Russell Brand — brash British comedian, star of films like “Get Him to the Greek,” former husband of Katy Perry and alleged iPhone smasher — has been tapped to host the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, to be held June 3. This is Brand’s first time hosting the Movie Awards, but his third time emceeing an MTV trophy show — he handled ceremonial duties at the MTV Video Music Awards in both 2008 and 2009. Read full article > >

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While Ryan Gosling was shut out on Oscar nomination day this year, his work in the very sleek (and extremely violent) “ Drive ” has finally been recognized by a show that knows what the people want: The MTV Movie Awards. Read full article > >

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The nominations for the 66th annual Tony Awards were announced at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The musical adaptation of the movie “Once” leads with 11 nominations.

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Earl Scruggs, the Grammy Award-winning musician whose innovative bluegrass banjo work was heard in the theme music to the television sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies” and the movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” died March 28 at a hospital in Nashville. He was 88. Read full article > >

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hunger games cake iReporter kdelizzle says she created a Hunger Games inspired cake for the bakery she works for in Florida. After she created the cake, which took her approximately five hours, she handed out samples at the midnight showing of “The Hunger Games” last Thursday, and says people really enjoyed it. As for “The Hunger Games” movie, kdelizzle says she was blown away by the movie, and thought it really translated well from the books. Although she loved everything about the movie, she says she did find one particular highlight in the film, “I think Peeta was my favorite my character because he is a baker too ,” she says. More from iReport at the movies: 'The Hunger Games' has arrived! Previously – 'The Hunger Games' bucks hunter stereotypes and Life-sized Stormtrooper cake takes eaters to the delicious side

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Grab your earplugs: There’s a new batch of boy bands, and they are already making a very loud noise. British quintet One Direction made chart history Wednesday when “ Up All Night ” became the first debut album by a U.K. band to enter at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (The band also announced Wednesday that it will open its North American tour with a May 24 show at the Patriot Center .) Fellow British popsters the Wanted are nestled in the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 with their single “ Glad You Came .” Nickelodeon stars Big Time Rush sold out a recent U.S. tour and drew more than 4 million television viewers to March’s “Big Time Movie,” which featured the quartet performing songs made famous by the Beatles. Read full article > >

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Big Time Rush, One Direction, the Wanted: The boy band is making a comeback

Can we all just agree that Jimmy Kimmel should host next year’s Academy Awards ? Here’s his movie homage intro to his annual post-Oscar show, which was much more fun than the one that kicked off the actual Oscars , hosted by Billy Crystal . Read full article > >

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We’ve rounded up our list of the best events this weekend , from a free show by local rock royalty to a celebration of the return of pro basketball. See a few highlights here, and read the full list . “ Billy Elliot the Musical ,” based on the movie about an ballet-loving English boy whose dreams are threatened by his miner father’s disapproval, is beginning a month-long stay at the Kennedy Center. Read full article > >

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Writer David Nicholls reveals that he has written a new ending to Great Expectations for his movie “thriller” version of the Dickens classic.

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Writer David Nicholls reveals that he has written a new ending to Great Expectations for his movie “thriller” version of the Dickens classic.

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In “ The Film Snob’s Dictionary ,” writers David Kamp and Lawrence Levi cheekily chart out the differences between Movies and Films (“It’s a Movie if it’s black-and-white because it’s old. It’s a Film if it’s black-and-white because it’s Jarmuschy.”) They might have added another definition: It’s a Movie if it ends. It’s a Film if it stops. ¶The ambiguous ending has long been one of the hallmarks of the classic art-house film, as reliable a convention of independent filmmaking as guns are to Westerns or fireballs are to action spectacles. (Granted, once in a while a mainstream blockbuster will leave audiences hanging: Was Leonardo DiCaprio still dreaming at the end of “ Inception ”?) ¶This year alone, filmgoers have been provoked (or infuriated, depending on their need for closure) by several non-ending endings: In Kelly Reichardt’s “Meek’s Cutoff,” the band of 19th-century settlers whose trek she methodically follows are on the verge of deciding which path to take just as the movie ends. In “Take Shelter,” Jeff Nichols’s insinuatingly creepy Read full article > >

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U ndoubtedly many Americans, not least among them television producers, are disappointed by Sarah Palin’s decision not to run for president . On the bright side, Palin has proved (finally) that there is a God. How so? For the past three years, since she rocketed from relative obscurity to political diva, Palin has hinted that she might run for the highest office but would rely on God’s guidance. This template is not unique to Palin. Millions pray to a higher order to discover the right path. I recently watched a few minutes of “Eat, Pray, Love” before succumbing to an ennui-induced coma; in the movie, Julia Roberts tearfully implores God, to whom she admits not having spoken on a regular basis, to tell her what to do: Dump her boring husband and follow her appetite for pasta and spiritual enlightenment through casual sex? Or . . . Read full article > >

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The Bluth family is back. In what can only be described in Tobias Funke-esque terms as “ joyous news ,” Mitch Hurwitz, creator of “ Arrested Development ,” announced Sunday that new episodes of the beloved Fox series will be made, along with a long-buzzed-about movie. The New York Times reports that Hurtwitz — who was joined by all the members of the cast at an “Arrested Development” reunion, held Sunday during the New Yorker Festival — plans to make nine or 10 new episodes. Those episodes will be shot next summer, to be followed by production of the film. The studio backing the project has not yet been identified, nor is it clear which network will broadcast those episodes, which will serve as a prelude to the story told in the movie. Release dates for the episodes and the motion picture also have not been specified. Read full article > >

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“ Incendiary: The Willingham Case ” may be the “ Moneyball ” of political documentaries. Granted, this movie doesn’t star Brad Pitt as a scrappy baseball manager who leads a ragtag team of players to a historic winning streak. But “Incendiary” — a riveting true-crime documentary from the Austin-based filmmaking team of Steve Mims and Joe Bailey, Jr. — delivers just as timely and meaningful a message about the importance of honoring empirical facts over gut feelings and irrational biases. Read full article > >

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If there’s ever a sequel to the movie, it probably won’t have anything to do with baseball.

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For Billy Beane, Winning Isn’t Everything