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Yesterday we passed along the news that the trailer for Disney and director Niki Caro's live-action remake of the animated classic Mulan starring Liu Yifei and Donnie Yen would be hitting today. And low and behold, that's just what we have For you guys this evening. You can go ahead and check it out below!

I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to checking out this live-action take on Mulan. After all, while it seems like every classic Disney animated movie is getting the remake treatment these days, Mulan was the only Disney flick I watched growing up and actually thought, "This would make a great live-action movie!' For some reason, I never said that about The Lion King. Not sure why.

While it's sad that fan-favorite character Mushu (who was voiced by Eddie Murphy in the original movie) has been replaced with a phoenix this time around,...

It was just a day or so ago that we passed along the news that Disney's live-action remake of the animated classic Mulan is possibly ditching the Mushu character from the original film and replacing him with a phoenix. While that was some pretty weak news, we'll all be able to see if it works in the movie's favor sooner rather than later as today we have word that Fox has announced they will debut the trailer this Sunday.

I can only imagine Disney is finally unleashing the trailer for their Mulan remake because their other "live-action" animation remake of The Lion King will be hitting theaters in a few weeks on July 19, 2019. And considering that Iron Man and The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau's retelling of the classic tale is looking to snatch up All the money at the box-office, it makes sense that the trailer for...

No, Mark McGrath is not dead, despite what a Los Angeles-based consulting firm led fans to believe Thursday, Feb. 26 when circulating a press release announcing the Sugar Ray singer's "death." In what appears to be a sick stunt to promote the Thursday premiere of his Adult Swim series Hot Package, the Prismatics company wrote that McGrath, 46, was murdered while filming the show. "McGrath . . . was confronted by a masked gunman and shot several times. The former Sugar Ray frontman died in the arms [...]...

The full cast list has been unveiled for Syfy's "Sharknado 2: The Second One" with Vivica A. Fox, Kelly Osbourne, Judd Hirsch, Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath, Andy Dick and Judah Friedlander set to join returning champs Ian Ziering as Fin and Tara Reid as April.

In the follow-up, a deadly twister full of sharks unleashes its fury on New York's most iconic tourist destinations. Filming is scheduled to begin next week.

Vivica A. Fox is playing Fin's old high school friend Skye, Mark McGrath portrays Fin's brother-in-law and Kelly Osbourne is playing a flight attendant.

Andy Dick plays a New York cop, Judah Friedlander is set to play Brian, while Judd Hirsch is playing a New York taxi driver. Anthony C. Ferrante returns to the director's chair using a script by Thunder Levin.

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Following last month's news that Sharknado stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid are returning for Sharknado 2: The Second One, the sequel has added new cast members Vivica A. Fox, Kelly Osbourne, Judd Hirsch, Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath, Andy Dick and Judah Friedlander.

Production is scheduled to begin next week on the Syfy follow-up. In Sharknado 2: The Second One, a freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin (Ian Ziering) and April (Tara Reid) can save the Big Apple.

Vivica A. Fox is playing Fin's old high school friend Skye, Mark McGrath portrays Fin's brother-in-law and Kelly Osbourne is playing a flight attendant. Andy Dick plays a New York cop, Judah Friedlander is set to play Brian, while Judd Hirsch is playing a New York taxi driver, an homage...

With practically every month now marking the 20th anniversary of yet another “classic” alternative era album -- "In Utero" is next up to bat -- '90s nostalgia is, shall we say, in bloom.

But not every band from back then were iconic rule breakers a la Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins or Blur. And the decade’s lesser lights are now rearing their frosted-tipped heads for one more kick at the can, too.

This summer the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 hit the road as part of a joint summer tour. So has Under the Sun, a summer-long, alt-rock lite package tour featuring Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, Gin Blossoms, Vertical Horizon and Fastball (the lineup is a holdover from the failed Mark McGrath and Friends Cruise). These bands, radio and sales heavies from the mid-to late-’90s, join a wave of acts like Soundgarden, Blink-182, The Breeders and No Doubt...

