Lady GaGa got the most nods at MTV's inaugural O Music Awards. Losing Favorite Animated GIF, to Nicki Minaj, the "Judas" singer managed to nab two trophies for Must Follow Artist on Twitter and Innovative Artist at the prize-giving event. 

In the former category, she won over Kanye West, Minaj, Amanda Palmer, Tyler the Creator, 50 Cent, Ted Leo and ?uestlove. In the latter category, she beat Radiohead, Tyler, Kanye, Lil B, The Flaming Lips and iamamiwhoami.

"You make me feel so brave and that I can continue to push the boundaries," GaGa said in her acceptance speech. The outspoken singer added, "I promise to continue to be inappropriate on Twitter so that you all continue to follow me."

The other winners included 30 Seconds to Mars (NSFW Music Video),Willow Smith (Most Viral Dance), Pink (Best iTunes LP), Adam Lambert (Favorite F**k Yeah Tumbrl), and The Lonely Island (Funniest Music Short).

Rebbecca Black, who was nominated for Favorite Animated GIF, attended the event on April 28 at Las Vegas' Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino. The "Friday" girl presented the Fan Army FTW award to Tokio Hotel.

• Best Fan Cover: Alex Goot - Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me"
• Innovative Music Video: Andy Grammer
• Fan Army ATW: Aliens/Tokio Hotel Fans
• Innovative Artist: Lady GaGa
• Must Follow Artist on Twitter: Lady GaGa
• NSFW Music Video: 30 Seconds to Mars - "Hurricane"
• Most Viral Dance: Willow Smith - "Whip My Hair"
• Favorite Animated GIF: Nicki Minaj
• Best Fan Forum: Michael Jackson
• Best Remix: Billboard (Mathieu Jomphe)
• Best iTunes LP: Pink - "Greatest Hits... So Far!!!"
• Best Music Hashtag Meme: #Bustinjieber
• Best Performance Series: Daryl Hall Live From Daryl's House
• Funniest Music Short: The Lonely Island - "I Just Had Sex"
• Favorite F**k Yeah Tumbrl: Adam Lambert
• Best Music Discovery Service: Pandora
• Best Animal Performance: Parrot Dancing to "Whip My Hair"
• Best Tweet: Kanye West Responsible for a Water Bottle
• Best Music Hack: ???
• Best Independent Music Blog: Aquarium Drunkard

Vanessa Hudgens Cast as Pregnant Teen in Indie Drama

Vanessa Hudgens is eying an indie project as her next movie after "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island". THR said in its report that the actress is in "final negotiations" to star in "Gimme Shelter" which will pair her up withBrendan Fraser. 

If Hudgens indeed is cast, she would portray a pregnant teen girl who is homeless after fleeing from her abusive mother. She starts a journey to find her biological father who had her through a youthful fling. He first "takes her in but then throws her out when she refuses to abort her child". Fraser is to slip in the role of the girl's father. 

The script is developed by Ron Krauss who would also direct the film and produce the movie along with Jeff Rice and Dama Claire. Production is scheduled to start at the end of the May and filming will take place in Connecticut. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger: I May Act in 'Cry Macho'

Arnold Schwarzenegger has recently opened up about his upcoming project. After admitting he wants to return to his acting career, the former California Governor has revealed that he may make an appearance in a new drama, "Cry Macho". 

Asked about what project he will likely join, the "Terminator" star told Entertainment Weekly, "You will be amazed, but I am going to answer your question. 'Cry Macho'." He later explained his reason on choosing the movie, "It's a little movie that got my attention because it is so opposite of what you'd expect someone like me to do...I don't know if that will be my next movie, but it could be. It's really a wonderful story." 

Schwarzenegger also shared some details of the movie. He said, "It's about a guy who is a horse trainer. He's a little bit over-the-hill. The last two years didn't go so well. But then the owner of the horses gives him a challenge. He sends him to Mexico to get his son." 

"The owner's wife cheated him out of a business and took their son, and the owner wants to pay her back, so he sends the trainer to get his kid," he went on. "And it becomes a movie about the relationship between the boy, who never had a parent that cared about him, and this horse trainer."

