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Funny or Die Produces Terribly Unfunny Academy Awards Trailer Starring Billy Crystal And Megan Fox

Travis Woods — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:58:14 +0000

In an attempt to show how edgy and hip the Academy Awards can really be, the Academy decided to hire the clever folks at Funny or Die to make a trailer for the 84^th Academy Awards ceremony. And, despite being jam-packed with cameos by celebrities no one will really care about (host Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, William Fichtner, and Vinnie Jones) and loaded with horridly unfunny jokes (young people text a lot! HA!), the trailer–gosh, get this!–lands flat on its face.

Oh, the yuks just keep on coming in this clip. Honestly, the best thing I can say about it is that Robin Williams isn’t too irritating or grating or over the top. In fact, the most annoying thing about the trailer may be Crystal’s smirky, “aren’t I hilarious?” tone and facial expressions. Check it out:

Well, there you have. The Funny or Die people finally found a way to become unfunny—simply become involved with the Academy Awards, the most notoriously unamusing program in television history.

Academy Award nominations will be announced on January 24^th, and the live broadcast will take place on February 24^th on ABC.

What do you think of the Academy Awards trailer?

Source: /Film

Megan Fox is an Angel in Passion Play

Damon Houx — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:10:21 +0000

Though surely men have described Megan Fox as heavenly before, it seems that the film Passion Play is making that literal. In the trailer for her new film, Fox has wings and everything. She’s joined by Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray and Rhys Ifans, and was directed by Mitch Glazer. The film opens May 6, and hits DVD on May 31. The cast is A list talent, but the film looks sort of weird and direct-to-video-ish. Take a look…

Again, this looks like the sort of thing that either works, or is torturous to sit through. The film screened at Toronto’s film festival last year and was panned hard, so likely this doesn’t work, but Bill Murray usually puts something on the ball. This wouldn’t be Murray’s first time working with Glazer as Glazer was one of the writers on Scrooged, and used to work with Michael O’Donoghue. Since then he’s been doing studio work, including writing the scripts for such films as The Recruit, and the 1998 version of Great Expectations.

This is Glazer’s first film as a director. Which means it’s likely heavy on ideas, though may lack a good visual sense. Going from the trailer, the idea of Rourke and Murray squaring off is so weird that it looks fascinating. The film opens May 6 in New York and Los Angeles. Likely this is contractual obligation.

Do you find it weird that a film with this many A-listers is essentially going straight to video?

Albert Brooks To Star In New Judd Apatow Film?

Travis Woods — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:19:10 +0000

Yesterday, we reported that Megan Fox was set to bring her box office poison unique charm to the set of Judd Apatow’s new film, starring as a yet to be detailed character. Today, it seems, someone with actual comedic talent and chops a little more familiar to the comedy world is now in negotiations to join the cast—Albert Brooks.

According to /Film, the movie, which centers around Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s unhappily married couple from Knocked Up, is set for release on June 1, 2012. Brooks, like Fox, would be playing an as yet undetermined role—but, considering this is an Apatow film, I’m guessing that he’ll play a mentor-like father to Rudd, who occasionally smokes pot but is still fairly grounded, and gives his wild, permanently-adolescent son the advice he needs to finally mature and be the man his wife deserves. I can’t swear to it, but since that seems to be the general Apatow model for films, I’m guessing it’s not far off, either. Either that or everyone will just give up and point the camera at Seth Rogan and just let him grumble and giggle for two hours straight (which, yeah, I’d probably pay to watch).

What do you think of Albert Brooks in a Judd Apatow film?

Megan Fox May Join Latest Apatow Comedy

Damon Houx — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:23:25 +0000

Megan Fox seemed to be teetering on the edge of fame for a couple months. After Fox was let go from Transformers 3 it was hard to know if the actress’s career could recover. Sure, she could model, but who was going to take her seriously as an actress? Now word comes from The Hollywood Reporter that one of those people is Judd Apatow. Fox is now in negotiations to star in Apatow’s next film, which will star Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann.

