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Comment by bess marvin, girl detective: thanks douglas. he looks straight out of old hollywood. that hair so mitt romneyesque! 1 Responses | Other threads
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Megan Fox on Dicks, Disney, and the Female Stripper Who Broke Her Teenage Heart
Though the upcoming Diablo Cody thriller Jennifer's Body may cover up more of actress Megan Fox than people were expecting, at least Fox makes up for it by exposing herself in the latest edition of GQ. Few subjects are left untouched in the wide-ranging interview, whether it's her boyfriend's penis ("Who’s given a hand job since seventh grade? Not me"), Disney ("Fuck Disney"), or her Transformers director (when asked if the Transformers sequel will give the actress more to do, Fox flatly responds, "Transformers 2 is directed by Michael Bay"). Still, most tongues will wag when Fox recalls the female stripper she fell in love with at LA's full-frontal emporium The Body Shop when she was just 18: More »
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Comment by Lulamaybelle: ok.... I was just watching ellen today and brian austin green was on. Ellen showed him Maxim magazine with megan... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Bogus: According to TMZ, shoegazing director Michael Bay was the victim of a home burglary last night in New Mexico, where he's staying while filming Transformers 2: Rise of the Finger-Splinticons. No criminals have been apprehended (we're looking at you, Scarlett Johansson clone!), but at least the story provides us with a terrific excuse to run this photo of Bay at a Playboy party two years ago. Check out that rack! [TMZ] -
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Comment by raincoaster: It was nice of you to tenderize the meat in advance, but I'm still waiting for delivery, gentlemen. more » | Other threads
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Comment by bess marvin, girl detective: @NoWireHangers: no they just torment me with transformers flashbacks as that is just one of michael bay's many movies that... more » | Other threads
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Comment by TheQuestion: I must admit to it being difficult to find any wrong in what Megan Fox does (other than being with... more » | Other threads
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Comment by TurdBlossom: That's Shia? Yikes. Looks Like Jamie-Lynne's White Trash Baby Daddy. ` more » | Other threads
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The Death of 'Austin Powers' (And Six More Hobbled Franchises Worth Putting Down)
After the unfortunate reception for The Love Guru, it's just too easy to write off New Line's prospective Austin Powers revival (which Mike Myers is reportedly working on for New Line with former series collaborator Mike McCullers) as yet another ill-advised folly belching the black smoke of Myers's career. In fact, taken as merely a part of the larger phenomenon we at Defamer like to call The End of Ideas, the Powers franchise is but a speck of the shit on Hollywood's collective bathroom wall — a tableau diligently studied today by the haz-mat crew at Entertainment Weekly. More »
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By STVComment by raincoaster: Okay, execute me if you want, but I LIKE the Austin Powers films, and like the idea of another. The... more » | Other threads
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Shia LaBeouf Concerned The Business Is Losing Its Drunk-Driving -Actor Magic
Shia LeBeouf continues to recover from hand surgery after some spectacular Bayian stuntwork at the corners of LaBrea and Fountain early Sunday morning, resulting in an overturned pick-up truck, plus a massive fireball after the frazzled actor exhaled a gust of 80-proof breath while trying to light a cigarette. We've already explored his conveniently timed Details interview, in which he spoke freely of hard-partying father-son bonding moments, and his inability "to have one drink." ET has video (above) of the interview, in which he charms a giggly off-camera reporter with flippant observations about his renegade drugstore exploits ("Walgreens is a formidable foe, let me tell you guys right now. It was the battlegrounds of my life. The coliseum where all the rumbles happen."). He also openly longs for a time when "actors were magical. Now that paparazzis are rampant the business is losing the magic a little bit. You always feel like people know too much." More »
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By SethComment by GoodBadNotEvil: The fact that he appears to be wearing the very same sweatshirt he wore on the night of the infamous... more » | Other threads
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Meet Nate, Here To Service All Your 'Transformers 2' Background Player Needs
