Hollywood starlet and tabloid favorite Audrina Patridge takes to the big screen in horror movie “Sorority Row,” which opens September 11.

She plays a sorority girl who ends up being the victim of a prank gone wrong — which later sparks a killing spree at the sorority.

She talked with Reuters about the film and her upcoming reality TV show on MTV, which you can read here.

In the video below, she shares what her favorite horror movies are, talks about her character in “Sorority Row” and dishes on bonding with her fellow castmates.

It turns out, Patridge said, that on the set there was none of the cattiness that colors “The Hills,” the top-rated reality series on MTV that made her a celebrity. Click below to watch the video.

British comedian Russell Brand has been talking about invading America for some time. In truth, he’s no stranger to American shores, having last year hosted the MTV Video Music Awards and starred in the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” But he has never become as big in the United States as he is in Britain. On Tuesday, MTV announced that Brand would host the cable channel’s awards show again this year, giving the shaggy haired comedian another opportunity to break through with American audiences.

As the New York Times said in a book review this year on Brand’s memoir, the 34-year-old comic is an acquired taste.

“It’s too soon to tell if the comedian Russell Brand will be another of those British exports — like the Arctic Monkeys, Marmite, the comic magazine Viz and the fiction of Angela Carter — that are just too tangy and exotic to make much of an impression on American audiences,” the New York Times reviewer wrote.

“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” made a respectable $105 million at worldwide box offices, but only $63 million of that came from the U.S. and Canada, according to figures from Box Office Mojo. Brand received mixed reviews for his job as host last year of the MTV Video Music Awards, in which he teased the Jonas Brothers about their no sex purity ring and called then President George W. Bush a “retarded cowboy.”  

Brand, who dresses like a rock star and is known for his stream-of-consciousness, foul-mouthed comedy style, is a leading entertainer in the UK as a comedian, columnist and as a television and radio presenter. He still seeks a big breakthrough in the United States and will need more appearances like September’s MTV Video Music Awards to gain name recognition. It’s clear that he wants more U.S. fans. Last year, he told the Los Angeles Times, “… This is an American age, so I have to be able to perform for America.”

Will this latest version of Russell Brand’s British invasion take with American audiences? Or should he stick closer to home?

The indignity just keeps piling up for pop stars these days. Fans are either pirating their records, or just not bothering to listen to music anymore. The labels are cutting back wherever they can. And now there are fewer opportunities for pats on the back and shiny statuettes. 

Several key shows have quietly fallen by the wayside in recent years, including the Billboard Music Awards (last held in 2006) and the Soul Train Music Awards (last held in 2007). 

Others never really got going, such as British music newspaper NME’s attempt to export its popular show to America. The Stateside version of the NME Awards kicked off last year in Los Angeles with a Jane’s Addiction reunion (above), but 15 months later no plans have been announced for a sequel. 

A year ago, The Who were honored in Los Angeles during VH1’s 3rd annual “Rock Honors” tribute concert, a successor to sister network MTV’s “Icon” tributes, which ran for four years until 2004. VH1 says there will be no “Rock Honors” this year, but it is bringing back its “Divas” concert series in New York in September after a five-year hiatus. 

The three biggies are still a go: the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 13, the American Music Awards in November, and the Grammys on Jan. 31.

The old refrain was that “video killed the radio star,” but more recently it’s been commonly said that the “Internet killed the video star” by putting music clips a mouse click away on Web sites such as YouTube.com.

In the new media landscape, cable channel MTV, a unit of Viacom, has filled its schedule with reality television shows instead of the music videos it aired nonstop in the 1980s, when it revolutionized the music industry. On Monday, the company announced that it would go back to airing music videos, but only between 3 and 9 a.m., when few viewers are tuned in.

The news was reported in the New York Times. MTV canceled “Total Request Live,” a long-running video countdown, last fall. The show was the last bastion for music videos on the channel, but it performed badly in the ratings. Now, MTV says it will bring back music videos with a block called “AMTV,” in an effort to keep up with changing viewer patterns.

Airing the music videos in the morning is a relatively low-risk proposition for MTV, because those hours do not generate high advertising revenues anyway. Will MTV stick with the music videos that made it famous, or will “AMTV” go the way of “TRL”? Only your remote knows for sure.

Has Lauren Conrad had enough of life as a reality TV star?

Maybe.

“It’s coming to a point where I love this show so much, but I’m ready to kind of walk away…I’ve been doing it for five years now. Five years on TV is a really, really long time,”  Conrad, 22,  said of life on MTV’s “The Hills” and its predecessor “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County”.

Asked by Extra about the media attention on her relationships, Conrad said; “It makes it more difficult. It’s more difficult when not only everyone knows about your problems, but they make them worse because things escalate and things get twisted…. It’s hard to have an actual friendship be torn apart in the media.”

Is L.C. talking about her famous feud with former BFF Heidi Montag? Or her split with  boyfriend Jason Whaler a couple of years ago.

And if Lauren quits “The Hills”, could the show survive?

It appears the emotional scars from Britney Spears’ much maligned performance on MTV’s Video Music Awards last year haven’t healed quite yet. After weeks of ”will she or won’t she” speculation about whether Spears will perform again this year, her manager told Ryan Seacrest on Monday that she will not.

“Britney Spears will not be performing at the VMAs this year.  I’m telling you officially and unequivocally,” said manager Larry Rudolf on Seacrest’s KISS-FM morning radio show in Los Angeles.

Who could forget Britney, who used to steal the show with her song and dance performances, clumsily teetering around the stage last year with a bad hair weave and ill-fitting lingerie outfit? It was so bad, it was good. 

When Spears recently appeared in a series of tongue-in-cheek VMA promo commercials – complete with a 9,000-pound live elephant in the room-alongside this year’s host, British comedian Russell Brand – rumors swirled that she would seek redemption by performing again at the upcoming show on Sept. 7.

And while Rudolf’s words to radio and TV personality Seacrest seem to be firm, given Spears’ rollercoaster of a life this past year, anything could still happen. Rudolf could not be reached for comment or confirmation but Gina Orr, a spokeswoman for Spears’ label Jive Records would neither confirm or deny that Britney will be absent from the VMA’s stage.

Orr emailed us a statement saying only, “Contrary to media reports, Britney was never slated to perform on this year’s VMAs. She’s in the middle of recording her next album, which is going amazingly well, and her focus remains on the studio.”

But it doesn’t say she won’t perform and when pressed for a firm answer, Orr said the statement was all there was to be said. So, in the words of TV pitch people everywhere, “stay tuned.”

And would it be so bad to see Britney perform, anyway? A stellar act might redeem Britney’s image once and for all. If not, the memories of her dazed routine might be the publicity bomb that haunts her forever.

(Reporting by Jennifer Martinez)

Is there trouble in paradise at Tila Tequila’s house on MTV? 

The provocative 26-year-old reality television star told celebrity magazine In Touch Weekly she wants out of a third season of “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila.”

“MTV asked me to do another season, but I don’t want to do that right now,” Tequila said in an interview posted on the magazine’s website on Wednesday.
    
Tequila said she wants to move on from the popular show to pursue other interests.

The program centers on bisexual Tequila and a motley crew of male and female contestants who compete for the affection of the Asian-American calendar girl. Eventually, Tequila chooses a lover. 
    
In last season’s final episode, Tequila picked Kristy Morgan — a former Playboy model — as the season winner, only to have Morgan reject Tequila’s romantic advance. 

A source at MTV said plans for a third “Shot at Love” are still up in the air.  “It hasn’t been determined yet,” the source said.