This is just the kind of photograph I want hanging in my office, if I ever have an office, and if I ever have a mentor or protégé willing to stand/sit beside me for a professional photo that conveys what an air of dignity we have in this office since I’ve been working there.

Guitar jammin’ and Shia LeBeouf cruising around on a motorcycle? It must be Wall Street 2: Wall Street Is So Fucking Badass !

Both Shia LeBeouf and his girlfriend/co-star Carey Mulligan looked sullen as they walked solo to the New York set of Wall Street 2 yesterday. Maybe they were just getting into character to shoot a scene where their characters get…

Despite dissing her director (and more than once), he's decided that he's ready for another go around with Megan and Shia for Transformers 3. The filmmaker wrote on his website: "Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3…

Ut oh, Shia, you’ve just caused hubbub! Speaking to an obviously-possessed BBC interviewer , LaBeouf gave the following brief-but-terrifying response when asked if we’d see him in another Indiana Jones movie: “Steven just said that he cracked a story on it before I left, and, uh, I think they’re gearin’ that up.” I can appreciate the spirit of being launched out of a nuclear test site and climbing right back into that fridge to try again, but this is not a good idea, Steven Spielberg. You (along with Oprah) are the most powerful person in media (source: I think I read that in a magazine once); can you not use that power for good? Just finish Tintin , throw Liam Neeson in a top hat and do the Lincoln thing you’ve been talking about for a decade, and put this Indiana Jones thing to bed. Thank you. I’m not sure I believe the story anyway. LaBeouf using the phrase “cracked a story” makes me think maybe Spielberg’s quote was mistranslated when converted from English to 1920s Reporter Speak.

Hey, now I can care about a Y: The Last Man movie again! (Harsh, but true — I cannot tell a lie.) After months of being linked to D. J. Caruso’s adaptation, Shia LaBeouf is apparently uninterested in taking the titular role. LaBeouf told Wizard that it’s too similar to his Transformers character. “You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder. “I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again. I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.” That’s fine by me, although if there was a role written for LaBeouf, it was this one. Now, I’m only at the third volume (I never seem to have cash on me when I find the trades), so he may grow up and change, but on the outset Yorick is a rather immature and arrogant sort of guy. He’s essentially Mutt Williams — if Mutt was crossed with James “Sawyer” Ford’s ability to drop pop culture references every two seconds. But to me, that sort of character needs a young actor who can really make him likeable under the slick smugness … and LaBeouf isn’t that guy for me. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is (though he’s a little too far into his 20s), as is Daniel Radcliffe. There’s a 20-something out there just dying to have a meaty, sci-fi story like this, and I will embrace him when he’s cast … unless its Zac Efron, in which case I will make a formal apology to LaBeouf. [via Superhero Hype ] Filed under: Action , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Thrillers , Casting , New Line , Fandom , Newsstand , Comic/Superhero/Geek Permalink | Email this | Comments

GM may be bankrupt, but lack of stable sponsorship isn’t going to stop the Transformers from turning into awesome GM cars and trucks! Oh, wait, it is. Looks like they’re just going to jog place to place now. Fair enough. Final Transformers 2 Poster [Empire]

For those too self-righteous to watch an awards show where Twilight is treated like Gone with the Wind but also still immature enough to want to see a clip of giant robots smashing shit, here’s the Transformers 2 scene shown at the MTV Movie Awards last night. You won’t believe how hard it is for several massive sentient machines and a couple robot animals to catch two humans. Really, you absolutely won’t believe it. You might even shout at your screen, “Jesus, just fucking stomp on them, you’re the size of a building!”

Shia LaBeouf just got to college, leaving behind his robot friend that turns into a Camaro and his ridiculously hot girlfriend-cum-motorcycle showroom model, and already things are going crazy . A shard of something that fell out of Shia’s bag has given him A BEAUTIFUL MIND! And Megatron wants his brain to decode some pots in a pyramid or something! And there’s a robot that devours sand like he doesn’t even give a shit! You’d better just see for yourself:

Wall Street 2 , the once-rumored sequel that only deserves to exist inside maybe a Ben Stiller Show sketch , is now official. Oliver Stone has signed on to once again direct and Shia LaBeouf is negotiating to play the new Wall Streeter. From EW : The much-discussed Wall Street sequel is getting closer to launch, EW has learned. Michael Douglas will return as corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the role for which he won the 1987 Best Actor Oscar, and Oliver Stone will be back as the director of the followup to the movie that put the phrase “Greed is good” into the popular lexicon. Shia LaBeouf is in talks to play a young trader in Wall Street 2, which is set 20 years after the first installment. The film’s plot will revolve around Gekko’s life after he gets out of jail during the current economic climate. “I think it’s time to take another hard look at trading and the economy and what went wrong in the last few years,” said Douglas Monday night during the premiere of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. “Everybody’s talking about the economy and people are scrutinizing it. Whenever I mention Wall Street 2, everybody goes, ‘Yeah. Interesting. I’d see that.’” Can’t argue with Michael Douglas. It’s apparent he’s done the market research to know this will work. He’s both aware of the current economic situation and he’s casually asked some people about it! “So, party-goer, say I, Michael Douglas, was going to make another Wall Street –calling it Wall Street 2 , we’ll say…” “OK…” “Pretty good, right?” “Oh… yeah, yeah, definitely. Almost painfully relevant. I mean, it sounds… interesting.” “Right, exactly. So you’d see it then?” “Yeah, sure.” “Fantastic. I’m going to get in touch with that new Indiana Jones kid. He’s great at making lackluster sequels to 20-year-old franchises.” (Thanks, Nick.)