It's a Royal Affair...

... in Brooklyn!

Bev has decided to wear an asymmetrical fascinator to celebrate Kate and Wills' big day, while Mary opted for a hat with a little tropical flavor.

Cheerio!

(By the way, this wasn't an easy photo to get:)

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'American Idol' Scotty McCreery Weighs In On 'Country Bieber' Moniker

'Justin Bieber is the epitome of [a] big star, so it was cool for me,' McCreery says of his new nickname.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer


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Throughout his championship run on the just-completed 10th season of "American Idol," Scotty McCreery never really wavered from his country roots ... even when he was singing Stevie Wonder.

And while you've certainly got to give him credit for playing to his strengths, McCreery's down-home crooning — not to mention his rather boyish good looks — also earned him a rather bizarre nickname: "Country Bieber." And while he can laugh at the comparisons, if he's being honest, McCreery can't really understand why anyone would equate him to the teen-pop prince. But his fellow "Idol" finalist, Lauren Alaina, certainly can.

"Country Bieber ... I mean, Justin Bieber is the epitome of [a] big star, so it was cool for me," McCreery smiled. "I mean, Justin's a whole lot further ahead than I am ... so, I guess it's mainly because of our age. ..."

"Girls love Scotty McCreery like they love Justin Bieber," Alaina interjected. "It's true."

"Thank you, Lauren," McCreery laughed. "I just figure it's because of our age. Me and Justin are pretty much two young guns."

And with the "Idol" title in the bag, McCreery can now focus on expanding on that whole "young guns" thing ... his first official single, the ballad "I Love You This Big," is already the biggest-selling coronation song since season-seven champ David Cook's "The Time of My Life," and he's beginning to contemplate how his debut album will sound. And, not surprisingly, it's going to be a country affair.

"It's gonna be a good ol' country album," McCreery said. "I like to have that old flavor in my music, but with a contemporary feel, so we'll see where that leads me. I think it'll be a good little mix."

And if you just can't get enough of "Love," well, you're in luck ... McCreery said that you'll have plenty of chances to see him perform it in the coming months on the American Idols Live! Tour. " 'I Love You This Big' is a great song, it's done me really well so far," he said. "And I'll be singing it a couple hundred more times, so I'm sure you'll be hearing it," he joked.

Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.

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Actor Sean Bean Stabbed Outside Pub Over Model April Summers

Actor Sean Bean Stabbed Outside Pub Over Model April Summers

British actor Sean Bean is recovering after being stabbed on Sunday evening outside a pub in London, over a lewd comment made about his companion, model April Summers. The “Lord of the Rings” actor was attacked outside the Hill Bar and Brasserie in Camden, sustaining a stab would on his arm. Sources report the problem [...]

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'Super 8': Five Secrets Revealed!

Now that you've seen the movie, the cast and crew lead you through some behind-the-scenes mysteries.
By Kara Warner


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Now that "Super 8" has been in theaters for the weekend, earning a better-than-expected $37 million at the box office and taking the #1 spot, we can finally talk about some of the magic and the mystery of the film. If you haven't seen the movie yet, please tread carefully in reading the rest of this story, because MTV News is about to reveal five juicy "Super 8" secrets!

How the heck did they film the epic train crash?
Although the young actors did their fair share of running and yelling amidst minor explosions in front of a green screen, the real heavy lifting in making that intense two minutes of mass destruction came from the visual-effects team, led by Oscar winner Dennis Muren.

"The sequence itself is probably two to three minutes long, and it's all done with computer graphics," Muren said. "We made a point of making it look as organic as we could. It's more realistic in a lot of ways and very frightening, but a lot of fire and all that stuff, it's all computer-generated," he revealed, adding that it took the VFX team three to four months to complete.

Elle Fanning wasn't allowed to drive
Despite her very convincing performance behind the wheel, Elle Fanning wasn't actually allowed to drive the car that her character "borrows" from her father to get the kids to the late-night film shoot.

"It was illegal, so I couldn't drive," Fanning said. "There was actually someone that was in the car underneath my feet driving for me."

The movie-within-a-movie was written by the young stars
Hopefully you stayed through the credits to see "The Case" in its entirety, because the six young stars of "Super 8" wrote and directed it themselves.

"We actually wrote 'The Case,' " Fanning said. "J.J. [Abrams told us] it had to be a zombie movie and that was the only thing we had, so during breaks, we would sit down and collaborate and make up the lines and everything," she explained. "And then we actually shot it with a Super 8 camera."

What's in that tintinnabular tune?
There is a lot going on visually in "Super 8," but it's hard not to notice the sweeping, magical tinkling of the film's score. So what instruments are you hearing? We asked Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino to explain which instruments make up the distinct effect.