Mark McGrath’s nostalgia cruise has been sunk. The Sugar Ray singer announced on Thursday that his Mark McGrath & Friends Cruise had been canceled, offering no formal explanation on the event’s official website. The cruise was to run from Miami, Fla., to Nassau, Bahamas, with Smash Mouth, Spin Doctors and the Gin Blossoms joining Sugar Ray in performing, from Oct. 18-21, 2013. Photos: Lights, Camera, Accident! 20 Hollywood Stunts Gone Wrong On Twitter, McGrath told fans that Carnival’s recent “poop cruise” was to blame. “The recent fiasco sunk us, no pun intended!” McGrath wrote to one fan. To another,

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Special guest stars tonight, February 26th include performances by Katie Thompson From The Public Theatre's Giant and Broadway's upcoming Big Fish, composerlyricistrecording artist - Original songs featured on Fox's 'So You Think You Can Dance', Dani Spieler from Broadway's Legally Blonde and the National Tour of West Side Story, Kevin Ray singer songwriter of Central Avenue Breakdown, New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf award winner and Mac Award nominee for his holiday album - 'Seasoned Greetings', Anna Steele three-time Mac Award winner and two-time Bistro and Nightlife Award winning cabaret artist, Freddie Kimmel from the National Tour of Billy Elliott and Superfly The Musical.

For those craving a show after the show, 54 Below, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, offers its Tuesday night cocktail partysongfest, Backstage. Special guest stars on February 26th include performances by Katie Thompson From The Public Theatre's Giant and Broadway's upcoming Big Fish, composerlyricistrecording artist - Original songs featured on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, Dani Spieler from Broadway's Legally Blonde and the National Tour of West Side Story, Kevin Ray singer songwriter of Central Avenue Breakdown, New York Musical Theatre Festival Nymf award winner and Mac Award nominee for his holiday album - Seasoned Greetings, Anna Steele three-time Mac Award winner and two-time Bistro and Nightlife Award winning cabaret artist, Freddie Kimmel from the National Tour of Billy Elliott and Superfly The Musical.

Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Mark McGrath! The Sugar Ray singer married his longtime love Carin Kingsland on Monday at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. and People has the first photo of the happy couple on their wedding day. McGrath, 44, wore a Hugo Boss suit while Kingsland, 39, donned a gown from Renée Strauss's bridal salon in West Hollywood, which she paired with gold Prada sandals. Related: Mark McGrath Marries Carin Kingsland"After 18 years of breakups, makeups, beautiful twins and an unwavering love that provided some pretty damn good song lyrics, we are happy to announce that we are finally married,...

Producer Jim Jonsin says The Adventures of Bobby Ray singer 'wants it to be his album.'

By Rob Markman

B.o.B

Photo: MTV News

B.o.B is out embarking on another adventure. After his 2010 debut, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, produced chart-topping singles and an RIAA-certified gold plaque, the Atlanta rapper is back in the studio crafting his next LP all by his lonesome.

"What Bob wanted to do was go into the lab himself and spend his time creating what he wanted his album to have, the direction he wanted," producer Jim Jonsin told MTV News. "So we're waiting on him to come back with that house that he's built so we can go ahead and put all the fixtures in and try to help with it."

Jonsin, who signed B.o.B to his Rebel Rock label, where the artist remains inked alongside T.I.

Gary Busey, Jose Canseco, Meat Loaf are among other contestants who will appear on reality show's 11th season.

By Gil Kaufman

Lil Jon

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump may not have decided whether he's running for president, but he's definitely put together the strangest cabinet yet for the upcoming season of "Celebrity Apprentice."

The Donald went on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday to unveil the cast for the 11th season of the reality competition, and once again it is a fascinating grab bag of musicians, models, sports figures and actors.

