There are a LOT of reasons to celebrate Val Kilmer: “Tombstone,” “The Doors,” “The Salton Sea,” “Real Genius,” “Willow.” The list of goes on and on.

This is not one of those reasons.

“[I created] Mini Me you know,” Kilmer confessed to MTV News, revealing once and for all his own role in skyrocketing Verne Troyer to fame. “[I was] the genesis of Mini Me.”

Doubt if you want. Me? I believe it. And how could I not? The story is so strange and improbable that it absolutely HAS to be true.

“[On] ‘Island of Dr. Moreau’ I told Marlon Brando my plan to save my performance just in case there was a giant whole in the second half - I was going to strap the little man to my chest,” Kilmer insisted, completely unaware, perhaps, of how terribly strange that plan sounds even in retrospect. “And, you know, you can’t get around that visual. And then he [Brando] STOLE my little man!”

Yes, yes he did. And it was bizarre. But even more bizarre is that Mike Myers apparently watched it and thought, “Now, THAT’S what I’ve been looking for!”

“I asked Mike Myers about it myself. He said, ‘absolutely’ [it came from that movie],” Kilmer said of the idea for Dr. Evil’s pint-sized clone. “Same studio made it. And he saw a screening and said, ‘that’s really funny.’”

If that’s not the weirdest origin for a character, I don’t know what is. But can you think of any I’m missing? Sound off below.

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Screenwriter David Goyer told MTV over the weekend that he has an idea of what Batman 3 (can we call it that? Perhaps we should leave it as just a follow-up to The Dark Knight?) will be about.

He admits, however, that the prospects for the film are daunting, especially considering the rave reviews the last two have received.

“I think that’s the scariest thing – to think, could we come up with a third movie that was as good as the first two? Can we top ourselves?” Goyer asked aloud. “Doing it a third time would be a big proposition.”

Don't be fooled, of course: there will be another Batman movie.

Goyer even mentioned that he has a villian in mind for it, but: “I do think, though, that if there’s not a third film – these two movies stand on their own... I think it could go either way.”

Again, just to reiterate: there will be a third film. Have no fear.

When the second one sets a box office record, that's pretty much a no-brainer.

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Screenwriter David Goyer told MTV over the weekend that he has an idea of what Batman 3 (can we call it that? Perhaps we should leave it as just a follow-up to The Dark Knight?) will be about.

He admits, however, that the prospects for the film are daunting, especially considering the rave reviews the last two have received.

“I think that’s the scariest thing – to think, could we come up with a third movie that was as good as the first two? Can we top ourselves?” Goyer asked aloud. “Doing it a third time would be a big proposition.”

Don't be fooled, of course: there will be another Batman movie.

Goyer even mentioned that he has a villian in mind for it, but: “I do think, though, that if there’s not a third film – these two movies stand on their own... I think it could go either way.”

Again, just to reiterate: there will be a third film. Have no fear.

When the second one sets a box office record, that's pretty much a no-brainer.

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- Has Tom Cruise lost that loving feeling? “Top Gun 2” reportedly in the works. (The Sun)

- Tobey Maguire joins “The Crusaders,” about the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case “Brown vs. The Board of Education.” Gary Ross attached to direct. (Variety)

- Wet Hot American Prequel? Director David Wain teases follow-up to cult comedy classic. (CHUD)

- What do you do to follow-up “There Will Be Blood”? Paul Thomas Anderson heads to the theater, will direct Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph in show he co-wrote. (Cigarettes and Red Vines)

- A bunch of new photos from “Crank 2: High Voltage” pop up online. (LATimes)

- Just for fun, the greatest piece of art ever: Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter as a pin-up model. Poster featured in “Watchmen” trailer. (AICN)

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For Andres Dominguez, there's no business like snow business.

The special effects guru - who has worked on movies such as Seven Years in Tibet, Fantastic Four and X-Men: The Last Stand - recently spoke to The Los Angeles Times about his work on The X-Files: I Want to Believe:

Winter wonderland: While shooting on location in downtown Vancouver, Dominguez says his initial instruction was to make the set look "like Alaska: completely covered." But the city doesn't get a lot of snowfall, so budget restraints kept the shoot limited to melty snow drifts.

"We ended up with a look where it had snow on the sidewalks and the streets are kind of wet," he said.

Mulder makes his way through (fake) snow in The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

So, how does one even go about manufacturing snow?

"To make snow, you need lots of air and high-pressure water," Dominguez said, adding that ideal temperature conditions are "if the weather's below zero [Celsius] and low humidity. So when it was minus 10, the machine was running full on... If you do a flat area, you can probably put a layer of snow 4 inches high in five hours."

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Take this with a grain of salt the size of Tom Cruise's ego.

But Great Britain's The Sun reports that Mr. Katie Holmes has been asked to reprise his role as Maverick for a Top Gun sequel.

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A script outline has supposedly been written, as the sequel just depends on Cruise giving his approval.

“The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor — and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot,” said an insider.

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Shane West may not have been the first person that jumps to mind when thinking of candidates to portray deceased punk rocker Darby Crash of The Germs, but he certainly surprised us (and the crowd) when he joined the reunited rockers on-stage last year. Now the resulting biopic “What We Do Is Secret” has its first trailer, and we’re thrilled to present it exclusively on MTV.com. Watch it below or click here to view in HD.

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The Dark Knight has only been released for a few days, yet talk of the next Batman installment has already begun.

Specifically, rumors are circulating about who might portray the next enemy of the Caped Crusader, assuming The Joker is not resuscitated by a new actor (an incredibly unlikely possibility, in our opinion).

