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Friday, April 27, 2012
Demi Lovato Announces Summer Tour Dates
North American jaunt kicks off in June and wraps up at the beginning of September.
By Jocelyn Vena
Demi Lovato
Photo: Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images
Demi Lovato is ready to give your heart a break on her just-announced summer tour. The Unbroken singer will take her act on the road beginning in June.
The trek will kick off on June 12 in California, before circling around the country for 21 dates with stops in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boston and one stop in Toronto, Canada. The tour will run through the summer, wrapping up on September 1 in Salem, Oregon.
Lovato hit the road last fall to promote the album. That smaller Stateside tour was featured in her MTV documentary, "Stay Strong." She also recently completed a tour in South America. This time around, Lovato is expected to bring Hot Chelle Rae and Owl City with her.
Unbroken just went platinum, celebrating sales of more than one million since its September release. She recently dropped the album's second single, "Give Your Heart a Break," as well as the music video earlier this month.
While Lovato has been open about her personal struggles, she didn't want this album to be exclusively about them. "I didn't want to come out with this depressing album. I think it's important that I kept a lot of my heart open on the album because I talked about my personal issues," she told MTV News. "But I also had some fun dance songs on there for people to enjoy."
Demi's summer tour dates, according to her label:
»6/12 - Del Mar, CA @ The Del Mar Fairgrounds
»6/22 - Holmdel, NJ @ The PNC Bank Arts Center
»6/23 - Hershey, PA @ Star Pavilion at Hersheypark Stadium
»6/24 - Vienna, VA @ Filene Center at Wolf Trap
»6/26 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
»6/30 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena at Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino
»7/1 - Canandaigua, NY @ Constellation Brands - Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
»7/3 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
»7/5 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
»7/6 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center
»7/12 - Salt Lake City, UT @ EnergySolutions Arena
»7/13 - Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
»7/14 - Las Vegas, NV @ Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino - Theatre for Performing Arts
»7/15 - Bakersfield, CA @ Rabobank Arena Theater & Convention Center
»7/17 - San Jose, CA @ San Jose Event Center
»7/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
»8/4 - Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Festival
»8/11 - Springfield, IL @ Illinois State Fair
»8/27 - Essex Junction, VT @ Champlain Valley Exposition
»8/30 - Monroe, WA @ Evergreen State Fair
»9/1 - Salem, OR @ Oregon State Fairgrounds Pavilion
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'Five-Year Engagement' Cast Reveals How They Keep Composure
Jason Segel, Emily Blunt and Alison Brie share with MTV News cures for avoiding on-set laughter: 'I just think of really dark, morbid stuff.'
By Kara Warner
Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Chris Pratt and Alison Brie in "The Five-Year Engagement"
Photo: Universal Pictures
Whenever a movie features a very talented cast of actors who are also great comedians, it's easy to assume that many laughs and bloopers occurred during filming. Take the upcoming romantic comedy "Five-Year Engagement" for example, which boasts the very funny ensemble of writer/actor Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Alison Brie ("Community") and Chris Pratt ("Parks and Recreation") to name a few.
When MTV News sat down with the cast to talk about the film recently, we asked how they keep their cool to avoid ruining a scene when a castmember does something particularly amusing.
"I have a lot of experience trying not to break on the set of 'Community' working with a lot of funny people," Alison Brie explained. "I consider it a personal challenge when working with Ken Jeong to not break in scenes with him, and he's ridiculously funny, so I had that under my belt."
Regarding her methods for maintaining a straight face, Brie said, "I just stay in character — professional! Look, I just think of really dark, morbid stuff. I don't want to tell you; it's going to make you depressed."
Segel revealed he learned his lesson early in his career: "I'm terrified of breaking, because Judd Apatow screamed at me once when I was very young on 'Freaks and Geeks.' I was laughing, and I was young, and looking back, he was just trying to scare me, but he said, 'Every time you break, it costs me thousands of dollars!' And since then, I'm terrified of breaking."
Blunt blames "nervous energy" for her on-set laughter. "I laugh at everything," she shared. "I found myself laughing at my grandfather's funeral because I had that nervous energy, and you don't know how to cope. I think the more pressure I'm under from the cast and crew not to laugh, the better I do."
Check out everything we've got on "Five-Year Engagement."
For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Fun. Bring The Party To 2012 MTV Movie Awards!
'We Are Young' indie rockers will toast the greatest party films of all time with their performance at June 3 show.
By Kara Warner
Nate Ruess of Fun.
Photo: Getty Images
With the summer movie season right around the corner, our excitement for multiple trips to the theater is building with each passing day. And with the blockbuster season comes another equally thrilling cinematic event: the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on June 3!
In addition to Tuesday's (April 25) announcement of the 12 nomination categories — including new additions Best Music, Best On-Screen Transformation, Best Gut-Wrenching Performance, Best Cast and Best On-Screen Dirt Bag — we are thrilled to announce that chart-topping indie-pop group fun. will rock the Movie Awards stage with a performance toasting the greatest party films of all time. "We are Young," from their latest album, Some Nights, has been holding strong at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the past six weeks.
