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The sun never seems to set on the “Twilight” movie franchise.

The second film in the vampire romance series won five prizes at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, just as the first picture did a year ago.

In what amounted to a two-hour infomercial for the blockbuster, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” was named best movie, while stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson picked up multiple honors.

Fans were also treated to an exclusive preview of the third film, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” which opens in theaters on June 30.

Stewart won for best female performance and best kiss, sharing the latter award with Pattinson. The real-life lovers staged a deliberately awkward smooch for the benefit of the overly excitable “Twilight” fans who seemed to dominate the crowd at the Gibson Amphitheatre near Hollywood. Pattinson also won for best male performance, and was named global superstar.

While the profanity-laced ceremony is tailored to MTV’s core audience of teens and twentysomethings, relative veterans Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock gave the youngsters a few lessons in showbiz.

Cruise stole the show in the first half hour when he dropped his serious persona to take to the stage for a highly choreographed dance routine with Jennifer Lopez.

Reviving his bald alter ego Les Grossman, a boorish movie-studio executive character in the 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder,” the 47-year-old actor wowed the crowd with a saucy, booty-slapping, crotch-grabbing performance that climaxed with a split worthy of James Brown.

“It was a lot of fun,” he told reporters afterward.

Bullock received a career achievement award, and briefly made out with Scarlett Johannson.

“Now that we have done that, can we please go back to normal? Because therapy is really expensive,” she said, evidently trying to defuse the outpouring of pity in the wake of her marital woes.

“Go back to making fun of me, I don’t care … And I think when we all go to bed tonight, just to think about all the people that are being affected in the Gulf (by the BP oil spill) and just say a prayer for them.”

Betty White, the octogenarian “Golden Girls” actress riding a new wave of popularity, described Bullock as “a national treasure,” said she had seen all of her films, and hailed her “portrayal of Stevie Wonder in ‘The Blind Side.’”

Airing three months after the Academy Awards, the MTV event provides a welcome opportunity for stars to applaud themselves in the media spotlight. The winners are usually notified in advance, which explains why they have aisle seats and look underwhelmed when their names are called.

Still, British actor Tom Felton of the “Harry Potter” franchise said backstage that he was embarrassed to take the best villain statuette over Christoph Waltz, who won virtually every prize during awards season for “Inglourious Basterds.”

“It’s ridiculous really, isn’t it?” he told Reuters. “To be in the same category as him is a bit of a joke, really, let alone to actually beat him.”

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Check out the trailer for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” which premiered Sunday night at the MTV Movie Awards.

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Matthew Morrison is taking a summer break from “Glee,” but not from music.

Morrison, who stars as earnest, upbeat glee club coach Will Schuester on the hit Fox series, planned to spend part of June in London working on his first solo CD.

“I’m writing all the music for it. It’s me and a big orchestra behind me,” Morrison said of the work in progress. He described his style on the album as a “dance heavy” cross between Michael Buble and Justin Timberlake.

“Glee” wraps the season with Tuesday’s finale (9 p.m. EDT), in which Schuester’s New Directions club faces off against heavyweight rival Vocal Adrenaline at the long-awaited regional competition. Olivia Newton-John, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff guest star.

So far, Morrison’s hot record sales have been part of the “Glee” phenomenon, which has seen fans rush to download cast songs and snap up soundtracks. But the 31-year-old California native is used to individual success.

A graduate of a public high school for the arts in Orange County, Calif., Morrison dropped out of New York University to pursue a stage career. At age 19, after his third audition, he made his Broadway debut in “Footloose” and gained notice with a bigger role in “Hairspray.”

(“I’m a dancer before everything else,” he says, then lightly mocks his statement: “I’m a dancer,” he adds, with faux drama.)

At 25, he received a Tony Award nomination for the musical “The Light in the Piazza.” He proved his acting chops sans music in “A Naked Girl on the Appian Way” and moved toward movies and TV with bit parts.

“Glee” has given Morrison the kind of celebrity quotient that even a star turn on Broadway can’t deliver. His chiseled looks (and abs, as demonstrated in a Vogue magazine shoot) and talent draw varied admirers.

