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Michael Bay says Megan Fox has a “great part in Transformers 3″

Liam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:34:02 +0000

Megan Fox is known for saying crazy things, to the media anyway, and in recent interviews she apparently referred to Michael Bay as a “nightmare,” and “Hitler”, which isn’t a very clever thing to say to your ‘boss’. However it seems Transformers 2 director Michael Bay couldn’t care less:

“I love her,” the man responsible for the blockbuster franchise told USA TODAY. “It’s just, she’s young. Everyone’s got to give her a break, she only…23? It’s just hard. I’ve traveled around the world with her and she’s just like this world symbol now, you know?”
So he brushes her diatribes under the carpet? “Absolutely,” he said. “She called me (after the Hitler comment) and goes, ‘It’s all bullsh—t, Mike.’ The press, they just like to prey, and stalk, and pounce and find a good little juicy thing. But she’s always wanted to do these crazy comments. That’s just her. She’s great.”
He also said, “She’s got a great part in Transformers 3,” and he said he’s currently working on the script. So Bay’s not planning on getting revenge by, say, killing her off? “No, no. no,” he said, dismissing it. “She gets enough of that already.”

The role of Mikaela Banes in the franchise consists of looking hot and being Sam Witwicky’s girlfriend. She did the truck thing with Bumblebee in the first film, but in Revenge of the Fallen she didn’t really have a purpose. This time around Bay and the writers don’t have a writers strike to battle with, so hopefully they take their time and develop the story and characters. Especially the robot ones.

Transformers 3 release date set

Liam — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:46:52 +0000

A few weeks ago Michael Bay had a meeting with Steven Spielberg and Ehren Kruger to discuss ideas for Transformers 3 and to decide whether it would be released in 2011 or 2012. Before Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen burst into public viewing Bay said he wanted to have a break from robots and planned to make a small movie (Pain and Gain) before starting the next one, however from what he posted on his official forum today it looks like he’ll be going straight back into it:

Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st 2011. Not 2012.
Today is Day One. This morning started with an ILM meeting for five hours in San Francisco. Currently I’m flying with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about new characters.
P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to your health, please consult your Doctor to determine if this is right for you.
Pain and Gain is right after shooting of Trans 3.
Michael

Bay has had a 3 month break which I think is long enough, but then again I haven’t directed one of the biggest movies of the year so I’m no expert on what counts as a sufficient break. Even if Bay wasn’t quite ready yet i’m sure the money was enough to convince him. He apparently made $75 million from the first Transformers movie as he decided to take a % of the film’s total revenues instead of an upfront fee. He probably made a similar stupidly high amount for Revenge of the Fallen and I bet Paramount were busy filling Bay’s swimming pool full of cash as he typed up today’s post for his forum.

Jennifer’s Body Was For Girls

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:35:59 +0000

This weekend, I didn’t see the number one movie at the US Box Office. That belongs to Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, the new 3D animated family film from the creators of the VASTLY UNDER-RATED “Clone High” that only aired for one season from 2002-2003.

The Informant!, my review pick for the weekend, slid into second place with $10.5 million, vastly less than Cloudy’s $30.1. Love Happens, the release this weekend that gave away both the moral and the ending to the film in the title, slid in above Jennifer’s Body, which, with only $6,8 million over the weekend, has already been labeled a bomb.

Though I’m starting to wonder…

Rotten Tomatoes currently has Jennifer’s Body at a 42% Fresh rating, which isn’t horrible until you realize that Love Happens beat it at the box office with an 18% rating. That means critical response wasn’t necessarily the motivating factor in Jennifer’s Body taking a dive.

It’s a times like this I’m glad I have female friends who are also into film, because two of my colleagues have a take on Jennifer’s Body that is sounding scarily accurate. Take Vic (a guy) from ScreenRant, who put some data together about Jennifer’s Body reviews based on gender:

Male movie reviewers: 39% liked it, 61% disliked it.
Female movie reviewers: 54% liked it, 46% disliked it.

That at least spells out a mediocre movie amongst women, but the men reacting so differently to it is a little disconcerting. So let’s check with the women!

ScarletScribe, who also writes at Latino Review sets the stage:

Jennifer’s Body is dead at the box office — or so it seems after this opening weekend. And there are a couple of likely contributing factors: 1. that it opened against a fantastic children’s film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. that it’s battling against people’s cumulative hate/dislike of one of the stars, Megan Fox, and 3. that a lot of the reviewers just don’t understand the film.
And why don’t they understand the film? Because it’s one of the very few honest-to-goodness feminist films out there — and more so then being feminist, it’s one of the few films that views things from a female lens. Boys are there, and make up the majority of the victims in this body horror film, but they’re not a concern. For once we have a story with female main characters who aren’t obsessing about, fighting over, or bitching about boys every five minutes. Jennifer’s Body is about women and how they relate to each other, the horror moments are there for style and allegory, but at its heart the movie is about two girls whose own toxic friendship is eating them both alive.

