'Bridesmaids' Reviews: Kristen Wiig's Comedy Is One Of The Most Critically Acclaimed Movies Of 2011

FROM MTV MOVIES: Call it a Judd Apatow-for-chicks comedy or his laugh factory's finest effort since 2007's "Knocked Up" ? and many critics have done both ? but the bottom line is people have been loving "Bridesmaids" in early screenings. Produced by Apatow, directed by Paul Feig and starring "Saturday Night Live" star Kristen Wiig, "Bridesmaids" [...]

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Meredith Vieira Filmmaker

Meredith Vieira Filmmaker

Meredith Vieira, who recently announced she would leave her co-anchor perch on the Today show in June, can now add filmmaker to her impressive list of credentials. Return, the first feature film produced by Vieira's production company, Meredith Vieira Productions, premieres at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in the French Riviera on Saturday.

The mother of three recently spoke with iVillage about the film, and said she feels like she is having another baby -- only for this delivery there’s nothing for the pain. "They don't give you an epidural for this one," she joked.

Return is the fictional account of a female soldier’s return from a tour of duty. "We certainly believe in it and that’s what matters," Vieira told iVillage’s Chief Correspondent Kelly Wallace when asked if she was nervous about how the film would ultimately be received. "But yeah, it is your child, it’s everybody’s child. It really did take a village to create Return."

The film stars Linda Cardellini of ER fame, Mad Men’s John Slattery and Michael Shannon (HBO's Boardwalk Empire and the film Revolutionary Road).

Watch the video below as Vieira talks about how at different moments in her career she could relate to Return's main character, who Vieria says feels "the ground shifting beneath her."


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Ke$ha Wants 'Till The World Ends' Remix To 'Take Over Airwaves'

Singer says her collaboration with Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj made a 'supergroup of three hot, strong women.'
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Matt Elias


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Earlier this week, Britney Spears, Ke$ha and Nicki Minaj dropped their femme-fatale-friendly remix of the Spears club track "Till the World Ends." The already fun song got super-charged thanks to Minaj's cutting verses and Ke$ha's recognizable vocals.

"I'm a massive fan of both the ladies I share the track with," K told MTV News on Wednesday at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards. "I wrote 'TTWE' for Britney with [producers] Dr. Luke and Max [Martin] and she killed it and I loved it, but I just thought a supergroup of three hot, strong women could just take over the airwaves."

Ke$ha went on to give props to both the ladies. "I'm such a massive fan of Britney and I'm such a massive supporter of Nicki and a fan, and chicks sometimes don't team up. I don't know why, but I'm, like, huge on the girl power, so I just wanted to make a power girl track take over."



The remix quickly won praise from fans who seem to think the new features step up the song's game. "You know, with the three of us, I wasn't necessarily surprised [people like it] because I'm such a massive fan of Nicki Minaj and obviously with Britney I'm a fan of it, [taking] myself out of the equation," she said. "I'm just happy people like it."



So did Ke$ha (who once sang backup for Spears) feel any pressure writing a song for Britney? "There was no pressure. Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost," she explained. "So it was so much fun to put my brain in the sexy Britney Spears brain and express myself almost as if I were possessed by her."

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Chris Brown Recalls Embarrassing Tour Memories On 'When I Was 17'

Singer shares his on-the-road stories, including a hotel-flooding incident.
By James Dinh


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It's only been a few years since Chris Brown first experienced the superstar lifestyle as a teenager, but he sure has his share of stories to tell. On the latest episode of "When I Was 17," Brown recalls a few embarrassing memories from his early career.

"When I was 17, I was going around touring around the world performing, and for the kickoff for one of our tours, I was eating the food that gave me food poisoning," Brown laughingly says on the upcoming episode, premiering Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on MTV. "So I got, like, midway through the show, and I just remember my stomach starting bubbling."

Despite his bodily warnings, Brown remained a trouper, telling himself to "hold it" until his performance was over. Unfortunately, the singer learned a hard lesson that day: Don't deny nature's calling.

