Jun 16 2009 Indiana Jones, Shia LaBeouf Searching for Futher Religious/Alien Artifacts?
Ut oh, Shia, you've just caused hubbub! Speaking to an obviously-possessed BBC interviewer, LaBeouf gave the following brief-but-terrifying response when asked if we'd see him in another Indiana Jones movie:
"Steven just said that he cracked a story on it before I left, and, uh, I think they're gearin' that up."
I can appreciate the spirit of being launched out of a nuclear test site and climbing right back into that fridge to try again, but this is not a good idea, Steven Spielberg. You (along with Oprah) are the most powerful person in media (source: I think I read that in a magazine once); can you not use that power for good? Just finish Tintin, throw Liam Neeson in a top hat and do the Lincoln thing you've been talking about for a decade, and put this Indiana Jones thing to bed. Thank you.
I'm not sure I believe the story anyway. LaBeouf using the phrase "cracked a story" makes me think maybe Spielberg's quote was mistranslated when converted from English to 1920s Reporter Speak.
Jun 4 2009 Run! It's Another 'Transformers 2' Poster!
GM may be bankrupt, but lack of stable sponsorship isn't going to stop the Transformers from turning into awesome GM cars and trucks!
Oh, wait, it is. Looks like they're just going to jog place to place now. Fair enough.
Final Transformers 2 Poster [Empire]
Jun 1 2009 Giant Robots Smashing Things
For those too self-righteous to watch an awards show where Twilight is treated like Gone with the Wind but also still immature enough to want to see a clip of giant robots smashing shit, here's the Transformers 2 scene shown at the MTV Movie Awards last night. You won't believe how hard it is for several massive sentient machines and a couple robot animals to catch two humans. Really, you absolutely won't believe it. You might even shout at your screen, "Jesus, just fucking stomp on them, you're the size of a building!"
May 1 2009 K'BOOOOSH!!: 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Trailer
Shia LaBeouf just got to college, leaving behind his robot friend that turns into a Camaro and his ridiculously hot girlfriend-cum-motorcycle showroom model, and already things are going crazy. A shard of something that fell out of Shia's bag has given him A BEAUTIFUL MIND! And Megatron wants his brain to decode some pots in a pyramid or something! And there's a robot that devours sand like he doesn't even give a shit!
You'd better just see for yourself:
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Apr 28 2009 Research Shows 'Wall Street 2' is Coming, Desired
Wall Street 2, the once-rumored sequel that only deserves to exist inside maybe a Ben Stiller Show sketch, is now official. Oliver Stone has signed on to once again direct and Shia LaBeouf is negotiating to play the new Wall Streeter. From EW:
The much-discussed Wall Street sequel is getting closer to launch, EW has learned. Michael Douglas will return as corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the role for which he won the 1987 Best Actor Oscar, and Oliver Stone will be back as the director of the followup to the movie that put the phrase "Greed is good" into the popular lexicon.Shia LaBeouf is in talks to play a young trader in Wall Street 2, which is set 20 years after the first installment. The film's plot will revolve around Gekko's life after he gets out of jail during the current economic climate.
"I think it's time to take another hard look at trading and the economy and what went wrong in the last few years," said Douglas Monday night during the premiere of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. "Everybody's talking about the economy and people are scrutinizing it. Whenever I mention Wall Street 2, everybody goes, 'Yeah. Interesting. I'd see that.'"
Can't argue with Michael Douglas. It's apparent he's done the market research to know this will work. He's both aware of the current economic situation and he's casually asked some people about it!
"So, party-goer, say I, Michael Douglas, was going to make another Wall Street--calling it Wall Street 2, we'll say..."
"OK..."
"Pretty good, right?"
"Oh... yeah, yeah, definitely. Almost painfully relevant. I mean, it sounds... interesting."
"Right, exactly. So you'd see it then?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Fantastic. I'm going to get in touch with that new Indiana Jones kid. He's great at making lackluster sequels to 20-year-old franchises."
(Thanks, Nick.)