THR readers today likely took notice of a full-page, back cover ad trumpeting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to possibly maybe rub shoulders with Hollywood's foremost detonative dreamweaver, Michael Bay—plus the entire cast and crew of Transformers 2!—at The Happy Ending Bar and Restaurant in Hollywood. As if that wasn't reason enough to swing by, the entire event is a fundraiser benefiting the Spondylitis Association of America. It all comes to you courtesy of the Bay-loving folks at TransformNate.com. Who are they? What's Spondylitis? Aren't happy endings for Thai massage parlors? All good questions. Let's start with the first: TransformNate.com is...well, let's Nate explain! More »
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By SethComment by TheQuestion: So, when we get there and there's no Fox, no Bay, no LaBouf, hell not even the crappy version of... more » | Other threads
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Looks Like Bumblebee Gets An Upgrade To Chevy Camaro SS For Transformers 2
Update: We managed to snag some clearer pictures and video of the Bumblebee version of the 2010 Chevy Camaro SS. Caught hot on the set of Transformers 2, the next iteration of Bumblebee seems to have been augmented with a very snazzy, very different 2010 Chevy Camaro SS treatment than we've seen in the past. Could this be the first glimpse we get of the as-yet unseen version for the bow tie brand? We like to think yes, or it's just a piece of magic. As far as Bumblebee's new choice of wheels, we're a little disappointed, we always imagined giant, intergalactic transforming robots had better taste than that. [Jalopnik]
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By Ben WojdylaComment by BushAutoBlog: New high quality pictures of the bumblebee Camaro SS here! These are brand new and I think are far... more » | Other threads
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Megan Fox's Parrot-Tonguing Exploits Delight Niche Publication
Megan Fox—whose coin-slot-baring performance in Transformers was egregiously overlooked by nearly all the major Hollywood awards (she did take Best Actress at the Golden Spankbaits)—is featured in this month's Paw Print Magazine. It's a publication for those who feel a little fenced-in by the rigid constraints of Dog and Cat Fancy, as demonstrated by the wide array of exotic photoshoot costars on display. More » -
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Kevin O'Connell, the Susan Lucci of the sound-mixing set, is nominated for an Oscar yet again, this time for his work on Transformers. That makes 20 nominations, 0 wins. (7 more and Katherine Heigl plays him in the movie of his life! Rimshot.) Little Gold Men caught up with O'Connell, but judiciously failed to bring up the infamous Sound Mixer Smackdown from last year's Oscars, when his nemesis Michael Minkler, who shared the statue for his work on Dreamgirls, callously observed, "I think Kevin should go away with 19 nominations ... I have to wonder ... Kevin is an OK mixer, but he should take up another line of work." [VF Daily] -
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Little Richard, Tina Turner Fail To Save Grammys From Nielsen Disappointment
· Network executives are trying to make sense of the brave, new, post-strike world they suddenly find themselves in, either taking this unprecedented opportunity to blow up their development system, or shrugging it off as a "blip" and going back to the old, comfortable ways of doing business (i.e., throwing a bunch of money at talent and pilots). Also, tough decisions need to be made about which series should be rushed back into production to finish up this abbreviated season, which should be put off until the fall, and which should be put out of their misery after losing their momentum. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by gwendemarco: Boy, I hope they pay those NBC execs a lot of money. It must be grueling recycling already existing work... more » | Other threads
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It seems the towering structure at Sunset and Vine, an accursed building that's fallen victim to fires and a tragic Transformers mega-billboard mishap last April, is finally getting some windows—but according to a Defamer operative, its biggest disaster is yet to come, and happening slowly before our eyes: "Having taken it down to the structural steel, they've started to put glass on it. There's just one problem: it's LEANING. Go check it out - very noticeable." Before any frantic Chicken Littles run into Amoeba Records to pronounce the sky is falling, we'd first like to throw it open to Defamer readers in the area to send us photographic evidence. And no Photoshop shenanigans—Giant Fucking Buildings Are Falling!