Picking up from there is Annalee Newitz from io9:

This is a movie about female wrath. And it’s not the clean, sympathetic wrath we saw in Thelma and Louise; it’s not the trampy blankness we wanked over in Species. It’s ugly, wrong, powerful wrath. The kind that builds empires and destroys towns. And men are irrelevant to this wrath, in the same way Jennifer’s life was irrelevant to the guys in Low Shoulder who murdered her.
There’s something deeply subversive about a movie that says women are angry, but not at men. Women have enough power now that men are hardly the issue. Now, we’ve got something to work out among ourselves.
I’m not sure what people are expecting when they go to see a movie like Jennifer’s Body, but based on early negative reviews I’m pretty sure it wasn’t this. All I can assume is that they expected something really highbrow, based on the fact that it was penned by “I have a vocab” writer Diablo Cody. Or maybe they thought it would just be long scenes of Megan Fox’s tits, which would also be a letdown, since there are no tits.

Piling on is EruditeChick from All Things Fan Girl:

Case in point, the necklace moment. A trinket that holds no power other than what it represents to the girls, the act of its removal shocks Jennifer out of her attack, and undoes her. A BFF necklace. They probably got them at Claire’s. When they were ten. But in the world of the film, it is a mystical amulet, as powerful as the knife used in Jennifer’s murder or the words spoken over her before the act. Most of the men I’ve heard talk about the film mention that moment in particular as being cringe-worthy and corny, and most of all bizarre. I have not yet spoken to a girl for whom that scene did not resonate, didn’t hit something deep in them. Even if you never had one of those necklaces, you know what it means, the way you know what BFF can mean. A best friend is frequently not a ‘best friend’. They’re someone you’re tied to, through whatever events, and remain tied to, for whatever reason. When you’re friends with someone long enough, someone you don’t really necessarily like, but who you’ve nonetheless spent that much time with, your relationship becomes about domination and submission, finding, testing and expanding your boundaries, exerting your will and desires over someone else. This all sounds very dark, but it can be as basic as using someone to make you look better at a club (as Needy describes at the beginning of the movie), or using someone as nothing but a sounding board for you to talk about your life, your needs, your self about, completely disregarding and not caring about the other person’s life or what they have to say. Someone to keep around to assert yourself over. Find me a girl who hasn’t been on either end of this, and I’ll show you a robot or an alien.

I don’t know if these reactions mean that Jennifer’s Body is good or if it just means that it was grossly mis-marketed and suffered from Megan Fox’s PR gravity that manages to make everything about her tits (which I’m fine with, for the record). But, I do know that the rants and reviews I have read from cinephile women I respect all lining up like this gave me pause.

I guess I should check out Jennifer’s Body? At least so I have something to talk about with the opposite sex.

Jonah Hex Poster

Liam — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:14:39 +0000

Despite Megan Fox saying her role in Jonah Hex is “basically a cameo” she is all over the first poster for the film (as expected).

From Yahoo!:

Fox plays Leila, a gun-wielding no-nonsense prostitute and Jonah Hex’s love interest. Hex, played by Josh Brolin, is known for having the right side of his face disfigured, and is a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter.

Megan Fox Has A Pretty Mouth

Dave — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:09 +0000

UPDATE: Before people accuse me of making a post out of nothing, here’s the stakes on Jennifer’s Body: The Red Band trailer (CLICK) that was released just so the filmmakers could present their movie like they saw it makes the film look interesting. The Green Band trailer (CLICK), cut by a studio hack to look like every toss-away horror film out there, just premiered at Yahoo! and makes me want to claw my eyes out. And now back to my previous ramblings…

It’s images like this that really raise my hopes for Jennifer’s Body. But much like a groomsman before a bachelor party, these expectations make me nervous.

Megan Fox: She’s super hot, rules internet traffic like it’s nobody’s business, can’t really act, talks so L.A. it hurts, likes to smoke pot and plays video games.

Diablo Cody: She used to be a stripper, is also hot, won an Oscar for writing indie smash Juno, wrote the pilot for The United States Of Tara that got picked up by Showtime, she might be a one trick pony and she is fluent in snark.

Either of these women alone, I would not take a chance on. But their combined powers and wit (or lack of wit) funneled into a horror film might actually have potential. Megan Fox is barely a real woman anyway, at least she’s not portrayed as such. If she’s going to pull a Natasha Henstridge and go from sexy/steamy making out directly into eating people, I’m thinking that could work.

Bonus points of Diablo Cody does what no other filmmaker has managed to do and makes Megan Fox appear like a character instead of “Megan Fox as…”

Not that you can tell any of this from a special effects photo, but the shot has its own charm. For once, I’m suggesting you look at a picture of Megan Fox that has little to do with her ample breasts. Even Jennifer’s Body set photos up to this point have been a flashing arrow reading: “Megan Fox will be partially unclothed in this film!!!!”

