When you see Transformers: Dark of the Moon this week — and you will, preferably on the biggest screen possible , if Michael Bay has any say — you might notice something a bit strange. Nope, not how Dark of the Moon manages to work in multiple shots at the departed Megan Fox ; rather, how Bay staffed his new film with a cavalcade of actors recognizable to fans of the Coen brothers. Frances McDormand, John Turturro and John Malkovich, all co-star in Dark of the Moon , and continues the strange bit of pop culture cross-pollination between Bay and the Coens that started with the casting of Fargo co-stars Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in Armageddon . In honor of this randomness, here are five other Coen brothers players who should appear in a Michael Bay film.
Questionable Poster Day rolls on! Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the latest upcoming film to debut new marketing artwork on this historic Wednesday — though the good folks at Paramount must have missed that “questionable” part. This brand new IMAX poster featuring Optimus Prime looks all sorts of bad ass. Cue the Inception horns and click ahead to look.
And now, an exercise in interview hole digging by Transformers: Dark of the Moon star Shia LaBeouf. While speaking with the Los Angeles Times recently, the actor tried his best to explain why Megan Fox didn’t fit in on Michael Bay’s set. What resulted was an uncomfortable feature with no less than three quotes from LaBeouf, that, like Michael Bay’s directing style, could be construed as offensive and sexist. Take it away, Shia…
Maybe including a monkey in The Hangover Part II was not director Todd Phillips’s finest idea. Earlier this month, the Motion Picture Association of America (rightly) complained about a sequence in which the denim jacketed primate simulates oral sex on Zach Galifianakis and Warner Bros. was forced to pull the the trailer from theaters. And now, officials at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are (rightly) outraged that Crystal, the capuchin monkey who appears in the film, cannot quit cigarettes after being taught to smoke on the Hangover: Part II set in Bangkok.
A handful of online press got a sneak peek at Paramount’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon the other day, complete with face time with Michael Bay himself. Alas, Movieline was not in attendance, so we’ll have to take these other folks’ word for it and assume Transformers 3 could be the balls-out, insane, eyeball-searing giant robot war movie to end all giant robot war movies! Right, guys?!
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is akin to an $800 million grossing bad penny. The thing won’t go away ! Speaking to THR during a roundtable discussion of screenwriters responsible for the coming batch of summer blockbusters, Revenge of the Fallen scribes Ehren Kruger (who also wrote Transformers: Dark of the Moon ) and Roberto Orci were once again faced with answering for the derisible 2009 sequel.
I’ve got major Scream 4 ghostface fever, so I’m treating you to wonderfully senseless non-news about Neve Campbell. Hooray! Turns out the 37-year-old actress has a list of injuries as awful as her Scream character’s, and a dead-eyed boyfriend didn’t even have to chase her upstairs first. Take a gander at Neve Campbell’s spellbinding scroll of abrasions after the jump.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Breaking Moon Dawn) is sure to rewrite lunar history for the next 25 generations, so we may as well acknowledge its new screencap with stars Shia Labeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and write a caption for it. Look at the terror on poor Shia’s face. Disturbia! It can creep up inside you and consume you!
It’s unofficially Kim Cattrall Day at Movieline! Woo! How dubious! First we got our anti-hopes up for Sex and the City 3 , and now new pictures from Cattrall’s film Meet Monica Velour are out . In the indie drama, she plays an ’80s porn star who starts a romance with a teenage superfan in Indiana. Let’s take a gander and see if this looks worse or “better” than Bonfire of the Vanities and Mannequin .