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By SethComment by LosAngelina: I am looking at it as we speak...my office has a bank of windows facing The Tower of Terror, but... more » | Other threads
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Transformers Producers Steal 'Bee-Otch' Air Freshener Idea From Little Old Lady in Brooklyn?
We were pretty fascinated by the "Bee-Otch" air freshener back when we saw it hanging from Bumblebee's rear-view mirror in Transformers a few months back. We were so enthralled and amused we even tried to figure out how we too could own our very own li'l "Bee-Otch" air freshener. Well, it looks like there's now a bit of a legal tussle over the adorable little hang tag. Here's the story from the NY Post:" Producers of the summer hit allegedly ripped off a Brooklyn woman's popular copyrighted design of an angry bee for a sight gag in the flick.
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This completely escaped our notice, as every time Shia LaBeouf appears onscreen we're so mesmerized by his star power that we're rendered completely unaware of the words coming out of his mouth, but our friends at Goldenfiddle have reduced the most powerful moments of his Transformers performance to a single, masterfully intoned syllable. [goldenfiddle] -
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In Denial About The Coming Labor Apocalypse, Hollywood Keeps Announcing New Projects Like Nothing's Wrong
· In a badly timed announcement of blockbuster-derived profits, Viacom crows about the "phenomenal success" of "new global brand Transformers" that helped lift their net income by 80 percent, forgetting to transfer the revenues to a balance-sheet loss column and publicly lament that "there's no money to be made in this dying business of ours." [Variety] More » -
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'Transformers' Well On Its Way To Cracking The Elusive 13-Figure Mark
It's not for nothing that Transformers should boast grosses on the high-end of 12-figures, as trumpeted by a seemingly endless succession of brushed-titanium zeroes on the pages of today's Variety: The studio has master blowingshitupologist's Michael Bay's passion and perfectionism to thank for that. More »
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By SethComment by raincoaster: See, and the powers that be are still afraid that outing yourself will hurt box office. Opti has put paid... more » | Other threads
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Even though the just-released Transformers DVD has broken this year's first-week sales record, director Michael Bay, ever the blowing-shit-up perfectionist, isn't completely satisfied with the product: "I was traveling promoting (Transformers) while they were doing the DVD. You try to guide people as to what to do (in making it), but ultimately if you rush your date, you are not going to get the DVD as good as it could be. ... Studios want to pump this stuff out, and my job is to care about it and try to put the right people on it. They just see it as a show they are selling, and I see it as a movie." Included in the features that will have to wait for the Transformers: Special Fauxteur's Cut DVD: a behind-the-scenes clip in which an uncompromising Bay reduces star Shia LaBeouf to a weeping mess by repeatedly screaming a suggested line-reading through a megaphone, footage in which the phrase "you talentless little baby" figures prominently. [USA Today] -
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Target Transformers Special Edition DVD Unboxing And Transforming
One of us was up late watching the Transformers live-action movie on DVD giving us the chance to finally have a robogasm in private. If you're not on the HD-DVD kick, we'd suggest heading out to Target like we did and snagging up one of the special edition two-disc DVD's that actually transform into a crappy Optimus Prime. Hey, it's better than just a plain plastic box we guess. The two-disc set gives you the movie in widescreen and you get a second DVD filled with all sorts of fun behind-the-scenes crap, including a "cars of the Transformers movie" featurette. The only thing we were lamenting is we didn't see any "win a Camaro" certificates in the box. How'd we end up getting screwed out of that one? Anyway — full un-boxing and DVD-transforming shots in the gallery below. [Jalopnik] -
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Perhaps the worst letdown we experienced today was finally figuring out that Optimus Prime was not, in fact, recruiting us to fight the Decepticons, and was only interested in using us as his dirty, DVD-buying whore. We promised that we'd never let ourselves get manipulated like that again after Samuel L. Jackon and Alec Baldwin had their ways with us, but we are so very, very weak in the face of precorded, lightly personalized messges delivered by authoritative male voices. [Transformersmovie.com]
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By MarkComment by Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: Oooo, like that talking Mr. T keychain. "I pity the fool!" more » | Other threads
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Buy Transformers DVD, Win A Chevy Camaro!
