So if you were wondering, exactly how it happened, Megan Fox found herself fired from the Transformers film franchise after referring to Michael Bay, in an interview no less, as
“like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation … he wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is.”
And hence, her career path, as chosen by her own words, has taken shape from there on out. Now she has to pay her penance and prove over the next few or several years that she can bounce back into the socially layered career of Hollywood and prove she will only mutter under her breath and not to interviewees.
Jonah Hex movie review from Cinema Static on Brusimm…
Jonah Hex is an odd movie to take in that suffers with a lack of depth to its characters and story and completely ignores the comic franchise history. There are plot loopholes where connecting scenes within the movie seem to come from nowhere. Eh?
The movie stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett and others. It was directed by animator turned director Jimmy Hayward, whose directorial resume includes the animated Horton Hears a Who! and an ‘additional scenes’ director for Robots. Jonah Hex is his first live-person and 2nd directorial project.
Josh Brolin plays Jonah Hex, and if any fans of the DC Comics franchise were confused or disliked the artistic take on his origins, I don’t blame you. The origin of Hex in the movie shows that all the creative team did was use the character likeness and then went off in their own direction, ignoring the bounty hunter’s comic past and embuing him with an odd power to communicate with the dead.
John Malkovich plays the adversary, Quentin Turnbull, and though I really enjoy Malkovich’s work, he seemed subdued or muffled in this movie. He wasn’t set loose with his role. In fact, it felt like no one was let loose in their own roles.
The other day I was wondering just what Megan Fox has been up to since her infamous culling from the Transformers 3 movie when she publicize some ill-chosen words about director Michael Bay.
After Megan Fox was replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers 3, she obviously had some free time!
Since the $10.5M grossing (domestic) Jonah Hex (ouch), according to IMDb, she’s been in Passion Play and is filming the movie called Friends with Kids.
Passion Play‘s outline says “An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.” It’s written and directed by Mitch Glazer (Lost in Translation, The Recruit) and came out in the Toronto International Film Festival last September (2010). Other cast members included Bill Murray, Mickey Rourke, Rhys Ifans, Kelly Lynch and Rory Cochrane.
Averaging over $16k per theater in just over 3,000 theaters, Jackass 3D has shown that good, fun, mindless comedy filmed for others to watch, can indeed by a winner as it proves that showing a film in 3D can seriously help boost a film’s box office performance. Hey, who’d a thunk that being a Jackass could be profitable!
Jackass 3D with Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and the gang pulled in $50M at the box office over the weekend while it’s opening competitor, Red, starring Bruce Willis pulled in just over $22M.
In it’s third weekend running, The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg, pulled in $11M, pulling it’s total box office take up to ~$63M.
Secretariat and Life as We Know It both rounded out the top-5 spots pulling in just over $9M each.
Title
Weekend
Gross
Jackass 3D
$50M
$50M
Red
$22.5M
$22.5M
The Social Network
$11M
$63.1M
Secretariat
$9.5M
$27.5M
Life as We Know It
$9.2M
$28.9M
Legend of the Guardians: The…
$4.24M
$46M
The Town
$4.04M
$80.6M
My Soul to Take
$3.16M
$11.9M
Easy A
$2.65M
$52.3M
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
$2.35M
$47.9M
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In other News (Because I’m too damn busy trying to extrapolate on everything!)
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The Hobbit
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The Hobbit has been approved for production, under the directorial direction of Peter Jackson. Filming, for now, is slated to start in February of 2011. [THR]
This week, over 281 new DVD/Blu-ray titles are coming out for your consumption. From the 281 titles there are a few movies and a bunch of TV series titles. Today, I’m touching on some of the more popular titles that your friends, peers and buddies are snatching up from Amazon.com now!
How to Train Your Dragon is one of the movies being released on Tuesday, October 12th… followed by the Josh Brolin starring Jonah Hex.
Joss Whedon’s ill-received Dollhouse series is releasing its second season on disc and one of my favorites, CSI: Miami with the ever witful Horatio Cain, played by David Caruso. (I bet he’s glad he left NYPD Blue. Did you know that Caruso is writing and producing his own project titled Rehab? It stars Josh Stewart and is about a controversial psychiatrist who conducts a retreat for patients suffering from severe dissociative personality disorders. The intense, week- long treatment reveals a devious agenda that is more dangerous than their violent psychosis. Thought Caruso fans would like to know that.)
