After her brother’s murder, Sophie Gracen goes undercover to his prestigious and mysterious college to uncover the truth behind his death. What she discovers about Valemont University’s true purpose is darker and more twisted than she ever imagined.
Valemont University is like any other exclusive east coast college. Rich students. Excellent faculty. Impressive alumni.
Except Valemont has a secret. A dangerous one.
Our eyes into this mysterious world of privilege and power belong to Sophie Fields. Informed by the police that they've discovered a body they believe to be her brother, Eric Gracen, Sophie soon realizes there's more to the story.
Sophie steals a cell phone that was found with her brother's personal effects. It reveals that he was a student at Valemont. She assumes another student's identity and enrolls in the college herself, intent on discovering exactly what happened to the brother she hadn't seen for years - and who murdered him.
Through a series of text and video messages on Eric's phone, Sophie pieces together the mystery that was her brother's life at Valemont...and discovers that his fate may soon be her own.
Actor says he is 'lucky' to work with his 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' co-star. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Kara Warner
Tom Hanks is very excited to get work started on the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Why? Well, aside from the story — which follows a 9-year-old boy in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks — he can't wait to work with fellow Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock.
"Well, I have left a voicemail for Sandra ... Sandy. Can I call her Sandy? I can call her Sandy. I think she called the office back, but I hope to talk to her very, very, very soon," the Emmy-winning Hanks told MTV News at the HBO Emmy afterparty. "The story is magnificent. Eric Roth wrote a brilliant screenplay, which makes our lives very easy because you just read it and you say, 'I would be honored to be a part of this.' "
Although he isn't a close friend of Bullock, he does admire her work. "I am a huge Sandra Bullock fan. I've only met her a couple of times. She is a magnificent actress," he raved. "And every time we've seen her, even just as recently as 'The Proposal' and 'The Blind Side,' we've thought, 'We'd be lucky to work with her.' "
"Extremely Loud" is focused on a New York boy whose father was killed in the 9/11 attacks. The boy finds a key that belonged to his dad, but he doesn't know what it unlocks; the plot follows his attempt to answer that question. Foer's book employs an untraditional writing style that incorporates multiple interconnected story lines, photographs and the like.
The rights to the novel were first acquired several years ago. Scott Rudin is producing and Stephen Daldry ("The Hours") is attached to direct, with a script from "Forrest Gump" writer Eric Roth. Warner Bros. is the lead studio on the project.
Duo will reportedly play police officers who are forced to work on a case with their fathers. By Adam Rosenberg
Deadpool and the A-Team's Faceman may soon be fighting crime together. It's an odd pairing that will be made even stranger by the fact that each will bring his dad along.
Heartthrob Ryan Reynolds and equally heartthrobby Bradley Cooper are attached to star together in an untitled action comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The duo will star as a pair of San Francisco cops who are forced to work with their former-cop fathers on a case. THR reports that the comedy is "meant to have an updated 'Lethal Weapon' flavor that plays into edgier R-rated territory," so expect profanity and lewd behavior to go along with the high body count.
The script comes from "Up in the Air" scribe Sheldon Turner, who reportedly sold it for a seven-figure sum. The pitch was first developed by producers Neal Moritz and Andrew Panay five years ago with the title "Blowback"; back then, Dwayne Johnson was attached as one of the stars. Moritz and Panay are producing this second crack at the concept, as are J.C. Spink and Chris Bender of the production company Benderspink and Jonathon Komack Martin of Reynolds' Dark Trick Films. No studio is set yet, but Moritz and Panay are set up at Sony.
Reynolds has spent this summer shooting and promoting next summer's "Green Lantern" adaptation. He'll show up next month in Lionsgate's indie thriller "Buried." Reynolds is also supposed to be reprising his 2009 role as the joke-cracking mercenary Deadpool in a reboot of the character that Robert Rodriguez may direct.
Cooper showed up earlier this summer as Faceman in "The A-Team." He's got a sequel to the smash 2009 comedy "The Hangover" lined up for a May release. He also recently finished shooting for Neil Burger's sci-fi thriller "The Dark Fields" with Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish.
Socialite could get anywhere from probation to four years in prison. By Gil Kaufman
Paris Hilton's arrest on Friday in Las Vegas could land the socialite in jail again. The reality star was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance after police alleged that they found .8 grams of cocaine in her purse during a search following Friday's incident, Radar Online reports. The charges could land Hilton anything from probation to four years in prison; she could also face a $5,000 fine.
Jillian Prieto, public information officer for the Clark County courts, confirmed that Hilton is due back in Vegas for an arraignment in the case on October 27.
