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HD ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ Trailer Makes For Better-Looking Nonsense

6:03AM STV | Almost satisfied with the pirated explodeyness of last Friday’s bootlegged Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer, but not so hot on the cell-phone grain corrupting Michael Bay’s $US220 million spectacle? You’re in luck! More »

Pirated ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ Trailer Very Explodey

2:20AM Seth | You’ve already marveled at the Super Bowl teaser—now feast senses upon the full Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer, surreptitiously captured by a Friday the 13th patron currently being popcornboarded at an MPAA detainment center. More »

Revealed! One Banished Extra’s Plan to Sabotage ‘Transformers 2′

7:00AM STV | It’s hard to believe that Michael Bay has been shooting Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for almost four months now, but rest assured it wasn’t painstaking months of character research that has slowed production to its current pace. After all, as we discovered over the US summer via the film’s banished extra “Man Eating Hamburger” (aka Reginald Brown), Bay has little to no knowledge of his subject and even less interest in lessons from an extra. But that doesn’t mean Brown has given up trying to “learn Michael some Transformers“; in fact, reports on producer Don Murphy’s illustriously deranged message board suggest that the film’s climactic desert showdown may not involve Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox or giant robots at all, but rather a stunning Brown vs. Bay main event that will make Uwe Boll seethe with jealousy: More »

9:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Bogus: According to TMZ, shoegazing director Michael Bay was the victim of a home burglary last night in New Mexico, where he’s staying while filming Transformers 2: Rise of the Finger-Splinticons. No criminals have been apprehended (we’re looking at you, Scarlett Johansson clone!), but at least the story provides us with a terrific excuse to run this photo of Bay at a Playboy party two years ago. Check out that rack! [TMZ] More »

‘Nike Made Me a Shoe’: A Rare Peek Into Michael Bay’s Creative Process

5:50AM STV | For sheer, head-exploding hubris and pride, everyone knows that nothing in the industry rivals the first day of going to work on a Michael Bay film. (Though, to be fair, the thrilling last day of going to work on a Michael Bay film is never far behind.) And bless their hearts, Wal-Mart of all places underwrote an unprecedented first-hand peek of the magic behind the myth in this video from the set. With his custom “Bay-os” (”a/k/a Chaos!”) Nikes all but winged and greased to better aid his propulsive shooting style, the iconic fauxteur brings it all down to Earth with an admonition to have fun, be safe and “make a lot of kids’ dreams around the world.” No Shia sightings here, alas; look for the eventual follow-up from Day 65, this time co-sponsored by Blue Cross and Johnson & Johnson CelebriSplints™ — your pinkie-saving partners in the greater LA area and beyond. [YouTube via /Film] More »

Michael Bay To Incorporate Shia LaBeouf’s Injuries Into Newly Retitled ‘Transformers 2: Rise Of The Finger-Splinticons’

2:33AM Seth | First came news from the Sheriff’s Department that Shia LeBeouf was not the one responsible for his spectacular accident in Hollywood early Sunday morning. But surely he was not to be forgiven—pitied, maybe, as he underwent emergency hand surgery to restore his Echo Parque gang-sign-delivery capabilities—but not forgiven, for the police stated the actor “exhibiting obvious signs of intoxication.” Not so, says his Transformers: Rise of the Fallen Machines director Michael Bay, who’s convinced of Shia’s innocence, and tells Access Hollywood he’ll be writing his injuries into the plot:

Shia LaBeouf Concerned The Business Is Losing Its Drunk-Driving -Actor Magic

2:18AM Seth | Shia LeBeouf continues to recover from hand surgery after some spectacular Bayian stuntwork at the corners of LaBrea and Fountain early Sunday morning, resulting in an overturned pick-up truck, plus a massive fireball after the frazzled actor exhaled a gust of 80-proof breath while trying to light a cigarette. We’ve already explored his conveniently timed Details interview, in which he spoke freely of hard-partying father-son bonding moments, and his inability “to have one drink.” ET has video (above) of the interview, in which he charms a giggly off-camera reporter with flippant observations about his renegade drugstore exploits (”Walgreens is a formidable foe, let me tell you guys right now. It was the battlegrounds of my life. The coliseum where all the rumbles happen.”). He also openly longs for a time when “actors were magical. Now that paparazzis are rampant the business is losing the magic a little bit. You always feel like people know too much.” More »