Family entertainment shows include some Dexter’s Laboratory finally gets its first season out on disc and Thomas & Friends and bringing in some holiday cheer. Of course there’s some giant spinning turtle, Gamera, coming out on Blu-ray!
Up until I’ve seen Jennifer’s Body, starring Megan Fox, (which is a misnomer) I understood it to be a very bad movie. It came up on my HBO ‘On Demand’ so I pulled it up and watched it. Along with Fox, it also stars Amanda Seyfried (Letters to Juliet, Chloe), Johnny Simmons (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Spirit), J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man franchise movies, Extract) & Adam Brody (Cop Out, The Romantics). The movie is written by Diablo Cody (Juno).
Despite Jennifer’s Body starring Megan Fox, the meat behind the story is really about Needy (played by Amanda Seyfried) and her relationship with her BFF, Jennifer (Fox). That was the spark of my wanting to write this movie review. The star in this flick was Seyfried and she made the movie for me and Megan Fox as the supporting actress/evil demon monster was a well played mix in this quirky movie.
What happens is a desperate rock band needs success and decide to take the low road and sacrifice themselves a virgin to the devil, but Jennifer had not been a virgin since Jr. high and the side affect of sacrificing a non-virgin turns the sacrificee into a demon possessed host.
Jonah Hex starred Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender and Will Arnett. Its runtime was 1 hour and 21 minutes. It was rated PG-13. (OK, still is actually.) Despite what looked like an awesome fun cast, it didn’t seem to help how the movie performed at the box office.
The movie was based on the DC Comics title of the same name.
The budget for the movie cost Warner Bros. Entertainment and Legendary Pictures an estimated $47 million and it made about half of its money on opening weekend. No, not half of the investment. It made half of its total take on the opening weekend and it didn’t do so hot on opening weekend. To be honest, to sat it crashed at the box office would imply it took off. It didn’t.
It’s been out for 53 days at the time of this article and it has only brought in just over $10.5 million.
Transformers 3 has been a bit of a mystery as far as any detailed content about the plot. All I know right now is that all the filming that is going on over in Chicago is for the back half of the movie, as the plot nears the end and the big fight between good and evil takes place. Then again, we do have a bit of detail about Alan Tudyk‘s role in the movie that came from what looks like a fresh new online site called From Hollywood With Love as they nabbed themselves an exclusive interview with Alan Tudyk and in that interview Mira chatted with Alan about his roles in Beautiful Boy and Transformers 3.
In Beautiful Boy, Tudyk calls it a quiet drama that goes to harrowing places. (The guys will be jealous here:) Tudyk plays the husband to the character played by Moon Bloodgood. Check out what I’ve written about Alan in Alan Tudyk Movie Update, Beautiful Boy.
After 8 years of dating, Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart tied the know in New Mexico. The event was held in the Governor’s mansion, and Gov. Richardson did the honors himself.
Not sure what it is with these two, but Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox are engaged again, after he proposed back on June 1st in Hawaii. This is a cycle with them and I’m hoping it will end with a wedding instead of another break-up! [RealityTVWorld]
Of course, in typical fashion, the 2-carat diamond ring that was exchanged in this wonderful moment, was lost in the sand and never recovered.
This week the opening movies at the box office will be Toy Story 3, Jonah Hex and Cyrus. But before delving into the new, let’s check out how last week’s opening movies have done.
Box Office Performance
Last weekend the war of the remakes took place when The Karate Kid faced off against The A-Team and surprised everyone with it’s box-office performance as it scored its 3-points in the box office battle by taking in twice that of The A-Team!
Iron Man 2 is still holding off Shrek Forever More with total sales world-wide… for now.
Title
Weekend
Gross
The Karate Kid
$56M
$56M
The A-Team
$26M
$26M
Shrek Forever After
$15.8M
$210M
Get Him to the Greek
$10.1M
$36.5M
Killers
$8.17M
$30.7M
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
$6.58M
$72.3M
Marmaduke
$6M
$22.3M
Sex and the City 2
$5.53M
$84.7M
Iron Man 2
$4.55M
$299M
Splice
$2.86M
$13.1M
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Opening Movies for June 18th:
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Toy Story 3:
Starring the voice talent of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles and others continues the story of Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college. Ug!
Written and directed by Lee Unkrich in his solo directorial debut.