TMZ reported that unnamed friends of Hilton's said the hotel heiress and nightlife regular is wavering a bit from her initial "it wasn't my purse" story, explaining that Paris claims a friend recently borrowed the purse and "probably" left the illicit drug inside it. Hilton allegedly said the friend returned the bag but that she never bothered to check the contents before using it herself.
The friend said Hilton explained that she was eating sushi at the Wynn resort with boyfriend Cy Waits when she got tired and Waits offered to drive her home before returning to his gig as a nightclub boss at the Wynn. "It could be a setup," Hilton is reportedly telling friends. "Everyone knows how against cocaine I am."
Hilton was pinched after police stopped Waits' Cadillac Escalade when they smelled "the strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle," according to the police report in the incident. When one of the officers recognized the passenger as Hilton, he said she immediately tried to roll up her window. When police stopped the car and a crowd began to gather, Hilton told the officers she was "extremely embarrassed" and asked if she could use the bathroom at the Wynn and go inside to "prevent her from being molested by the growing crowd and also asked to go somewhere private and out of the public's eye until the investigation was over."
A Radar Online story claimed Hilton could be off the hook because police allegedly failed to check her purse at the scene and instead didn't do so until she was inside the Wynn, which her lawyers could argue was an illegal search. The police report confirms that an officer escorted Hilton into the hotel to the Wynn security holding room while they waited for a female officer to take her to the restroom. Inside the Wynn, Paris asked if she could take some lip balm out of her purse, and when the officer handed it to her, he claimed in the report, "As she began, I saw a small bindle of what I believed to be cocaine in a clear baggie begin to fall from the purse and into my hand."
Also found in the purse: a broken tablet of Albuterol — a prescription drug commonly used to treat asthma and wheezing — as well as Zig Zag rolling papers. Hilton copped to the Albuterol but said the cocaine was not hers and that the purse did not belong to her and that she'd borrowed it from a friend. When questioned by the police about the cocaine, she allegedly said "she had not seen it but now thought it was gum." Also inside the purse were $1,300 in cash and some of Hilton's credit cards.
Reported boyfriend Waits failed a field sobriety test, according to the police report, and was also arrested in the incident and charged with driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol.
The heiress had another run-in with the law over alleged drug possession earlier this summer when she was detained in South Africa at the World Cup for marijuana possession. But the case against Hilton was later dropped after officials learned that someone else in her group was smoking. Hilton has a history of getting in trouble for possessing substances and hitting the road, including a 23-day jail sentence in 2007 for violating probation stemming from a 2006 DUI bust.
'Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out,' she says in an interview airing Tuesday. By Jocelyn Vena
Sandra Bullock sat down with Matt Lauer for her first television interview since her divorce from Jesse James, airing on the "Today" show on Tuesday. In it, she opens up about her adopted son, Louis, and what he means to the entire Bullock family.
"We don't have any boys in our family. Boy, is everyone really happy about that. So, he's like the crown prince. You know, it's nothing but girls in our family," Bullock said about her baby, whom she called her "little Cajun cookie," in an excerpt on the show's Scoop blog. "I mean, my cousin in Germany has one son. No boys — can you imagine how miserable our father is? I mean, every pet was female. But it was just the hierarchy that needed to be broken."
Bullock also talked about how she was able to keep the adoption a secret from the media, crediting the people around her as having "massive amounts of integrity."
"Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut. That know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends," Bullock explained. "Those people are all over the place. But again, we don't like to talk about it, because it doesn't sell a magazine. But I was blessed with the same friends I've had since before things got really special for me and blessed in life.
"I did not circumvent," Bullock explained further about the adoption. "I wanted to do everything exactly the same way everyone else did. And it was. He was always mine, you know. It wasn't like I felt like someone was going to take him away. But it was nice to have someone say, 'I think you're a fit parent.' ... I think everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out."
The Oscar-winner sat down with Lauer in New Orleans, where she helped to raise funds for a new health clinic on the campus of the Warren Easton Charter High School. "They did it with such power and love and integrity. Integrity. There's so much integrity here. And I've never been around that much integrity," Bullock said about the victims of Hurricane Katrina since the area in and around New Orleans was devastated by the natural disaster five years ago.