From the world of music, the cast of 16 includes King of Crunk Lil Jon, Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath, country star John Rich, classic rocker Meat Loaf, Latoya Jackson and R&B legend Dionne Warwick.

Among the actors signing on for the chance to win some cash for the charity of their choice are unhinged reality staple Gary Busey,...

It's been over a year since Usher filed for divorce from Tameka Foster, but the singer says he thinks the turmoil in his personal life actually benefited his career. "In an era when sensationalism is more prevalent than anything, yeah, [the split helped my popularity]," Usher, 32, tells Playboy in its November issue, on newsstands now. "People love a train wreck. Lindsay Lohan - everybody is eager to see how that comes out. This is somewhat the same thing." The Raymond v. Raymond singer says he's not ready to think about settling down again. "Seeing how marriage didn't work out for me the first time, I'm...

Back in 1985, ABC aired an action series called Street Hawk. The TV show revolves around public relations cop Jesse Mach (Rex Smith) who gets recruited for a top secret government project -- piloting a high-tech and incredibly fast motorcycle. Norman Tuttle (Joe Regalbuto) is the cycle's inventor and the only one who knows that Mach is actually the mysterious Street Hawk. Other recurring characters are played by Richard Venture, Jeannie Wilson, Raymond Singer, and R.J. Adams

Despite running for just one short season, Street Hawk has attracted a cult following. Smith says he still gets stopped by "men of a certain age" and thinks it's time for a new version.

He recently told the Daily Record, "I am currently developing a script for a new re-envisioned Street Hawk along with my oldest son Brandon, called Street Hawk Resurrection."

The...

Mark McGrath and his longtime girlfriend became the proud parents of twins in April -- and they're pretty darn adorable. Son, Lydon Edward , and daughter, Hartley Grace , made their official debut today on People , where the Sugar Ray singer and Carin Kingsland revealed they had difficulty conceiving the cute kids -- and turned to IVF for help. McGrath adds "There’s a bond that the four of us share that nobody can mess with." Read more...

Ludacris, Ke$ha, Adam Lambert also on festival bill.

By Matt Elias

Justin Bieber performs at Wango Tango 2010

Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/ Getty Images

Kiis-fm's annual Wango Tango festival stormed Los Angeles' Staples Center on Saturday night. While the energy was massive inside the sold-out arena — with a bill that included Usher, Justin Bieber, Ludacris, Ke$ha, Akon, Adam Lambert and David Guetta — it was equally buzzing backstage with artists and entourages mixing it up.

Maybe they enjoyed themselves a little too much, as Ke$ha joked that she had already made out with glam-man Adam Lambert by the time she made it to our interview. She was also looking forward to corrupting pint-sized popster Bieber. No doubt she was excited to take part in the show, which has become an institution in the music industry and a signal that artists have made it.

"I'm gonna treat it like a big fun summer dance party,...

Girlfriend Hayley Wood calls Am 'my amazing grace' during Thursday's event.

By Gil Kaufman

The marquee outside of DJ Am's memorial at The Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Thursday

Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images

While Michael Jackson was being buried in a lavish ceremony across town, friends, family and fans paid a final tribute to DJ Am (born Adam Goldstein) on Thursday night at the Hollywood Palladium, less than one week after the popular celebrity DJ was found dead in his New York apartment of an apparent drug overdose.

According to People, hundreds of invited guests and fans turned out to remember Am, 36, who was buried on Wednesday, among them former fiancée Nicole Richie and friends Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson, Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart and Robert Downey Jr. E! Online reported that the VIPs also included Dr. Drew Pinsky, Tom Arnold, Jon Favreau and Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath.

Sundance Film Festival

PARK CITY -- In "Iron Jawed Angels", Katja von Garnier, who in 1997 directed one of Germany's biggest hits, "Bandits", brings her dynamic, rock 'n' roll style to a subject that is not only American but historical to boot. The story ranges from 1912 to 1920 when a group of fiercely dedicated young suffragettes band together to cajole and embarrass a supposedly democratic country into adapting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. It is bracing to see a period drama told with such a contemporary style that includes a highly mobile camera, vivid colors and techniques such as a "speed ramp," where the camera speed changes during the same shot.

