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Taylor Swift Achieves 'Fearless' Feat at Cma Awards!

5 hours ago | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »

There was no upstaging Taylor Swift at the 43rd Annual Cma Awards in Nashville on Wednesday night. The 19-year-old singer/songwriter became the youngest-ever winner of the entertainer of the year award and captured four trophies in all. “I will never forget this moment because in this moment everything that I have ever wanted has happened to me,” an emotional Taylor said after being named entertainer of the year. She also scored awards for best female vocalist, best album (Fearless) and best music video (“Love Story”), adding good-naturedly while accepting the vocalist award: “I want to thank every single person in this room tonight for not running up on the stage during this speech.” Co-hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood also poked fun at Taylor’s encounter with Kanye West at the "2009 MTV Video Music Awards,” singing: “Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Kanye … because cowboys have manners, »

- TheInsider

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Supernatural 5.08 "Changing Channels" Recap

6 November 2009 1:06 AM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

This week's hijinks begin with the Winchesters investigating a "bear attack" in Wellington, Ohio. An interview with the victim's wife reveals that the attacker was not a bear, but the Incredible Hulk (the Lou Ferrigno version). Sam finds candy wrappers at the crime scene, and it seems the victim was quite a hothead himself and thus received his just desserts. The situation reeks of the Trickster (in case you weren't paying attention during the 'Then' section five minutes ago). Sam, being of the utilitarian sort, wants to ally with it. Presumably because he doesn't want to wake up to 'Heat of the Moment' every day for the rest of eternity. Dean, having been killed upwards of a thousand times by the damned thing, is understandably skeptical. The boys hear an emergency call over their police scanner and head out to an abandoned warehouse to check it out. They bust through the door and… »

- Julia Thorne

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Ang Lee May Adapt Life of Pi

3 November 2009 2:48 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

After the box office disappointment of his last movie, Taking Woodstock, director Ang Lee is apparently looking to adapt an award-winning novel from Canada next. Averaging one feature every two years since The Hulk in 2003, Lee said that his next project "is two years ahead," but he told Digital Spy that he has a story in mind.

I think I'm going to do Life of Pi. A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It's a hard one to crack.

Written by Yann Martel and originally published in 2001, Life of Pi tells the story of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, a young Indian boy stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker." The British edition of Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the year after its release, and M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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Ibm Makes Water Monitoring High-Tech with Splash Portal

2 November 2009 12:30 PM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Wondering whether your favorite Irish lake is clean enough to swim in? How about whether the local beach has enough sand to make some serious sandcastles? Ibm and the Environmental Protection Agency (Epa) Ireland can help. The two organizations recently rolled out Splash, a site that reports on weather, water quality, tides, pollution levels, and even lifeguard availability at 130 lakes and beaches in Ireland.

Previously, this information wasn't available to the public until a year after it was gathered. But Splash provides near real-time reports on the status of Ireland's lakes.

If all goes as planned with the Splash portal, Ibm plans to roll it out to 27 other EU countries. Eventually, Ibm might bring the reporting system to a global audience. It will certainly be welcome--as climate change heats up, water quality and levels are becoming increasingly volatile. According to Sharon Nunes, Ibm's VP of Big Green Innovations, "Everything from »

- Ariel Schwartz

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Dancap Gets 'Toxic' For Toronto In Fall 2009

31 October 2009 1:30 AM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Dancap Presents The Toxic Avenger at The Music Hall! In a surprise announcement, Dancap Productions is planning to present the Canadian Premiere of The Toxic Avenger, an eco-monster musical comedy based on the 1984 Lloyd Kaufman classic cult film.  The Canadian production will take place at the 998-seat Music Hall on Danforth Avenue, which is currently undergoing renovations to accommodate the show.

Melvin Ferd the Third wants to clean up Tromaville, the most polluted town in New Jersey (just off Exit 13B on the Turnpike). Foiled by the on-the-take mayor's bullies, Melvin is dumped into a vat of radioactive toxic waste, only to reemerge as The Toxic Avenger, New Jersey's first superhero.