Megan Fox – even at her best – has been cast as the hot girl. To be fair, she can’t exactly pull of the “cute neighbor with glasses” routine, but her career has been defined by her work in the Michael Bay Transformer movies. A role that could be described as: “look sexy, run.” After that, she was in films like How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and Jennifer’s Body, films which played on the fact that she was incredibly hot. And then there’s Jonah Hex…

It’s worth noting this when talking about Fox’s range, as she’s never been asked to have much, and if her emotional commitment may have been lacking in the Transformers movies (she was functional, above competent), it seems a byproduct of the movies. Being a star and an attractive women sometimes puts you in a box, much as did Marilyn Monroe (someone Fox has tattooed on herself).

Who’s to say what Apatow has in mind for Fox, but she showed some wit in Jennifer’s Body, and seems self-aware, but has yet to have a great role. Between this and the upcoming Friends with Kids – which co-stars Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig – perhaps she’s redefining herself as a comic hottie.

Megan Fox: Do you think she’s a movie star or magazine cover icon?

Megan Fox and Jon Hamm Shooting Friends With Kids

Mali Elfman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:11:18 +0000

More pretty people doing pretty things! Only in this case, one of them is just pretty while the other one pretty mass of talent — I’m not saying which is which, I’m just saying… OnTheRedCarpet just released a little news from Megan Fox who was talking about how she’s in the midst of shooting her new movie Friends With Kids with none other than Jon Hamm.

She told them that “They recently shot some scenes for the film at the Mt. Peter ski resort in Warwick, New York.” Recently some pictures popped up of the two in the Daily Mail reported alongside the director of the film, Jennifer Westfeldt, Hamm’s real-life girlfriend.

For me, I can’t tell who is more out of place in this film. Fox or Hamm? (So many obvious jokes for those two names!!!) They definitely don’t seem like a likely duo, but then again, maybe that’s what makes it so charming? Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Edward Burns and Maya Rudolph also star in Friends With Kids, which tells us one big thing ROM-COM! Hopefully it’s got some kind of edge to it, otherwise I’ll just re-watch the last season of “Mad Men” again — damn that show is good. it definitely has a cast that knows humor and the majority of them can act!

Westfeldt is officially making her directorial debut with Friends With Kids a film she also wrote and will be making an acting appearance in. Seems like she’s all over this bad-boy! Now is that a good or a bad thing? Only time (and a trailer) will tell!

The film is currently in production and is set for release sometime in 2012.

What do you think of Friends With Kids so far? Destined for greatness or just another…?

Source: OTRC

Megan Fox Spreads Her Wings In Passion Play Clip

Krystal Clark — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:06:48 +0000

The first clip has been released from the indie drama Passion Play that stars Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox. It’s an interesting yet creepy tale about two people who bond over their faults. Hers are physical and his are emotional. The following video shows the initial meeting of the two and their reaction to each other’s differences. Take a look…

Earlier this summer while out promoting Jonah Hex, Fox spoke about her role in the film and revealed a little about the relationship between her and Rourke’s characters.

Mickey’s character is a trumpet player. He’s kind of down on his luck and he was a heroin addict. He comes across my character who’s a part of a traveling freak show. She has bird wings that sprouted out of her back when she went through puberty and it’s sort of this very bizarre, strange relationship that they have and it follows them. It’s sort of a modern film noir. It’s very tragic.

Over at ET, they’ve posted a clip from the movie that shows Fox unveiling her wings to Rourke.

Passion Play will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

What do you think of the first clip from Passion Play?

Megan Fox Wants to Play Rainmaker From Gen 13

Krystal Clark — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:04:23 +0000

The opening weekend of Josh Brolin and Megan Fox’s new flick Jonah Hex didn’t fair too well. It came in at number 8 with a little over $5 million at the box office, which we predicted would happen with our Top Ten Worst Movies of Summer 2010 post. Now that it’s come and gone, it’s time for the stars to start looking for new material. Fox has already shown interest in another comic character who she’d love to bring to the big screen. Her name’s Sarah Rainmaker and she’s one of the superheroes in the Gen 13 comic book.

