http://www.reviewthemovies.com Movie review web site for and by movie fanatics, what did you think of the movie? en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:47:13 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.reviewthemovies.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.reviewthemovies.com http://www.reviewthemovies.com/jay-baruchel-sorcerers-apprentice-t1838.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:58:01 GMT Jay Baruchel ( Tropic Thunder ) is negotiating to play the title role in The Sorcerer's Apprentice for Walt Disney Pictures, reports Variety . He joins Nicolas Cage, who plays the sorcerer in the Jon Turteltaub-directed live-action film.

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By Josh Horowitz


Charlize Theron
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Sure, there are a few weeks left to go in 2008, but as we looked back at the past 11 months of interviews with Hollywood's biggest stars, we realized there was a good decade worth of crazy in our hands. So why keep it to ourselves?

Join the MTV Movies team now as we reflect on the most unpredictable, unusual and absolutely bizarre moments of the year. We've got screaming, kicking, cursing and mocking. We've got tales of little-people sex and imitations of extinct species.

We've got ... the Top 10 Most Bizarre Movie-Interview Moments of 2008.




10. Jeff Bridges
The Oscar-nominated actor is such a warm presence on camera and off (he gives the entire crew books of his on-set photography as wrap gifts for every film he does!) that we were taken aback when he portrayed such a nefarious adversary in "Iron Man." When we asked him about reaming out co-star Peter Billingsley, we secretly hoped he'd become just as animated with us — but the scream he unleashed was more than we could have dreamed of.

What You Didn't See: When the interview ended, the poor crew member working on the audio was worried about permanent ear damage.

9. Rainn Wilson
Some people you click with and some ... well, they make fun of your sweater. Wilson was at his caustic best at this live Q&A promoting "The Rocker." His incessant mockery of my attire made for great comedy for the audience, but didn't do much for this writer's fragile ego. I've not worn the sweater since.

What You Didn't See: We caught up with Rainn when he visited "TRL" soon thereafter, and he was a good sport about the whole "incident," even agreeing to wear my heinous garment during the follow-up chat.

8. Jean-Claude Van Damme
For those of us at MTV News who were lucky enough to journey to the South of France to cover the Cannes Film Festival, it really didn't get any better than chatting with Van Damme, enthusiastic and slightly incomprehensible, clad in a suit seemingly on loan from Don Johnson's 1980s closet. When he delivered an impromptu roundhouse kick during our interview, everyone there knew they'd witnessed something special.

What You Didn't See: When our crew arrived at the party where we scheduled to meet the action star, we were greeted with perhaps the greatest welcome we'd ever heard: "Ah, yes. Mr. Van Damme has been expecting you."

7. Steven Seagal
We only learned that Seagal was going to be appearing at a local Best Buy at the last minute. But in a newsroom like ours, that means, "All hands on deck! There is crazy to be documented!" The man who is both hard to kill and above the law didn't disappoint in a rambling chat that truly ran the gamut — from Sarah Palin and energy drinks, to the essential oils he hopes to produce.

What You Didn't See: The Best Buy event also featured Richard Dean Anderson, Tanya Roberts and a crowd of six, maybe seven employees from the store.

6. Val Kilmer
It's hard to pinpoint when our conversation with Kilmer went off the rails. It might have been when Val decided to affect a Bob Dylan imitation at the outset. By the time he was recalling the rampant dwarf sex on the set of "Willow," we knew we were in insane and wonderful territory.

What You Didn't See: Val admired a graffitied cabinet on his way into the interview and said to no one in particular, "I love that cabinet. I want to date that cabinet."

5. Charlize Theron
You truly haven't lived until you've been cursed out by one of the most beautiful women in the world. Charlize brought her filthy pirate mouth to this startling interview, much to everyone's amazement — including her clearly shell-shocked "Battle in Seattle" co-star Martin Henderson.

What You Didn't See: If you've only seen this MTV interview with Charlize, you may not know that her potty-mouth ways are nothing new. She lit into us while promoting both "Sleepwalking" and "Hancock."

4. Bijou Phillips
She may not be the biggest name on this list, but the lovely Miss Phillips more than earned her #4 standing here thanks to a truly committed (and out-of-left-field) imitation of a baby pterodactyl.

What You Didn't See: Perhaps the oddest part of Bijou's randomness is it came moments after a solemn talk about the death of Heath Ledger, whose passing had just been made public hours earlier.

3. Brendan Fraser
Even red carpets have rules, don't they? Well, they all went by the wayside during Kim Stolz's interview with Sarah Jessica Parker on the MTV Movie Awards red carpet. Like Ron Popeil hawking a food dehydrator, Fraser started hawking his summer films. The only saving grace: His hulking frame was in the shadows next to a patient Parker.

What You Didn't See: Months later, Kim reminded Sarah about the odd Fraser affair on another red carpet. A broad smile and a knowing laugh from the "Sex and the City" star said it all.

2. "The Pudding Show"
High concept or low? You decide. A few of us here at MTV News who hatched the idea of a talk show that dealt with one topic and one topic alone — pudding — stand behind this curious baby. "The Pudding Show" never shot another episode (despite Jason Segel's cameo and tease at the end of the premiere), and that probably sits well with still-stunned supermodel Marisa Miller and filmmaker Uwe Boll.

