June 29th, 2011
06:21 PM ET
What's the verdict on 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon'?Critics are calling "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" as bleak and meaningless as its title, but some do say that Michael Bay's latest effort was at least better than the 2009 sequel. The third installment features a grown-up Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) who teams up with the Autobots against the Decepticons in (of course) a battle of good versus evil involving a mission to the moon. What would a “Transformers” movie be without a sexy girlfriend by Witwicky’s side? British model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley almost seamlessly replaces former co-star Megan Fox, who dropped out of the trilogy last May.
June 28th, 2011
01:29 PM ET
Shia LaBeouf hooked up with Megan Fox?If we know anything about Shia LaBeouf by now it’s that the actor doesn’t bite his tongue, least of all about former co-star Megan Fox. The 25-year-old star has explained that it may have been Fox’s “Spice Girl strength” that led to her bouncing from the “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” set, and also chimed in when Michael Bay claimed that it was Spielberg who fired Fox after she made those Hitler comparisons. (“She started s- talking our captain. Which you can’t do,” he told GQ.) And now, in an interview with Details for its August issue, LaBeouf alludes that he and Fox were closer than some may have thought. According the magazine, when LaBeouf was asked if he “hooked up” with 25-year-old Fox, who is married to Brian Austin Green, the “Transformers” actor nodded in the affirmative.
June 21st, 2011
10:53 AM ET
Spielberg fired Megan Fox for Hitler commentMegan Fox and her former co-star Shia LaBeouf have each shared their views on why the actress was replaced in the upcoming “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” and now director Michael Bay is having his say. Fox, 25, was just in “a different world, on her BlackBerry...You gotta stay focused,” Bay tells GQ in the magazine's July issue. Screenwriter Ehren Kruger adds, “She was there for rehearsals. But she seemed like an actress who didn’t want to be a part of it. She was saying she wanted to, but she wasn’t acting like it.” And then, of course, there was the time she compared Bay to Hitler in an interview. 
June 3rd, 2011
12:21 PM ET
Did Megan Fox's 'Spice Girl strength' cost her 'Transformers 3'?Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who replaced Megan Fox on the set of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," is bringing with her a whole new vibe, "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf tells the Los Angeles Times. "Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael [Bay, the director], who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women," LaBeouf tells the Times. "And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it," he adds. "This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it." 
March 7th, 2011
11:43 AM ET
Director: 'Transformers 2' was 'crap'Moviegoers weren't the only ones disappointed with the 2009 "Transformers" sequel. Even the director admits the movie was a dud. “We made some mistakes,” Michael Bay tells Empire magazine of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." “The real fault with ['Transformers 2'] is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap." Bay adds that the robot plot may have been a bit rusty because it was a rush job. 
February 9th, 2011
10:10 AM ET
You can star in a Michael Bay movie... sort ofHave you ever wanted to star in a Michael Bay picture? Well, here's your chance. Thanks to the Michael Bayifier, you can transform one of your ordinary photographs into something out of one of the filmmaker's big-budget, explosion-packed action flicks. Go to bayifier.com, and the site begins to load with a countdown that references Bay's many blockbusters, including "Armageddon," "Bad Boys," and "Transformers." Among the phrases that flash on screen: "Attaching camera to helicopter," "Ogling Megan Fox," "Tracking Down Miami Ecstasy Kingpin" and "Demanding More CGI Robots." Next, you are taken to a page where you simply upload your photo, adjust the level of dreamy color saturation, and add on clip art such as a sports car, an explosion, a gun, a bomb, a fighter jet and Shia LaBeouf. The best part? Unlike Bay's big-budget projects, this will cost you nothing! |
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