EDITOR'S NOTE: Each week, MTV Movies Blog subjects two women with very different tastes in horror movies to the highs and lows of the genre, then records their discussion of the films. This time around, the "Gore Girls" tackled David Slade's "30 Days of Night"—an adaptation of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's vampire tale set in Alaska. Be sure to check out MoviesBlog.MTV.com for more from the "Gore Girls." -RM
Welcome to Gore Girls! MTV contributor Terri Schwartz doesn't know crap about the horror genre, and she's volunteered to be our Movies Blog guinea pig. She has a good guide too. Fellow contributor Jenni Miller is a bonafide horror enthusiast, and she's willing to walk Terri through her formative experiences with blood, guts, monsters and maniacs. Together, this dynamic duo are THE GORE GIRLS!!! Good luck Terri... you're definitely going to need it.
Our vampire-themed month for the Gore Girls continues today with "30 Days of Night." The setup is actually pretty ingenious for a vampire movie. The blood-suckers hate sunlight, right? And Alaska has, what, 100 days or so of sunlight each year? There's no better place for them to call home, provided they can survive that long hibernation. And "30 Days of Night" has the added bonus of being directed by David Slade, who just wrapped filming on the third "Twilight" movie, "Eclipse." Take it away, Jenni and Terri.
Continue Reading: '30 Days Of Night' Leaves MTV's Gore Girls Lost In The Alaskan Wilderness
FROM MTV.COM: Until this weekend, not many among the moviegoing public knew the name Chris Pine, unless you happened to be a fan of films like "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement" or the Lindsay Lohan rom-com clunker "Just My Luck." But his turn as young James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" reboot looks to be a star-making move.
And it's not just audiences and critics who are raving about Pine's Kirk and favorably comparing his portrayal to that of original Kirk, William Shatner; Hollywood is taking notice too. Count director Kevin Smith among Pine's growing legion of fans.
"I think what makes that movie work chiefly — aside from, of course, the talents who all came together behind it — is Chris Pine," Smith said when he stopped by the MTV News offices. "That dude is astounding. To be able to invoke Kirk without doing a Shatner impression? That performance was so electric and so wonderful to watch.
For more of Kevin Smith's thoughts on "Star Trek" and Chris Pine, head over to Movies.MTV.com.
FROM MTV.COM: The nominees for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards are in, and you should be casting your votes right now. So, with just weeks to go until the big show, we're now revealing our first set of Hollywood presenters.
Lil Wayne, Denzel Washington, Cameron Diaz, Leighton Meester, Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Vanessa Hudgens and Jonah Hill will be joining host Andy Samberg live on Sunday, May 31, at 9 p.m. ET for the 18th annual awards show. Eminem is also set to take the stage, where he'll perform music from his new album Relapse.
Read more about this year's MTV Movie Awards over at Movies.MTV.com.
FROM MTV.COM: It's guaranteed that if Adam Lambert wins "American Idol," he'll release at least one major-label album. But even if this year's runaway leading contender pulls a Chris Daughtry/ Jennifer Hudson and is booted before making it to the show's finale, two of Broadway's leading casting directors say he's got a great shot at finding fame on the Great White Way.
In fact, before taking a detour from musical theater and glam-rock cabaret performances, Lambert was on the short list to potentially play the lead in the Broadway Spider-Man musical "Turn Off the Dark," which will feature music by U2's Bono and The Edge, according to casting director Bernie Telsey.
"We started working on 'Spider-Man' a year and a half ago, and [Lambert is] someone we know because we cast him in 'Wicked' and knew he had that kind of range," Telsey said of the San Diego-bred singer.
For more on Adam Lambert and "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark," head over to MTV.com.
FROM MULTIPLAYER BLOG: In the near future, after you’ve seen Marvel’s upcoming “Captain America” movie (in 2011) and “Avengers” movie (in 2012) — when all of that is out of the way — you should play Marvel’s massively multiplayer online game.
Expect that to happen in 2012, because that’s the sequence of events Marvel’s president of worldwide consumer products, Simon Philips, told my Splash Page blog colleague Rick Marshall in a recent interview.
“It sounds like a long way away, but it’s not,” he said. “We’ve got to create, together with [game publisher] Gazillion, that environment that is going to be a totally immersive experience and a perpetual storytelling experience as well.” Philips said that he sees MMOs as “the next generation of storytelling.”
For more on Marvel's upcoming Marvel Universe MMO and Superhero Squad MMO, head over to MultiplayerBlog.MTV.com.
Contributed by Kim Stolz
FROM NEWSROOM BLOG: It’s not every day that I talk to an A-list actor about his penis. In fact, it’s seldom that I even speak of penises. However, I welcomed the penis of Billy Crudup into my life with open arms last night (so to speak) as I stepped into the fan universe of “Watchmen,” the latest film directed by Zack Snyder.
When I arrived on set, I was overwhelmed by a slew of “Watchmen” costumes, shirts, masks (see: Rorschach) and other creative and/or frightening paraphernalia worn by the kids who came to see our exclusive screening of the film for a special "Watchmen"-themed episode of "Spoilers" airing Saturday at 8 PM EST.
So, about halfway through our taping, I welcomed Billy Crudup and Matthew Goode onstage, otherwise known to fans as Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias.
Read more about Kim Stolz' interview with "Watchmen" stars Billy Crudup and Matthew Goode at Newsroom.MTV.com.
Attention, "Watchmen" fans: You already know that another piece of never-before-seen "Watchmen" footage will air on MTV's "Spoilers" this Saturday at 8 PM, but we have a quick peek at what you'll see right here and now on Splash Page.
One Owl Ship? Check. One prison riot? Check. Dozens of inmates stupid enough to take on Silk Spectre II and Nite Owl II? Double check. You can probably guess what happens next.
Just seeing the screenshots and reading about it probably isn't enough, though. You want to see the "Watchmen" duo in action, don't you? Well, be sure to check out "Spoilers" for the aforementioned "Watchmen" scene, as well as first looks at "Star Trek," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," "Land of the Lost" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." Oh, and we've posted another shot from Saturday's "Spoilers" footage after the jump. Read more...
FROM MULTIPLAYER BLOG: Not much has been heard of from development studio Factor 5 since last year’s poorly received PlayStation 3 dragon epic “Lair.” But recent reports have the studio best known for a stream of highly regarded “Star Wars: Rogue Squadron” flight-combat games back in the news , this time for supposedly having been making a “Superman” game for collapsing game publisher Brash.
Multiplayer reached out to Factor 5 president Julian Eggebrecht to find out what the story is with “Superman” and what fans of the company should know about the studio’s status. He provided the following not terribly cryptic statement:
“We are working on several projects, both multi-platform as well as single-platform titles for the Wii which you will hear a lot more about very soon. One of our large-scale multi-platform projects was started with Brash because it is a dream property for us, hasn’t been given its dues in gaming since the Atari 2600, and has a huge universe to draw from."
Read more about Factor 5's "Superman" video game on MultiplayerBlog.MTV.com.
By Benjamin Wagner
Yup, The Queen of Media Omnipresence stormed Comic-Con tonight in support of her latest magnum opus, "Repo! The Genetic Opera."
The film finds Ms. Benji Madden somewhere in the not-so-distant future. People are buying and selling brand-name body parts on credit: Gucci livers, Fendi hearts. Miss a payment, though, and the repo man comes knocking. The results ain't so pretty.
"I would love to continue to do roles like this, just something people won't expect ," Hilton said.
Check out our exclusive clip after the jump.
Plus, we couldn't help asking Paris, What do you think about plastic surgery? Read more...
