More Transformers 2 Plot Details Emerge
Michael Bay revealed a couple new details in an interview with the New Jersey Times. The story picks up with Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) visiting Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) at a fictional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel. Apparently Banes didn’t have enough money to go to college and was left behind in Los Angeles. And while the first movie was about a boy and his first car, Bay says that the new movie “is all about Sam growing up and going to college … a teenager growing into a man.” Rainn Wilson was spotted on set the same day that they were shooting a scene where Sam is late to his Astronomy 101 class, which might mean that Wilson is Witwicky’s Astronomy professor. Photo to the right thanks to TLive.
Josh Duhamel who played Captain Lennox in the original film tells Empire Magazine that the biggest change in the sequel is “who [Lennox is] working with “, emphasizing the “Who he’s working with.” This seems to confirm speculation that the Autobots might have to form an alliance with the Decepticons to fight something bigger. Could those rumors about Fallen actually be true?
And for those wondering, the cool “Revenge is Coming… 2009” set-up pictured at the top of this post (thanks to KD), was on display at The My Little Pony Fair 2008 (who knew?), which took place at Hasbro, Inc.’s Providence, Rhode Island headquarters last week.
Casting Couch: Lipstick Jungle Gets Moore, Showtime for Wentz, Disney for Duhamel
Lipstick Jungle is trying on a new shade of star power this fall.
TV icon and seven-time Emmy winner Mary Tyler Moore has signed on to star in several episodes of the glossy NBC series when it returns for its second season Sept. 24.
Moore will play Joyce, a retired high-powered exec and mother of Brooke Shields’ character, who challenges her daughter’s notion of having it all, professionally and personally.
“I’m fortunate to have had a front-row seat to the evolution of working women on television,” Moore said in a press release. “It’s been great fun to watch the strong female characters of Lipstick Jungle go at it week after week. I absolutely adore Brooke and I’m delighted to be a part of a show which is so well written.”
She’s gonna make it (better) after all.
In other casting news:
- Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz fame is set to cameo as himself in an upcoming episode fo Showtime’s Californication, the cable net confirmed to News. He will run into David Duchovny’s character during the second-season premiere in September.
- Josh Duhamel of Transformers and Fergie fame is set to cameo as himself in the July 7 episode of the Disney Channel animated series The Replacements. The show’s matriarch, Agent K, repeatedly interrupts the filming of Duhamel’s latest action flick, thinking he’s in need of assistance.
Kim Kardashian and Megan Fox: Breakthrough Awards
Kim Kardashian and Megan Fox: Breakthrough Awards
Last night was a big one for up-and-coming actors and actresses. The Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles hosted Hollywood Life’s 2007 Breakthrough of the Year Awards.
And there wasn’t any lacking in the eye candy department. Celebrity babes like Megan Fox and Kim Kardashian brought their fashion A-games to the red carpet.
“Transformers” actress Megan Fox (who nabbed a Breakthrough of the Year Award) showed up in a hot little black dress, showing off her right-shoulder tattoo. And her animal-print heels were the perfect accent to her ensemble, plus they gave her a little extra height that came in handy while hugging super stud Josh Duhamel.
Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian kept things a little more covered up than usual. She wore a black long-sleeved dress with a mildly scandalous low-cut v-neckline. Even her silver strappy shoes were more modest than the norm for the reality show starlet.
Josh Duhamel and Friends Celebrate 100 Episodes
Josh Duhamel and Friends Celebrate 100 Episodes
He’s e engaged to one of the hottest singers out there, and his show, NBC’s Las Vegas, has just celebrated its 100th episode. Translation: Josh Duhamel is on top of the world.
Josh was joined by Molly Sims and the rest of the Las Vegas cast at the Palms Casino and Resort, where Mayor Goodman presented the Keys to the City to the cast and creator of the show as a congratulatory gesture.
Duhamel looked smokin’ in his t-shirt and jeans combo topped off with a jacket and some seriously cool hair. Meanwhile Miss Sims brought her fashion A-game in a black and silver mini-dress and a pair of sexy knee-high boots.
Las Vegas creator Gary Scott Thomas told press that the key to his show’s success is in the tension between the humor and drama. “We’re really a true dramedy. A lot of shows say they’re dramedies but they aren’t. Because even when the worst thing possible is happening, the other story line will be hysterically funny. The idea from the beginning has been that, much like Las Vegas, no matter what happens, the fun always goes on.”
And Universal Media Studios president Katherine Pope says the show has, “a very tricky tone: sexy and funny and soapy and serious. The goal for the show always was ‘fun’ and ‘wish-fulfillment,’ but I think what Gary has done over the years is reinforce the familial aspect—that these people really do care about each other.”
She continued, “As much as the show is about sexy, beautiful people working in a sexy, beautiful place, it really is more about the fact that they always support each other. And that’s kind of the place where we’d all like to work.”