"[There is] a celesta, which is kind of a bell piano, a very short piano with bells," Giacchino revealed at the film's premiere last week. "You play it like you would a piano, but with bells. A Hammond organ was a big part of the score as well, which is interesting because you normally only hear those in church or in blues songs," he added. "We used it with the [103-piece] orchestra, which was really fun. There was guitar actually, but done in a very ethereal way, you would never know it was a guitar."

About that alien ...
The biggest secret of them all: There's an alien in the movie — one that the kids didn't see until after they'd already been running away from it while filming green-screen sequences.

"Whenever we were on set and acting with it, we were imagining what it could look like," Ryan Lee said. "When we actually saw it, it was 10 times more scary than what I had imagined."

"The artist for 'Avatar' actually made the alien," Gabriel Basso revealed. "It was really cool, because I was talking to him and he showed it to me on his laptop. I was like, 'That's what we're running from?' [The scary factor] went from zero to 150."

Check out everything we've got on "Super 8."

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'Super 8' Cast Laugh Off Film's Mystery Theories

'They said Chuck Norris was in the train,' star Riley Griffiths tells us at the movie's premiere in Los Angeles.
By Kara Warner


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LOS ANGELES — One of the more exciting things about the new J.J. Abrams-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced thriller "Super 8" is the overall mystery of the film. From the basic plot details that have been released, very little is known about what the heck the movie is about. Based on word of mouth and one key moment in the film's trailers that show something trying to escape a locked compartment on a train, there is a very mysterious "thing" or secret terrorizing a small town.

MTV News headed out to the film's star-studded premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday night to find out from the castmembers what crazy theories they've heard about what the "it" or "thing" or "big secret" is all about. Their answers were surprisingly varied and all over the map.

"I've seen on IMDb that a lot of people thought it was a giant lion," Zach Mills said. "I don't know why. That's the craziest thing I've heard."

"The funniest thing that someone has guessed what it is, they said Chuck Norris was in the train," Riley Griffiths revealed. "That's probably the funniest thing I've heard so far."

"I think someone said once on Facebook or something that it was the cube that Elle [Fanning] and Joel [Courtney] are looking at, and that [they think] it's some creature," Gabriel Basso said of a moment where Fanning and Courtney's characters are examining a vibrating white cube. "That was really funny. I laughed."

Ryan Lee's conspiracy theorists or secret guessers seemed to think that the mystery revolves around someone or something with a canine obsession.

"[They think] that the thing has a dog fetish," Lee revealed. "That's the funniest thing somebody has said to me about the mystery of the movie. They think that thing is hoarding dogs in its train, I guess."

And last but not least, the adult in the group, actor Kyle Chandler, recalled a theorist who thinks the mystery revolves around a certain fever- and frenzy-inducing pop star. "Someone suggested to me that it was Justin Bieber," he said. "And it could be."

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'Tree Of Life' Star Reveals Magical Scenes You'll Never See

Jessica Chastain tells MTV News 'hundreds' of unusual moments unfolded while shooting the Terrence Malick film.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz


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Considering Terrence Malick has reportedly been working on his latest film, "The Tree of Life," for nearly four decades, it stands to reason that there might be a lot of extra footage or plot lines that were left out of the theatrical cut of the film.

MTV News caught up with lead actress Jessica Chastain recently to get her take on Malick's process and we asked her how the film has evolved since they wrapped production.

"I saw the film about a year ago," Chastain told us. "I've seen it now four times, and I'm convinced that [Malick] added new stuff. I'm like, 'You're still tinkering with this.' People are telling me I'm wrong," she laughed. "Which kind of goes to show if you've seen it four times, you probably haven't seen everything in it."

When asked to pinpoint specific scenes or moments that were special for her during filming but didn't survive the final edit, Chastain recalled a random encounter with a butterfly. "Sometimes ... when you're shooting a moment, you think, 'Aw, this is incredible,' that happened a lot on 'Tree of Life,' " she said, adding that the scene in which a butterfly lands on her hand was a total accident. "I could not believe that we captured that," she said. "A butterfly has never before in my life landed on my hand, but in a Terrence Malick movie, he makes it happen."

Chastain went on to say that there were "hundreds" of unique moments like that on "Tree of Life," including another animalistic encounter with baby birds that had fallen out of their nest.

"There were these little baby birds on the grass and it was the boys and I looking at the birds," she explained. "I thought it was so beautiful; also, the mother was up in the trees trying to figure out how to get her children back and I thought for sure, 'Oh, this is going to make it in.' "

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