'Twilight' Star Peter Facinelli Oversees Buddy's Bikini Dance

HOLLYWOOD — This morning, I watched a grown man dance down Hollywood Boulevard in a string bikini, singing Beyoncй's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)." And the weird part is, I really enjoyed it.

But not nearly as much as "Twilight" star Peter Facinelli, who devised the devious dance as punishment for his friend Rob DeFranco — an entrepreneur who bet the man otherwise known as Dr. Carlisle Cullen that he couldn't get half a million followers on Twitter. With help from his 500,000 best friends, Facinelli won — and this morning, shrieking Twilighters came from far and wide to watch DeFranco shake his tail feather.

"Rob obviously lost the bet, and so here we are today," grinned Facinelli, looking around at the good-sized crowd gathered on the street corner. "We tried to take this bet and make something positive out of it, so Affliction, the clothing store, got involved and sponsored the event, and they donated $10,000 to the Christopher Reeve Foundation in honor of my Twitter followers. I wanted to show that the power of unity, even for something this silly, can actually achieve something good ... [Rob is doing] a bikini dance for everybody. I just hope we don't scar anyone's children."

At a little bit after 10 a.m., DeFranco dropped his robe to reveal a tiny bikini bottom and string top. Surrounded by female models from Affliction who held a speaker blasting Beyoncй, Rob unveiled some impressive moves — karate kicking, windmilling and even falling into the screaming crowd at one point. An overjoyed Facinelli, meanwhile, sat down on the sidewalk and looked up at curious office-workers staring out building windows at the half-naked man down below.

"I'm not gonna say that Beyoncй should have him as one of her backup dancers, but I've got to be honest: He looks good in a bikini," Peter laughed. "I think he might start a whole new trend — you might see the man-kini out there on the beaches this summer."

"I had fun, but it was a little nerve-wracking," explained DeFranco after he put his robe back on. "I had to make sure that all the bits and pieces stayed in where they needed to stay."

"Rob's been trapped in his hotel room for about a week, learning Beyoncй's moves," Facinelli said of his friend. "I think he could have spent a month more and probably still wouldn't have gotten it right — but he tried really hard. And he even threw in a windmill, which I think almost took out some little kid's eye."

Luckily for the young "Twilight" fan, Dr. Cullen was available for emergencies. "Thankfully, I play a doctor on television and in movies," joked the star, who also is a castmember on "Nurse Jackie." "I was there on the scene, and the little girl was fine."

And if the fans are wondering what it would take to get Peter himself into a bikini, Peter revealed that he'd be willing to do it — if the Twilighters really flex their numbers.

"10 million followers," laughed Facinelli, possibly regretting his statement as soon as he said it. "If I get 10 million followers on Twitter, I will dance in a bikini."

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'Twilight' Actor Michael Welch Explains Robert Pattinson's 'New Moon' Role

SANTA MONICA, California — Without a doubt, huge groups of Twilighters all over the world fantasize about Edward Cullen every day. But as popular as breakout star Robert Pattinson has become, those who've read "New Moon" know that his character Edward is absent for much of the story. Now, we've got the scoop on director Chris Weitz's dreamy solution to the problem.

"They figured out a very clever way to get Edward back in the film much more than he is in the book," revealed "Twilight" series star Michael Welch when he stopped by the MTV studios recently, acknowledging that Weitz and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg have devised a plan to work around the "New Moon" plot — which has Edward breaking up with Bella (Kristen Stewart) early in the story and fleeing to Italy. "It's more of, like, a hallucination kind of thing."

As any good Twilighter knows, Bella is heartbroken by their breakup but slowly begins dealing with her Edward-less existence through the realization that dangerous activities — motorcycle riding, cliff diving, etc. — cause her to hear the sexy vampire's voice in her head. Welch was fascinated by Stewart's pretend hallucinations on set and explained to us that Weitz intends to insert sequences of her seeing Edward as "New Moon" inches closer to its November 20 release date.

