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9 Scorching Films to Help Survive the Hellish Heat Wave of 2011

The heat wave bearing down on the United States has turned much of the eastern half of the country into a hellish furnace of death , despair and crisis . Today in New York the forecast calls for a high of 99, with the humidity pushing the heat index into triple digits with the likes of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and scores of other towns along the Eastern Seaboard. But at least we’re all in this together — and with the movies, which are rich with tales of city folks sweating out the worst seasonal crap summer has to offer. Read on and recount nine of the best.

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9 Scorching Films to Help Survive the Hellish Heat Wave of 2011

Shia LaBeouf to Team Up With Robert Redford in The Company You Keep

Variety has it that Shia LaBeouf, who may or may not be the new Michael J. Fox , is set to co-star with Robert Redford in The Company You Keep , a political action thriller adapted from Neil Gordon’s novel that Redford will direct. LaBeouf will play a young journalist out to expose an ex-Weather Underground radical in hiding (Redford) and make a name for himself. If this combines the journalistic cred of All the President’s Men and the sinister air of Disturbia , I’ll be pleased. Hopefully it doesn’t combine the length of Out of Africa with the senselessness of Eagle Eye . [ Variety ]

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Weekend Receipts: Transformers Drive Off With No. 1, Pirates 4 Cracks $1 Billion

It was never if but when — and by how much — Transformers: Dark of the Moons would affirm its bulky, sense-shattering supremacy at the holiday box office. After four days of preliminary evidence, its spacious margin of victory becomes ever clearer as the Independence Day frame tumbles further into history. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: Transformers Drive Off With No. 1, Pirates 4 Cracks $1 Billion

Friday Box Office: Transformers Continues Assault, Larry Crowne Flops

All hail Megatron! While Transformers: Dark of the Moon earned “just” $33.5 million on Friday night — 15 percent behind what Revenge of the Fallen grabbed on its first Friday in 2009 — the Michael Bay-directed explosion orgy is on track to bank $185 million through its first seven days. That might be disappointing, until you consider the foreign grosses, which are expected to top $200 million over the same timeframe. The outlook isn’t as rosy for Larry Crowne : the film crashed its moped into fourth place on the chart, and won’t top $20 million for the weekend. Your Friday box office is here.

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Friday Box Office: Transformers Continues Assault, Larry Crowne Flops

REVIEW: Transformers: Dark of the Moon Is Straight-Up Michael Bay, for Better or Worse

Now that nearly every action or comic-book movie wants to be as big, loud and spectacular as a Michael Bay movie, there’s something refreshingly straightforward — homespun, even — about an actual Michael Bay movie like Transformers: Dark of the Moon . The picture wears its ambitions on its whirring, rumbling, clanking, heavily CGI’ ed sleeve, and it pretends to be nothing more than it is: a honking, 40-karat piece of entertainment that will cost you dearly if you take your family to see it in the theaters, especially when you factor in that 3-D surcharge. Yet Dark of the Moon , the third installment in the unkillable Transformers franchise, shouldn’t be seen any other way. Bay doesn’t care about your soul, he just wants your money — but he at least makes sure you go home feeling exhausted and spent rather than vaguely dissatisfied. It’s a fair exchange.

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Pacific Rim Sets July 2013 Release Date

The summer of 2013 just got a little more exciting: Warner Bros. has announced that they’ll release Guillermo del Toro ‘s sci-fi action pic Pacific Rim on July 12, 2013. The alien invasion film is set to star Idris Elba , Charlie Hunnam , and Charlie Day, and begins filming this November. Del Toro has described the Travis Beacham-penned project as his biggest film to date, so expect a summer monsterpalooza, del Toro-style. [ Deadline ]

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Latest Transformers: Dark of the Moon TV Spot Promises More Explosions and Angrier Vehicles

It’s unofficially Transformers: Dark of the Moon day here at Movieline! First, we discussed just how badly Michael Bay wants each and every one of you (even you, Megan Fox ) to see the third installment of his testosterone-fueled franchise in 3-D . Then, we celebrated star Shia LaBeouf’s excellence at giving good quote . To close out T:DOTM Day properly, here’s another explosion-packed TV spot for the film which hits theaters in IMAX showings on Tuesday night.

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Latest Transformers: Dark of the Moon TV Spot Promises More Explosions and Angrier Vehicles

Michael Bay Really Wants You to See Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 3-D

With another weekend of disappointing 3-D grosses in the books — Cars 2 was a hit, but mostly just in two dimensions — the pressure on Transformers: Dark of the Moon is mounting. Not that Michael Bay minds . The director is so sure of his work on Dark of the Moon that he’s telling fans to see it on the biggest screen possible. Really, he wrote a letter and everything.

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Michael Bay Really Wants You to See Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 3-D

That’s When Michael Bay Stranded Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in the Desert

Michael Bay is notoriously tough on actors — just ask Megan Fox — but it appears he gave new Transformers: Dark of the Moon star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley some preparedness training before he even cast her in the new robot-killing film. Warning: this story involves the desert, high heels, and underwear.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Wants To Make His Noah’s Ark Film Epic, ‘Not Very Religious’

You know that report about Darren Aronofsky wanting to spend $130 million on an “edgy retelling” of Noah’s Ark? Well, he’s really serious! In a new interview with IFC. com , the Black Swan director gave a few more details about his biblical dream project.

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Darren Aronofsky’s Wants To Make His Noah’s Ark Film Epic, ‘Not Very Religious’