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In 2016, Haim began a fruitful partnership with acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, beginning with a live in-studio video for their song “Right Now” that was released the following year. In the months that followed, Anderson directed several Haim projects, including the wonderfully choreographed “Little of Your Love” music video, a live performance of “Night So Long” filmed at Los Angeles’s Greek Theatre, and a short documentary about the making of their second album, Something to Tell You, called Valentine. This partnership was great, and sisters Danielle, Este, and Alana continued it by having Anderson helm stunning visuals for their 2020 album, Women in Music Pt. III, as well. Thankfully, this collaboration has shown no signs of stopping, ...

It is the four-year anniversary of the Teen Wolf series finale; never forget the pack walking off into the rain. And since the iconic supernatural MTV series concluded, “we’ve heard your howls” for more and now “we’re howling back.” MTV Entertainment Studios today announced it will once again team up with creator, writer and producer, Jeff Davis, for a new multi-year deal. Under the partnership, Davis will write and executive produce a Teen Wolf movie with talks underway with the original cast, an all-new series Wolf Pack, and will serve as showrunner and director for the pilot of the previously-announced live-action reboot Æone Flux, for Paramount+, as well as additional titles for the ViacomCBS streaming service. These projects fall under MTVE Presiden...

By Yasmine Shemesh About midway through Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical of the same name, Evan and his classmate, Alana, are sitting on swings in the park. Alana — from the outside, a cheerful overachiever involved in almost every extracurricular club at their high school — confides in Evan that she’s struggling, too. Like Evan, she is living with anxiety and depression. Like Evan, she is on medication for it. And like Evan, she feels alone and invisible. Over raw guitar strums, Alana sings softly, carefully, at first. “Do you ever look at all the people who seem to know exactly how to be? You think, they don’t need piles of prescriptions to function naturally.” She laughs nervously. The song, “The Anonymous Ones,” begins to swell into a triumphant de...

By Alex Gonzalez In the new movie-musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, 16-year-old Jamie New dreams of a lifelong career as a drag queen. While he’s not sure of his post-school path, he knows his journey will be fierce and sensational. That could likewise describe the path of star Max Harwood, who responded to an online casting call for the role of Jamie on his own (he didn’t have an agent at the time). To prepare for the role, he familiarized himself with the real-life story of Jamie Campbell, on whom the film and its original stage adaptation are based. “I watched the documentary [Jamie: Drag Queen at 16] and throughout my audition process, I was making the decision to anchor my performance in his essence and energy,” Harwood tells MTV News. That energy is on full display in the film...

Victoria Justice began manifesting her own television show at 8 years old. With a budding modeling career that allowed her to test her acting chops in commercials in her home state of Florida, the young Justice knew she had the drive and gumption to achieve her dream: becoming a leading lady. Looking back, it’s a goal that the actress, now 28, credits heavily to her childhood love of early aughts woman-led teen sitcoms like Lizzie McGuire and That’s So Raven, as well as a formative memory of watching Funny Girl in the back of her mom’s minivan. Inspired, Justice would lie in bed each night, close her eyes, and imagine a world in which she was the star. “I grew up watching those shows, and those women really inspired me,” Justice tells MTV News over Zoom. The actress is currently on day eig...