Toxie, is a seven-foot mutant freak with superhuman strength and a heart as big as Newark. He's out to save New Jersey, end global warming and woo the prettiest, blindest librarian in town, in a toxic love story with an environmental twist. »

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Ang Lee Confirms His Next Film is 'Life of Pi'

30 October 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Ang Lee hasn't had much mainstream success since he won an Oscar for directing "Brokeback Mountain" a few years back. His follow-up was the hard-to-distribute Nc-17-rated Chinese period romance "Lust, Caution." Then, this past summer he released the much broader "Taking Woodstock," a comic look at a singular true story behind the scenes of the legendary music festival, and it failed to find an audience (I recommend seeing it when it hits DVD on December 15, specifically for Imelda Staunton, who deserves an Oscar already).

Fortunately, Lee's next film will be based on a best-selling novel and could therefore bring him back to the spotlight for the moviegoing masses. He confirmed to Digital Spy that he thinks he's going to do "Life of Pi," which he's adapting from Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winner. Of course, if you're familiar with the source material, you may wonder how on earth it's going to work as a film. »

- Christopher Campbell

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Ang Lee To Adapt Life Of Pi

30 October 2009 11:10 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Back in 2000, Ang Lee was the "it" director. He had already done a couple of well-received American films, but it was his wuxia masterpiece Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that made him a household name. Then, he nearly destroyed his career with his adaptation of the Incredible Hulk, revitalized his career using gay cowboys, and, most recently, directed the heap of mediocrity that was Taking Woodstock. Needless to say, it's been an up-and-down journey for the Chinese director, but he's not jumping off the horse yet and he is ready for his next feature. Digital Spy is reporting that Ang Lee will adapt Yann Martel's best seller "Life of Pi," though he has yet to bang out all of the details about the project. The book follows a young Indian boy named Piscine who, while sailing to Canada with his zookeeper father, is shipwrecked and stranded on a lifeboat with »

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'This Is It' Proves Michael Jackson Was The 'Greatest,' Lou Ferrigno Says

27 October 2009 10:38 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

The 'Incredible Hulk' star was training Mj for his string of comeback shows.

By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Ryan J. Downey

Lou Ferrigno at the "Michael Jackson's This is It" premiere on Tuesday

Photo: MTV News

Michael Jackson's longtime friend and trainer, Lou Ferrigno, was one of the many familiar faces that went to the Los Angeles premiere of "Michael Jackson's This Is It." Ferrigno had been training Jackson for the concerts, set to be held at London's O2 arena beginning in July. TV's Incredible Hulk had nothing but accolades for the flick.

"Great movie. I think it was wonderful," he told MTV News after he screened the film at the Nokia Theatre.

Ferrigno and Michael first worked together 15 years before and had maintained a friendship over the years when he came back to train the pop icon for the This Is It shows. "He was so entertaining, »

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Marvel Comics On Sale This Week

19 October 2009 1:15 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

As we do each week (unless something goes horribly wrong) following is a list of all the great Marvel comics hitting store shelves this week. In case you don’t know how this works, new comics come out on Wednesday of each week unless Monday is a holiday or something. Then, they come out on Thursday.

Fortunately, today isn’t a holiday so Wednesday it is. So, be sure to head out to your local comic book store two days from now and pick up some cool new comics. Some of the Marvel titles we’re interested in this week include the latest issue of Punisher Noir, a new Dark Avengers, the second issue of Spider-Woman and the latest Invincible Iron Man.

Be sure to check out the entire list, and some great art from some of these upcoming titles, after the jump.

Comics On-Sale:

Amazing Spider-man #609

Dark Avengers #10

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- Joe Gillis

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[DVD Review] Marvel Animation: 6 Film Set

17 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Marvel and DC are both in the middle of a new movie strategy where they release animated films of some of their most popular characters direct to DVD. The two rivals have arguably been doing it for ages if you count the spin-off “movies” from their animated television series, but the last 4 years have seen a leap in activity. Have any of them topped Batman: Mask of the Phantasm? No, not really. However, each of the studios seems to be making huge strides with each successive movie. Marvel, having reached its 6 film marker (DC isn’t far behind at this point), have released them all in a box set. While it’s nice to have an anthology to put on the shelf instead of individual DVD cases, it ends up serving as a reminder of how far the films have come since the original Ultimate Avengers: The Movie back in »

- Lex Walker

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X-Men franchise: Producer talks Magneto, Wolverine 2, Deadpool, First Class

16 October 2009 5:13 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

In an interview in Los Angeles to promote the release of Wolverine on DVD and Blu-ray, producer Lauren Shuler Donner has shed further light on upcoming films in the X-Men franchise.