You can most likely count out extreme, caricature-like baddies such as Mr. Freeze. But that still leaves a wide open field of options. Just don't ask director Christopher Nolan to name his favorite yet.

"I'm clueless right now," he told MTV. "All I can think about is taking a vacation — for a month!"

Other cast members from The Dark Knight did weigh in with their views, however.

"I always liked the Riddler," Gary Oldman said. "I liked the whole Riddle aspect. I loved the suit."

Who will replace The Joker as Batman's main rival in the next installment of this franchise?

Nestor Carbonell, who plays the mayor of Gotham City in the current movie, would go with a sexier villain.

"Catwoman, you can always bring her back," he said. "You can never see enough of her."

Except when she's the star of her own awful movie, that is (no offense, Halle Berry).

Remember, Carbonell added, like his relationship with Harvey Dent, Batman and his new foe might not always start out on opposite sides.

"What I really like is when you turn people into villains, when you see them flip," the actor said. "That's a great twist. And there's certain people you see in this one, certain characters who you didn't realize could go the other way, who could show up in the next one in an unexpected way."

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Whether you agree or not, judging from both fan reaction and near universal critical acclaim, “The Dark Knight” will almost certainly go down as the greatest comic book movie of all-time, with a performance from Heath Ledger that is being hailed as one of the greatest on-screen villains ever.

Now all Christopher Nolan, his brother Jonathan, David Goyer, and an as yet unnamed villain have to do is top it.

“I think that’s the scariest thing – to think, could we come up with a third movie that was as good as the first two? Can we top ourselves?” screenwriter David Goyer asked aloud, almost rhetorically, in a recent conversation with MTV News. “Doing it a third time would be a big proposition.”

Make no mistake about it, though, a third film HAS been discussed, Goyer confessed, revealing that, while nothing is concrete, both a villain and a theme have been bandied about.

“We’ve only talked loosely about it, though, Chris and I,” Goyer said.

Interestingly, it’s the theme, and not the villain, that most interests me, especially given how the latter seems inexorably tied to the former in this new modern Batman universe. (Fear the predominant issue in “Begins” precipitating the introduction of Scarecrow, escalation in “Knight” similarly calling for The Joker.

The fact that Goyer has a theme he wants to keep in mind for a possible “Batman 3” means he also has a direction, a crisis, and, yes, a villain.

So what is it?

“I have one,” Goyer said laughing. “But I’m not going to tell you. Chris is very particular about that.

“I do think, though, that if there’s not a third film – these two movies stand on their own,” he added. “I think it could go either way.”

Not us. We want a “Batman 3.” So we’ll throw it out to you: Now that you’ve seen “The Dark Knight,” now that you know how it ends, what could be the theme of “Batman 3”? Who could be the villain to fit that theme? Sound off below.

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It’s been four months since Troy Duffy announced that a Boondock Saints sequel was in the works.

Recently, writer/director of this cult classic appeared on WJFK 106.7 and confirmed that the film is scheduled to go into production in August, barring a strike by actors.

Slash Film quoted Duffy, as he revealed the plot of the Boondock Saints follow-up:

“You kind of wonder what has happened to the brothers… They have been living way back in the valleys of Ireland with their father on a family run sheep farm, way beyond the reach of technology or men. Way out there. It’s been sort of a bucolic existence, hard working pioneer-esque type stuff.

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They have long hair and beards, and stuff like that. You get the sense that they’ve been hibernating to come back. And there is an event that transpires in Boston.

A priest murdered in a church and the body is rigged to make it look like the Saints did it. The one guy that the brothers and father have contact with is Il Duce’s brother.

So he gets the first notion of this, puts his jeep in gear and tells the brothers what happened. And without even thinking of it the boys are up and out of there … they cut their hair, digg up their rosaries, strap on their guns, and they’re gone!

And Dad has to stay back because something is wrong with him, and you can tell he doesn’t have much time left. So when the brothers smuggle themselves back to the US, back to Boston, in a very understandable way. And one of the guys they meet along the way is a Hispanic American named Romeo. And Romeo ends up becoming like the third brother or saint, fourth I guess if you’re gonna consider Billy.

He’s a lot more of a bad ass than Rocco was. But his comedy is that he wants to be a lot more a part of this. So there is a lot of humor that comes from that. He’s hopefully going to be played by a friend of mine named Clifton Collins, who was in Capote and Frankie Flowers in Traffic.”

We'll have more information, including the release date of this Boondock Saints sequel, as news breaks.

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While movie goers have certainly proven they're into The Dark Knight, an upcoming romantic comedy breaks the bad news to women everywhere:

He’s Just Not That Into You.

The film is based on a best-selling book by the same name. Here's the trailer for it

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Below, we've posted four individual Star Trek posters, each of which will officially debut at Comic-Con later this month. As Entertainment Weekly writes:

"Paramount has divided the film's first teaser one-sheet into four separate posters and will be handing out only one each to fans. The four solo posters, when combined, form the Starfleet federation logo..."

Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto), Lt. Uhura (Zoe Saldana), and the villainous Nero (Eric Bana) are the four characters depicted in the following posters...

Taking a closer look at these individual posters, we notice:

• he background colors, red, gold, blue correspond to the original uniform colors for Uhura, Kirk and Spock;
• The reflection of the delta shield logo is in the eyes of Kirk, Spock and Uhura.
• What is is going on with Nero's ear? He's reportedly a Romulan.

Put all four posters together and you end up with this image:

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Tobey Maguire has agreed to star in The Crusaders, a drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.

According to Variety, Gary Ross will direct the movie, which will set Maguire up as Jack Greenberg, the idealistic lawyer who joined with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to win a Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in American schools illegal.

Ross and Maguire previously teamed up for Pleasantville and Seabiscuit.

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