Ladies, don’t debase yourselves. I want to see more creepy Megan Fox and I want her to talk in her nasal, high-pitched way but actually surprise me with what she’s saying.

Please. It’d be nice if you both proved my above assumptions wrong.

CLICK HERE to see the full Fangoria pic!

Jennifer’s Body Gets A Red Band Trailer!

Dave — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:05:45 +0000

Unless you want to plunk down more cash for Transformers, best to put away your Megan Fox obsession until this September, when she play’s the titular body, encasing a demon who eats high school boys.

Yes, this is the Diablo Cody follow-up-feature to Juno, this time lending her snappy witticisms to the horror genre as a rock band somehow leads to Megan Fox possessed as Amanda Seyfried tries to stop her.

Director Karyn Kusama, Cody and producer Jason Reitman gave a Red Band trailer to ShockTillYouDrop.com with the following note (possibly carved into the flesh of the unfortunate messenger):

“Fox is putting a trailer of Jennifer’s Body in front of Bruno this Friday. Great, right? Only problem is it’s not our trailer. It’s kind of a straight horror preview and while we’re sure it’ll appeal to many of you, we wanted to make sure you guys got to see our cut… Lets call it the “filmmaker’s cut”. We think it captures the comedy and scares of the horror films we grew up on – a kind of nostalgia for when horror films were fun. Can’t wait to show you the whole film… In the meantime, here’s the red band trailer we wanted our fans to see.”

CLICK HERE to be taken to the Red Band trailer for Jennifer’s Body!

Megan Fox’s Bloody Jennifer’s Body

Dave — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:09:39 +0000

Film School Rejects has some hi-resolution photos from Jennifer’s Body, the Diablo Cody-penned horror flick starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried. In the film, Megan Fox plays Jennifer, a cheerleader who is sort of a Heather/Plastic/Ice Queen until she is possessed by a demon and starts to eat her classmates. Amanda Seyfried plays the plain and unmemorable best friend of Jennifer, who has to save the day.

This film got a large boost in internet buzz when, soon after Cody took home the Oscar for Juno’s screenplay and post-Transformers 1 Megan Fox-mind-gasm, pictures were leaked of Megan Fox emerging from a lake nearly topless (pasties only, folks). I’m guessing you’ve seen these photos, but for those who haven’t seen it…well, Google “Megan Fox topless,” it’s the first result.

Since, the Megan Fox and Diablo Cody obsession factors have lowered, with word-of-mouth occasionally turning on them. It’s interesting, though not uncommon, to see two female stars go through such scrutiny and changes in perception completely independently of each other or the movie they made together, Jennifer’s Body. The flick has to be good on it’s own merits, sure, but its opening weekend (this September) could potentially be affected by the public personas of both these women.

CLICK HERE to be taken to Film School Rejects’ Empire Mag scans, where you can see more than bloody Megan Fox at higher resolutions!

Megan Fox only has a small role in Jonah Hex

Liam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:22:02 +0000

If you are a fan of Megan Fox then this will be a joyful week for you as she returns to the big screen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, however it looks like you will be disappointed with Megan’s screentime in Jonah Hex which comes out next year as she told MTV that her role as a tough, no-nonsense prostitute isn’t very big at all. (Possible spoilers)

“It’s basically a cameo,” revealed Fox when we spoke with her recently. “She’s a twisted love-interest to Jonah’s character; my part’s pretty small.”
As fans know, Jonah Hex populates a deadly world filled with lies, lead and life-threatening encounters. Which is why Fox’s next statement made it seem even less likely that her character Leila would be returning for those sequels.
“I worked the first week, and then I was shot out of the movie,” explained the beauty, who can be seen in next week’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” “My scenes with Josh were my favorite, because he really pushed me as an actor. He obviously knows what he’s doing.”

While she isn’t a major character in the film i’m sure Warner Bros. will use Megan Fox in as much marketing material as possible. They’d be stupid not too.

Megan Fox vs. foul mouthed robot

Liam — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:08:33 +0000

I don’t usually like posting clips because I prefer to see the whole film in sequence and the way it was intended, however this new clip from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is too good not to post. In the clip Sam (Shia LaBeouf) tells Mikaela (Megan Fox) that he started seeing symbols after he touched the ‘cube splinter’, meanwhile a small aggressive robot called Wheelie attempts to steal it. Watch below!

New Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen images!

Liam — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:42:16 +0000

We have three new images from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, however these images are special as they come from Megan Fox herself! Fox revealed these images exclusively on her Twitter page (officialmgnfox) and kindly gave Filmonic permission to post them. The images include new shots of Megan Fox, John Turturro, Shia LaBeouf and Ramon Rodriguez, who plays Sam’s roommate Leo.

In other Transformers news, Megan Fox and director Michael Bay will be presenting a new clip from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Shia LaBeouf will also be there to present a popcorn statue. (From ComingSoon.net)