"So I just remember dancing and onstage in the midst of all that, I ... is it like sharted?" the pop star asked with a smile. "The crowd didn't know it, and I had like an outfit change coming up, so I said, 'Yeah, I can hold it out one more song,' and this is real disgusting and too descriptive, it was just ... I just remember it running down my leg."

Even though Breezy was busy on the road to promote his debut album, the singer tells MTV that he also had experienced plenty of "reckless" fun, especially one time when he flooded his hotel room during soundcheck with a BB gun. "We were shooting the guns. We had the couches flipped up. The catering was knocked over," Brown said of his showdown with his cousins, adding, "It was like a war zone in our room."

"I'm just like, getting hit left, right," Chris' spinner DJ Babey Drew added. "I see people squatting down military-style, trying to shoot me. It was crazy."

At one point during the battle, Chris admits he got "shot in the face" and "cried under a table," until he pulled the trigger to a shot that would soak his entire crew.

"I waited and then I got up and I acted like I was in a movie. ... I tried to shoot at the fire extinguisher thing. I'm at least 15 yards away, so I'm thinking, 'I don't have a chance at hitting this thing,' " Breezy revealed. "So I shoot ... the whole room is engulfed in water."

"When I Was 17" — this week featuring Brown, Selita Ebanks and Joe Jonas — premieres Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on MTV.

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Angelina Jolie Tried Exotic Accents For 'Kung Fu Panda' Role

'I came in and I was Mae West for awhile,' star laughs to MTV News at Cannes about her audition.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz


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CANNES, France — The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival, a.k.a. the world's most glamorous film fete, tends to attract the biggest and brightest stars working in the business. On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of chatting with "Puss in Boots" stars Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, and on Wednesday (May 11), we caught up with "Kung Fu Panda 2" A-listers Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

During a brief sit-down with the funnyman and his leading lady, MTV News asked Jolie to let us in on the secrets behind her audition for the animated flick, specifically addressing a rumor that she spoke in a variety of voices and accents in an effort to get the job.

"I did, I did," Jolie confirmed. "I've never loved my own voice. Like most people, you hear your own voice and you think, 'Ugh.' So I came in and I was Mae West for a while," she said of the saucy screen legend. "I was doing southern, I was doing British, I was doing any accent I could come up with. Finally, they had to give me the talking-to that they'd analyzed my voice and they'd hired me and they were very fine with my [natural voice], 'So please just stop doing those horrible voices,' " she recalled with a laugh.

In the "Kung Fu Panda" sequel, Jolie reprises her role as the feisty fighter Tigress, alongside Dragon Warrior Po (Black). The "awesome" world of the fighters is threatened by the emergence of a new villain who plans to conquer China and destroy kung fu with a secret, unstoppable weapon. Naturally, Po, Tigress and the rest of the Furious Five must spring to action to prevent that from happening.

Stick with MTV News all week for all of the scoop from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Check out everything we've got on "Kung Fu Panda 2."

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Audrina Patridge, Ke$ha, Adam Lambert Share Prom Memories

'Me and my gay best friend just danced until 8 a.m.,' Ke$ha tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena


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It's prom season, and that means high schoolers across this great land will be renting tuxes, buying fancy dresses and negotiating the details of their curfews with parents. So, before you take your pictures and get in your limos, we asked some Hollywood A-listers to recall their fondest prom memories.

"I had a great prom," Ne-Yo told MTV News. "I didn't get to go with who I wanted to go with. I got my second choice, but my second choice turned out to be the one I was supposed to be there with, so it turned out good."

Ke$ha, never one to say no to a party, had the best night of all her friends. "I went to prom with my gay best friend, and let me tell you, I had way more fun than anybody else at a prom with their boyfriends," she recalled. "Everybody else was, like, crying and drama and breaking up, and me and my gay best friend just danced until 8 a.m."

