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Photo: (Mariah's Challenge) Leo McCarthy is offering teens money not to drink. McCarthy lost his 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, five years ago, when a 20-year-old drunk driver hit her and two friends as they walked down the sidewalk in Butte, Montana. But he turned tragedy into triumph when, at Mariah's funeral, he offered teens this challenge: "If you stick with me for four years -- don't use alcohol, don't use illicit drugs, but give back to your community, work with your parents, and talk to your parents, I'll be there with a bunch of other...

Some kids grow up admiring the residents of Sesame Street, and other, cooler kids look up to one Bill Murray. That being the case, they also deserve an appropriate coloring book. Also, "Taxi Driver" heads to modern day Time Square, and Black Dynamite heads to TV in today's Dailies! » Ever wonder where those dumb "Prometheus" scientists learned it all? Here's your answer. [/Film] » We here at MTV News have a sense of humor about the programming on our network, so here is "32 and Pregnant." [Vulture] » A very young Judd Apatow once wrote...

Jim Rash, the man better known as Dean Pelton on "Community" and his writing partner, Nat Faxon, have been at work crafting their directorial debut, "The Way, Way Back." The duo are hot off their Oscar win for the screenplay for "The Descendants," so it should come as no surprise that actors are flocking to their upcoming film. But as the casting news flows in, it sort of feels like Rash and Faxon have read our diary entries about our fantasy comedy casts and sought to make our dreams come true. Deadline is reporting that Maya Rudolph, Rob...

When Jeff Daniels told MTV News that "Dumb and Dumber To," the sequel to his 1994 comedy, would never happen without Jim Carrey, we feared that it may mean the end for the project. Carrey abruptly left the follow-up this week due to disputes with New Line and Warner Bros. Carrey left "Dumb and Dumber To" when he grew angry that the studios did not share his enthusiasm for the sequel to the Farrelly Brothers film that helped launch his career in the early 90s. But when Jeff Daniels appears in the "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," he indicated...

DreamWorks has got a need. A need for a "Need For Speed" movie. The studio has announced that they're going to be adapting the popular video game franchise into a feature length filmed with "Act of Valor" director Scott Waugh at the helm. Screenwriting brothers George and John Gatins have come up with an original premise based on the EA series' tried-and-true gaming formula and are going to pen the script. Apparently the flick is being fast-tracked at Dreamworks and is being planned for a 2014 release date. Oh, and Steven Spielberg is pumped...

Photo: (Getty Images) Disney fans all over are celebrating this week with the newly released photo of Sleeping Beauty's evil nemesis, Maleficent, played by none other than Angelina Jolie herself. She joins the likes of actresses Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron and more who have made astonishing Disney transformations. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most charitable of them all?" + Angelina Jolie in 'Maleficent' Photo: (Getty Images/Disney) Maleficent is the sorceress, the antagonist, and the villain that many despise,...

Photo: President Obama and Bo. (Getty Images) When Barack Obama promised Sasha and Malia that they could bring a puppy to their news digs in DC, the nation went bonkers trying to figure out which breed would be dropping deuces on the South Lawn. Months of pooch predictions ended when late Senator Ted Kennedy gifted the girls Bo, an adorbs (and hypoallergenic!) Portuguese Water Dog. The current First Pet is generally seen as a social media star and major campaign asset -- but could he hurt Barry's chance of re-election with his carefree canine...

Photo: (Getty Images) After winning four of five games (in a possible seven game series), the Miami Heat are the 2012 NBA Champions, defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder and earning Finals MVP Lebron James his first basketball championship ring. *crowd goes cray cray* Lebron James may be a champion of the 2012 NBA Finals, but he is also a champion to many kids across the country. With a student dropping out of school every 26 seconds, Lebron is doing his part to help more young people have a brighter future. The MVP has teamed up with BoostUp...

By Meredith Goldberg-Morse Air travel must be rough for the famous. In addition to the never-ending security lines, overly intrusive pat-downs and the germ-infested recycled air that we common folk have to deal with, celebs have the additional stress of being trapped in an enclosed space with potentially overzealous fans and no viable means of escape. Anderson Cooper became fed up with one such admirer on a recent cross-country flight, causing the typically docile television personality to verbally school the offending fan. Guess that's the...

Since leaving him The Matrix, Keanu Reeves has worked sparingly, pouring his biggest ambitions into two martial arts-themed projects, next year's "47 Ronin" and his directorial debut "Man of Tai Chi." The latter went into production a few months ago, and now a proof of concept video (via The Playlist) has surfaced showing off some of the technology that Reeves will be using in order to capture some serious martial arts action. Check out the video after the jump! The rig Reeves is using for "Man of Tai Chi" is known as Bot & Dolly. The...

By Bryant Gilmore Seemingly unstoppable British boy band One Direction have partnered with environmental group Greenpeace for their petition to the United Nations to make the Arctic Sea bed a sanctuary. Because of environmental and climactic changes, the Arctic has experienced a fluctuation of changes over the years and according to Greenpeace's official site, oil companies and other conglomerates are using this to their advantage to divide up what is left for exploration. But Greenpeace is ready for this to stop."We're not going to sit...

Last October, elementary school principal Justin Vernon (not that Justin Vernon, obviously) challenged the 170 students in kindergarten through fifth grade at his public school in the Boston area to read a combined 10,000 books by the end of the academic year. The challenge did not come without some conditions: "They pushed back on me, saying 'If we're going to have to read all these books to meet our goal, you've got to do something for us," Vernon told local news station WCVB-TV. "Somehow I got stuck with dressing up as Lady Gaga and milking...

Baseball player Josh Hamilton's life certainly has all the trappings of a biopic. He was a talented, successful athlete early in his characters, fell victim to addiction, lost it all, only to fight his way back to the top. It's no wonder that studios would target Hamilton's life for a possible biopic. Deadline is reporting that Casey Affleck will both write and direct a retelling of Hamilton's rise, fall and redemption inside the world of Major League Baseball. The film would be Affleck's second directorial effort. In 2010, he helmed the faux-documentary...

It seems as though Johnny Depp is ready to take a break from his busy few years, and Warner Bros. is willing to comply. The studio has put his upcoming project "The Thin Man" on hold, reportedly so Depp can take some time off in between his films. Deadline has the news, saying that "The Thin Man" was still in its early stages of production. The film had not yet been greenlit, and director Rob Marshall hadn't yet cast a female lead to act opposite Depp. The budget for "The Thin Man" had recently been submitted, but Deadline reports that there...