Whether or not you still watch MTV, a channel where one of those three letters stands for “music,” but didn’t play music videos so it had to launch a secondary channel in order to do so, they still have an award show for music videos, the Video Music Awards, something that seems worded a little backwards now that I just typed it. During the show the other day, at the end of a performance, Beyonce announced that she was pregnant. Sure, she might’ve used a hugely public media vehicle to announce something fairly personal to a bunch of strangers, and the last time a megastar did that, the world was not pleased with the ego required to do such a thing, but hey, we can’t help but care about celebrity baby bumps, as shown by the record-breaking 8,868 tweets per second traveling throughout Twitter after the announcement, knocking off the previous record holder, the 2011 Women’s World Cup Soccer Final’s 7,196 tweets per second.

It’s so cute seeing major outlets describe the Internet over a decade ago.

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Modern animators are finding some really great ways to spice up the traditional approach to animation, and this video promoting MTV Brazil is no exception. This quick little cartoon uses balloons popping sequence filmed with a camera moving along a track, appearing to move flip-book style. Best of all? Ozzy eats a bat.

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The very busy Guillermo del Toro, who is booked until 2017 over at Universal for film versions of Frankenstein, At The Mountains of Madness, and Slaughter-House Five recently took a moment to talk to MTV about his highly anticipated but still unannounced Hellboy III:

I would love to do it… but the heartbreak for me is that I know how it ends and I don’t know if I want to see that ending. But I would love to do it.

Mysterious words from the most excellent director, but ScreenRant may have distilled the meaning for us.

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Remember back when the job application process involved sending in a written application including a resume, coming in for a job interview, then waiting until you hear back yes or no from the employer in question? That probably still happens somewhere, but more and more every job must be hired through a broadcasted competition between an even number of young hopefuls. Enter MTV and it’s quest to find a Twitter Jockey.

Twenty up-and-comers will compete in a series of challenges online over the summer, then the finalists will duke it out on a live television broadcast on August 8, after which fans will ultimately choose who gets the job. Because trusting the MTV fan base to choose your employees seems like a really good idea.

Before we get into how excessive the whole process is, can we just look at what exactly this job consists of?

In addition to showcasing many an F-bomb and allowing Tom Cruise to reprise his brilliant Lev Grossman character from Tropic Thunder, last night’s MTV Movie Awards brought to the world a brand-new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The trailer consists almost entirely of new footage unseen in the previously released sneak peek for the film, including a dash of Voldemort acting menacing and a healthy dose of Harry-Ron conflict, and feels altogether more like a ‘real’ trailer than the more all-over-the-place sneak peek which came enclosed as a bonus feature in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVDs.

Here’s the trailer:

MTV‘s Splashpage blog has an exclusive clip of Neil Patrick Harris talking about the putative sequel to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. According to Harris, not only is pretty much everyone involved in the first movie interested in doing a sequel, it will also be a feature film.

“That’s their plan,” he reiterated when asked whether a feature-film was indeed the preferred format for the sequel. “I don’t know of what scale. They’re talking all options, because they made the first ‘Dr. Horrible’ in five days on no budget at all — that was its intention.

“You don’t want to necessarily make the feature film be an $80 million giant movie, because it defeats the purpose of what the first film was made to be,” he explained. “Then again, you don’t want it to be so low-brow that it’s not worth paying money to see as a movie.”

Mad Men fans know Jon Hamm as the smooth-as-silk ad exec Don Draper; non-fans may recognize him as “that hunky dude who has done some funny stuff on Saturday Night Live.

Now, fans are pushing for a new sort of role for Hamm: superhero. Hamm as Superman? Hamm as Captain America? Hamm as Batman, even? The possibilities are nigh endless, even if sexy, saxophone-playing ponytail man Sergio might not carry over to the silver screen.

Hamm responds to MTV: video after the jump. Brace yourself: he’s a self-described comic book collector.