"It's tricky," he said of the filmmaker's dilemma. "I mean, [Edward] leaves for months."

"In the book, she just hears his voice," continued Welch, who plays rival Bella pursuer Mike Newton in the movies. "In the film, it's more of like a hallucination kind of thing. He will be [in the movie more than the book] for sure."

While the news of more RPattz is sure to excite some fans, others may be concerned about the tweak — and the manner in which Edward will be glimpsed in Bella's hallucinations. Will he be an Obi-Wan Kenobi-like figure, giving her advice from the great beyond? Will Edward come across more like a god, overseeing her safety from half a world away? Will the sequences play like a bad acid trip from a '60s movie, or more like Bella interacting with an imaginary friend?

"It's going to be interesting to see — I have no idea," Welch explained. "You can sort of picture it reading [the script], but I don't know how they actually went about filming that stuff."

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'Public Enemies' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know

The outlaw vs. the man of the law. The American folk hero vs. the American federal agent. Johnny Depp vs. Christian Bale. That's the battle taking shape as Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," the true story of tommy-gun-toting bank robber John Dillinger (Depp) and FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale), pop-pop-pops its way into theaters, starting on Wednesday (July 1).

Set in the Depression-devastated 1930s, Dillinger forms a gang with some creatively named rule-breakers — Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd — and sets about looting banks that have been foreclosing homes and repossessing goods throughout the Midwest. Along the way, naturally, Dillinger finds time for a little bit of outlaw romance, as he falls head-over-machine-gun for Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), a vulnerable lounge singer. FBI head honcho J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) tasks Purvis with the task of capturing Dillinger and putting the kibosh on this crime wave sweeping the crisis-stricken country.

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Bringing Real-Life Gangsters Into the New Millennium

The events portrayed in the film took place almost 80 years ago, and Mann placed a great deal of emphasis on getting his facts right.

"Michael Mann is one of the most thorough researchers that I've ever come across," Bale told us last summer. "So, I had more than an abundance of information about [the history]. I also travelled to the FBI headquarters and met with the family of the character I was playing.

"We shot at the actual locations where the events took place," he added. "It was uncanny on a number of occasions; we were filming on the actual dates where the gunfights happened, in the same place, at the same time!"

The Stars

In January 2008, co-star John Ortiz, who plays Sicilian gangster Frank Nitti, kicked us some inside knowledge about the production and his work alongside Depp and Bale. Joining this group was Channing Tatum as Floyd. In April of that year, Crudup signed on for the role of Hoover.

"It's a supporting part," Crudup told us earlier this year. "It's kind of a cameo."

The Allure of the Gangster Lifestyle

As the movie wrapped production and the stars began to speak to MTV News about it, they talked often about the appeal of living outside the law.

"The best thing about being an outlaw was the machine gun — and unlimited ammunition," Depp said at the Hollywood premiere of "Enemies."

Bale said the best part of outlaw life was "the finest cars. ... [Their] cars have this artistry, and they have a sense of the character."

"You can make your own rules, and bend the rules," said Leelee Sobieski, who plays one of Dillinger's lovers. "[When you're a gangster], crazy things will happen."

But are these folks scofflaws in real life? "I'm constantly breaking laws," Depp told us with a laugh.

The Visions

In March, we debuted a series of photos from "Enemies," including one of Depp clutching his tommy gun and Bale stalking the fugitive in the woods.

Ten days later, we showed off the film's first trailer. And, as always, we've brought you a ton of interviews with the cast, including one in which Bale spoke glowingly about Depp's commitment to blazing his own path.

The Future

After taking a year off work, Bale is returning for "The Fighter," in which he plays an ex-convict who trains his boxer half-brother, played by Mark Wahlberg. Depp moves on to two films in the next year: a fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" and an adaptation of the 1960s supernatural TV series, "Dark Shadows." As for Mann, his next directorial project is anything but clear. Jamie Foxx told us in April that he and Mann would be gearing up for "Damage Control," about a Mr. Fix-It lawyer who represents troubled sports stars. Whether that becomes his next big screen effort remains to be seen.