Apr 20 2009 'Transformers 2' is a Serious Melodrama
Michael Bay heard you, critics. You wanted more character drama mixed into the explosions? Well, here's a scene from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen where Shia LaBeouf has to explain that he's decided to go to college instead of sticking around town and hanging out with his alien robot car, and the news makes the alien robot car WEEP. How about that for pathos? And if that doesn't do it for you, the scene is also intercut with shots of Megan Fox changing, because it wasn't ridiculous enough with just a robot crying:
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Feb 16 2009 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Teaser Has So Many Explosions
My favorite explosion is probably when there's the construction equipment--or so you think!--that starts rotating around and ends up being a transforming metal man, and he's like, BOOSH!! EXPLOSIONS!! What's Your favorite?
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Feb 2 2009 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Super Bowl Spot
I assume most of you watched the Super Bowl last night--there's obviously a huge cross-over between sports fans and fans of complaining incessantly about the quality of a Dragonball adaptation--but in case you didn't, I'll spend some of the day putting up the movie spots that ran during the game. Here's the ad for Transformers 2, which has definitely raised the bar in terms of robot size and number of Transformers that turn into cycloptic robot dogs:
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Dec 18 2008 Fact: Eddie Murphy, Shia LaBeouf in Next Batman
Tabloid magazine The Sun broke this huge story about Batman that, strangely, no one more respectable has heard about:
FUNNYMAN EDDIE MURPHY will play The Riddler in the next Batman movie, The Sun can reveal.The Beverly Hills Cop star, 47, has been signed up by British director CHRISTOPHER NOLAN to reprise the role played by JIM CARREY in 1995’s Batman Forever.
Execs have also signed up rising Transformers star SHIA LABEOUF, 22, to play Robin.
CHRISTIAN BALE will return as Bruce Wayne, while MICHAEL CAINE will again play Bruce’s assistant Alfred.
Meanwhile, Brit RACHEL WEISZ is said to be up for the Catwoman role.
I used to think these British tabloids were making these things up, but lately I'm wondering if it's possible they're just real fools. They get a phone call:
"Hello? Yes, speaking. You're an insider!? Go on. Eddie Murphy? Wow, that seems like it would completely go against everything Christopher Nolan has been doing with the series, but continue. Shia LaBeouf, you say? Spell that. OK, and just to confirm, you said you're definitely a film insider, right? You are? Wait, you sound a lot like the guy who told me last month that Angelina Jolie was going to be Catwoman. Oh, that was a different guy? OK then, sounds good. Thanks!"
I find that idea more believable than the notion that someone would legitimately think anyone would believe Eddie Murphy is playing The Riddler with Shia LaBeouf as Robin. Maybe Chris Tucker and the kid who played Anakin in The Phantom Menace, but not those two.
UPDATE: I didn't think I had to say it, but just to be clear, this is definitely not true.
Dec 2 2008 Shia LaBeouf in a Grisham Movie Was Probably Inevitable
Author John Grisham, who will write a legal thriller plot between the embossed covers of anything titled "The ________", has a new novel due out in January, and, surprise, it's already being developed into a feature film. Called The Associate, the film will tell the story of "a student who's about to graduate from Yale Law School when he's manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit." Hmm, but who's a popular, college-age actor who could play such a role? Ah, of course:
Paramount Pictures has set Shia LaBeouf to play the title role in the bigscreen version of John Grisham's upcoming legal thriller "The Associate," which the studio has just acquired rights to.The novel, Grisham's first legal thriller since 2005's "The Broker," will be published in January by Random House.
Be it cell phone, alien skull, AllSpark, or the modest briefcase, there is nothing Shia LaBeouf can't run around holding while shouting. He's truly our most versatile holding things and yelling young actor. When he steps into a legal thriller courtroom, the jury is going to be so awed at how he holds his briefcase and shouts objections, all with the charisma of a young Tom Hanks.
Shia LaBeouf to star in 'Associate' [Variety]
Aug 25 2008 'New York, I Love You' Trailer Tries to Sell Idea of Affection Towards Popular City
Here's the trailer to New York, I Love You (the thematic sequel to Paris, je t'aime), the upcoming film in which 13 directors pretend there aren't already a lot of movies proclaiming love for New York and make some of their own. Who are these directors? All your favorites. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner? Got him. Natalie Portman the Director? She's there. Natalie Portman's Other Boleyn Girl co-star, Scarlett Johansson the Director? Yup. Plus, it stars everyone, and is going to make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ridiculously easy from now on.
