It’s been a busy few days here at MTV News, as we’re presenting our “10 to Watch in 2010” selections all week long, and recently published an exclusive interview with one of my favorites: Chloe Moretz, a 12-year-old actress who seems like she’s going on 35.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Moretz plays “Hit-Girl” in April’s big-screen version of John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass.” And if advance audiences are to be believed, her ass-kicking character is four months away from becoming a household name.

“I’ve been trained since I was a baby to be this crazy assassin girl,” Moretz told us of Hit-Girl, who she hopes to reprise in sequels. “What I like about the character is that she’s an assassin, but at the same time she is still just an 11-year-old girl. She doesn’t know any better; it’s just how she was raised.” Read more...

The last few weeks have included quite a few holiday gifts for anyone eager to check out "Kick-Ass," Matthew Vaughn's upcoming adaptation of John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar's comic book series. And now, to go along with the awesome posters and trailers that have hit the 'Net this month, there's also a new, red-band (and depending on where you work, likely NSFW) "Kick-Ass" clip.

The new footage debuted as part of an exclusive "Kick-Ass" widget on IGN, and puts the spotlight on Hit-Girl, the pint-size assassin played by Chloe Moretz. As fans of the series are already aware, the character drops f-bombs and other obscenities as easily as she eviscerates, decapitates and ventilates any bad guys who get in her way.

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The latest "Kick-Ass" character poster has hit the 'Net, and after being treated to images of The Red Mist, Big Daddy and Kick-Ass himself, we finally get a look at the other half of the brutal, father-daughter vigilante team, Hit-Girl.

Similar to the posters before it, this one sports the tagline "I Can't See Through Walls. But I Can Kick Your Ass." It debuted on IGN, where they've made an extra-large version of it available.

Played by Chloe Moretz, Hit-Girl is the violence-prone assassin whose father (played by Nicolas Cage) has trained her to be a pint-size killing machine. Many are pointing to Moretz as being the breakout star of Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. comic book series. Read more...

It's been a long two years for fans waiting for Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s hyper-violent "Kick-Ass" characters to come to life onscreen, but as the latest poster to hit the 'Net reveals, the film's costumed cast can finally be viewed in full.

Big Daddy is the latest to join a series of movie posters playing off the merits of conventional super powers. Beginning in November with a poster featuring Kick-Ass and the tagline "I can't fly. But I can kick your ass." and followed by another featuring The Red Mist ("I can't read your mind…"), the poster that debuted on UGO now puts the spotlight on Cage's character, proclaiming, "I can't turn invisible. But I can kick your ass."

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Now that "Kick-Ass" has an April 16 release date, comic book fans aren't the only ones starting to get excited. Cast members Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz have been giggling about it over tweets.

"The Losers," which will be out a week before, also showed up today in an exchange between comic book writer Andy Diggle and actor Idris Alba.

And that's not all. I threw in some eye candy for you from Jim Lee, who's getting married. The Twitter Report wishes him many happy years and can't wait to see his finished Neil Gaiman poem illustration.

Check it all out below in the Twitter Report for September 2, 2009. Read more...

Brian Michael Bendis reaffirmed his hope for the "Thor" film yesterday with some high expectations coming out of a mystery meeting. Director Jon Favreau, meanwhile, has been getting out more now that shooting for "Iron Man 2" has wrapped, and went out to see "District 9." You can check out his reactions below.

In other comic-based movie news, "Kick-Ass" cast members Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz exchanged tweets yesterday about their upcoming release based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. series of the same name. Sadly, the Twitter Report feed also picked up a tweet from webcomic marathoner John Allison, who finished drawing the last installment of his long-running series "Scary Go Round."

Check out what they all had to say, who went to a midnight screening of "Inglourious Basterds," and much more. It's in the Twitter Report for August 21, 2009. Read more...

"Kick-Ass" fans, don't be fooled by the images of Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl circulating around the 'Net -- the father-daughter vigilante team of Nicolas Cage and Moretz will indeed dispense brutal justice while wearing their costumes from the comic.

In an interview with MTV News, "Kick-Ass" director Matthew Vaughn said promotional images of the film's pre-teen vigilante sporting a schoolgirl outfit and gun don't actually depict her costume for the film, and like her "Kick-Ass" co-stars Aaron Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, she'll have a costume modeled after her comic book counterpart.

"That's not her costume. No one's seen her costume yet," Vaughn told MTV News of the various images that have appeared online. "That's just part of a plan to take some people out. That's her alter ego." Read more...

It's been a long time since we heard any news regarding Matthew Vaughn's live-action adaptation of "Kick-Ass," a violent comic book series by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. For a while, one of its young stars, Chloe Moretz, was keeping fans posted about production (and her experiences with co-star Nicolas Cage) on her personal website, but fresh information has been hard to come by over the last few months. However, we finally have our first, honest-to-goodness piece of news out of the "Kick-Ass" camp.

As promotion for their new issue, Empire has posted the first look at Moretz as pre-teen assassin Hit Girl, and provided the first peek at one half of the father-daughter vigilante team from the film. Read more...

As one of the biggest stars of the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s "Kick-Ass," Nicolas Cage is as good a barometer as any for the health of the project. As the film continues post-production work, Cage's marked enthusiasm could be good news for fans of the "real-world" superhero title.

Cage, who plays Damon “Big Daddy” Macready, cop and vigilante father of the sword-wielding pre-teen "Hit Girl" (played by Chloe Moretz), told MTV News he was in good company on the set of the film.

"I liked working with Chloe. I thought she was really cool and excellent," said Cage who noted their characters' unique form of bonding via brutal dispatching of criminals. "That's a really twisted relationship." Read more...

Three new photos hit the 'Net today from "Kick-Ass," the live-action adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s edgy real-life superhero series.

The trio of photos are available on HitFix, but one of our favorites from the bunch is this shot of Nicolas Cage and Chloe Moretz (our first "official" look at Cage and Moretz, in fact) looking like your average father and daughter having a cup of hot chocolate together -- against a backdrop of machine guns!

After the jump, check out a close-up photo of Aaron Johnson in his Kick-Ass costume, and some thoughts about the new photos. Read more...