Mtv Movie Awards

If you went by last year's box office, "The Dark Knight" was the defining film of 2008. If you judged by the Oscars, "Slumdog Millionaire" was the unforgettable Cinderella story. But if you watched the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night, you would know "Twilight" was the only movie that mattered and that there's a bloodsucker born every minute. The first "Twilight" film was named the best film of 2008 and the movie also generated honors for best kiss, best fight, best breakthrough actor and just about any other popcorn-bucket trophy they had available.

Tyler's Aerosmith duty Now that Steven Tyler has finished his successful first season as a judge on "American Idol," he is returning to his day job with Aerosmith. The singer and his four bandmates plan to reunite next month with veteran producer Jack Douglas to kick-start work on their long-delayed album, guitarist Joe Perry said Tuesday. "Whole band has plans to go into the studio with Jack Douglas second week of July to work on new Aero CD," Perry said on Twitter. Aerosmith has not released an album of new material since 2001's "Just Push Play.

Raunchy comedy "The Hangover" led nominations for the MTV Movie Awards, beating blockbusters "Avatar" and the "Twilight" vampire sequel "New Moon" into second place, MTV said on Wednesday. But "Twilight" stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner dominated the contenders in the new global superstar category, while Betty White, 88, picked up a surprise mention in the usually youth-dominated awards. "The Hangover" had six nominations, including best movie, best villain (Ken Jeong)

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Monday At the always classy MTV Movie Awards: Robert Pattinson dropped an F-bomb, Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis groped each other, "Twilight" took the trophies. Typical, typical. ( Los Angeles Times ) During her acceptance speech at the show, Reese Witherspoon blasted reality TV stars and sex tapes -- oh, and had her own variation on the F-bomb too. ( Huffington Post , Los Angeles Times ) "Modern Family" leads the nominations for the brand-new Critics' Choice TV Awards.

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Monday At the always classy MTV Movie Awards: Robert Pattinson dropped an F-bomb, Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis groped each other, "Twilight" took the trophies. Typical, typical. ( Los Angeles Times ) During her acceptance speech at the show, Reese Witherspoon blasted reality TV stars and sex tapes -- oh, and had her own variation on the F-bomb too. ( Huffington Post , Los Angeles Times ) "Modern Family" leads the nominations for the brand-new Critics' Choice TV Awards.

The MTV Movie Awards are typically an exercise in frothy Hollywood film promotion but on Sunday night they were a ritual of redemption for two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock. The show was jammed pack with popcorn commercials but if you paid attention there were also surprisingly emotional moments, none more than the 21 Century survivor declarations by the stars of "Top Gun" and "Speed." Cruise opened the show in the hairy-chested, Tinseltown mercenary persona of Les Grosssman from "Tropic Thunder" and by channeling his inner Fly Girl with his dance moves.

If the annual MTV Video Music Awards seem to have gotten a little too big for their britches lately, there's now a better party in town: the fledgling MTV Movie Awards, the second annual of which airs tonight at 9. It's certainly a ridiculous excuse for trophymongering, but a great excuse for shameless stargazing. And get your VCRs ready, hoot hounds, because it has some definitive home-taping hall-of-fame moments.

Want to know how much the MTV Movie Awards means to Hollywood? When Disney, the studio releasing Kirsten Dunst's new movie, heard that the young actress was co-hosting this year's awards, it moved Dunst's teen drama, "Crazy/Beautiful," up a month to take advantage of her exposure on the show, which taped Saturday night at the Shrine Auditorium and will air Thursday on MTV.

It was a one-of-a-kind pop-cultural gumbo: bad-boy comedian Andy Dick and cinema sweetheart Sandra Bullock, rapper Fat Joe and stick-thin reality-TV star Nicole Richie, rocker-director Rob Zombie and fine-boned actress Ziyi Zhang, all standing cheek-by-jowl in a roiling celebrity stew. "It's a party," exclaimed Zhang, blowing air kisses.

