Sunday, July 27

• Transformers 2 Will Be "Angrier" than the First, Says Tyrese

  

  What does preeminent action director Michael Bay have in store for his follow-up to last year's talking-robot sci-fi smash, Transformers? Tyrese Gibson, who reprises his role of Air Force Tech Sergeant Epps in the much anticipated sequel, told us today at Comic-Con that Transformers 2 (now officially known as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) is "crazier, more angry, (with) bigger explosions and more robots" than its predecessor.

  "The stakes have been brought up to a whole 'nother level," Gibson added. "The conflict between the humans and the Decepticons -- and between the Autobots and the Decepticons -- it's just more angry."

  Gibson still has a few months of shooting left on the Transformers sequel. He can next be seen alongside Jason Statham in the futuristic smash-up Death Race, which opens nationwide on August 22, 2008.

  
  

  Posted 07/27/2008 by Thomas

  Tyrese Gibson | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Transformers

Monday, July 30

• Blonde ambition: Scarlett, Paris and Allen

  Hollywood.com is reporting that Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point) has been tapped to star in a film adaptation of porn star Jenna Jameson's biography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. Word ist that Jameson personally picked the buxom 22-year-old to play her.

  However, People is stating that Johansson's rep is denying that she has been cast, or that she has even seen a script. Says the rep: "She has no interest in playing the role."

  And speaking of famous blondes, Paris Hilton has signed on to join Paul Sorvino (Nixon, Bulworth) and Alexa Vega (Spy Kids, The Deep End of the Ocean) in the cast Repo! The Genetic Opera reports Variety. 

  Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw), Repo! is a thriller/musical set in 2056 when the only humans who can survive a plague are those that can afford organ transplants. Hilton, who will sing in the piece, plays the daughter of an organ transplant magnate. Sounds interesting...

  And finally, MTV reports that Tyrese Gibson (Transformers) and the unlikely Joan Allen (The Contender, Pleasantville) will be joining Jason Statham (Crank, The Italian Job) in Death Race 3000, Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the 1975 David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone cult classic.

  Gibson and Statham will play two tough guys (in a cross country race where you score points by running over pedestrians) who have to go up against Allen. Said Anderson of his female lead: "She kicks the most ass out of everybody."

  
  

  Posted 07/30/2007 by Heather

  Jason Statham | Scarlett Johansson | Tyrese Gibson | Paul W.S. Anderson | Jenna Jameson | Paris Hilton | Paul Sorvino | Alexa Vega | Darren Lynn Bousman | Joan Allen | Repo! The Genetic Opera | Untitled Jenna Jameson project | Death Race 3000