Jul 15 2008 'Eagle Eye' Poster Has Multiple Monaghans, LaBeoufs
With all the various overlaid angles and mustaches, I keep thinking this is from a '70s band's television appearance. Except instead of music, this is a concert of intensity, all songs written and performed by S. LaBeouf.
Eagle Eye poster [Jo Blo]
Jun 25 2008 New 'Eagle Eye' Trailer with Even Stevens: Action Star
Eagle Eye, starring Michelle Monaghan and Shia LaBeouf, has a new trailer. The film is directed by Disturbia's DJ Caruso based on a story by Steven Spielberg, that story being that a terrorist group enlists the unwilling help of a patchy-bearded youth and a single mom by way of cell phone--one more reason to fear technology. It looks a surprisingly decent thriller considering an estimated 80% of the dialogue looks to be LaBeouf shouting, "Who are you?? Why/how are you doing this??" (Thanks to Kyle for the tip.)
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May 22 2008 'Eagle Eye' Teaser Trailer Saves Tonight
Eagle Eye, Shia LaBeouf's newest attempt at making the name Even Stevens synonymous with action, has a new teaser trailer online at the official site. It's already drawing criticism for its ridiculous phone-call-guides-you-exactly-where-and-when-to-move similarities to The Matrix, but with an original story by Steven Spielberg--his first since The Goonies--I'd urge you to give it a shot. Especially since I've heard the "projectile speed" sequences are radically different than The Matrix's "bullet time."
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May 5 2008 New Trailer to One of Those 'Indiana Jone' Movies
There's this new movie coming out, something along the lines of a National Treasure or a Tomb Raider. It involves an older gentleman--sort of a cool Han Solo character with a whip and detective hat--the kid from Even Stevens, Bill Murray's girlfriend from Scrooged, and Queen Elizabeth affecting a Russian accent, all attempting to sell a ridiculous plot involving a solid-gold city, an all-powerful skull made of crystal, and the dead rising from the grave. I'm told it's a follow-up to some pirate boat movie and one of the Monty Python films. If you're interested in such things, a new trailer is under the cut.
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Apr 29 2008 'Indiana Jones 4' on TV, in Commercial Form
Did you think you were going to get more than a day without some sort of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull media? Nice try, suckers. Here's the new TV spot for what I'm hiply-dubbing IJ4:KotCS (you say the last part "cot-kiss"), chockfull of some fantastically redundant titles for anyone at all familiar with the series. Apparently, Indiana Jones is investigating some sort of "ancient secret" this time? Get the F out! Seriously though, the music and everything had me pretty excited for 30 seconds.
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Apr 22 2008 More 'Indiana Jones' Images: Skulls, Silhouettes, Mutts, Etc.
Where would you be without a semi-daily update of photographs from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? I imagine it would be a sad existence, devoid of the knowledge of if scenes exist where Indy gets stuck in quicksand (they do!); if our hero ever stands backlit atop a smokey hilltop (yes!); if Indy and "Mutt" stroll through a street market from a slightly different angle than last time we saw them walk through a street market (check!). Luckily, you need not consider such a life, because there's yet another batch over here.
Apr 17 2008 Spielberg & Lucas Talk About 'Indy 4', 'Internet'
How can you tell whether or not an interview is going to be hard-hitting? Usually when it begins "This is like having Superman and Batman in the same room. [Laughter]," that's a good indication. So begins this Entertainment Weekly interview with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, which--despite rattling on about how this crazy "internet" and "blogosphere" have made "spoilers"--reveals some mildly interesting motivations for some decisions on this last Indiana Jones adventure.
Or, if interviews aren't your thing, there's the above new shot from USA Today. Zoinks! Indy and Mutt found a skeleton!
Mar 28 2008 Today's Gratuitous 'Indiana Jones' Promo Shot
The adventure begins May 22, but the romance continues straight on through to December.
Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams [/Film]
Mar 27 2008 From 'Indiana Jones' Set: Someone's Got Peach Fuzz!
Even a leather jacket, bloody knife, 90210 hair, and a mirage of a mustache are unable to portray any hint of manliness against LaBeouf's full, pouty lips.
Alternately: Who is this, Shia LaBouffant!?
New Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Photos [The Raider]