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Demi Lovato: It Was 'Great' To Work With 'Best Friend' Selena Gomez

Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez's real-life friendship really translates to the small screen. Their movie, "Princess Protection Program," became the third-highest rated movie to debut on the Disney Channel. And, with the DVD of the film being released on Tuesday (June 30), fans can enjoy their onscreen BFF chemistry anytime they want.

Demi explained to MTV News just what their off-screen BFF chemistry is like, saying that opposites attract. "I definitely say what is on my mind, like, right then and there if I have a problem with something."

She went on to explain that in on the rare occasions that they do fight with each other, the girls have very different arguing techniques. "I'll be like, 'Dude, not cool.' And she'll totally take it and be like, 'OK, I'm sorry,' " Lovato offered. "And when we argue, I'm always the one that's like, 'Yo, what's up?' and she's just like, [very calmly] 'You know Demi, I just don't really agree with this.' I'm the one with the attitude. She totally takes it, though."

But most of the time the girls get along quite well and during the making of the "Princess Protection Program," the pair had a lot of time to really bond. "Working with Selena on the movie, it was a ton of fun ... we got to shoot together every day," she said. "We shot in Puerto Rico, so we'd go to the beach on the weekends and it was such a great experience."

And for fans of the teen queens who wonder what friendship is like for them, Demi explains that it's really no different than their fans' relationships. "It's just, like, friendship ... it's great 'cause she's one of my best friends," she said. "We're, like, normal girls."

So what do two normal, famous girls do when they're not making movies together? Play video games, obviously. "We play video games or we will write songs. We'll hang out, just play dress-up and just [watch] scary movies," she said. What's their favorite video game? "Grand Theft Auto. She got me into when we were, like, 8. It was so much fun."

'Public Enemies': Bullet Time, By Kurt Loder

John Dillinger's reign as America's most-wanted bank robber (or one of them) only spanned 10 months — from the fall of 1933, when he pulled his first such heist, to the summer of 1934, when federal agents shot him down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater. Still, Dillinger has proved to be a durable celebrity desperado. Along with such fellow bank-job specialists as Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson (all of whom came to a bloody end the same year Dillinger did), he continues to embody the "public enemy" years of the Great Depression, when heartland gangsters became figures of public fascination by smiting the hated banks and repeatedly eluding the little-loved coppers who pursued them.

Dillinger's brief career has been the subject of several films. The latest is director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies," a beautifully made picture that sets out to portray the famed outlaw as both a hard-bitten criminal and a passionate romantic, and is undone in the attempt. Johnny Depp brings effortless star power to the role of Dillinger, and he's a charmer in the scenes in which his character is pursuing an on-the-run, soul-mate love affair with a Chicago coat-check girl named Billie Frechette (the superb Marion Cotillard). The sequence in which Dillinger first meets Billie, in a nightclub that's all shadow and glow, with Diana Krall's luminous rendition of "Bye Bye Blackbird" whispering off the soundtrack (and Krall lip-synching her own performance on the bandstand), is a glorious showpiece. And when Dillinger later tries to reassure Billie about their very iffy future with the grand line, "I'm gonna die an old man in your arms," it evokes the expansive romance of an earlier screen era.

But Depp's charm works against him in portraying Dillinger as a cold-blooded gunman — he lacks the requisite sense of menace, no matter how energetically he goes through the motions of bullet-fueled mayhem. Still, the motions — the jailbreaks, robberies and ferocious shootouts, with tommy guns barking and gangsters in their new Ford V-8s leaving underpowered lawmen in the dust — are spectacularly well-staged. There's an opening escape from the Indiana State Penitentiary in which the bleak, towering walls of the prison, and the flawless blue sky they can't quite blot out, convey feelings of both hopeless confinement and beckoning freedom in a single resonant image. Equally striking is the sequence in which Dillinger is recaptured and flown back to Indiana, where he's met at the airport by a roiling herd of reporters and cameramen, whose smoke-belching flashguns light up the windy night with a lurid magnesium glare. (It feels like we're present at the birth of paparazzi journalism.) Mann and Dante Spinotti, the great cinematographer with whom he worked on such movies as "The Insider" and "Heat," opted for HD cameras in shooting the film, and digital has rarely been used to such rich effect.