In a year that brought us the Blockbuster Awards, among other new statuettes on the block, it's hard to begrudge much about the fourth annual MTV Movie Awards, a show that at least recognizes and celebrates the fact that it has no real reason for being. It's gleefully self-conscious enough about being a no-brainer to actually have a segment in which veteran character actor William Hickey, apropos of nothing, comes out and gives a withering speech about how the movies nowadays just suck.

SUNDAY "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook" from "The Social Network" is our pick in the newly minted best-line-from-a-movie category at the "2011 MTV Movie Awards. " "SNL's" Jason Sudeikis hosts. (MTV, VH1, 9 p.m.) Would-be cryptozoologists traipse through America's backwoods and bayous in hopes of "Finding Bigfoot" — the mythic man-beast also known as Sasquatch — in this new reality series. Do us a favor: Ask him where he buys his shoes.

It's one of the more formidable assignments in television: figuring out how to appeal to a fresh generation of teenagers and twentysomethings. Veteran executive Stephen K. Friedman was handed that responsibility Wednesday when he was promoted to president of the influential youth-oriented cable network MTV. Friedman, 41, has served as MTV's general manager since 2008, overseeing the channel's day-to-day operations and helping to reverse the...

Jimmy Fallon's got a big job ahead hosting the Emmys on Sunday. It's a good thing this isn't the first time he's emceed a kudos-fest. The late night funnyman has a decade-long history with awards shows from co-hosting the 2001 MTV Movie Awards to his hilarious T-Pain-style moment as a presenter at the 2009 Emmys. Now, let's look back at some of the Emmy nominee's funniest award show promos, song parodies and more with the video slideshow below. Clicking the arrow in the lower right corner will open a full-screen version.

It took a few weeks, but actress Lindsay Lohan found herself in trouble again — this time over the alcohol-detection bracelet a judge ordered her to wear. According to sources, the device's alarm sounded Sunday, the night Lohan was attending the MTV Movie Awards. It's unclear why the device went off. Typically, the alarm sounds when the bracelet is tampered with or if the person wearing it consumes alcohol. But it was enough for a Beverly Hills judge to haul prosecutors and Lohan's attorneys into court Wednesday afternoon for a closed session.

Master of the ineffectual pickup line and able to rock a pink polo shirt like nobody's business, Aziz Ansari's Tom Haverford has quickly become one of television's most endearing, self-defeating idiots. We spoke to Ansari about his "Parks and Recreation" character a couple of days before his hosting gig for the MTV Movie Awards. I'm looking at Tom's Twitter feed right now. "Need summer job while Pawnee gov't is shut down. Want something cool and sexy. First stop: Lady Foot Locker.

The MTV Movie Awards are typically an exercise in frothy Hollywood film promotion but on Sunday night they were a ritual of redemption for two of Hollywood's biggest stars, Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock. The show was jammed pack with popcorn commercials but if you paid attention there were also surprisingly emotional moments, none more than the 21 Century survivor declarations by the stars of "Top Gun" and "Speed." Cruise opened the show in the hairy-chested, Tinseltown mercenary persona of Les Grosssman from "Tropic Thunder" and by channeling his inner Fly Girl with his dance moves.

Raunchy comedy "The Hangover" led nominations for the MTV Movie Awards, beating blockbusters "Avatar" and the "Twilight" vampire sequel "New Moon" into second place, MTV said on Wednesday. But "Twilight" stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner dominated the contenders in the new global superstar category, while Betty White, 88, picked up a surprise mention in the usually youth-dominated awards. "The Hangover" had six nominations, including best movie, best villain (Ken Jeong)

Series: One in a series of occasional articles about how alternative comedy is fueling Hollywood. On a recent weekday evening, after they'd all been mercifully released from their day jobs, seven clean-cut young men, a.k.a. the Birthday Boys, a popular local sketch comedy troupe, lounged on the worn couches that line their living room-cum-production studio and took turns cracking one another up. It didn't take much, really — these guys know one another so well that they complete one another's one-liners.