Archive for June 18th, 2009

Holy smokes, my friends! We're so pleased you're not dead!

Mere days after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull star Shia LaBeouf dropped the bombshell hint that director Steven Spielberg had "cracked" the story for a fifth Indy adventure, producer Frank Marshall is now confirming another movie is indeed in the works.

You've never --- and we mean never, even by Michael Bay's standards --- seen $200 million lavished on two-and-a-half hours of such stratospherically absurd spectacle as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Understandably nerve-wracked Australian starlet Isabel Lucas prefaced the film's Sydney premiere by advising the audience to 'strap on' for the thrill ride to follow. Given the awkward giggles in the theatre, we're pretty sure she meant to say 'strap in'; then again, when you see her character, well --- mild spoiler alert --- maybe she meant it. The familiar metallic soundwave soon strafed the usually-placid DreamWorks logo and then...

You've never --- and we mean never, even by Michael Bay's standards --- seen $200 million lavished on two-and-a-half hours of such stratospherically absurd spectacle as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Understandably nerve-wracked Australian starlet Isabel Lucas prefaced the film's Sydney premiere by advising the audience to 'strap on' for the thrill ride to follow. Given the awkward giggles in the theatre, we're pretty sure she meant to say 'strap in'; then again, when you see her character, well --- mild spoiler alert --- maybe she meant it. The familiar metallic soundwave soon strafed the usually-placid DreamWorks logo and then...

In a bit of a turnabout, robot-fighter Brian Austin Green (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) will be a guest star on The CW's Smallville, playing a killer cyborg named Metallo, E! Online's Watch With Kristin reported.
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This summer, the Force will be with you when Adult Swim releases Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II to DVD on July 21.
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[UPDATE: Latino Review is now reporting that the news of Kickinger's casting is NOT true: "Trust me guys, I have a super solid source at both Lionsgate and Millenium, and they laughed their asses off! Folks, Lionsgate hasn't even hired a casting director yet!" ... Stay tuned!]

It's deja vu all over again.

Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millennium, the two companies behind the reboot of Conan the Barbarian, may have found their new star in a creepy echo of original Conan star Arnold Schwarzenegger's own rise to fame, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business blog. (Warning: Spoilers for Terminator Salvation ahead!)