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If one movie came out of this year's Sundance Film Festival with serious Oscar potential, it was "The Sessions," starring John Hawkes and Helen Hunt. You can watch the first trailer after the jump. Also, Batman is kind of lame in real life, and how butts saved "Magic Mike" in Dailies! » You know what? Batman isn't actually as cool when you see him in real life. [Reddit] » Here's the first trailer for "The Sessions." It will be a movie you should know come Oscar season. [ComingSoon.net] » Vulture reveals how a bunch of butts may have...

Photo: Colton Haynes at another Elton John event earlier this year. (Getty Images) We love it when we see members of our own MTV family get involved with charity events! For all you "Teen Wolf" fans out there, check out the awesome do-goodery (is that a word?) of Colton Haynes. Our man Colton Tweeted: Excited to go to the Elton John's Aids Foundation White tie ball tonight!— Colton Haynes (@ColtonLHaynes) June 28, 2012 There's actually not one but two Elton John AIDS Foundations. One is headquartered in the U.S., and the other is in Elton's...

Photo: Chelsie Hill, left, and fellow "Push Girl" Auti Angel. (Sundance Channel/Greg Zook) Chelsie Hill always wanted to be a professional dancer. She started dancing at 3, and made the dance team all 4 years of high school. But everything changed her senior year, when she left a party with a friend who had been drinking. Their car crashed into a tree and Chelsie, now 20, was paralyzed from the waist down. But she didn't let her accident bring her down! She's using her experiences to help others, and to educate teens about the dangers of drunk...

Male strippers have a bad rap when it comes to their outfits. Everyone just assumes they'll see a cowboy or some dude wearing just a pair of cufflinks. For "Magic Mike," Channing Tatum wanted to buck the stereotypes when to came to stripping regalia. Tatum told MTV News that the choices in "Magic Mike" reflected what he preferred when he was actually dancing for movie. [ video unavailable on this device ] "That was sort of my whole thing when I actually did it," Tatum said. "When I danced, I did Boy Scout...

Despite his foul mouth, anger management issues and promiscuous behavior, Ted the teddy bear, star of the movie "Ted", still has a cute and cuddly factor. He's a stuffed bear, you can't escape a bit of the 'Aww' factor, and he comes from a long line of famous fuzzy celebrities. When MTV News caught up with Ted's director, Seth MacFarlane, recently, we asked him to compare Ted to other famous celebrity bears, like Snuggles from the Snuggles laundry detergent commercials, '80s toy Teddy Ruxpin, "The Muppets" funnyman Fozzie Bear and the colorful...

By Jordan Valinsky Yesterday, alt-rockers Muse announced that they'd be providing the official song of the upcoming 2012 Summer Games in London. The song, "Survival," premiered last night and was, according to the band, written "with the Olympics in mind. It's about total conviction and pure determination to win." >> New Muse Track 'Survival' Chosen As Official Song Of The 2012 London Summer Olympic Games "The song will be played throughout the Games including when athletes enter the stadium, in the lead up to the medal ceremony and...

Japan's favorite giant green monster could be heading to San Diego very, very soon. Latino Review has heard from their sources that Legendary Pictures is bringing their upcoming "Godzilla" movie to Comic-Con this year. The production company has already said their panel will include Guillermo del Toro's upcoming "Pacific Rim," so Godzilla should feel right at home there. It's been a while since we've heard anything about Gareth Edwards' take on the classic kaiju. Max Bornstein is currently re-writing David Goyer's script, but it doesn't...

Today, Tom Cruise metaphorically steps down from Oprah's couch. People is reporting that the actor and his wife of five years, Katie Holmes, have announced that they are ending their marriage. The former couple has a six-year-old daughter together, Suri. The only official word on the impending divorce comes from Jonathan Wolfe, Holme's attorney. "This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family," Wolfe said. "Katie's primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest." Cruise and Holmes married...

If you thought the international "Looper" trailer was good, just wait until you see the domestic one released today. Rian Johnson's mind-bending sci-film isn't due in theaters until September 28, but this latest tease gives us a much better idea of what the movie is about than the first trailer did. "Looper" follows an assassin living in the present day (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is hired to kill select targets by gangs living in the future. All is going well for him until one of the targets the criminals send back in time is actually an...

"Think Like a Man" was the biggest surprise romantic comedy hit of the year so far, managing to gross an impressive $91 million off of a movie that only cost $12 million to make. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Screen Gems is lining up a sequel to their hit film. The production company announced the news today, saying that the first movie's writers, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, will return to pen the sequel. Will Packer and Steve Harvey will also be returning to produce the project. There's no guarantee that the stars...

By Zachary Swickey The upcoming revamped second season of Fox's "The X Factor" is sure to be interesting now that Britney Spears and Demi Lovato have replaced Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger as judges alongside industry vet L.A. Reid and the program's mastermind, Simon Cowell. Season two doesn't kick off until September 12, but auditions are well underway for the program. A new YouTube vid interview posted on "X Factor's" official account provides a glimpse into the season two auditions in Providence, Rhode Island. We're first shown...

Photo: (MTV.com) "Awkward." fans rejoice! Season two is finally here and the season premiere was packed with family drama, love-triangle confusion, and of course some seriously awkward moments. Jenna's dad started the ep off with one of the most original Christmas gifts we've ever seen a dad give his teenage daughter: a GIANT box of condoms. There was no long parenting talk with it -- he just said it was a symbol of how much he cares about her. The gift gets Jenna and her new almost-boyfriend Jake talking about their future, and their pasts....

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" is unusual for a number of reasons. First, it stars 8-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis as a girl named Hush Puppy, who lives with her father in a part of Lousianna called The Bathtub. Second, it has dominated almost every film festival since it screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and that winning streak is expected to carry it to some Oscar attention. We spoke with the director, Benh Zeitlin, about his experiences making the film on a shoe-string budget with non-professional actors and the more-than-warm...

By Zachary Swickey You may have seen the name Ed Sheeran popping up lately in the spectrum of pop music news, but just who exactly is this guy? Well, Edward Sheeran is a 21-year-old English singer-songwriter-producer that you are likely going to be hearing a lot about for the next several months. Citing another English singer-songwriter, James Morrison, as his inspiration, Sheeran played an astounding 312 shows in 2009 alone. By early 2011, he had already released 8 EPs independently. This all helped him get the attention of Asylum/Atlantic...

We know what you're thinking, straight dudes. Enough about this "Magic Mike" movie already! "Ladies and gay guy friends, please stop with all the breathy Tweets and Facebook posts," you're thinking. "Sure, there are some handsome actors who take their clothes off in an R-rated Steven Soderbergh movie about male strippers. So what?" [ video unavailable on this device ] But fret no longer, gentlemen. We're here to tell you what's what in our handy love/hate guide to "Magic Mike." HATE All The Reverse Sexism...

Photo: (Getty Images) It's Linkin Park week here at MTV Act! Well, not officially, but the band is doing so many cool things that we couldn't fit them into a single article. On Tuesday, we talked about their new album LIVING THINGS and their environmentally friendly tour. But the band cares about all living things, so today we're focusing on what they're doing for people in need. Ready for a little video essay?! Essays aren't normally fun, but this one will be! WE PROMISE. Linkin Park started Music For Relief following 2004's devastating Indian...