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Happy Birthday Brian Austin Green!

Today is Brian Austin Green’s 38th birthday! Here at megan-fox.us we all want to wish you a very Happy Birthday and hope you have an awesome day!

Save The Sharks!

Leonardo DiCaprio, along with fellow advocates Scarlett Johansson, Megan Fox, and Ke$ha, among others, have teamed up with WildAid, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Humane Society of the United States to bring attention to dwindling shark populations worldwide.

The foursome and a slew of others have written a letter to the California State Senate supporting Assembly Bill 376, which would ban the sale of shark fins in California.

“The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has concluded that a third of shark species are now threatened with extinction of some kind,” Leo, Scarlett, Megan, Kesha, and others celebrity advocates said in a letter to congress.

Leo further stated, “Despite fisheries attempts at regulation, the inhumane practice of finning continues unabated too, as does the illegal capture of sharks from marine reserves and sovereign waters.”

Others involved in the cause include Alexander Skarsgard, Rachel Bilson, Ian Somerhalder, Ben Stiller, and more.

Megan Fox to Star in ‘Dictator’

Megan Fox has been given a second chance after being fired from the Transformers franchise — she’s set to work with Sacha Baron Cohen in his movie Dictator.

Things weren’t looking too good for Megan after it was revealed that Steven Spielberg was the guy behind her firing. After all, he produces almost everything that hits the silver screen (and he’s starting to take over the small screen, as well). However, Borat director Larry Charles sees something in Megan that others don’t – a comedy star.

Dictator is described as following the “heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.” Sacha Baron Cohen will be playing the role of the oppressor, a spoof of deceased dictator Saddam Hussein (it’s easy to imagine that his take on the character will be similar to Borat — if only the lovelorn American visitor had possessed palaces and power).

Dictator could also be a romantic comedy, since it’s based on a romance novel written by Saddam Hussein himself. In his book Zabibah and the King, he tells the story of a poor but pretty peasant girl whom the powerful leader of Iraq falls in love with. However, she is married to a very cruel man. It would basically be just your average fairytale if it weren’t for the fact that it is a thinly-veiled allegory — the Iraq leader is Saddam; the peasant girl is the Iraqi people; and her rape-happy husband is the U.S. (the rape symbolizes America’s invasion of Iraq).

There’s no word on what character Megan Fox will play in the movie, but it seems very likely that she will be Sacha Baron Cohen’s violated love interest (however, actress Anna Faris is also attached to the film).

The project is definitely sounding rather intriguing, especially since it has to be more scripted than Borat and Bruno, which relied heavily on reactions of real people to Cohen’s outrageous characters. And Megan Fox’s presence in the movie is definitely interesting — after all, the movie seems similar to Charlie Chaplin’s Hitler spoof film The Great Dictator, and Fox did get fired for comparing Michael Bay to the fuehrer. Surely, there’s got to be a joke in there somewhere.

Megan Fox: “Brian Is Very Sensitive”

Megan Fox is married to a softie! The actress revealed that she and husband Brian Austin Green are heading to Hawaii to celebrate their upcoming one-year anniversary, and Fox says she’s pretty sure her other half is going to want to renew their wedding vows.

“I didn’t think that I was into it until my relationship with Brian,” Fox, 25, admitted about the romantic gesture. “He’s very sensitive and very emotional. He’s a Cancer so he’s very all about feelings and relationships and he cries about everything. He’ll want to do it so I’ll do it for him.”

We’re not sure how Green, 37, is going to feel, knowing that his wife just told the world that he’s Sappy McSapperson. But he’s probably too worried about their upcoming trip to give it too much thought. In addition to renewing their vows, the couple has plans to swim with dolphins — something Green isn’t too keen on.

“My husband is terrified of sharks but we’re going to do it anyway,” Fox told E! News. “Sharks don’t usually go where there are tons of dolphins so we can do it. I didn’t used to be (scared of sharks), but I am now because of him. His fear is so intense, it’s smothered me and now I’m afraid.”

We find it kind of endearing that Green is the sensitive one in the relationship, and that Fox needs to be strong for him. And it seems to be working just fine for them. After dating on-and-off for six years, the beautiful twosome tied the knot in a secret ceremony (one of the few guests was Green’s son with Vanessa Marcil, Kassius) at the Four Seasons Resort on Hawaii’s Big Island in 2010.

‘Passion Play’ Director Mitch Glazer On Rourke, Murray and Megan Fox With Wings

A sensual and mysterious Megan Fox – with wings. That alone should warrant multiple film viewings, but throw in some obsessed Mickey Rourke, sassy Kelly Lynch (love her!) and unsettling Bill Murray and you’ve got the new to DVD/Blu-ray flick “Passion Play” hitting shelves on May 31 from Image Entertainment. Rourke plays a washed-up jazz musician on the run from gangster Murray who happens upon angelic carnival bird woman Fox and sees a way to possibly wash his dirty slate clean. Rife with many twists and turns in a noir world where nothing is as it seems, the film is the directorial debut of “Scrooged” and “The Recruit” screenwriter Mitch Glazer. (Who is also married to the ever-timeless Lynch – lucky dog!) Starpulse got a chance to chat one-on-one with Glazer about his journey getting the film to the screen, securing his eclectic cast and the insight behind having a lead character with wings.

Megan Fox has a very ethereal quality in this film that we haven’t seen from her before – was that a conscious decision on your part during the casting and shooting?
Mitch Glazer: The woman I met was so in character – she’d read the script three or four times – that when we met for lunch it’s a version of what you see on screen. Now I don’t know how much of that is her in real life, but she came so prepared and with such a fully formed take on the character. I mean we’re putting her between Academy Award nominated actors Mickey and Bill and she just killed them and she never broke for the entire shoot.

Can you talk about Megan Fox’s wings for a moment – how did they either help or hinder in terms of making the film?
Mitch Glazer: I always wanted them to be not angelic and not demonic, they were kind of funky and real. We had some practical wings that were made with swan feathers and they were used in a few shots and then the rest were the CG ones. Truthfully it was very ambitious – there were two hundred effects shots and we had a fourteen million dollar budget. Part of the deal was the wings had to be real and it’s a struggle because without the money that you can really throw at CG when you really need it becomes specific and surgical about how you use them. But we had prop wings for Megan to use in scenes that were kind of behind her at times and I thought it was wonderful – it added another dimension to the movie.

read more at starpulse.com

‘Passion Play’ Coming To Redbox

Just a head’s up to Megan Fox fans, ‘Passion Play’ is coming to Redbox. Keep a look out June 14, 2011 for the DVD & Blu-ray at your local stores that have a Redbox machine.

Details:
Rated: R
Formats: DVD & Blu-ray
Runtime: 01:34 minutes

A terrific cast will hold you spellbound in this one of a kind seductive thriller from the screenwriter of The Recruit. The last thing washed-up jazz musician Nate Pool (Academy Award-nominee Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler) wanted to do was betray sinister gangster Happy Shannon (Academy-Award-nominee Bill Murray, Lost in Translation). But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily (Megan Fox), a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow attraction. The stakes can’t get any higher for the two lovers as they try to elude the merciless killer who will stop at nothing to keep Lily for himself. Kelly Lynch and Rhys Ifans costar in this gritty and unpredictable tale of redemption in the hard-boiled tradition of classic film noir.

Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language, some sexuality/nudity, violence and brief drug use.