More rumor: Lingerie Model Replacing Megan Fox in Transformers 3
5/23/2010 11:35:00 AM
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A Victoria's Secret model is the rumored replacement for Megan Fox in the next Transformers movie.On the last episode of Unattainable Women Tales we saw Megan Fox quit the role she played in the first two Transfomers movies, with members of the film crew calling her "dumb." If an insider source for Geek Week can be believed, her replacement will be a Victoria's Secret lingerie model with relatively little acting experience.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is the named model that may be taking the limelight from Fox as the chick that gets to make-out with Shia LaBeouf and act scared of giant robots in Transformers 3. Her list of previous acting roles is somewhat short aside from playing herself in a couple of reality shows, according to IMDB anyway.
Even Megan Fox had a decent resume before director Michael Bay cast her in the first Transformers movie, so remaining skeptical is as optimal as Optimus until official confirmation comes through the wire. Collider's take is that Whiteley's casting makes perfect sense, as Bay loves to cast relative unknowns and catapult them to stardom.
Google I/O conference, giving all 4,000 plus attendees the Evo 4G, the new HTC Android phone being sold via Sprint. The phone is set to be released to the public on June 4, but attendees have gotten a sneak peak of the impressive device. Of course, many of these lucky recipients have already been quick to start peddling the phone on Craigslist and eBay, for as much as $1200.
Don't mind us taking a few grains of salt on this one, but according Digitimes, HP Taiwan Vice President Monty Wong has confirmed a webOS-powered tablet is due out in the market before the fiscal year ending in October. This jibes with what we heard earlier this month, including the common sense caveat that more details will be forthcoming only after the Palm acquisition is completed near the end of July. Now, we won't be surprised one iota if this comes to fruition -- HP itself has gone on record numerous times as wanting to throw the onetime mobile-exclusive OS on everything from tablets (yay) to printers (huh). Still, everything we know about it so far comes via words and whispers to third-party sources, or the voice in our head dreaming up ideal product lines -- neither of which, unfortunately, we can put our complete trust in.
Is it ogre for the Shrek franchise? According to Friday’s numbers, things are not looking nearly as rosy as prognosticators originally thought. While a $20 million Friday is nothing to sneeze at, it’s not even close to the number needed for the animated flick to reach $100 million, as most believed it would. More likely, the fourth installment in this $1 billion franchise will gross $70 million for the weekend, far short of the $122 million that Shrek the Third grossed its opening weekend, and that film didn’t boast the higher 3-D ticket prices. According to the tracking numbers Shrek Forever After was looking like an $80 million opening, but industry insiders were much more bullish on the film crossing the $100 million mark, in similar fashion to its two predecessors. Perhaps the PG-rated movie will surprise today and tomorrow but it’s now close to impossible that the fourth installment of this animated juggernaut will reach the heights originally predicted.