kanye-style rant break to talk about some of her off-color behavior.

“And every time you get in your car, you’re going to hear my f–king song on the f–king radio, you piece of sh–. That’s right. And then I’m gonna take all my clothes off, I’m gonna sit on a big, giant dick—sometimes two—I’m gonna swing around, and then I’m gonna hold the record for the most-watched music video on Vevo. So then—you know, you can tell a lot about a person—I think you can tell how big their dick is by how much confidence they have usually, and if I was a dude I’d probably have a really big dick, ‘cause I feel really good about myself now. So I’m gonna tell those motherf–kers that broke my heart, particularly one, to suck my fat dick and to enjoy hearing this song for the rest of your life. This song is called Wrecking Ball.

If you say so.

Emilee Lindner

Member of MTV News' Cat Braintrust, has an unhealthy obsession with pork dumplings and tweeting Austin Mahone's mom. Follow @EmileeLindner

St. Vincent‘s new self-titled record contains its share of literary references, but what will serve as inspiration for her next disc? MTV News asked the woman herself, Annie Clark.

St. Vincent is a kind of woozy record, replete with a collage of stories and snippets — from the time Clark went wandering in the desert naked and encountered a snake (“Rattlesnake”) to a hallucination featuring Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton (“Huey Newton”) to a short story by Lorrie Moore (“Severed Crossed Fingers”).

As Clark begins working on new tunes, she told MTV News, she has been looking toward similar buckets of experience both personal and artistic: from eavesdropping on pals to taking in documentaries about infamous trickster Frédéric Bourdin.

Check out the below video to get a peek at what her next album might contain:

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 for news on cats and punk bands.

In many ways, the new “Godzilla” is a lot like “Jaws.” You don’t see a lot of the title creature because he’s just out of view, but when he does finally show up, the monster really goes for the gut.

(Also, like “Jaws,” the latest “Godzilla” is really good.)

That’s what inspired us to make this trailer for “Jawzilla,” a nice mixing of the two summer monster movie gems.

“Godzilla” opens in theaters on May 16.

Kevin P. Sullivan

5 Seconds of Summer fans, we have a release date!

The Australian pop-rockers are dropping their debut album on July 22, and our countdown has officially begun (76 days to go).

We learned of the news after the foursome – Ashton, Michael, Calum and Luke – released their brand-new, Pacman-inspired video game, #Hungry5SOS, urging fans to “find some stuff hidden in the maze.”

Fans, including myself, were so eager to see what they could find, that they crashed the website, which, as of press time, still isn’t working. Sad faces all around.

But fear not 5SOS fans, there were some of you that were lucky enough to play the game, and share all the news on Twitter (I personally thank you for that) and it turns out they got their first look at the album art work, which features the guys on the cover with a red graffiti-like “x” over the group.

But that’s not all, while playing the game, they were also treated to some lovely background music, which just so happened to be studio versions of their songs “Amnesia” and “Good Girls Are Bad Girls,” which they’ve been playing on tour, plus two new songs.

Not surprisingly, 5SOS fans were freaking out.

As if this wasn’t enough information to get your heads spinning, the “She Looks So Perfect” singers also announced that their video for “Don’t Stop” will be “coming to a screen near you” on May 19.

The band released a teaser poster from the video, which seems to bring the lyric ...

Drake isn’t one of those artists who gives out new mixtapes, songs or verses all that often. Usually, if you want new Drizzy, you’d better hope that he’s gearing up for an album release. Over the last month or so, though, the Young Money rapper has been on a bit of a streak.

Since the beginning of April, he’s had a couple solo joints (“Draft Day,” “Days in the East”) and some high profile features, too (“Never Satisfied,” with Future and “Believe Me,” with Lil Wayne).

On Monday (May 12), he returned once again, this time hopping on OB O’Brien’s “2 On/Thotful.”

After OB kicks a short verse to start things off, Drizzy comes onto the DJ Mustard-produced track (the beat was originally used by Tinashe and Schoolboy Q) and grabs the reigns for the song’s remainder.

Take a listen below.

Adam Fleischer

There are still so many questions surrounding Apple’s proposed acquisition of Beats Electronics. Will the alleged $3.2 billion dollar deal make company co-founder Dr. Dre hip-hop’s first billionaire? Will Dre and Jimmy Iovione take on senior positions at Apple? Will we get some cool, high-powered headphones with the iPhone 6?

While we play the waiting game, let’s go back to that one time that Dre and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hooked up on iChat about 10 years ago to discuss the launch of iTunes, the iPod and of course Detox.

“When can we get it on the store,” Jobs asked Dre of his long-awaited LP, before the legendary music producer answered with a laugh: “As soon as possible.”

Well, we’re still waiting on Detox, but can’t help to think that this short convo helped foreshadow just a little bit of where we are now.

Rob Markman

Mentally been many places, but I'm Brooklyn's own. Hip-hop gives me life!

It’s time to push that salad away and head toward the confections; the Janoskians are declaring that “Real Girls Eat Cake.”

The Aussie bad-boy released the new track and video on Monday (May 12). It’s their first single since last year’s “Best Friends,” which I can finally get out of my head now.

If you’re in need of positive affirmations and body love, here it is — all set to a ’90s ska beat.

“I don’t need a girl to worry ’bout a thigh gap/ I like the fact that you don’t give a sh– about that/ I like a girl who eats more than salad on a date,” the guys sing. “To me you’re prettier than Adriana Lima/ The way you’re work it when you’re looking in the mirror.”

When we caught up with the guys at Wango Tango on Sunday night, they explained why they wrote the song.

“We wanted a fun song that was jumpy but also at the same time sent a message to girls that you don’t really need to worry about the size you are and all that stuff,” James Yammouni told MTV News. “Be you. Being yourself is beautiful and who cares if you have a slice of cake.”

Beau Brooks was so excited about the single that he went naked and pulled a cardboard cake costume over himself.

“It’s our first real single and it shows how we feel about girls really not giving a crap about what other people think about them,” shirtless Beau said while ...

The annual Eurovision song contest is weird. Like, supremely, unbelievably, too-odd-for-words weird.

Like, this band won in 2006.

For real.

And these grannies were in it to win it in 2012.

But this year’s contest made serious headlines when what was expected to be the tense song battle between the Russian and Ukranian entrants took a back seat to Conchita Wurst, a 25-year-old drag queen with a well-manicured 5 o’clock shadow from Austria. Conchita (the onstage drag persona of Thomas Neuwirth) crushed the competition with her song “Rise Like a Phoenix,” which chronicled her journey from a closeted young boy in a mountain village to a glamorous worldwide superstar overnight.

But here’s the thing, while the NFL’s still fighting against bias when it comes to its first openly gay draftee, Michael Sam, the glam, elegant Conchita made headlines, but wasn’t even the most surprising entry into this year’s finals. So, here are a few of our favorite Eurovision eye-poppers:

1. There Was Pollaponk From Iceland

2. Romania’s Ovi And His Magic Circular Keyboard

3. And This Duo, Who Were Conjoined At The Ponytail

4. Luckily, The Ukraine Brought Their Hamster Wheel

5. What, Exactly, Does An Electrified Butter Churn Sound Like?

6. This Dude’s Hair, Seriously, Nice Work
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