Today's Film News: No No No!

By Katey Rich

Before we get into today's first, most hilarious piece of film news, I will direct you to this video, taken from many, many scenes from last summer's Transformers.

OK. That's pretty much what I said when I read today's Hollywood Reporter piece that Michael Bay will be producing a movie based on... Ouija. You know, the game where you become convinced a piece of cardboard has become psychic and is predicting your future, when it's actually your friend forcing the piece to spell out your crush's name? Ouija is produced by Hasbro, also the makers of the Transformers toys, of course. The toy company has a six-year deal with Universal to develop projects based on its products, and somehow, instead of movies based on Hasbro games like Monopoly, Risk or even Mouse Trap, we are getting a Ouija movie.

The Terminator series is all about people traveling from other times, so it makes sense that they would add a blast from the past to the cast of the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Shirley Manson, the frontwoman for the mid-90s grunge band Garbage, will play the CEO of a high-tech company, according to The Hollywood Reporter. So the future is actually a lot like 1996?

Fans of TV's "The Office" know that Dwight Schrute probably believes in Transformers, and belives he could beat them in a fight, given half a chance. So it's pretty thrilling to hear that Rainn Wilson himself will have a small role in the upcoming Transformers 2, according to the Reporter. He'll play the professor of Shia LaBeouf's character, apparently a freshman in college now. Hopefully he'll bring along Dwight's ninja gear and prepare to kick some serious ass.

And finally, Brett Ratner really won't stop ruining everything. Having driven two franchises into the ground, he's moving on to a third, planning a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie, with Eddie Murphy slated to reprise his role as Axel Foley. Variety reports that Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the first film back in 1984, won't even be involved this time. When you find yourself missing the artistic input of Jerry Bruckheimer, you know times are hard.