What You Didn't See: Please believe us: We told Marisa's publicist what the show was all about. Still, as soon as the taping ended, they bolted out of the building like they were on fire. None of us know what they said as they exited, but we sure can guess.

1. Paul Rudd
Nearly two hours of air hockey, Skee-Ball and video games nearly exhausted us, but Rudd was game for just about anything we threw at him during this unconventional shoot to promote "Role Models." The highlight? Interviewing Rudd while we were both covered in stuffed animals and a giant claw tried to pick us up.

What You Didn't See: The always-affable Mr. Rudd decided to stick around after the end of the shoot to play "Ms. Pac-Man" and racing games for another half-hour.

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By Larry Carroll, with reporting by James Barnes


Jackson Rathbone
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Jackson Rathbone is drenched in blood from head to toe, and being dragged down a flight of cellar stairs. Somewhere, a million Twilighter hearts are weeping for the hunky young star of their favorite blockbuster. But somewhere else, horror maestro Clive Barker is smiling a wicked grin.




When MTV News recently visited the London set of "Dread," based on a short story by the twisted mind behind "Hellraiser" and "Candyman," things weren't looking good for the 23-year-old actor who shot to stardom last month portraying earnest vampire Jasper Hale. But, as Jackson was eager to tell us, life has never been better.

"This has been a fun movie to work on," he smiled, pretending for a moment that he wasn't soaked in Karo syrup. "It's my first leading-man role. I was always a character actor when I was in theater as a kid, and I've done a lot of character roles in television shows and whatnot. But this is a character that has a lot of development, a lot of progression. ... I like roles that I can sink my teeth into."

Like so many of his "Twilight" friends, Rathbone can now satiate his hunger as only a young star coming off a hot Hollywood film can. But rather than cashing in with generic romantic comedies or action flicks, he has chosen to partake in Barker's psychological thriller that tells the tale of Stephen (Rathbone), Quaid (Shaun Evans) and Cheryl (Hanne Steene), three college kids making a documentary about the origins of fear — until one decides that the only way to get to the truth is by extracting dread from those around him.

" 'Dread' is a Kinsey-esque study of fear," the star explained of the plot, which is already being loosely compared to the "Saw" films' exploration of the lengths people will go to for survival. "We're setting up this fear study, and what we do is we interview people about their greatest fears and their dreads. The film starts out in this sweet college and then gets darker as people start having to live through their fears. A lot of times, it makes them stronger or it breaks them. That's what this film is about: It's about facing your fears and seeing what happens."

And the bottom line, according to Rathbone, is that he had never read a script quite like it before.

"It's not that typical romance, love-triangle thing — which is what I'd really like to stay away from," Jackson laughed while discussing the decades-old story by Barker, as well as the film version being overseen by director Anthony DiBlasi. "I've always loved the horror genre. As a kid, I wasn't allowed to really watch TV, let alone horror. I come from a fairly conservative background, and so I had to sneak away to watch movies like 'The Terminator' when I was 10 years old, and when I was about 13, 14, a good friend of mine gave me a George A. Romero box set with 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Day of the Dead.' I loved those movies, but I had to hide them under my bed as a kid.

"If my parents saw them, they would have grounded me for months," he remembered. "They didn't want certain images ingrained in my mind."

Now, Rathbone is hard at work bringing himself to death's door and hoping a portion of his sizable fanbase will similarly risk getting grounded to see the film when it comes to theaters next year. "I really have to give all props to my fans, because they've really been so supportive of me," he explained. " 'Twilight' has given me, and a lot of the other actors on 'Twilight,' a much wider fanbase, and they've been so supportive of us, and that's really what we need. As an actor, you need an audience to practice your craft. A painter can paint alone, a photographer can take pictures alone, a musician can play — but as an actor, you need someone to watch you, and we couldn't have a better audience. ... I've been able to do a lot more films because of them."

But whereas "Twilight" famously took the fangs off vampires and portrayed the Cullens as vegetarians whose bloodlust could be held in check by the occasional woodland-creature buffet, "Dread" seeks no such horror suppression. "Several of us go through a lot of prosthetics in this film," Rathbone explained. "It's really good. I mean, it looks real, and it's fairly horrific.

"And when you're off camera, it's fun to chase someone around covered in blood," he joked. "That's a lot of fun."

But don't think that all this blood and gore will make "Dread" a completely different film than "Twilight," as Rathbone said both films share similarly shadowy undertones. "There's something about playing darker, like a vampire, or somebody like Stephen who's just kind of wrapped up in death," he compared. "With Stephen, it's the death of his brother, and he's trying to get over that. With Jasper in 'Twilight,' it's about controlling the urges to feed and trying to establish that humanity. I think that's what I really love about playing a darker character, finding the humanity. Because we all have dark sides of ourselves, and if we let that control us, then we're never gonna be happy. It's about finding the balance."

Based on Rathbone's diverse marathon of filming a "Donnie Darko" sequel, "Dread" and "New Moon" back-to-back-to-back, as well as his continued participation in the band 100 Monkeys, finding a balance doesn't seem to be a problem for this fast-rising star.

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