On the same occasion, he also talked about rumors of "True Lies" sequel as well as the next "Terminator" film. "The idea of a True Lies sequel has been around since the early 2000s, but then 9/11 happened and we didn't do it because it had to do with a terrorist attack," so he said. "A lot of terrorist-type scripts were canceled back then, but now they are emerging again because there hasn't been a terrorist attack in the last 10 years." 

"Then, of course, there's dialog about me getting back into the Terminator thing. But you know, I've been out of office only two months now. I couldn't be thinking about doing Terminator 16 while I was still governor." 

"Cry Macho" is a film based on a novel by N. Richard Nash, who adapted the screenplay before his death in December 2000. Al Ruddy and Bill Block serve as the producers, with Brad Furman directing. Release date is yet to be announced. 

Royal Wedding Prince William And Kate Middleton PICS

Catherine Middleton have made their highly anticipated appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, answering the crowd’s calls for the first public kiss of their marriage. Prince William has been given the title of the Duke of Cambridge by the Queen, and Miss Middleton has become Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge on their marriage.

 Catherine has been featured in several best-dressed lists and was selected by The Daily Telegraph as the “Most Promising Newcomer” in its 2006 list of style winners and losers. Prince William and his bride Catherine Middleton have made their highly anticipated appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, answering the crowd’s calls for the first public kiss of their marriage.

Spider Monkey a Ben 10 ultimate form

Above picture is Ben 10's ultimate alien form when he turns into Spider Monkey. Not the typical folk tale that started with "spider monkey was wandering in the forest looking for food and came upon a glass jug with a piece of food in the bottom. He reached deep inside the jug and grabbed the food in his fist."

Here's the description of Ben 10's Spider Monkey alien form. [Source Ben 10 Wiki Planet]

Spidermonkey or Spider Monkey is an alien with 4 arms, 4 eyes and 2 legs, a feature Spidermonkey has in common with Fourarms and Stinkfly. Spidermonkey can spin webs from his tail which were at one point stated to be as strong as steel, although it can be shredded, only by strong enemies though. He has supernatural adhesive skills, and has superhuman agility. He can also swim. In the episode Birds of a Feather, Simion, an Arachnichimp, said that their ears are better than humans, so he may have a highly strong sense of hearing, too. He is also good at hand-to-hand combat. He also has above average strength (stronger than a human) as seen in Absolute Power: Part 2 when he hit Kevin with a metal pole which sent him flying.

“Many soldiers would find this preferable to death…”

Source Code written by Ben Ripley, directed by Duncan Jones

I don’t know if I’m over thinking the equation, but I find it interesting how action blockbusters have become almost synonymous with science-fiction blockbusters. Source Code belongs to that specific class of cinema geared – ostensibly at least – at the prototypical 18- 45 male audience but with enough sincerity to appeal to a wider demographic.

The eponymous source code of the title is a computer generated component controlled by the Air Force, it seems. A soldier caught in that limbo between life and death becomes their key to stopping a serial bomber when he returns to the past in the form of a deceased passenger on the train. It sounds a bit confusing, no? The specificities of how the actual source works belongs to the class of cinematic creations which is just the right amounts of potentially confounding scientific data mixed with a certain amount of improbabilities that the audience is disinterested in and which Ripley delivers with enough sensibility that the fact that its very existence is confounding doesn’t act as a potentially exasperating element. It’s not that Source Code is a “character study” – in the strictest of senses, but it’s focus is less on the source code and more on its protagonist Colter Stevens, and in its confident (yet oddly self-effacing way) Source Code exists as a perfect vehicle for Gyllenhaal’s talents. (Can anyone else pull the name Colter, in the first place?)

When I reviewed Love & Other Drugs at the beginning the year I noted that despite its issues it was a perfect chance for Hathaway and Gyllenhaal to use their natural talents – even if the vehicle was less than solid. Source Code is a different genre, but Jake gets the opportunity to play that special type of hero who’s marked by a sort of stand-offish charm. He’s an everyman, but not a common man and I find I oddly humorous that when his Colter must go back to save the world, he returns in the form of a man who’s about as generic as they come. It’s sort of the paradox that is Jake as an actor. He’s not exceptional, but he has that intangible it factor that makes him much more watchable than a number of his peers, and he easily outshines the cast here.

