SHOCKING news: As reported by Michael Bay, a recent screening of the new Michael Bay movie which included Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay went great! Not only did the director of Crystal Skull find Michael Bay’s movie to be “awesome”, but in Michael Bay’s opinion, Spielberg might even feel that the movie is perhaps Michael [...]

Seriously? This peculiar Mickey Mouse toy, in all of its obscurely-motivated, cross-promotional, outright oddballness, makes more sense to me than anything that happened in Michael Bay’s Transformers.If 2009’s Transformers: Revenge of the Idiotic Plot Contrivances ends up having anything as cleanly-designed and simply recognizable as Mickey here, I promise to throw away all the “Michael [...]

I pretty much got nothin’ in the way of actual movie news or insight this week, folks, so instead please enjoy Burbanked’s First Annual Christmas Elf Dance-Tacular:

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(made at the ever-terrific JibJab; found via SpoutBlog)

There’s been a whole lot of breathless squabbling going on about the announcement from Universal that they’re planning to add a “Transformers” ride attraction to their theme parks in Singapore and Hollywood. And while some may view this as good news to fans of overpriced amusements worldwide, I think you deserve to know the real [...]

It wasn’t so long ago when Hollywood was collectively freaking out, on a daily basis, about the “shrinking theatrical window” and the doomsday-like predictions of “day-and-date” movie distribution. Now that 2008 has seen the revitalizing effects of a few theatrical blockbusters – specifically in Iron Man and The Dark Knight – it looks like Hollywood [...]

I had planned to write nothing on this site about next summer’s crapquel Transformers: Rise of the Bile. After all, my one-blog army that took on Michael Bay and the Geekformers in 2007 had surprisingly little impact on that movie’s box office results, so I had begun to think that the Allspark-like power of my [...]

“‘The podium, the backdrop, the sense of creative achievement that hangs about him – it’s all so vivid and detailed that you’d swear it was real.’ Added Krajcsik, ‘When you see Michael thanking his talented cast and crew and raising the Oscar above his head, it’s going to be hard to believe it never, ever [...]