Why is all the press surrounding the new Transformers movie about Megan Fox, who isn’t even in the movie? Is this the studio’s plan?
—Junebug, Atlanta, via the inbox

It’s a delicious conspiracy theory, isn’t it? We imagine a smoky back room, filled with studio execs. They take a look at the final cut of Dark of the Moon, wail and moan as their eyes bleed out of their sockets, and then decide to market the whole mess by trashing franchise refugee Megan Fox.

So is this what happened? I asked around:

Likely, not.

Yes, by many accounts, this is not a good movie, even by blockbuster-sequel standards. It bows this week—but it’s gotten a stinky 39 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. CNN is calling it “lousy,” Rolling Stone warns that viewers run the risk of “dying a little inside,” and my buddy Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons went so far as to say that watching the film was like “being urinated upon.” The biggest complaint: that despite all the exploding robots, the story is just empty. There is no there, there.

Still, it’s unlikely that the studio behind the film orchestrated its marketing campaign around trashing Megan Fox. Publicists are evil, but they’re not, I am told, that evil.

“I think that it’s a little too much of a conspiracy theory,” posits Rachel Hill, a former personal publicist and the current director of marketing at American World Pictures, which is about to shoot a new Danny Glover film.

“I doubt that anything like that would be formally approved by any studio,” Scott Donaton of the marketing group Ensemble agrees.

That said, don’t be shocked if the movie’s principle star, Shia LaBeouf, did think through his Fox-trashing in advance, Hill says.

“Did Shia have to answer those questions about him and Megan Fox?” Hill notes. “Was it necessary? Maybe he did it to raise his profile a bit.

“I’ve had clients in the past who, when scandals have come out, we didn’t deny things. In fact we kept the scandal going because it kept our clients in the public eye.”

Now that’s a fun conspiracy theory.

Josh speaks out about Megan and how everyone misses her on the set.

Uh, who could blame them?

Shia LaBeouf admits that he hooked up with Megan Fox while making the Transformers films — and he’s not sure whether or not his sexy costar was attached at the time to then-boyfriend Brian Austin Green, now her husband.

Nodding in the affirmative about a hookup with Fox, LaBeouf explains in a new Details mag interview, “Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them.”

Without giving specific dates or details, the 25-year-old actor (now dating Hollywood stylist Karolyn Pho) continues of the fling: “I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen.”

When Details asks him about Fox’s status at the time with Green, he sputters. “I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know,” he says, repeating “I don’t know” eight more times. “It was what it was.”

Fox, 25, wed on-and-off beau Green one year ago in Hawaii. She was famously replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, out next month. (Director Michael Bay and LaBeouf recently confirmed that Fox’s controversial comments about Bay, comparing him to Hitler, got her dropped from the franchise — at the direct order of executive producer Steven Spielberg.)

LaBeouf also opens up about other failed romantic entanglements. His one date with Hilary Duff was “probably the worst date either of us have ever had.”

He also fesses up to “philandering around” with former co-star Isabel Lucas. “It was sort of disastrous…Neither one of us, I think, were in love. Just sort of experimenting or whatever.”

On his ex-girlfriend Carey Mulligan, with whom he parted ways in October 2010: “I still love her…I think she’s a fu**ing awesome person and an incredible actress. We’re still pals. I wouldn’t take any of it back, and I don’t think she would either. It just ran its course.”

Back on October 17, 2009- Megan Fox attended the Scream Awards where she won the award for Best Sci-Fi Actress for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I’ve added 15 high quality

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Back in July, Megan appeared on Jimmy Kimmel to promote Transformers 2. Enjoy the captures.

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Come on by and check out the Video Vault and watch video clips of Megan in various movies and tv shows!

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Who knows if any of this is true, but it’s sure fun to think it might be.

This week, there have been reports on the internet that Transformers director Michael Bay is so ticked off at Megan Fox’s repeated swipes at him in the press that he’s planning on killing off her character in the first 15 minutes of the next Transformers movie. Petty? Sure. Vindictive? Absolutely. Delicious payback? And how.

Since Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hit theaters back in June, Fox — an actress who no one had ever heard of before Bay cast her in the first Autobots/Decepticons smackdown– has called her boss “a d—” and compared him to Hitler. And when I interviewed her this past summer, she called him a sadist and said that working with Bay “is not about an acting experience.” Nice.

I get it. Being a loose cannon is part of her bad-girl, tattooed, Jessica Rabbit appeal. But there is such a thing as being ungrateful, right? So if Bay really does plan on having her onscreen alterego — Mikaela Banes — impaled by a shape-shifting Camaro or Mack truck that turns into a can opener or whatever, can you really blame the guy?

Would you still go to see a third Transformers movie where Fox gets killed off? Heck, would that make you more likely to see it?

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I heard a story recently that Michael Bay admitted that after making Transformers, he made “more money than you can fucking imagine.” And now it seems that Bay has decided to contribute a little bit of that to Transformers 2, operating under the assumption that bigger is always better. Well, that’s always been Bay’s mantra, it seems, but this time it applies to the budget as well.

Megan Fox, a returning star of Transformers 2 told IGN recently that the sequel is “gigantic,” probably because “It’s twice the budget.” I had been under the impression that the first Transformers cost about a bascrillion dollars, so I’m not sure which Swiss bank account Paramount robbed to make this second one.

Fox also dished a little on her part in Jennifer’s Body, Diablo Cody’s follow-up to Juno that’s about a cheerleader who becomes a vampire– and also, apparently, makes out with her best friend. Fox fessed up that she has…

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According to a tipster at MB, Shia’s character, Sam, possibly falls under the influence of a splinter he retained from the AllSpark that was destroyed in the original flick. The side-effects apparently hit him while he’s in a college astronomy class taught by Raiin Wilson’s professor.

“On the first day of class, Sam goes crazy just before getting to class for some reason. It seems there is some object that he was exposed to that affected him, our guess is the splinter from the cube. …[In class] Sam read [an entire text book] in five seconds by just flipping through it, then starts telling Wilson’s character about what parts of his book are wrong. He also starts talking about how Einstein was wrong. Sam gets up from his seat and goes up to the chalk board and starts writing a lot of weird symbols on the chalk board (probably Cryptonian).”

It’s said that the next time Sam goes to class, he’s still a little weird. He tells Megan Fox’s character, who’s apparently in possession of the splinter (or whatever it is), not to touch it for fear that it will do the same thing to her. If true, kind of kooky, kind of cool, eh? Somebody should make a YouTube montage of characters in movies who read entire books in just seconds.

Movie Chronicles got ahold of the following image below showing Shia and Fox sharing a “little spark” of their own.