Nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards were announced this morning. The ceremony will be hosted by Mike Myers and will air on June 1.

Best Movie:

• Superbad
• Juno
• Transformers
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• I Am Legend
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Best Female Performance:

• Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up)
• Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End)
• Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry)
• Ellen Page (Juno)
• Amy Adams (Enchanted)

Best Villain:

• Angelina Jolie (Beowulf)
• Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
• Denzel Washington (American Gangster)
• Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3)
• Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

On the heels of an almost $200 million weekend (!), Iron Man doesn’t appear just likely to come out with a sequel; Marvel Entertainment has confirmed a follow-up to this blockbuster.

The studio has released its feature film slate, starting in 2010. The already-rumored Iron Man 2 is set for April 30, 2010, followed by three more movies for the summers of 2010 and 2011:

• Matthew Vaughn’s Thor is set for a release on June 4, 2010;
• The First Avenger: Captain America (the working title) will kick off the summer of 2011 on May 6;
• The Avengers is scheduled for July 2011.

In a conference call, Marvel Studios’ David Maisel said that Iron Man 2 will be used to introduce Thor.

Also, Regarding more Incredible Hulk movies, Maisel said they “definitely plan on continuing,” while adding that development continues on Spider-Man 4.

“I can’t give any other updates other than to say it’s in development and everybody’s excited about Spider-Man 4,” he said.

What should you go see this weekend? Which new movie will be a hit? Which ones will bomb worse than a film about the Iraq war?

Here’s a look at the four main movies opening today…

Iron Man
Stars: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Terrence Howard
Quick synopsis: Rich dude Tony Stark invents a suit made of iron and becomes a super hero.
Prediction: The first huge hit of the summer. Could approach $70 million in weekend box office haul.

Made of Honor
Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan
Quick synopsis: Remember My Best Friend’s Wedding? Switch genders.
Prediction: A few women may drag their boyfriends to it, but haven’t we all seen this movie many times before? A distant second place at the box office.

Son of Rambow
Stars: Neil Dudgeon
Quick synopsis: Movie’s title is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions.
Prediction: Won’t be on the radar as far as box office rankings go, but is receiving critical praise.

No, the headline above does not refer to the place Mel Gibson has been on since his arrest for drink driving and subsequent rants against Jewish people. But that would be an understandable mistake to make.

Instead, the controversial actor will star in Edge of Darkness, his first leading feature role since 2002. The project is a movie adaptation of the six-hour 1985 BBC miniseries about a straitlaced police investigator (Gibson) who investigates his daughter’s murder and uncovers systemic corruption that led to her death.

The film will be directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale), who also directed the miniseries. William Monahan wrote the script, and Graham King is producing through GK Films. Monahan and King previously worked together for The Departed.

What should you go see this weekend? Which new movie will be a hit? Which ones will bomb worse than a film about the Iraq war?

Here’s a look at the four main movies opening today…

Baby Mama
Stars: Tiny Fey, Amy Poehler
Quick synopsis: A woman that cannot become pregnant hires a surrogate to carry her child to term.
Prediction: Fey will prove her comedic chops are on par with Will Ferrell and other funny male stars. Number-one at the box office.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn
Quick synopsis: Harold and Kumar already found White Castle. Now, they encounter a problem at Guantanamo Bay.
Prediction: Not enough of a following to beat out Baby Mama for the top spot, but stoners now have an alternative to, well, doing nothing. Should fare well.

Deal
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison
Quick synopsis: A former poker champion tutors a young stud in the game, only to face off against in in a critical game later on.
Prediction: May have been a big hit. Three years ago. The poker craze has fallen away since then and this film looks to be recycling every cliche in the book from it.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nick Stoller will team up again with Judd Apatow and Universal Pictures for the comedy Get Him to the Greek, with Jonah Hill and Russell Brand attached to star, reports Variety.

The movie centers on a fresh-out-of-college insurance adjuster (Hill, pictured) who is hired to accompany an out-of-control rock star (Brand) from London to a gig at L.A.’s Greek Theater.

Hill and Brand enjoy supporting roles in Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Stoller made his feature directing debut with the flick.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the acting tree for Connor Cruise and Ali Lohan.

The former will make his film debut in the upcoming Will Smith drama Seven Pounds. Smith, who is a close friend of Connor’s father Tom Cruise, has hired the 13-year old adopted son of Tom and Nicole Kidman to play a younger version of Smith in a very minor role.

“Tom is so proud of Connor,” a source told People Magazine. “He’s proud of him.”

Meanwhile, Ali Lohan - Lindsay’s 14-year-old sister - has also begun filming her first movie. It’s called Mostly Ghostly. Just like Lindsay in 2004 comedy Mean Girls, Ali will portray a popular high school senior in the film.

The flick, slated for release later this year, is based on the pre-teen book series Mostly Ghostly written by R.L. Stine, which centers on an 11-year-old boy who befriends two ghosts.

What should you go see this weekend? Which new movie will be a hit? Which ones will bomb worse than a film about the Iraq war?

Here’s a look at the four main movies opening today…

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Stars: Kristen Bell, Jason Segal, Mila Kunis
Quick synopsis: A guy takes a trip to a resort in order to get over his ex-girlfriend… who also happens to be vacationing there with her new man.
Prediction: Pure hilarity. The number-one movie at the box office.

88 Minutes
Stars: Al Pacino
Quick synopsis: A forensic psychiatrist is told he has just 88 minutes to live.
Prediction: Looks like your basic, played out police thriller. Even Pacino can’t save it.

Pathology
Stars: Milo Ventimiglia
Quick synopsis: A series of medical student band together to form a plan for the perfect murder.
Prediction: Heroes fans that have been missing Milo will line up for this dark film.

The Forbidden Kingdom
Stars: Jackie Chan, Jet Li
Quick synopsis: A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Prediction: Looks pretty cool. And movie goers do love a dose of the Chan man.

Brett Ratner is in negotiations to direct a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Brian Grazer is producing the project, which has Eddie Murphy attached to star, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

An updated version of the best-selling novel and 1957 sci-fi classic starring Grant Williams, The Incredible Shrinking Man will be taking the comedic approach to the fantastical material. It’s set to tell the story of a famous Las Vegas magician (named Scott Carey) who is put under a spell that causes him to shrink.

He must find a way to reverse the spell before he gets so small that he disappears. We’ll ignore the obvious joke here that many movie goers probably wouldn’t mind of Murphy - the man who dared to make Norbit - himself disappeared from the big screen.

The movie poster for the original version of The Incredible Shrinking Man.

A release has been set for M. Night Shyamalan’s live-action big-screen adaptation of the popular animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It will hit theaters on July 2, 2010.

The studio has, wisely, dropped “Avatar” from the title of the movie so as to avoid confusion with James Cameron’s 3-D epic Avatar, which opens on December 18, 2009.

The storyline of The Last Airbender revolves around a young hero who has the ability to manipulate the elements and stop a ruthless nation from destroying the three other nations.

Shyamalan wrote the film and will direct it. His fans can only hope it’s closer to The Sixth Sense than The Lady in the Water.