While at SXSW to promote her new horror film "Karen Gillan ("Doctor Who") about her upcoming role as the villainous Nebula in Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Many pundits have earmarked "Guardians" as a risky move for Marvel, given the studio's run with better-known characters like Iron Man, Thor and Captain America. And while most critics have had their fears alleviated by the first trailer, the success of the movie was never in doubt for Gillan.

"I always had total faith in the project, because the people who are making it are so brilliant, and have a long history of great films," Gillan told MTV News. "So I knew it was in great hands."

She did add that unlike a Spider-Man movie, though, Guardians is potentially a risk for the studio. But with risks, come rewards.

"I just think it's a new direction for Marvel, it's really, really funny," Gillan added. "It's not taking itself seriously at all. It's tongue in cheek. And just to see people be excited about that new tone is cool."

Even if the movie is comedic, and Gillan herself is very funny in real life... The deadly Nebula is far from a laugh-a-minute.

"Okay, so Nebula does not find herself funny," Gillan said, laughing. "I find her hilarious. But she can't find herself hilarious, that's not scary."

Glimpsed in the trailer, and a bit further in one of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" profile pieces released immediately after, it looks like Nebula will be dusting it up with good-guy Guardian Gamora, played by Zoe Saldana.

"Yeah, there's a big girlie ...

Drake already has Toronto locked down with his annual OVO Fest, and now the YMCMB rapper is celebrating another one of his favorite cities — Houston, with a concert series he's dubbed Houston Appreciation Weekend.

Drizzy posted the news on his Instagram account early Monday morning, writing, "Houston Texas! Dates Coming Soon..."

Fans know just how much Houston means to the Toronto native, who spent a considerable amount of his pre-fame days in the city, and first met Lil Wayne there. So Far Gone's "November 18," samples DJ Screw and is also the exact date that he met Weezy, in addition to the obvious shout out on "Houstonaltantavegas."

On "No New Friends" he recently spit, "H-Town my second home like I'm James Harden," and went as far as tattooing an "H" for Houston on his shoulder last year.

Nothing Was the Same also included multiple references on tracks like "Too Much," where he raps, "Like H-Town in the summertime, I keep it 100/ Met a lot of girls in my times there/ Word to Paul Wall, not one fronted."

Though Houston Appreciation Weekend would likely involve performers from outside of the city as well, some early predictions include hometown heroes like Bun B — who performed at OVO Fest in 2010 — Slim Thug, Paul Wall and Scarface.

Stay tuned for more details.

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 star
 Katy 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...