It’s one of the most buzzed-about films of the season, and a surefire Oscar contender. She’s an accomplished musician who made a commercial breakthrough with “Paper Planes,” one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits. Now, MTV has the exclusive scoop on the soundtrack that will bring M.I.A. and “Slumdog Millionaire” together for your listening enjoyment.

Renowned composer A.R. Rahman will release his critically beloved “Slumdog Millionaire” soundtrack online next week – and in stores next month – giving moviegoers the chance to take home his unique musical pastiche of what it feels like to grow up on the mean streets of Mumbai, India. In many early reviews of the recently opened Danny Boyle flick, critics (such as our own Kurt Loder) have praised the groundbreaking efforts of the music, which mixes the disparate worlds of Bollywood and hip-hop.
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“Twilight” has consumed both your lives and ours, and now the day we’ve all been waiting for is nearly here. In just a number of hours, screaming Twilighters around the country will be getting their first of probably many viewings of the movie on the big-screen.

So we want to remind you…get those webcams ready! As soon as you get back home from watching the movie, head on over to YouRHere.MTV.com and upload your webcam reaction to seeing “Twilight”! How many times did you shriek when RPattz walked into the room? Did you faint during the spider-monkey scene? We want to know, and we’ll be running some of the best (make sure to tag your video as “Twilight” so we can find it).

Until then, join us as we look back at an entire year of “Twilight” mania here at MTV.

By Dave Harrison

Has the “Twilight” backlash already begun mere hours away from the film’s release? For those of you who missed it, the notoriously animated Twilighter community have an entirely new reason to get, well, animated. “South Park” (which airs on our sister network Comedy Central), like it or not, has become a leader in the realm of social commentary, and last night the show took aim at the vampire phenomenon in an episode titled “The Ungroundable.”

Of course, in true “South Park” style, the writers showed no mercy on “those vampire kids,” who they depict as wannabe Goths that have transitioned from Abercrombie to Hot Topic in an attempt to follow the latest trend.

And our favorite human Bella Swan even gets an open — although inaccurate — shout out by name from one of the vampire kids, as they frantically search for the best place to eat lunch away from direct sunlight…even though vampires don’t eat. Read more…

This is one of those festering casting rumors that’s just really gotten under my skin over the last year or two. Magnum P.I. played by…Matthew McConaughey. No. Just no. I have sat back and watched Rosie O’Donnell play Betty Rubble. I stayed silent. Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott as Bo and Luke. I let it go. No longer!

But lo and behold I don’t have to get angry at the prospect of the star of “Surfer Dude” playing Magnum. Brian Grazer just told me it’s not happening. So it’s not going to be McConaughey, I asked? “No,” he said. “I think the idea for ‘Magnum P.I.’ is to find a counterpoint, to not try and find the new Tom Selleck but to find someone that is just so different that you go, oh my God! That guy is Magnum?!?” Read more…

FROM SPLASH PAGE: Sure, the years worth of behind-the-scenes drama surrounding “Watchmen” is an epic story in itself, but lately it seems as though an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Jonah Hex” is starting to give it a run for its money.

This morning, Variety broke the news that due to “creative differences,” Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have officially dropped out as directors for the in-early-development, big screen adaptation of “Jonah Hex” — DC’s resident post-apocalyptic, anti-hero cowboy. And while we could speculate all day as to what those “differences” were, the writing was on the wall when we spoke to Josh Brolin a few days ago, the actor who’s had an on-again, off-again attachment to the lead role of Hex.

“When I first read it I thought, oh my God it’s awful!” Brolin exclaimed to MTV News. “And then I had a moment a week later and I thought why is it awful? Maybe the thing to do is to do the most awful movie I can find.”

Read more of Josh Brolin’s thoughts about “Jonah Hex” at SplashPage.MTV.com.

50 Cent’s film career is on fire this year! Weeks ago, he became one of “13” badasses, now he’s jumped into a film that began shooting on Wednesday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he has signed onto Alex de Rakoff’s London gangster movie “Dead Man Running,” an indie thriller financed by two English soccer players. 50 Cent joins cast members Tamer Hassan (”Layer Cake”), Danny Dyer (”The Business”), Brenda Blethyn (”Secrets and Lies”) and Monet Mazur (”Stoned”).

The film centers around an ex-con who’s trying to become a law abiding citizen again, when he’s given 24 hours to come up with $150,000 to pay off a ruthless loan shark, or become a dead man running. He races from the dog tracks of East London to the drug scene of Manchester in order to raise the money, playing as fast and dirty as he has to in order to get the money before the deadline. 50 Cent won’t be playing the lead of the ex-con, but the part of Thigo, the merciless loan shark. Read more…

Interviewing Miley Cyrus is sort of a big deal around these parts. You know why. A hit-making singer, television star, burgeoning movie headliner – she’s done a lot of incredible things for a 15-year-old. Enough things, actually, that it’s easier than you’d think to forget that last part.

But a kid she is, and if I ever forget it again, feel free to show me the video of my recent interview with her, which we’ve included below. Thing is, she sorta played a little game at my expense. OK, fine, she messed with me good.

See, before I came in for the interview (which was her second-to-last of the day) some of the Disney publicity team dared her to include random phrases they had picked out in her answers. The more she could get, the higher her score. Of course, I was none the wiser. Read more…

After shooting Ed Norton in “Pride and Glory,” director Gavin O’Connor just wants to rock out.

His next film, which he co-wrote with producer Josh Fagin, is called “Born to Rock,” and it’s a twist on MTV’s “Rock the Cradle,” focusing on the progeny of a rock icon. Only instead of wanting to be like dear old dad, this rock spawn’s idea of rebelling is to be conservative and go to college, until a misunderstanding derails his plans.

Based on Gordon Korman’s novel, the lead in “Born to Rock” is a straight-laced guy named Leo Caraway, who’s headed for Harvard until he’s falsely accused of cheating on a test and loses his scholarship. He then learns that his father isn’t the man who raised him, but is told his real dad is King Maggot, the noose-wearing singer of the legendary ’80s punk band Purge (whose other members are guitarist Neb Nezzer, bassist Zach Ratzenburger, and drummer Max Plank). Read more…

Meet J. Michael Straczynski. 54-years-old. Veteran writer of everything from “Babylon 5” to that “He-Man” cartoon in the 80s (I know, I got excited when I saw that on his resume too.) And overnight success story?

Admittedly it’s more than a little odd for publications like Variety to call Straczynski — a scribe with an IMDB listing as long as they come — as one of their ten screenwriters to watch. But that’s just what his screenplay for the new Clint Eastwood film, “Changeling,” has provoked.

“It’s proof that the Hollywood fairytale still exists,” Straczynski told MTV News this week. And listening to him tell the story of how the film came to be makes it hard to argue. “Changeling,” tells the true story of Christine Collins, a single mother in Los Angeles in the 1920s who had her abducted child returned to her by the LAPD only to find that it was not her son at all. Read more…

Remember last year, when director Danny Boyle told MTV News that he was still very high on eventually filming “Porno,” the follow-up to his break-out hit “Trainspotting”? Turns out, Boyle said, the actors are now just as excited.

Now if they’d just lay off the goddarned moisturizer.

“Interestingly, they are about to put out yet another DVD of ‘Trainspotting,’ another edition, like they do, and they got all the actors together to do interviews for it and they all turned up, so I think they’re all starting to show a little appetite for it, for doing it again, and we’ve tickled them with this idea that it’s the same actors playing the same parts in the same city, but it’s got this fifteen year gap,” Boyle said of the long-gestating project. Read more…