While it's disappointing that, as the suffrage struggle grows more protracted, the film gradually becomes more conventional, that initial charge will undoubtedly pull younger viewers into the HBO film, which premiered here at Sundance. Certainly the film could not be timelier as it deals with the problem of politically confronting a wartime president, who is not above playing the "traitor" card and more than willing to incarcerate American citizens on dubious charges, then deny them access to legal counsel.

At the film's focal point are two real-life women. Hilary Swank plays the cerebral and charismatic Alice Paul while Frances O'Connor is the fashionable, good-natured Lucy Burns. They team up to head the Washington D.C. committee for the old-line National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). However, their inflammatory methods not only rub the new president, Woodrow Wilson (Ben Gunton), the wrong way, this confrontational approach ruffles the feathers of staid and conservative NAWSA leaders Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston in a performance rich in appalling stiffness) and Anna Howard Shaw (Lois Smith).

Nevertheless, the energetic pair attracts many to their cause including labor lawyer Inez Mulholland (Julia Ormond), who literally dies of exhaustion campaigning for the amendment, and Ben Weissman (Patrick Dempsey), a political cartoonist smitten by Paul's fiery temperament but unable to carve out a role for himself in a life so consumed with a single political issue.

Perhaps the most intriguing and revealing characters are a Senator (Joseph Adams) and his immaculate wife (Molly Parker), who fall out over her suffrage activities. That a man once could easily and so completely control the life, finances, children and well being of a woman he claims to love will no doubt be an eye-opener to those who take women's rights for granted today.

With so many characters and issues to detail, the movie does take convenient shortcuts. President Wilson, a complicated and crucial figure in American history, gets reduced to a cartoon here. Nor is anyone who opposes our plucky heroines given any chance to rise above the two-dimensional. But this is no great loss since their cause was an ignoble one.

Working with a script credited to several writers, von Garnier has created about as lively a rendering of the period and issues as possible. It is extremely well acted, features terrific production design, costumes and cinematography and contains a directorial control over theme and style that could, if the German filmmaker so chooses, lead to an interesting career in the U.S

IRON JAWED ANGELS

HBO Films

Spring Creek Productions

Credits: Director: Katja von Garnier; Writers: Sally Robinson, Eugenia Bostwick Singer, Raymond Singer, Jennifer Friedes; Story by: Jennifer Friedes; Producers: Laura McCorkindale, Dennis Pinckley, Jim Bigwood; Executive producers: Paula Weinstein, Len Amato, Robin Forman, Lydia Dean Pilcher; Director of photography: Robbie Greenberg; Production designer: Norris Spencer; Music: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil; Costume designer: Caroline Harris; Editor: Hans Funck.

Cast: Alice Paul: Hilary Swank; Lucy Burns: Frances O'Connor; Inez Mullholland: Julia Ormond; Carrie Chapman Catt: Anjelica Huston; Ben Weissman: Patrick Dempsey.

No MPAA rating, running time 123 minutes.

Feature films Dirty Pretty Things, Finding Nemo and Seabiscuit and TV series Joan of Arcadia and The Bernie Mac Show were among the top the finalists announced Wednesday for the 2004 Humanitas Prize. The Humanitas Prize, now in its 30th year, honors writers whose work "honestly explores the complexities of the human experience and sheds light on the positive values of life." In announcing the finalists Humanitas Prize president Frank Desiderio opined that the award has become "all the more important since television has taken a de-humanizing turn with some of the so-called reality shows." In the feature film category, which awards a $25,000 prize, the finalists are Steven Knight for Miramax's Dirty Pretty Things; Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds for the Pixar/Walt Disney Co.'s Finding Nemo; and Gary Ross for Universal's Seabiscuit. HBO leads the 90-minute TV category, which also carries a $25,000 prize. Finalists in that race are Tony Kushner for HBO's Angels in America; Sally Robinson and Eugenia Bostwick Singer & Raymond Singer and Jennifer Friedes for HBO's Iron Jawed Angels; and Jonathan Estrin for Showtime's Jasper, Texas.

