Toddlers, Vanilla Ice and Johnny Depp at the MTV Movie Awards

Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards offered plenty of bizarre moments -- Mark Wahlberg stopping the show when someone in the audience yelled a derogatory remark at his co-presenter, Mila Kunis, for example -- and it's always awesome to see the Black Keys live, made surreal by Johnny Depp on guitar and both Steven Tyler and Joe Perry ducking out of the way to let them play.

But some of the real strange stuff was in the audience, which Maria and I were able to attend on Sunday night. There was the "Toddlers and Tiaras" child, dressed sadly in full make up and blue taffeta dress -- and her stage mom commanding her to perform for complete strangers. There was Vanilla Ice standing in the aisle, taking out his camera phone and snapping a self portrait in front of the stage. (I thought Vanilla was banned from MTV after this moment when he trashed a studio.)

Also: The audience sat for most of the night, not feeling the Wiz Khalifa, for example. Yet it gave a standing ovation to Christopher Nolan when he stepped on stage to promote "The Dark Knight Returns." This MTV Movie Awards audience must be *hard core* Batman fans.

Russell Brand didn't do much heavy lifting as host -- a few racy jokes at the start, but that was about the last we saw of him. I'd have to say the highlight was Johnny Depp's appearance with the Black Keys -- followed by Kristen Stewart trying, awkwardly, to be funny.

Some pics snapped at the event:



Russell Brand opens the show, works in multiple Michael Fassbender penis references.



fun. performs their springtime anthem "We Are Young" with Janelle Monae.



Wiz Khalifa with the advice of the night: "Work Hard. Play Hard." Wiz, you might just have a future as a copywriter for Nike.



Johnny Depp rocks with the Black Keys. Too bad he didn't do this in full "Dark Shadows" costume.



"The Dark Knight" stars on stage to premiere a new trailer for the film -- which looks awesome, and as a bonus, it looks like a scene was shot in downtown Los Angeles' Union Station!



"Spider-Man" stars hit the stage too, to lots and lots of laser beams.

Los Angeles Ad Town: Spider-Man Visits Downtown

Don't come between Spider-Man and a Carl's Jr. burger, apparently. As patrons line up outside downtown's Orpheum Theatre -- conveniently (and unusually) playing a current movie ("The Amazing Spider-Man," natch) -- Spider-Man pays a visit. Spider-Man in downtown Los Angeles?



Below, Spider-Man even swings away to the Eastern Columbia building. Spotted this Carl's Jr. ad last night during the 11 p.m. news.

UPDATE: Yep, That Was the New 'Spiderman' Movie We Caught Shooting

You remember this movie shoot at Wilshire's classic Immanuel Presbyterian church, which we drove by on Wednesday.

We figured it was too hefty a production to be a normal TV shoot. And we were right. Thanks to Franklin Avenue readers, we can confirm that it was indeed an early location shoot for the new "Spiderman" movie. (Check out more pics of Emma Stone out on the steps here.)


(Photo via Zimbio.)

Writes reader jayrunner in the comments:

we saw that from the building across the way! lot's of fake rain!

says emma stone said spiderman was going to start filiming in LA around now

and I am pretty sure it was a blond Emma Stone and a few other kid actors we saw going in to a limosine door being held by (I think) this actor George F. Watson who has been popping up in a lot of TV things lately (I see from his imdb page he had a small part in Ironman and he used to be the strong silent guard by Jimmy Smits on West Wing all the time). Couldn't be sure though.

In one take the limo door seemed to get stuck open on the curb after they all got in the limo . Pretty funny! Cool, that they filmed that right out in the open like that.

Meanwhile, another reader also confirms:

that filming yesterday was the new Spiderman movie. Its code name is “Fiona’s Tale” (I read the production sheet). It was such a mob scene. They shoot at that church constantly. LOLA was there last week, with The Defenders across the street at the Talmadge. That intersection is considered one of the city’s great fake New Yorks.