Although the interview doesn't give us any more detail on the X-Men 4 and New Mutants projects that Donner had previously mentioned, it does talk about Wolverine 2, X-Men Origins: Magneto, X-Men: First Class and Deadpool.

It appears that Magneto is at the back of the queue and may not end up being made, while Wolverine 2 is at the most advanced stage of development and is likely to be filmed in Japan to give an authentic flavour to its story, which will be based on the comic book tales set in the Far East.

Meanwhile, First Class - about the early years of Xavier's School - is envisaged as a potential franchise along the lines of the Harry Potter series. But »

- David Bentley

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George Tuska, 1916 - 2009

16 October 2009 10:45 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

Pioneer comic book and newspaper strip artist George Tuska died yesterday at the age of 93.

It’s hard to imagine an artist with a greater pedigree. Beginning in 1939, George worked on such features as The Avengers, Black Terror, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Captain Marvel (both Fawcett and Marvel), Challengers of the Unknown, Doc Savage, Green Lantern, The Hulk, Iron Man, Justice League of America (a.k.a. “The World’s Greatest Superheroes” newspaper stip), Luke Cage, Planet of the Apes, Scorchy Smith, Sub-Mariner, Superboy, Superman, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Teen Titans, Uncle Sam… and that merely scratches the surface.

George was a gentle man who once had taken the extraordinary step of punching out well-known wiseass cartoonist Bob Powell while working in the Eisner-Iger shop. Will Eisner said Powell, as brilliant an artist as anybody in that hallowed shop, absolutely deserved it. The stuff of legend. »

- Mike Gold

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Favreau Not Directing Marvel’s Avengers

14 October 2009 11:29 PM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

MTV news caught up with Iron Man 2 director, Jon Favreau recently and, not content with trying to get a scoop on the comicbook sequel, they have also shattered many a fanboy’s dream too.

Okay so I’m being a little melodramatic again, but I’ve not long woken up and this has come as a complete surprise to even me so stay with me on this.

It has been widely speculated since Marvel studios unveiled their master plan earlier this year that the (very) popular Iron Man director, Favs, would be directing The Avengers. Further adding fuel to the fire was Favs himself when he shared his dream for the ensemble project last year. But today, putting a massive spanner in the works for nerds and fanboys the world over, the ever dependable MTV have heard different:

As far as his more direct involvement in “The Avengers” goes, »

- Craig Sharp

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Iron Man filmmaker Jon Favreau won't be directing The Avengers

14 October 2009 5:24 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

Iron Man director Jon Favreau has denied speculation that he will also helm superhero team-up movie The Avengers.

Speaking to MTV, Favreau said: "They'll have to [find a different director], because I'm not going to be available.

"It's something I'm being the executive producer on, so I'll definitely have input and a say."

"It's going to be hard, because I was so involved in creating the world of Iron Man and Iron Man is very much a tech-based hero, and then with Avengers you're going to be introducing some supernatural aspects because of Thor.

"How you mix the two of those works very well in the comic books, but it's going to take a lot of thoughtfulness to make that all work and not blow the reality that we've created."

He added: "That's why it's good that you have the guys from Marvel like Kevin Feige, who knows the books well and has been »

- David Bentley

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Jon Favreau Will Not Direct The Avengers

14 October 2009 10:22 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

MTV News recently spoke to Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau about his involvement in the super sequel and where he fits in the larger scheme of Marvel movies.

In that interview (which we have for you below), Favreau dropped a bomb on the collective heads of fanboys everywhere: he will Not be directing Marvel’s 2012 superhero team-up event, The Avengers! In addition to that bit of Donald-Downer info, Favreau also threw another jab of bad news: We shouldn’t get our hopes up about seeing a cameo from The Hulk in Iron Man 2.

 

Here’s what Favreau had to say on the subject of The Avengers:

“They’ll have to [find a different director], because I’m not going to be available,” he explained. “It’s something I’m being the executive producer on, so I’ll definitely have input and a say.”

