Shia LaBeouf

What could be better than watching the giant talking robots in the upcoming film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wrestle with each other, talk and, um, transform? Watching them do all that on a 53 foot high IMAX screen, of course! Director Michael Bay, taking a page out of Christopher Nolan's playbook, announced that he plans on shooting select scenes for next July's sure-to-be smash hit sequel to Transformers with IMAX cameras. According to the press release, Mr. Bay will "integrate the IMAX footage with state of the art CGI to create an unprecedented look and feel" for the film. Awesome! With love unprecedented stuff! Maybe the robots will come off the screen and walk around the theater!

Perhaps by giving himself over fifty feet of movie screen, Mr.  read more »

In an 11-year-old tape anonymously leaked to Page Six, Harvey Weinstein can be heard warning director Quentin Tarantino of potential "weird late night phone calls" from Robert De Niro, who was apparently angry about the salary he received for Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown. [P6] 

Actor Shia LaBeouf will not be charged for a July drunk driving incident due to insufficient evidence. [TMZ] 

OK Magazine's Kent Brownridge may be putting a moratorium on the purchse of celebrity baby photos. Meanwhile, staffers are complaining that he seems "addled." [P6] 

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We're feeling a little ‘duh' this afternoon after reading news that a lawsuit has been brought against Stephen Spielberg, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures claiming that their film Disturbia (the surprise 2007 hit starring Shia LaBoeuf as a teen voyeur) ripped off the Hitchcock masterpiece Rear Window. The L.A. Times (via the AP) reports that "The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, says "Disturbia" copied a short story Cornell Woolrich wrote in 1942 and the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie that starred James Stewart and Grace Kelly and was based on the story."

Was it only a matter of time until this happened?  read more »

Yesterday, newspapers and websites reported that inexplicably well-known actor Shia LaBeouf had been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after an accident in Los Angeles. Today, without further explanation for why Mr. LaBeouf is famous, there are new reports that suggest that the actor may not have been drunk and the accident may have been the fault of a driver who ran a red light.

This has to be good news for the editors of Details, whose September cover features the continually inexplicably famous actor with the headline "Shia LaBeouf Just Can't Get Laid." If Mr. LaBeouf turns out to be innocent of the charges against him, he may just break the magazine's developing curse on its coverboys.  read more »

Los Angeles police determined that actor Shia LaBeouf was not at fault after all, for his early Sunday morning car crash, according to the Associated Press.

Mr. LaBeouf, who was charged with a DUI when police determined that he was intoxicated, was actually not driving recklessly: The other driver had run a red light, causing the accident

In the car with Mr. LaBeouf was actress Isabel Lucas, whose boyfriend Adrian Grenier was reportedly ticked off at the Transformers star for endangering his girlfriend.

"She was in the car....They're friends," a source told The New York Daily News. But while Ms.  read more »

Criminal charges facing Shia LaBeouf have just been dropped. The 21-year-old actor got himself into trouble last month for refusing to leave a Chicago Walgreens. After the drug store staff called the police on Nov. 4, the allegedly drunk-acting Transformers star was taken into custody briefly before being released for “very courteous and polite” behavior, according to officials at the time. Mr. LaBeouf only had to appear before the judge for a few minutes this morning, reportedly smiling as he learned that the misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge had been flushed. He next stars alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which opens next year. [AP]

Pitchfork points us to an article in the December issue of SPIN Magazine that includes an interview with overhyped youngster Shia LeBeouf. Apparently he'll be dropping the cutesty Tom Hanks' Mini Me act and star in a biopic about West Coast rapper Cage.  read more »

In the wee-hours of yesterday morning, actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested in a Chicago Walgreens after the “new Tom Hanks” was apparently acting drunk and refused to leave the store. LeBeouf fans will be pleased to learn that, after he was taken into custody by the police, the actor was “very courteous and polite.” Let’s just hope that the fresh-faced Mr. LaBeouf has no plans to follow cherubic crooner Hillary Duff’s late-night lead! After all, as our own Sara Vilkomerson reported last July, being an “over-hyped youngster” can take its toll.

Shia LaBeouf’s Transformation Into a Drunk Gets Him Arrested [A Socialite’s Life]

With a dearth of fame-worthy men, overhyped youngsters like Shia LaBeouf and Pete Wentz are taking over our culture, our thoughts, our lives. Where are you, Johnny Depp?  read more »