Apparently when you buy the new Transformers DVD going on sale October 16th, you'll find a special insert inside with a website address from the folks at Chevrolet. At the website you'll be able to do the normal stuff like sign up for marketing information and probably even play the Build Your Own Chevybot game. But there'll also be one additional thing you'll be able to do. A tipster just informed us you'll also have the opportunity to register for a chance to win one of three actual production versions of the upcoming Chevrolet Camaro dressed up to look like everyone's favorite Autobot, Bumblebee. After having the chance to drive the drop-top concept version ourselves, we can conclusively tell you it's possible to have both a robogasm and a cargasm at once. Trust us. Full report below the jump. [Jalopnik] -
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Tobey Maguire Wants A Piece Of The Giant Fucking Robots Action
With Transformers having shattered all kinds of non-sequel box office records, Voltron in the development pipeline, and Gobots: The Movie awaiting the hedge fund capital infusion that will allow it to expand into a feature-length production, it's obvious that Hollywood is suffering from a serious case of robofever—and, as the THR notes today, the disease is worsening: Warner Bros. and Spider-Man star/occasionally portly poker enthusiast/burgeoning producer Tobey Maguire are getting into the Giant Fucking Robots business, announcing that they're teaming up to bring Robotech, yet another 1980s cartoon series involving oversized automatons and the human freedom fighters who love them, to your local multiplex: More » -
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Transformers Live-Action Movie Coming To DVD, HD-DVD And My Pants October 16th
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! And...we're spent. Full press release on the release of the Transformers live-action movie below the jump. Also, if you need to ask whether that was a robogasm — then you've never really had one. [Jalopnik] -
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Michael Bay Reconsiders Hastily Adopted Position in Format Wars
· Michael Bay now officially prefers Paramount's HD-DVD Kool-Aid (how exactly one drinks it "hook line and sinker" is still a mystery) to that served by Blu-Ray enthusiasts: "Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three Blu-Ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-Ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard." [via Variety] More » -
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When Transformers Attack!
Everyone's got to have something different for the Woodward Dream Cruise. Whether it's customizing your classic car or having something entirely unique you've really got to bring your "A" game to really roll in the largest classic car eventnobody's ever heard ofin the world. Like the guy above who's brought out a GMC TopKick modded out to look like everyone's favorite Autobot weapons specialist, Ironhide. Or at least I thought it was just a modified GMC TopKick — until I happened to catch Mr. Transformer here as he tried to sneak up on me from behind, and snagged some shots of him in my side mirror just as I was trying to get into the left lane. All I've got to say is never cut in front of Ironhide when he's really in a hurry. Just sayin'...those laser burns are really difficult to buff out. Needless to say, I let him by. OK, now back to today's Woodward Dream Cruise coverage. [Jalopnik] -
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Studios Already Shredding Hundred Dollar Bills For Use As "Summer Of Prosperity" Parade Confetti
We're nothing if not suckers for a nice feel-good story, especially when it's accompanied by a fun chart where Spider-Man scales a pillar representing the obscene amounts of money some of our favorite movie studios are making: With four different films crossing the $300 million mark, Hollywood is enjoying its Best Summer Ever, a period of prosperity that is erasing all memory of that nasty, alleged "Slump" of 2005, when executives were forced to answer all kinds of rude questions about why their shitty product wasn't selling. During this new Golden Age of Very Profitable Threequels, they instead get to crow about how smart they are in the pages of Variety: More » -
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'Transformers 2' On The Fast Track
· Go behind the scenes of the Transformers 2 development meetings with an animated Michael Bay, Gay Megatron, and a version of Brett Ratner that's somewhat less cartoonish than the real article. More »
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Breaking! 'Transformers 2' Plot Synopsis Revealed!