“This woman came up to me and said, ‘I’m not old enough to be a cougar, but I’m a puma.’ I get a lot of that. I get a lot of gay guys. I think ‘Glee’ is one of the gayest shows on TV,” Morrison said of the series that revels in theatricality.

He recalls “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy saying, “You get the gays, everyone else follows.”

Morrison’s character has been through the mill, enduring his wife’s faux pregnancy, a divorce and a rocky budding romance with adorable, repressed guidance counselor Emma (Jayma Mays). The actor said he’s glad that Schuester has become less of a nebbish and more interesting.

“He’s stepped up and he’s just being a man…It’s a new guy. What I love about him now is he’s not perfect anymore. Now we’re seeing his faults and he’s making some bad choices here and there,” the actor said.

He’s equally pleased with the show’s heart and its direction.

“At the end of the day, ‘Glee’ is about inspiring kids and how the arts matter. The last episode is so touching and so emotional,” Morrison said.
‘Glee’s’ Matthew Morrison plans solo CD
Actor compares style to Michael Buble, Justin Timberlake

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June 7, 2010, 11:16 AM ET
Matthew Morrison is taking a summer break from “Glee,” but not from music.

Morrison, who stars as earnest, upbeat glee club coach Will Schuester on the hit Fox series, planned to spend part of June in London working on his first solo CD.

“I’m writing all the music for it. It’s me and a big orchestra behind me,” Morrison said of the work in progress. He described his style on the album as a “dance heavy” cross between Michael Buble and Justin Timberlake.

“Glee” wraps the season with Tuesday’s finale (9 p.m. EDT), in which Schuester’s New Directions club faces off against heavyweight rival Vocal Adrenaline at the long-awaited regional competition. Olivia Newton-John, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff guest star.

So far, Morrison’s hot record sales have been part of the “Glee” phenomenon, which has seen fans rush to download cast songs and snap up soundtracks. But the 31-year-old California native is used to individual success.

A graduate of a public high school for the arts in Orange County, Calif., Morrison dropped out of New York University to pursue a stage career. At age 19, after his third audition, he made his Broadway debut in “Footloose” and gained notice with a bigger role in “Hairspray.”

(“I’m a dancer before everything else,” he says, then lightly mocks his statement: “I’m a dancer,” he adds, with faux drama.)

At 25, he received a Tony Award nomination for the musical “The Light in the Piazza.” He proved his acting chops sans music in “A Naked Girl on the Appian Way” and moved toward movies and TV with bit parts.

“Glee” has given Morrison the kind of celebrity quotient that even a star turn on Broadway can’t deliver. His chiseled looks (and abs, as demonstrated in a Vogue magazine shoot) and talent draw varied admirers.

“This woman came up to me and said, ‘I’m not old enough to be a cougar, but I’m a puma.’ I get a lot of that. I get a lot of gay guys. I think ‘Glee’ is one of the gayest shows on TV,” Morrison said of the series that revels in theatricality.

He recalls “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy saying, “You get the gays, everyone else follows.”

Morrison’s character has been through the mill, enduring his wife’s faux pregnancy, a divorce and a rocky budding romance with adorable, repressed guidance counselor Emma (Jayma Mays). The actor said he’s glad that Schuester has become less of a nebbish and more interesting.

“He’s stepped up and he’s just being a man…It’s a new guy. What I love about him now is he’s not perfect anymore. Now we’re seeing his faults and he’s making some bad choices here and there,” the actor said.

He’s equally pleased with the show’s heart and its direction.

“At the end of the day, ‘Glee’ is about inspiring kids and how the arts matter. The last episode is so touching and so emotional,” Morrison said.

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Universal’s R-rated comedy “Get Him to the Greek” may have slayed Lionsgate’s opening of the action comedy “Killers” ahead of three other wide openers at the domestic boxoffice this weekend.

“Greek” was said to of racked in $6.2 million in its first day in release, compared to $5.7 million for “Killers,” with both movies on track to rack up millions through Sunday. What do you think? Did you see ethier movie?

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Tune in as USA Networks Royal Pains returns. At 10 p.m., medical dramedy “Royal Pains,” which was last year’s most-watched freshman cable show, bested its series premiere with 5.8 million viewers (+5%). Tune in to find out.

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