Denzel Washington teams with sibling filmmakers Albert and Allen Hughes (“Menace II Society”) to put twists on the premise of surviving in a post-apocalyptic world in this moody drama.

Washington plays the title character, a loner who possesses a book holding the keys to the continuation of mankind … and guarding the tome in a time of rampant unrest proves quite a challenge. Gary Oldman plays the main nemesis in a cast that also includes Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson and Jennifer Beals (“Flashdance”). DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; deleted scenes.

Why else? Well, she lends her voice to the controversial but equally discriminating and hilarious TV series “Family Guy.” She broke onto the big screen, showing us her acting chops in movies such as, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and most recently providing a cameo (in which she MAKES OUT WITH James Franco!!) in, “Date Night.”

Her comedic ability is something that we adore! And so is her boyfriend, Macaulay Culkin. This low-key Hollywood couple has been together since 2002, which is a lifetime in Hollywood years.

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There little information known about Sebastian’s character (he doesn’t even have a name on IMDB). So when MTV got a chance to chat with him recently (yeah, we can talk about his questionable hair do in the video at a later point in time), he was willing to share some details on his character. Unfortunately, he went about it in a very roundabout way.

“It’s kind of like your guy that if you go into a Manhattan bar on a Friday night, and you see a couple of guys and they had like maybe long weeks, and then they go out and they’re hoping to have a night or whatever and they end up like stumbling into a crazy storyline between two girls,” he explained about his character.

He added that he and the other guys his characters are friends with “kind of get wrapped up in it for a while,” and that “technically” he is one of the romantic interests for Natalie Portman’s and Mila Kunis’ characters.

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After avoiding nudity in the past when shooting short film “Hotel Chevalier”, Natalie Portman is forced to do another raunchy scene as she will be seen having same-sex sequence with Mila Kunis in “Black Swan”. Recently, the actress admitted that she had to struggle with her nerves before shooting the said part, saying “I was terrified. At the moment I lived in a state of inner terror.”

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Also, in an interview with Fear Network, the director of the movie talks about where they are in shooting and a little about Mila’s role in the movie.

Can you talk a little bit about Black Swan? Can you talk about what stage of production you’re at?

Fischer: It’s shooting right now. It’s in production, we’re getting kind of toward the end of photography. It’s shooting here in New York City. (I’ll probably pop by the set – Mike and I are gonna go by before we head off to Europe.) It’s going great. The dailies look amazing; it’s Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman [both pictured above on set] and Mila Kunis.

What do you think it offers thriller fans?

Fischer: It takes a very kind of dark and disturbing journey – in this case Natalie plays a ballerina who has dreams of becoming a star. And she gets that opportunity, and there’s a lot of elements that play out for her, where she starts to wonder if she’s gonna be basically undercut by somebody else, by Mila Kunis’s character in the film. So you’re not sure how much of it is paranoia, how much of it is reality. She starts to work through some of that as the twists and turns start coming. It’s a very cool piece.

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Knocking “Avatar” off its box office perch is no easy task, but Denzel Washington’s “The Book of Eli” accomplished that feat on Friday.

The post-apocalyptic thriller gave Washington his second best opening Friday after “American Gangster” with a strong $11.7 million. That’s pretty impressive considering “Eli’s” R-rating and the competition from “Avatar.” The Hughes Brothers’ latest looks like it will do anywhere from $40-45 million for the four-day Martin Luther King Day weekend which means recouping its reported $80 million budget should be an easy task. In fact, “Eli’s” expected success along with “The Blind Side’s” massive box office take makes longtime background player Alcon Entertainment the industry’s brightest star at the moment (someone might need a raise over there).

As for “Avatar,” don’t cry for Jim Cameron’s epic blockbuster. The PG-13 picture still made $10.4 million on Friday and could still make a comeback opposite “Eli” when all is said and done. The Oscar contender’s current domestic take is a staggering $460.9 million as it sets “Titanic’s” record $600 million tally within its sights.

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