Sundance Film Festival

PARK CITY -- In "Iron Jawed Angels", Katja von Garnier, who in 1997 directed one of Germany's biggest hits, "Bandits", brings her dynamic, rock 'n' roll style to a subject that is not only American but historical to boot. The story ranges from 1912 to 1920 when a group of fiercely dedicated young suffragettes band together to cajole and embarrass a supposedly democratic country into adapting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. It is bracing to see a period drama told with such a contemporary style that includes a highly mobile camera, vivid colors and techniques such as a "speed ramp," where the camera speed changes during the same shot.

While it's disappointing that, as the suffrage struggle grows more protracted, the film gradually becomes more conventional, that initial charge will undoubtedly pull younger viewers into the HBO film, which premiered here at Sundance. Certainly the film could not be timelier as it deals with the problem of politically confronting a wartime president, who is not above playing the "traitor" card and more than willing to incarcerate American citizens on dubious charges, then deny them access to legal counsel.

At the film's focal point are two real-life women. Hilary Swank plays the cerebral and charismatic Alice Paul while Frances O'Connor is the fashionable, good-natured Lucy Burns. They team up to head the Washington D.C. committee for the old-line National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). However, their inflammatory methods not only rub the new president, Woodrow Wilson (Ben Gunton), the wrong way, this confrontational approach ruffles the feathers of staid and conservative NAWSA leaders Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston in a performance rich in appalling stiffness) and Anna Howard Shaw (Lois Smith).

Nevertheless, the energetic pair attracts many to their cause including labor lawyer Inez Mulholland (Julia Ormond), who literally dies of exhaustion campaigning for the amendment, and Ben Weissman (Patrick Dempsey), a political cartoonist smitten by Paul's fiery temperament but unable to carve out a role for himself in a life so consumed with a single political issue.

Perhaps the most intriguing and revealing characters are a Senator (Joseph Adams) and his immaculate wife (Molly Parker), who fall out over her suffrage activities. That a man once could easily and so completely control the life, finances, children and well being of a woman he claims to love will no doubt be an eye-opener to those who take women's rights for granted today.

With so many characters and issues to detail, the movie does take convenient shortcuts. President Wilson, a complicated and crucial figure in American history, gets reduced to a cartoon here. Nor is anyone who opposes our plucky heroines given any chance to rise above the two-dimensional. But this is no great loss since their cause was an ignoble one.

Working with a script credited to several writers, von Garnier has created about as lively a rendering of the period and issues as possible. It is extremely well acted, features terrific production design, costumes and cinematography and contains a directorial control over theme and style that could, if the German filmmaker so chooses, lead to an interesting career in the U.S

IRON JAWED ANGELS

HBO Films

Spring Creek Productions

Credits: Director: Katja von Garnier; Writers: Sally Robinson, Eugenia Bostwick Singer, Raymond Singer, Jennifer Friedes; Story by: Jennifer Friedes; Producers: Laura McCorkindale, Dennis Pinckley, Jim Bigwood; Executive producers: Paula Weinstein, Len Amato, Robin Forman, Lydia Dean Pilcher; Director of photography: Robbie Greenberg; Production designer: Norris Spencer; Music: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil; Costume designer: Caroline Harris; Editor: Hans Funck.

Cast: Alice Paul: Hilary Swank; Lucy Burns: Frances O'Connor; Inez Mullholland: Julia Ormond; Carrie Chapman Catt: Anjelica Huston; Ben Weissman: Patrick Dempsey.

No MPAA rating, running time 123 minutes.