The hero is a Native American (Apache descent) and has several cool powers like manipulating the weather, controlling the movement of water, producing lightning bolts, flying via wind currents, and she’s a kick-ass fighter. Fox recognizes that she’s not a spitting image of Rainmaker but thinks audiences could make an exception with her in the role.

“She’s a Native American and I have a little bit of that blood in me,” she said. “It would be a bit of a stretch –but if Jake Gyllenhaal can be the Prince of Persia, I think that I can do that.”

We knew that example was going to come up sooner than later. Technically, Gyllenhaal’s character is adopted (minor spoiler) in the film but for the most part she’s right. Most of his adopted family were supposed to be of Persian decent yet they’re played by pure white actors.

With Jonah Hex performing as badly as it did, and Jennifer’s Body bombing during its run, do you think a studio would trust the actress to headline a superhero movie solo?

Do you think Fox could play Rainmaker? Who would be your pick for the role?

Source: Fox News

Jonah Hex – Movie Review

Krystal Clark — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:00:35 +0000

Despite what you saw in Iron Man 2, this is not the summer of pretty boy superheroes. This weekend, Josh Brolin tackles the role of a slack-jawed, post-Civil War vet who’s got a serious chip on his shoulder in Jonah Hex. The character doesn’t have an artillery filled with the latest guns and gadgets but he does have great aim and a license to kill. Move over Tony Stark there’s a new hero in town and he travels by horse not air…

The Players:

Director: Jimmy Hayward
Writers: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, William Farmer (story)
Cast: Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Aidan Quinn,
Cinematography: Mitchell Amundsen
Original Music By: Marco Beltrami, John Powell

The Plot:

Jonah Hex is based on the DC Comics property about a disfigured gunman who travels the Old West seeking revenge on the man who killed his family. The film version centers on Hex’s quest to find and stop Quentin Turnbull from causing another Civil War within the United States. Hex is commissioned by President Grant to track Turnbull down and bring him to justice.

The Good:

Josh Brolin: If they put anyone else in this role it wouldn’t have worked. Brolin became Jonah Hex and delivered everything you wanted from the character and more.
The Casting: Besides Brolin, they got several amazing actors to appear in this film. The majority of them were glorified cameos but still entertaining. A few people to look out for are Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Michael Shannon, Aidan Quinn, Wes Bentley, and Tom Wopat. Yes, Tom “Luke Duke” Wopat from “The Duke’s of Hazzard.”

The Bad:

The Story: There’s an overarching story that centers on Hex and Turnbull, which is easy to follow and understandable. But then there’s a whole other subplot that deals with a massive weapon that doesn’t even look like it belongs in the era in which the film takes place. This is fiction and it’s based on a comic but there’s no point in doing everything else by the book and making one thing stick out like a sore thumb.
Special Effects: This movie wasn’t made with Batman or Superman money but a few of the explosions bordered on cartoonish. Some of them could have been done practically without CGI and the effect would have been 10 times better.
The Tone: This wasn’t a hardcore drama, it wasn’t a romance film, and it wasn’t a comedy, it was all of thee above. There’s nothing’s wrong with having multiple genres in one movie if you can balance them correctly but for Jonah Hex that wasn’t the case. It came across as uneven and random.

Overall:

Jonah Hex is pretty mediocre. There’s nothing about this film that would make it standout besides Josh Brolin’s mutilated face and an unnecessarily damp (all the time!) Megan Fox. There are a few things worth watching but nothing too big that you can’t hold out for the DVD.

Rating: 5.5/10

Jonah Hex debuts in theaters Friday, June 18, 2010.

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Are you interested in seeing Jonah Hex this weekend?

Interview: Megan Fox for Jonah Hex

Krystal Clark — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:44:30 +0000

This week, Megan Fox steps away from the robots and steps into a corset for her latest film, Jonah Hex. It’s based on the DC Comics character of the same name and features Josh Brolin in the title role. Fox plays his love interest, a prostitute named Lilah who hides more than just money in her bra. She’s an old school bad ass. A 19th century girl from around the way girl who holds her own against John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender.