The movie's large cast is thronged with first-rate character actors, chief among them Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke as Dillinger henchmen; Stephen Graham as the unhinged Baby Face Nelson; Stephen Lang as the somber G-man Charles Winstead; and especially Peter Gerety as a wonderfully windy mob lawyer, and Billy Crudup, who plays J. Edgar Hoover, the scheming head of the nascent FBI, as a prissy, self-important fraud. John Ortiz also has a few good scenes as Chicago mob enforcer Phil D'Andrea. (It was the mob's nationwide criminal aspirations that spelled the end of the highly localized bank-robbing fraternity.)

It's too bad Channing Tatum is so briefly utilized as Pretty Boy Floyd (blown away at the beginning of the film); and it's really too bad that Christian Bale, in the key role of Melvin Purvis, the indefatigable federal agent on Dillinger's trail, is such a vacuum whenever he's onscreen. The character is supposed to be tight-lipped and undemonstrative — an over-wound "scientific" crime-fighter; but Bale is hard-pressed to inject any life into this bloodless construct. Depp's Dillinger, even as conceptually conflicted as he is, merits a more vibrant adversary.

The movie is based on a true-crime book by Bryan Burrough, and it sometimes feels encumbered by all the research and scrupulous location-scouting that have gone into it. But then it also fudges facts and chronology with surprising abandon. (To note just one instance, Nelson and Floyd are depicted here as pre-deceasing Dillinger, when in fact both outlived him — although not by much.) This might be an annoyance only to historians if the movie had more dynamic sweep — if it were able to convincingly fuse its endless shootouts with its determinedly tender love story. But the action, however splendidly choreographed, begins to seem rote after a while (the movie runs nearly two and a half hours), and the overabundance of characters taking part in it is sometimes confusing. By the time the end draws near, the love story has become the last element providing any human interest — everything else is clamor and blast. But then Billie disappears, to be awkwardly replaced by another woman (Leelee Sobieski) for Dillinger's big night out at the Biograph. And then, much worse, the movie ends with a line of dialogue so startlingly inane that it leaves the picture flapping on the screen like a punctured balloon. It may be the most brutal moment in the whole film.

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'Harry Potter' Cast Reveal The Secrets Of Quidditch

Quaffles, Bludgers, Golden Snitchs, Beaters, Seekers, Chasers ... to some this is utter gibberish, but to "Harry Potter" fans these are the beloved elements of Quidditch, the premier witch-and-wizard sporting event in the world. The terminology is peculiar, the rules are myriad and the history stretches back centuries, but all you need to know is that Harry and his pals play by riding around on broomsticks, competing for points and trying to capture that elusive Snitch.

Yet in 2007's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the Quidditch chronicles present in J.K. Rowling's book were cut from the film. On July 15, the game will make a glorious return to the big screen in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." When MTV News had a chance to visit the U.K. set and talk to the stars about the sport, they revealed the difficulties of filming Quidditch and how the game can sometimes become a divisive issue between the competitive classmates (reader beware: Spoilers exist below).

Emma Watson, who plays the brainy Hermione Granger, told us about a scene in the film in which her character believes Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has slipped a magical good-luck potion, called Felix Felicis, into Ron's (Rupert Grint) drink before an important match.

"She definitely disagrees with Harry putting the Felix Felicis in Ron's drink because it's the equivalent of taking steroids before a match or for athletics," Watson explained. "She really disagrees with it, but then she finds out that Harry's actually been smarter than her and it's all a psychological thing."