Now before you go all ga-ga with worried »

- Kofi Outlaw

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Exclusive: Jon Favreau Won't Direct 'Avengers,' Explains 'Iron Man 2' Tie-In Process

14 October 2009 7:44 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

When MTV News caught up with "Iron Man 2" director Jon Favreau at the "Couples Retreat" junket a few weeks ago in Bora Bora, we were determined to get the filmmaker's take on how his much-anticipated sequel would connect with "The Avengers"—even if it took a bumpy ride in a golf cart to make the conversation happen.

Along with confirming that "Incredible Hulk" star Edward Norton won't be appearing in "Iron Man 2" and that Favreau won't be directing "The Avengers," the filmmaker shared some thoughts on his approach to making the Marvel movies all tie together.

"We want to reinforce a lot of the stuff we started to tip off," Favreau told MTV News. "'The Avengers' is a much larger concern for Marvel and Kevin Feige, who runs Marvel. They're going to be doing 'Thor' and 'Captain America,' and the way we »

- Rick Marshall

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Jon Favreau Won't Direct The Avengers

14 October 2009 6:36 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Jon Favreau has left hints that he'd be directing the upcoming Avengers movie for some time now, saying his involvement was "yet to be determined." It looks like fanboys let their hopes get away from them, though, as Favreau has now told MTV that his status is 100% determined ... and the decision is "no."

They'll have to [find a different director], because I'm not going to be available. It's something I'm being the executive producer on, so I'll definitely have input and a say.

It's going to be hard, because I was so involved in creating the world of Iron Man and Iron Man is very much a tech-based hero, and then with Avengers you're going to be introducing some supernatural aspects because of Thor. How you mix the two of those works very well in the comic books, but it's going to take a lot of thoughtfulness to make that all work and not »

- Ryan Gowland

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New The Twilight Saga: New Moon footage at Spike TV’s Scream 2009

7 October 2009 5:21 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

It’s unknown if we’ll get Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner or Peter Facinelli at Spike TV’s Scream 2009, airing October 27.

But we do know that we’ll get new video footage from the hotly anticapated Twilight sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The film opens November 20.

Here’s the complete news release …

As twilight descends upon The Greek Theatre, Spike TV presents “Scream 2009,” an evening where galaxies collide and genres unite for the ultimate celebration of all things sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic book. The 4th annual “Scream” is the first and only global event of its kind to honor and celebrate the hottest films, TV shows, comics, actors, creators, icons and pioneers who have influenced and shaped these genres. “Scream 2009” will tape on Saturday, October 17 in Los Angeles, CA. The two-hour extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 Pm-Midnight, Et/Pt).

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- Jeff Bayer

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Trinity Of Terrors Guest Profile: Robert Kurtzman

7 October 2009 12:33 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Writer, Director, and Special FX legend Robert Kurtzman will be attending the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas! Kurtzman will be onhand to discuss his work on the Jennifer Lynch-directed Hisss, his latest directorial effort Deadly Impact (formerly To Live And Die) starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Joe Pantoliano, and the latest FX projects from his Precinct 13 Creature Corps.

Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.

For more than two decades Robert Kurtzman has been an icon in the world of special make-up,creature effects, and genre filmmaking.

His award winning, photorealistic effects work can be seen inhundreds of movies including Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, franchises and television series. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Staff)

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Spike TV's Scream 2009 Awards to Honor Stan Lee, George A. Romero and Twilight

5 October 2009 7:58 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

As twilight descends upon The Greek Theatre, Spike TV presents Scream 2009, an evening where galaxies collide and genres unite for the ultimate celebration of all things sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic book. The 4th annual Scream Awards is the first and only global event of its kind to honor and celebrate the hottest films, TV shows, comics, actors, creators, icons and pioneers who have influenced and shaped these genres. Scream 2009 will tape on Saturday, October 17 in Los Angeles, CA. The two-hour extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 Pm-Midnight, Et/Pt).

Spike TV is proud to partner once again with Comic-Con International, the biggest comic book and pop culture convention in the world, to present real-life super hero Stan Lee with the Comic-Con Icon Award at Scream 2009. Lee is the creator of such legendary super-heroes as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man and The Hulk. Spider-Man »

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