In these clips from next week's DVD release, we get a peek at trying to film in Egypt, blowing up a college campus and the enduring mythology of the Transformers in their 25th anniversary year.

Best part? Megan Fox sharing that Michael Bay is about as fun-loving as we'd expect.

"There's no, like, 'Oh, he would like for us to try (a scene) at least.' That's not it, - we weren't giving the option.
"You do it, or something bad is gonna happen to you."

Talking to the BBC, Shia LaBeouf drops some big news about the next Indiana Jones outing:

"Steven [Spielberg] just said that he cracked the story on it before I left and I think they're gearing that up."

Funny he should mention that, because we sure as heck couldn't get it out of Indiana Jones Producer Frank Marshall, when we spoke with him last. But he did share this gem: one draft of the Crystal Skull script actually called for Shia to put on Indy's infamous fedora, signalling that Indy was passing the baton to his son Mutt. But Spielberg changed this ending, so that Indy kept his own hat. Which means Indy still has at least one more adventure in him — but it also means we're not done with his son, either.

The tabloid UK paper The Sun (no doubt ears perking from the recent Rachel Weisz Catwoman rumors) is reporting that Eddie Murphy has been cast — mind you, CAST — as The Riddler in the sequel to Dark Knight according to one insider.

Also the paper says Shia LaBeouf has been cast as Robin. Forget the fact that Christian Bale has announced he would rather do Newsies 2 than share the screen with Dick Grayson, but hey — why not?

According to The Sun:

A film insider said: “Chris wasn’t sure if he wanted to do another movie but as soon as he decided to, he got the wheels in motion. "Eddie’s a fantastic addition. Everyone’s excited to see what he does as the Riddler.”

Forget, also, the fact that the script hasn't been written and that rumors have been running wild for months now. There is just no way that Murphy is cast in the movie. How do these rumors take flight? Don't forget, not long ago people were seriously debating whether Cher was going to play Catwoman. I'm still hoping to start a rumor that Liza Minelli is playing the Penguin — pass it along!

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Sources tell the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog that Alice (Isabel Lucas), the sexy girl who befriends Sam in college, is a Pretender, or a Transformer who hides inside a human-shaped shell. She could also be a hiding place for Ravage before he attacks Sam on campus.

Says one source:

In the case of Alice, the shell will be an attractive human woman while the inner robot is best described as a hybrid of the Frenzy robot design from the first movie. The Pretender Transformer will have an arm that transforms into an energy weapon, a long tongue, and a scanning tentacle.

Wow, it sounds sort of Freudian, and awesome. I guess that'll teach Sam to stray when Mikaela's out of town. The Alice = Transformer rumor is given more weight by a blurry set video that shows her walking calmly across campus while students are freaking out all around her.

The Pretenders, first introduced in 1988, were Transformers who could climb inside a "synthetic organic outer shell" that looked human. The toys were basically big ugly humans which swung open to reveal cruddy robots. Here's how the British comic introduced them to the world:

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Good news: Shia headed back to the set last week despite the injuries he received with cast member Isabel Lucas in a car accident. His injuries have delayed some of the shooting for Transformers, but perhaps this means they'll get back on track.

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The heartening news we should probably take away from this is that the director wants to turn it into a trilogy after centering the first movie on the first 12 issues of the series:

I see it as a trilogy because there is so much to put in. Where the first movie ends doesn't even relate to the last issue because it's so far down the road. It hasn't succeeded so far in the screenplay format because everyone keeps trying to throw everything in there. We're only taking this [first] story so far.

I just watched Disturbia for the first time this weekend, and I will grudgingly admit that Shia isn't bad in it. However, the ending of that movie was so sickeningly cotton-candy sweet after featuring actors swimming in sewage pools full of rotting corpses, that our main worry is that D.J. Caruso will completely miss the mark on Y. What do you think?

D.J. Caruso Says Shia's Still His 'Last Man' For 'Y' [MTV Movies Blog]

You've basically got two ways to show that something is really, really old in a movie. One is tons of dust, the other is an assload of cobwebs. Indiana Jones normally has both in spades, but they've gone above and beyond for this new movie.

Consider the evidence: in that opening scene in Raiders, he hauls ass through some massive webs before hitting the dirt in front of the Hovitos tribe. What's he covered in? Those same webs. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom he ventures down into insect-infested catacombs which include what? Giant spiders and cobwebs. In Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade has to again venture into cobwebby catacombs under Venice, and later deal with both a cobwebby Knight of the First Crusade, and his dad's cobweb-addled mind. Look for a final showdown in Indiana Jones and the Giant Spiders From Mars to finally put an end to this issue.

This reminds us of the exchange from the last movie, which we've altered a bit:

Indy: "That belongs in a musuem!"
Panama Hat Man: "So do you! With a ton of cobwebs for effect!"