When the actress sat down at the press day for Hex she discussed everything from why she took the role, the difficulties of the shoot, and why she thinks fanboys will never be pleased with anything she does…

How do you go from running in the desert alongside Shia Labeouf and Optimus Prime to being Josh Brolin’s sidekick in the post-Civil War south? In Transformers her character was a stereotypical beauty with a wild streak but Fox stresses that she’s not playing the same person in Jonah Hex. This isn’t another stereotypical role.

Megan Fox: I don’t really feel like she’s that stereotypical. Perhaps you’re responding to the fact that I’m playing the character, that would sort of make it stereotypical but it’s something completely different than anything I’ve done and no one can accuse me of doing the same thing twice.

She also cleared up any speculation about Hex being a way for her to get away from those giant robots [in Transformers].

MF: I like working on action films or movies that are comic book based and that have this theme because they’re things that I watched and loved as a kid. It wasn’t really about getting away from the robots. I enjoyed making both films.

Her character Lilah is a prostitute who has gone through more than her fair share of men. She keeps them all at an emotional distance with the exception of Jonah Hex. In the film, they don’t delve deep into the character’s relationship so Fox and Brolin had to create their own backstory.

MF: Josh and I had a conversation about what their past relationship could have been. Why she would be so dedicated and so in love with someone who treated her the way that he did. We sort of came up with a backstory between the two of us of why. What things had gone on in the past and why she was so dedicated to him. So loyal.

When it came to the physicality of the film, Fox met her match with an old school prop. She had one of her most difficult days on set when she had to shoot an action scene that didn’t really go her way.

MF: There was one gun fight scene that stunts had been choreographing for a couple of weeks and I showed up and had minutes to get it down and rehearse it. It was really difficult for me to shoot the old style, gunslinger guns because I have tiny, little baby hands and they’re really large and really heavy. Just the physicality of actually having to pull that off was really difficult. It was more intricate.

Fox knows a thing or two about starring in a film that has a die hard fanbase and Jonah Hex is no different. The actress discussed how she deals with the pressure to please the fanboy community.

MF: I love them but it’s impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans because they’ll never be happy no matter what you do. I’m a Lord of the Rings fan and I’ll go on the forums and they’ll complain that Frodo was eating the lembas bread outside of Mordor instead of the Mines of Moria and they get really mad and Peter Jackson and company won like 30 something Oscars for that movie. You can’t focus completely on pleasing them because you’ll never win and then you’re excluding a whole other world of people who weren’t aware of the comic in the first place. I think you have to take some sort of liberties to make it into a live action film or it wouldn’t work.

If Jonah Hex works out, Fox wouldn’t mind doing her own comic movie based on Lilah and her own adventures separate from Hex.

MF: Of course, I mean if that was an opportunity that was presented to me absolutely. I’d love that.

Next on Fox’s agenda is a small indie drama that features her playing a genetic freak. She’s a beautiful woman who has a physical defect that makes her more animal than human.

MF: I have a movie with Mickey Rourke hopefully coming out this fall called Passion Play. It’s an independent right now and I’m really proud of that. It’s sort of a modern film noir. Mickey’s character is a trumpet player. He’s kind of down on his luck and he was a heroin addict. He comes across my character who’s a part of a traveling freak show. She has bird wings that sprouted out of her back when she went through puberty and it’s sort of this very bizarre, strange relationship that they have and it follows them. It’s very tragic.

Fox has been acting since she was a teenager but she just recently became a star. Once all the smoke settles she plans on tackling bigger and better challenges that have nothing to do with being in front of the camera. Even though directing is the next step actors usually take, Fox doesn’t think that job’s for her.

MF: Definitely not directing. I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do something like that but possibly producing at some point if I were able to. I’d like to get into that.

Jonah Hex debuts in theaters nationwide on June 18, 2010.

Are you interested in seeing Jonah Hex this weekend?