Farmiga gives a puzzling performance, the first half of which she spends seeming a bit uncomfortable either with the character (or the horrific hair-stylist) but it’s a performance that becomes much more nuanced as the film draws to it close. Wright is as bombastic as needs be, but ends up being a little hollow in the end – even if the performance is hardly affects the film either way. It’s the same with Monaghan’s potential romantic interest, she – as with all the of the supporting cast – is serviceable in that they hardly prevent the film from being enjoyable, but they’re a bit ineffectual in terms of creating indelible characters, not that’s a terrible thing. It’s Jake’s films.

The most significant thing that occurred to me after Source Code was the manner in which contemporary cinema has developed. When our generation was young we were savouring Disney films where that vague concept of magic would give away to a host of impossibilities which were urged to “believe in”. Now that we’re older Disney has been replaced by any random studio, the films are animated no longer and magic has been replaced with science-fiction. Underneath the cantankerousness, I suppose I’m a sentimentalist at heart so I find the development satisfactory.

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Flashback: Gangs of New York

They say that retrospection gives way to perspective which gives way to the most effective view of things. I’m not sure that always applies to the cinematic world, though. If retrospection doesn’t precipitate nostalgic remembrances, it gives way to unnecessarily harsh points of view on certain films and Gangs of a New York is a fine example of that. Perhaps, it’s because a retrospective view at its ten Oscar nominations and zero wins suggests a less than impressive awards’ tally but by now you’d think that we’d stop using Oscar wins as a barometer for quality. All of Scorsese’s films this side of GoodFellas are befallen with the misfortune of being compared, unattractively, to his early work and next to The Age of Innocence, Gangs of a New York is the one accused most often of gratuitous style over substance. (Incidentally, both star Daniel Day Lewis, whose birthday is today.) I’m neither here nor there on whether that commendation holds up, but now is as good a time as any for a retrospective look at the 2001 “epic”.

I don’t know what is about Scorsese, he’s almost always regarded for his meticulous attention to detail but even in the consistency of his films – thematically – I’m always impressed with the scope of his imagination. In more ways than one Gangs of a New York is an ideal predecessor to The Aviator. It’s not just the presence of DiCaprio, Scorsese’s interest in history is potent as is the expansive epic style which he puts to more careful use in The Aviator. Scorsese’s films are always notable for their technical prowess and Gangs of New York makes extensive use of that – Michael Ballhaus photography in particular belongs to that specific school of lush which is so often mistaken for gratuitousness. Of course, that’s probably why it’s often cited as one of the leading examples of style over substance.

I won’t deny that I have massive nepotism when it comes to Martin Scorsese, and I’d be the first to admit that Gangs of New York has a story which has its issues with structures but I can’t criticise it for its actual story which I’m impressed with. Zaillian is a bit of a hit and miss with his screenplay credits, but Gangs of New York for me falls in the realm of the hit. The film is defined by its grittiness and it’s easy to give that credit to Scorsese because it’s a coarseness that a number of his films are marked with. But, Zaillian deserves a significant amount of credit for what exists as an impetus for the entire film. The important word there is impetus, though, because like so many of his films Scorsese’s scope overshadows the written word.

I mentioned Daniel Day Lewis in my opening paragraph, and his Bill the Butcher defines the entire film. I hate that memory of the supporting cast is eviscerated because they do turn in good work. But, it is Lewis’ film and he turns in what’s arguably the greatest performance of 2002 – which is significant considering the great work turned in by actors that year. This isn’t my favourite performance of his, but on his birthday today I can’t help but turn to Gangs of New York to remember him by. Lewis is an masterpiece, Gangs of New York is bit too flawed to be one. But, where they can shake hands is in their scopes. Love it or hate it, it’s difficult to deny the majesty of Scorsese’s intentions here, same goes for Daniel Day Lewis. The film, like it's main actor demands your attention at first glance and then it surprises with you with some distressing moments of poignancy.

       

What did you think of Scorsese's Gangs of New York? How would you celebrate DDL?