That's because Harry doesn't actually put the potion in his drink — Ron just assumes he's been dosed and thus plays spectacularly. "It's kind of like a placebo drink," Watson said. "So it's all OK in the end."

For Grint, who plays Harry's buddy Ron, "Half-Blood Prince" gave the actor his first opportunity to engage in some cinematic Quidditch. "I was actually really gutted last year because that is sort of Ron's big Quidditch moment and I was really upset they didn't have that in ['Order of the Phoenix']," he said. "I was really looking forward to doing it this time, but it's actually sort of an anticlimax because it's really hard work.

"You're on a broom for a long time, like a few hours at a go," Grint grinned. "You're literally sitting on a broom and it gets a little bit sore down under a bit. It's been fun, but it's quite hard work."

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'Surveillance': Here Be Monsters, By Kurt Loder

"Surveillance" started out as a script about witches. Director Jennifer Lynch took a whack at it and made a movie about devils — the human kind. The picture is twisted and disturbing and funny, too. Lynch has pushed the material to the wall — she has a gift for violence and perversity, and she never pulls back.

A trail of brutal serial murders has wound its way across the country and now arrived in a remote, unnamed desert community. The movie begins with a recent atrocity, a man and woman slaughtered at their home. Then there's another bloodbath, out on a lonely highway, which leaves several people dead. We don't see this massacre — yet. The story really gets underway in its aftermath.

Three survivors have been brought to the local police headquarters: a wounded cop named Jack (script originator Kent Harper), a hopped-up young blonde named Bobbi (Pell James) and an eight-year-old girl, Stephanie (Ryan Simpkins). Jack and Bobbi are liars, with much to lie about; only Stephanie has information that could be of help, but she's a kid, and nobody pays attention. Soon, to the resentment of the police chief (Michael Ironside) and his remaining force, the FBI takes an interest, and two agents, Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) and Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond), show up to lead the investigation.

The movie flips back and forth in time. In a scene set earlier, we observe that Jack and his partner, Jim (French Stewart), are corrupt, half-crazy dirtbags. To pass the dead time, they sit in their patrol car, parked near the desert highway, and shoot out the tires of selected passing vehicles, which they then approach and detain. The vicious good-cop/bad-cop psych-outs they inflict on these unlucky motorists are among the most alarming things in the movie. Which is saying something.

One of the cars we see the rogue lawmen intercept contains little Stephanie and her family. Then a second car is halted at the same spot, this one carrying Bobbi and her big-lunk boyfriend Johnny (Mac Miller), fresh from a drug rip-off. We still don't see what happens next, but soon.

Back at headquarters afterward, the three witnesses are being questioned separately. Stephanie keeps trying to tell anyone who'll listen that she saw something out on the highway earlier: a mysterious white van, a black-gloved hand, blood. Her story doesn't register. Then comes word that three more bodies have been discovered. Agent Anderson and two of the local cops set out for the scene. The picture ends in a bonfire of depravity, played for both shocks and laughs.

Lynch's first movie, the 1993 amputation love story "Boxing Helena," was savagely reviled, and for that and other reasons it's taken her 16 years to release a second one. "Surveillance" has some of the drifting unease we associate with the work of her father, David Lynch (who lent his name to the project in order to get it made, and also contributed music to the soundtrack). Some of the visual details (a demented face growling up on a monitor, a crushed bird in the road) have a touch of dad about them, and a long shot of the highway under a vast sky stacked with clouds recalls his 1999 film, "The Straight Story." But his daughter has her own ticklingly gruesome sensibility, and no reservations about deploying it. She and Harper have cooked up some wicked lines, too. When Agent Anderson threatens the uncooperative Bobbi with a full cavity search, the younger woman says, "I haven't done a girl since art school." Says Anderson: "It's like riding a bike." The movie's fake-out conclusion is something else: It's like falling off a cliff.

Don't miss Kurt Loder's review of "The Hurt Locker," also new in theaters this week.

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