Celebrity Nooz - June 30, 2014

Here's the Scoop...

You blew it again, America! Michael Bay's 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' earned $100 million domestically and now more Transformers movies will be out in the summers to come. That's just great!

Think about that while you enjoy the rest of today's Celebrity Nooz!

Cheers!
Sarah

*-- 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' opens to $100M domestic, $201.3M overseas --*
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Transformers: Age of Extinction dominated the box office over the weekend. The fourth installment in the Transformers series earned $100 million domestic and $201.3 million overseas. It is the first movie to pass the $100 million mark this year in North America; the last film to do so was Hunger Games: Catching Fire in November. Comparatively, Captain America: The Winter Soldier earned $96.2 million on its opening weekend in April, and X-Men: Days of Future Past raked in $90.7 million in May. Michael Bay returned to direct Age of Extinction, which features an all-new cast. The movie is set four years after Dark of the Moon and stars Mark Wahlberg as struggling inventor Cade Yeager, Nicola Peltz as his daughter Tessa, Stanley Tucci as Kinetic Sciences Institute head Joshua Joyce and Kelsey Grammer as paranoid CIA agent Harold Attinger. The film is also the first to include Dinobots, which are dinosaur robots. "Mark is incredibly likable," Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said in a statement. "Together, Michael and Mark have refreshed the franchise. You definitely see the great chemistry between them." Bay's next project to debut is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which he produced. The movie is out August 8, and stars Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Megan Fox as reporter April O'Neill.


*-- 'Designing Women' star Meshach Taylor dies at 67 --*
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Meshach Taylor, the U.S. actor known for his role as Anthony Bouvier in Designing Women, died Saturday, his agent said. He was 67. Taylor died from a terminal illness at his home near Los Angeles, Dede Binder told CNN. "It is with love and gratitude that we sorrowfully announce that our darling, amazingly brilliant and dynamic, Meshach, the incredible father, husband, son and friend has begun his grand transition," the family said in a statement. Since Designing Women ended he has appeared in numerous television series, including In the Heat of the Night, Hannah Montana and All of Us, and most recently had a role in two episodes of Criminal Minds. He was survived by his wife, children, grandchildren and mother.

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LOOSE LIPS:
"If Michael were here today, he would tell us all to celebrate his life and not to mourn his death."
--La Toya Jackson, speaking out on the fifth anniversary of brother Michael Jackson's death

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*-- Kristen Stewart may only have cameo in 'Snow White 2' --*
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Did Kristen Stewart's affair with director Rupert Sanders lose her a spot in the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman sequel? Sources close to the project told TheWrap the Twilight actress isn't likely to be in the film, which Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont is in talks to direct. Snow White and the Huntsman 2 is expected to focus on the huntsman, played by Chris Hemsworth, and if Stewart does appear in the film, it would only a small role, the source said. Charlize Theron is also on tap to return to her role as the evil queen. Controversy surrounded the original film in 2012 after Sanders and Stewart were photographed getting a little more cozy than one would expect for an actress and her director, especially considering they each had significant others at the time. Stewart and her beau, Robert Pattinson, have been on-again-off-again since the affair, and Sanders and his wife, Libert Ross, finalized their divorce in May.


*-- Robert De Niro crashes World Cup party at stranger's house in Brooklyn --*
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (UPI) - Robert De Niro reportedly pulled a Bill Murray and crashed a stranger's World Cup viewing session in Brooklyn last week. The 70-year-old actor was filming The Intern in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, but didn't want to miss USA-Germany World Cup game. A local resident told Business Insider that a member of De Niro's crew contacted him in an email, at first asking for access to his rooftop. "Our lead actor, Robert De Niro, would very much like to watch the World Cup game, today at 12p," read the message. "Would it be possible to place a small portable satellite on the building rooftop ASAP and run a cable to the street to help facilitate this request?" But De Niro managed to find a stranger who invited him to watch the game at his house. "We got another email from a neighbor saying he talked to the crew and apparently he found a house of people watching it and joined them." De Niro said back in January that he's "not into" soccer, but he must have come round for the World Cup. "He wasn't going to miss the game!" a source told Us Weekly. "He's a true American. He has no problem hanging, he enjoyed it."

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