A tipster alerts us to some potentially exciting news on this Friday morning: Taking advantage of a day off for the Paramount and DreamWorks personnel who might prevent such a breach from occurring, someone has leaked details of the plot for Transformers 2, the planned 2009 follow-up that will finally free the blockbuster franchise from its nonsequel ghetto, to IMDb. We highly recommend that anyone hoping to be surprised two summers hence not read the spoilers contained above, which will likely be removed from IMdb site by the time you read these words. More » -
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General Motors, Army Combine Forces On Arizona Test Track - To Build A Transformer?!?
Word has just come our way the General and the real makers of Generals, the US Army, are working together to build something together deep in the Arizona desert. They've signed an agreement for GM to construct a $100 million test track on the Army's proving grounds. In addition to building it, the 50-year lease requires the automaker to operate and manage the site. In return for building and managing the as-of-now not-yet-built test track at the Yuma Proving Grounds, GM will pay the Army $10.6 million to build facilities for heavy military testing. OK, on the upside GM will probably be getting the secrets to making the new Camaro transform into Bumblebee out of this deal, because if they aren't then the deal seems to be simply sucktastic for them. Or maybe we've seen Transformers too many times. [Jalopnik] -
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We're Number One! Except For Those Five Other Movies With Numbers In The Title!
We were genuinely curious to see how Paramount handled the tricky matter of composing the boast-copy for its obligatory "Hey, look at how much money we made!" spread in the trades, as Transformers' box office "record,"* while more than impressive enough to earn emperor Brad Grey's subjects a celebratory day off, does require the use of that unwieldy "non-sequel" qualifier. More » -
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One Diamond-Encrusted Thing That Mrs. Beckham Is Not Using To Pleasure Herself
· Generally speaking, we'd rather have our genitals scorched off with a red-hot fireplace poker than pay attention to anything related to the lives of David Beckham and Posh Spice, but when the story involves setting the record straight about whether or not Posh uses a diamond-encrusted vibrator, we can make a onetime exception. More » -
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Magic Of Successful DreamWorks/Paramount Collaboration Earns Grey's Kids A Three-Day Weekend
Following the precedent he recently set to celebrate Shrek the Third's "spectacular" late May opening, Paramount emperor Brad Grey has once again offered his hard-working underlings a special treat, recognizing the "amazing" performance of the franchise-kickstarting Transformers over the six-plus-day extended Fourth of July frame by opening the gates of his Melrose compound and sending his well-behaved studio children out for their weekend Rumspringa a day early. Unfortunately, Grey is not, as we predicted at the time of his supersized Memorial Day holiday, flying the entire company to Cancun, an act of generosity he was clearly reserving for the event that Transformers set a significant box office record that didn't have a clunky "nonsequel" qualifier attached. Better luck in 2010 with Transformers 2: More Giant Fucking Robots Are Coming, Dreamamount gang. More »
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By MarkComment by metroville: While it wouldn't be the most original gag (dorothymantooth) coming from anyone who wasn't a host of a network late-night... more » | Other threads
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Optimus Prime Hit With $236,000 Insurance Premium
Saving the world from evil Decepticons isn't all it's cracked up to be. For one, the overheads are ridiculous. With gas set to hit $4.00 a gallon, Matrices of Leadership running a cool $6.5 million and less than understanding insurance agents, we're surprised they don't pack it all in for a lucrative reality TV show gig or just subcontract the work to Halliburton. [Jalopnik] -
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Confusingly Qualified Fucking Box Office Records Are Coming
It's time to accept that Hollywood's Fourth of July vacation is finally over and the rest of the summer awaits; try and put off daydreaming about your Labor Day hiatus long enough to review the weekend box office numbers: More » -
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Props to the Thighmaster for pointing out that Transformers' fantasy-object/greasemonkey Megan Fox was the same Megan Fox who gave a visibly delighted Brian Austin Green a manual lap adjustment in public. [Egotastic]
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