"The Movie Awards are all about celebrating the most popular films and performances from the past year that people actually went to see," said Stephen Friedman, president of MTV. "Moreover, we're thrilled to have Fun., whose instant anthem 'We Are Young' has lived at the top of the charts the past six weeks, and their performance showcases one of the biggest changes in this year's broadcast — a true melding of the worlds of movies and music — with a tribute to the greatest party films of all time."
Once again, MTV fans will hold the "Power of the Popcorn" in their hands. This year's brand-new Best Music category will allow fans to vote for a specific movie moment when the perfect song played during the perfect scene.
The 21st annual MTV Movie Awards air live Sunday, June 3, at 9 p.m. ET/PT from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
PCD Venture (Virgin Mobile)
The PCD Venture ($99.99) is aptly named, as it is something of a venture in and of itself. You may find yourself drawn in by the promise of an inexpensive, keyboarded Android smartphone?with Virgin Mobile's excellent plan pricing, but proceed with caution. This phone has a cramped keyboard, a disappointing camera, short battery life, and generally low-end performance. If you see this phone on the display rack, you'll almost certainly make a better choice if you venture elsewhere.
Design, Call Quality, and Plans
The Venture measures 4.6 by 2.3 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.3 ounces. It's nice and compact for a keyboarded smartphone, and feels relatively solid. It's made of matte gray plastic, with a plastic silver band outlining the face of the phone. It feels pretty classy?until you turn it on. PCD manages to fit in a 2.8-inch display, but at just 320-by-240 pixels, it looks dim and grainy. Even when held over a foot away from my face text looks jagged. There are four physical function keys right beneath the display, which sit on top of the phone's four-row QWERTY keyboard.
Although they are made of a nice, grippy plastic, the keyboard's keys are cramped and tiny. I found it difficult to type without accidentally mashing my finger into other keys, so typing long messages is no simple feat. Keyboarded phones are usually built for texting, but in this case you'd almost be better off with a touch-screen-only phone.
The Venture is a dual-band EV-DO Rev. A (850/1900 MHz) device with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. Reception is average (Virgin uses Sprint's network), but call quality is middling at best. Voices sound fine in the phone's earpiece, but have a tendency to clip in and out. Calls made with the phone sound fuzzy and computerized, with poor noise cancellation. The speakerphone sounds extremely muffled, and is not loud enough for outdoor use. Calls sounded fine through a?Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset ($129, 4.5 stars), and voice dialing worked fine over Bluetooth without training. Battery life is poor at just 4 hours and 10 minutes of talk time.
As is the case with many phones from Virgin, the biggest selling point here is the carrier's inexpensive pricing plans. You can sign up for an unlimited data, text, and Web plan for as little as $35 per month with 300 voice minutes. 1200 minutes costs $45, and unlimited voice calling brings the price to $55 per month. If you're more of a message and data user than a talker, that $35 plan is hard to beat?especially considering that a data plan alone will cost you $30 on a carrier like Verizon Wireless, and for that price you're limited to 2GB of data per month! There's no tethering or hotspot mode, so you can't use a laptop with this connection. And Virgin does have one downside for heavy data users: Although you get unlimited data, your speeds will be significantly throttled after 2.5GB of usage per month.
OS and Performance
The Venture is running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread). There's no word on an update to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), but I wouldn't count on it. PCD has modified the standard Android lock screen and added Mobile ID, but that's about it. There are five home screens you can swipe between that come preloaded with some useful apps and widgets, like a battery saver app. There's also some bloatware, but thankfully, almost all of it can be deleted. Mobile ID lets you customize your device with downloadable theme packs from Virgin that include applications, ringtones, wallpapers, and widgets.
The phone is powered by a severely outdated 600MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7627 processor. Even a year ago this was a low-end part, and it really shows. The Venture turned in some of the slowest benchmarks we've seen in recent memory; you can definitely count this phone out for high-end gaming. Even swiping between home screens can feel too taxing. You should be able to use most of the 400,000+ apps in the Google Play store, but they may not always run well.
Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
The Venture comes with 144MB of free internal storage. There's also a microSD card slot beneath the phone's back cover with a preloaded 2 GB card; my 32 and 64GB cards worked fine as well. Music tracks sounded fine through both wired headphones as well as Altec Lansing Backbeat?Bluetooth headphones ($99.99, 3.5 stars). I was able to play AAC, MP3, OGG, and WAV test files, but not FLAC or WMA. Standalone video support is spotty. The Venture plays MP4 and H.264 test files at resolutions up to 800-by-480, but not AVI or XviD files.
The 2-megapixel camera comes equipped with an LED flash, but performance is poor. There's a long, 1.4 second shutter delay, and no matter the lighting, photos show average color but are generally soft and lacking in detail. The camcorder follows suit; it records small, grainy videos at a low-resolution 352-by-288-pixels. In both cases, you'd be much better served by a cheap digital camera.
While the PCD Venture gets you all the trappings of a smartphone at an inexpensive price, it just doesn't do anything particularly well. The Samsung Replenish?($99.99, 3 stars) over on Boost gets you the same keyboarded form factor and similarly inexpensive plan pricing, but has better voice quality, a more usable keyboard, and boasts an eco-friendly build. The LG Optimus Slider?($199.99, 3.5 stars), meanwhile, costs $100 more, but gets you a larger, sharper display, and a roomy, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It's worth it.
Benchmarks
Continuous talk time: 4 hours 10 minutes
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