Paramount's announcement of a third Transformers movie targeted for 2011 was not only news to you, but news to Michael Bay as well. The director, who's currently completing work on the second flick in the franchise, says the tentative July, 1, 2011 date was an error on the studio's part.
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The Hollywood pyrotechnics industry just got the best Christmas gift ever.
Big-screen heavyweights Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay are teaming with HBO to executive produce drama pilot Cocaine Cowboys, to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project, inspired by Billy Corben's 2006 documentary, chronicles the early days of cocaine trafficking in Miami ...
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Transformers helmer Michael Bay is reviving the Friday the 13th franchise through his low-budget Platinum Dunes production shingle (which also gave us revalidations of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hitcher). According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bay's remake, unlike the original 1980 story, will focus on Jason hockey mask (which technically he didn't adopt until Part 3) and all while keeping the setting of Crystal Lake. Plus, in a pinch Jason can shapeshift himself into a Trans Am.
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Jenna "This Is My Day" Elfman is Tim Allen's second (... and fourth) wife in the indie The Six Wives of Henry LeFay.... Also per the Reporter, Robert Redford is attached to direct Against All Enemies, an adaptation of Richard A. Clarke's memoir about the Bush admin's handling of the Al Qaeda threat pre-9/11.... Per Variety, Martin Scorsese plans to direct an authorized documentary about George Harrison, the Beatle felled by lung cancer in 2001.... A June 26, 2009, release has been earmarked for Transformers 2, with Michael Bay and Shia LaBeouf expected to return.
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Per Variety, Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl, who stars in this summer's Knocked Up, has booked another rom-com: 27 Dresses, scripted by The Devil Wears Prada's Aline Brosh Mckenna and concerning a perpetual bridesmaid whose 27th time is as her sister marries a man Heigl is madly in love with.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Bay and his Transformers scribes are developing sci-fi author Whitley Strieber's 2012: The War for Souls for the big screen.... Oscar nominee/comeback "kid" Jackie Earle Haley has booked three gigs: Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro, the drama Winged Creatures (with Kate Beckinsale and Forest Whitaker), and the indie biopic Bolden!.... Rudy Ray Moore will exec-produce and perhaps appear in a remake of the 1975 "blaxploitation" comedy Dolemite.
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