"Hellcats" star Aly Michalka doesn't have a favorite prom memory — because she never went to prom. "I was homeschooled, so I don't even think we had a fake prom," she lamented. "Like, maybe we had a home-school prom and I wasn't invited?"

While everything always seems to be in peril on "The Vampire Diaries," star Nina Dobrev had a less tumultuous night: "Having everyone get together and such a final celebration [is what I remember]."

Romeo went big for his prom. "My senior prom, I remember I pulled up in my red Ferrari. I was feeling like James Bond," he said. "And it was one of the best nights of my life."

"My favorite prom memory was probably going shopping for a dress, and our boyfriends at the time dressed up as 'Dumb & Dumber,' " Audrina Patridge laughed. "And so we were like, 'We can't dress up dorky ... we have to look good.' "

Roots drummer ?uestlove made a big decision on the night of his prom: "June 2, 1989, was my very last haircut; prom haircut, totally butchered my hair. He butchered my hair, and I vowed never again to ever get in a barber chair, so I grew that Afro on my prom night."

Adam Lambert said his prom date was a 10, so he definitely had a fun night. "I had a great prom. I had an awesome time," he said. "I went with one of my best friends in high school. Her name was Lauren, and she was really hot. She wore a really hot red dress, so I felt like I had arm candy."

Share your prom memories in the comments below!

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Exciting News

I have all but abandoned this blog and, for that, I am sorry. I am, however, going to get back to it because... wait for it, wait for it... I'm moving to LA for six months starting in June and I'm going to share every dirty detail with you!

You see, Mark and my good friend Patty are executive producers of a new television show that will be taping in New York from June to November. Instead of him getting his own apartment here, we thought it would be more fun to trade places. It's going to be like The Holiday and I get to be Kate Winslet. I'M GOING TO HAVE A CAR AND EVERYTHING. (Watch. Out.)

I'm looking forward to a change of scenery and have other friends out there besides him. Also, the movie is being released at the end of September, so it will be fun to be out there for that.

So anyway, that's what I've been up to—planning all this and getting ready for my (temporary) move. Stay tuned!

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Usher To Donate Gadhafi Money To Charity

'I will be donating all of my personal proceeds...to various human rights organizations,' singer says of concert linked to Libyan dictator.
By Shawn Adler


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R&B superstar Usher announced Friday (March 4) that he was donating to various charities proceeds from appearing at a private event at St. Barts linked to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, according to a statement made to the Associated Press.

The Grammy award winner's renouncement comes after similar announcements from singers Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado, and Beyoncé, all of whom were revealed to have performed at private concerts linked to the Middle Eastern leader, who has faced open revolt and major political uprisings since February.

"I am sincerely troubled to learn about the circumstances surrounding the Nikki Beach St. Bart's event that took place on New Year's Eve 2009," Usher said of the concert, at which he appeared alongside Beyoncé but did not perform. "I will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations."

Usher has already begun the process, having made a donation to Amnesty International, the AP reports. The exact size of the donation is not known.

The New Year's Eve gig was reportedly for Moammar's fourth son Muastassim, who an unnamed music industry source told MTV News has a history of throwing lavish parties "jammed" with supermodels.

Beyoncé, who sang at the event, donated all proceeds from her performance to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, established in the wake of the Haitian earthquake.

"All monies paid to Beyoncé for her performance at a private party at Nikki Beach St. Barts on New Year's Eve 2009, including the commissions paid to her booking agency, were donated to the earthquake relief efforts for Haiti over a year ago," the "Halo" singer's publicist said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "Once it became known that the third-party promoter was linked to the Qaddafi family, the decision was made to put that payment to a good cause."

Singer Nelly Furtado tweeted February 28 that she plans to make similar amends.

"In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Gadhafi clan to perform a 45 min. show for guests at a hotel in Italy," she tweeted. "I am going to donate the $."

The leader of Libya since a successful military coup in 1969, Gadhafi has reportedly lost control of much of his country as a result of widespread uprisings. The United Nations voted unanimously to refer the dictator to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

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