New Jonah Hex Theatrical Trailer

Krystal Clark — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:07:33 +0000

If you still feel bad about Megan Fox being replaced in Transformers 3 by an inexperienced Victoria’s Secret model don’t be. Fox has a new movie coming out this summer called Jonah Hex and its latest theatrical trailer has been released over at IGN. It’s based on the DC Comics property of the same name and features Josh Brolin in the title role. Check it out…

The film centers on a disfigured gunman (Brolin) who travels through the Old West kicking ass and taking names later. Fox stars as his love interest who also happens to be a prostitute, while John Malkovich plays the film’s main villain, an older gentleman named Quentin Turnbull who has a serious vendetta against Hex and will stop at nothing to see him dead. Michael Fassbender also makes and appearance as one of the bad guys who has several tattoos on his face. We don’t know what that’s all about.

Don’t forget to watch the first trailer if you haven’t already so you can compare and contrast what you’ve seen so far from the film. The one thing I’ve picked up on are all the bad southern accents. Those things are HORRIBLE!

Jonah Hex is directed by Jimmy Hayward and is scheduled to hit theaters on June 18, 2010.

What do you think of the second trailer for Jonah Hex?

Megan Fox Says She CHOSE to Leave Transformers 3

Krystal Clark — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:41:56 +0000

Megan Fox has been a hot topic ever since it was revealed that she won’t be returning for Michael Bay’s third installment of Transformers. When it was initially announced, sources claimed that the actress was dropped by both the studio (Paramount) and the director but according to Fox that’s not true. She recently told People Magazine that it was her choice to leave the film.

All the speculation regarding her departure must have gotten under her skin because her publicist released an official statement saying, “It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best.” Really? Didn’t she have an iron clad contract to do three films like Shia Labeouf? Maybe they made a few revisions that we didn’t know about?

Either way, Transformers is moving on without her and several other actresses are already being courted to take her place, most notably Gemma Arterton. We’re not sure how this will effect her career because her first headlining film, Jennifer’s Body bombed at the box office and her upcoming summer flick Jonah Hex hasn’t been getting much publicity. She needs to find another commercial hit or star in a small, indie flick that proves she can act.

Vote in our poll and let us know who you think should replace Fox in the Transformers sequel.

What do you think of Megan Fox’s statement regarding Transformers 3? Do you think she made the decision to leave?

Poll: Who Should Replace Megan Fox in Transformers 3?

Krystal Clark — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:36:21 +0000

Update: Fox just released a statement claiming it was her decision to leave the film.

Now that the dust has settled and we’ve accepted the fact that Megan Fox is no longer a part of the Transformers franchise, lets talk replacements! A few names have already been making the rounds online and it’s time to break down the pros and cons of each candidate. Vote in our poll and let us know who you think has the competitive edge…

The biggest name being tossed around at the moment is Gemma Arterton, who previously appeared in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, as well as, Clash of the Titans, and this month’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Over at The Wrap they’re saying that she’s at the top of the list of actresses being courted to play Shia Labeouf’s new love interest in Transformers 3.

Since Michael Bay is known to be drawn to model-types as opposed to legitimate actresses, Bar Refaeli and Miranda Kerr along with Brooklyn Decker have also been mentioned as possible replacements for Fox. The first two women don’t have a lot of acting experience but Decker has made a few guest spots on TV shows and will appear in Adam Sandler’s upcoming comedy Just Go With it.

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Out of this group, Arterton does seem like the logical choice because she’s the same age as Fox/Labeouf and is no stranger to the action genre. BUT her constant presence in every blockbuster franchise is starting to become a nuisance. We understand it’s a dog eat dog industry but can someone else get a shot?

The other three possibilities are actually laughable. Nothing against them personally but anyone over 5 foot 5 is going to be a problem for Labeouf unless they pull a Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow (in Iron Man) and put him on boxes. Also, we know Transformers isn’t Shakespeare but they should at least try to get a woman with SOME type of acting talent. Wasn’t that one of the main reasons why people hated Fox so much (besides her sh*tty attitude)?

Who do you think should replace Fox? Who did you vote for and why?

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