'Modern Family,' 'Glee' and 'Temple Grandin' clean up. By MTV News staff
The 2010 Emmy Awards have come to an end, and there was a lot to keep track of. We're here to help, with the complete winners list from Sunday night's (August 29) show:
Outstanding Drama: "Mad Men" Outstanding Comedy: "Modern Family" Outstanding Miniseries: "The Pacific" Actor, Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad" Actress, Drama Series: Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer" Actor, Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory" Actress, Comedy Series: Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie" Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad" Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Archie Panjabi, "The Good Wife" Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family" Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Jane Lynch, "Glee" Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Al Pacino, "You Don't Know Jack" Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Claire Danes, "Temple Grandin" Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: David Strathairn, "Temple Grandin" Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Julia Ormond, "Temple Grandin" Directing for a Comedy Series: Ryan Murphy, "Glee" Directing, Drama Series: Steve Shill, "Dexter" Directing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Mick Jackson, "Temple Grandin" Directing, Variety, Music or Comedy Special: Bucky Gunts, "Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Opening Ceremony" Variety, Music or Comedy Series: "The Daily Show" Reality Competition Program: "Top Chef" Writing for Comedy Series: Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, "Modern Family" Writing, Drama Series: Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy, "Mad Men" Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Adam Mazer, "You Don't Know Jack" Writing, Variety, Music or Comedy Special: 63rd Annual Tony Awards
'When the time is right, everyone will know,' Carey says on her website. By Jocelyn Vena
Mariah Carey is finally addressing all those pregnancy rumors. However, the singer won't exactly confirm or deny whether she is expecting a bundle of joy. The rumors have been following the singer around since late spring when she dropped out of Tyler Perry's forthcoming movie "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" and were sparked again this week when Carey was seen at a show in Barretos, Brazil, looking pregnant.
"I appreciate everyone's well wishes. But I am very superstitious," she wrote on her website on Wednesday (August 26), Usmagazine.com reports. "When the time is right, everyone will know — even Cindi Berger [my publicist]."
While she might be keeping tight-lipped about the rumors, the celebrity website further reports that Carey was seen wearing maternity clothes, specifically a $140 Pea in the Pod spaghetti-strap halter maternity dress, in Brazil last weekend.
Much in the same vein as his wife, Nick Cannon has remained mum on the subject, playing coy when addressing the rumors on his radio show earlier this week. "I've said it before and I'll say it time and time again — when my wife feels like talking about whatever she wants to talk about, you will hear it directly from her," he said. "We all know it's extremely personal, and it is for a woman to deal with things with her body, and especially when dealing with the idea of childbirth and all that stuff.
"That's something you want to keep near and dear and as close to you as you possibly can, until you're 100 percent sure, in any situation," he continued. "There's a certain time limit you're supposed to wait before you can actually officially say that you are and all that stuff. You don't want to mislead anybody."
Actress served 23 days of her 90-day sentence. By MTV News staff
After serving 23 days of her 90-day sentence, Lindsay Lohan was released from rehab Tuesday (August 24), according to Radar Online She similarly served just 13 days of her 90-day jail sentence before being released August 2.
This was Lohan's fourth attempt at rehab, and TMZ has reported that the UCLA Medical Center doctors treating the actress believe the three-month stay ordered by the previous judge in the case, Marsha Revel, was excessive, and they recommended an early release.
That modification was due, in part, to the belief that Lohan may have been misdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and that a prescription given for that malady could have caused her to go off the rails.
Lohan is likely to continue receiving care on an outpatient basis.
After reporting to the Century Regional Detention Center on July 20 for her 90-day jail sentence, Lohan was released after less than two full weeks in custody thanks to good behavior and the chronic overcrowding at the facility. She then went straight from jail to the UCLA Medical Center on August 2 to begin the rehab phase of her sentence for a probation violation from a 2007 DUI conviction.
Actress will play mother of the preteen spies, who have yet to be cast. By Adam Rosenberg
Original Spy Kids Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara are all grown up now, which means that series creator Robert Rodriguez needs to enlist a new generation of pint-sized spooks. The new preteen twosome has yet to be cast, but their mother may have been found.
Jessica Alba is in negotiations to take on the role of the female lead in "Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World," The Hollywood Reporter reveals. If cast, she'll play a newly reactivated former spy who must balance going back to work with the challenges of having two preteen children — our new spy kids — and a baby.
In addition to the starring kids, two other key roles still need to be cast: Alba's husband, a "slightly nerdy investigative reporter," and the movie's main villain, Time Keeper, who seeks to stop time. The report also reveals that Vega, Sabara and Antonio Banderas are expected to return in supporting roles; no word on Carla Gugino, who played the mother of the original kids and the wife of Banderas' character.
Alba has already worked with writer/director/producer Rodriguez more than once. She had one of the starring roles in the ensemble comic book adaptation of Frank Miller's "Sin City." And she'll next appear in Rodriguez's "Machete," alongside Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan and more — another sizable ensemble — which hits theaters September 3.
"Spy Kids 4" was previously confirmed as a 3-D release. Budgeted at under $30 million, it's expected to start shooting next month.
