Denzel, Ferrell, Hudgens, Lil Wayne Among Those Who Will Pass Popcorn May 31
Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 5/11/2009 1:12:38 PM
Denzel Washington, Cameron Diaz, Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Vanessa Hudgens , Leighton Meester, Jonah Hill and Lil Wayne are among the presenters for the upcoming 2009 MTV Movie Awards.
Those celebrities join Eminem, whose new album Relapse will become available May 19, and host Andy Samberg at the event that will air live May 31 at 9 p.m. (ET) from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif. The 2009 MTV Movie Awards marks the first year in which the final nominees were decided on by the fans. A movie megabattle has developed among devotees of Twilight and Slumdog Millionaire, as both movies are neck-in-neck with each having nominations in six award categories.
MTV will up the cinematic fun quotient this year by debuting the two new categories "best song from a movie" and "best WTF moment."
Viewers can decide the golden popcorn destiny of their favorite flicks by visiting www.MovieAwards.MTV.com before May 27 to vote for their favorite film moments and actors. However, fans will be able to vote for the "best movie" category throughout the live show.
Akamai has created a digital operating environment for the Web. Our global platform of thousands of specially-equipped servers helps the Internet withstand the crush of daily requests for rich, dynamic, and interactive content, transactions, and...
more
ESPN, Inc. is the world's leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets. The company is comprised of six domestic television networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS...
more
VDS provides broadcast graphics automation systems which are used in fully automated sports, news and financial graphics channels. VDS automation infrastructure products provide management of graphic and audio assets and automated generation of...
more
Telestream products are used by the world's leading media and entertainment companies and corporations for transcoding and workflow automation. Telestream helps customers transform their media for multiplatform distribution to web, mobile, DVD...
more
Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from...
more
HBO Sports senior vice president Mark Taffet discusses the PPV performance prospects for the Sept. 19 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez boxing event as well as the network's PPV fight schedule for the rest of the year during a recent interview with Multichannel News.