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worked with on the horror Thriller till death principal photography began on January at the new buana film studios in Sophia Bulgaria in January it was announced that meline zema and Andrew Whip have joined the cast the same month the film received a UR million cash rebate from the Bulgarian national Film Center amounting to percent of its total budget a closer look at Megan Fox's new scii movies trailer makes it hard not to believe that it is an R-rated version of an acclaimed horror movie with an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score of percent although Megan Fox got her breakout with the first liveaction Transformers movie in she has been active as an actor since after she made her debut with the family film Holiday in the Sun after gaining immense attention through her Transformers role she also appeared in the cult classic horror comedy Jennifer's Body which highlighted her potential as a scream Queen although she has been involved with several low-budget horror movies since then none of her recent films have matched the impact of her earlier roles however her upcoming part in a science fiction horror movie could change that because it seems similar to another critically a clear claimed and commercially successful horror flick as its trailer suggests it also dabbles with adult themes which might further add to its appeal related Megan Fox's best worse movies according to Rotten Tomatoes there's no doubt that Megan Fox has had many ups and downs throughout her career here's how Rotten Tomatoes ranks her best and worst roles subservience seems like the R-rated version of Mangan the Megan Fox movie's take on AI horror seems familiar in more ways than one Megan Fox's upcoming sci-fi horror movie subservience comes off as a rehashed version of Mangan with the only difference being that has more adult themes in both mangun and subservient characters either take home or develop AI robots to be able to look after their families what begins as a pursuit to make their lives easier soon takes a disastrous turn when the robots exhibit dangerous behaviors and threaten the families they are with despite seemingly sharing many narrative similarities with Mangan and walking through a similar portrayal of technophobia subservient seems to be targeted toward a more mature audience while Mangan has a PG rating subserviant is R-rated as subservient trailer reveals the film will unfold more as an erotic Thriller where the central Android will become self-aware and grow increasingly obsessed with its human owner before trying to seduce him even when it comes to violence subservient seemingly promises to push boundaries further than Mangin it seems like every few years a new AI horror movie sees the light of day as seen in movies like Alex Garland X mackina many intriguing narrative Avenues can be explored with artificial intelligence as a plot device however AI horror flicks like uncanny replica wfel likee simulant and now subserviant usually seem like copies of one another recycling the same plot points and themes over and over again while it is interesting that horror films reflect Humanity's growing concerns surrounding unchecked technological development it is hard not to Crave films that offer something new subservient seemingly had the potential to rise above the conventional tropes of the horror subon however as its trailer reveals it will likely not offer any new insights into the complexities of human AI interactions undoubtedly though the Megan Fox film seems entertaining enough to attract audiences and perform well at the global box office Megan Denise Fox born May is an American actress she made her acting debut in the family film Holiday in the Sun which was followed by numerous supporting roles in film and television such as the teen musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen as well as a starring role in the ab seeum hope faith her breakout role was as mikaa Baines in the Blockbuster action film Transformers which she reprised in it sequel Transformers Revenge of the Fallen FOX also portrayed the titular character in the horror comedy Jennifer's Body starred as April O'Neal in the superh Hero action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows and appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the fox sitcom new girl described as a sex symbol fox has made appearances in numerous magazines such as Maxim Rolling Stone and fun she has received two scream Awards and 14 Choice Awards early life Megan Denise Fox was born on May in Oak Ridge Tennessee to parents Gloria Darlene n sisen and Franklin Thomas Fox she spent her early childhood in nearby Rockwood Fox's father a parole officer and her mother divorced when Fox was 3 years old her mother later remarried and fox and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather Tony tanio she was raised very strictly Pentecostal but later attended Catholic school for years she said that her parents were very strict and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house Fox described her step father as being verbally mentally and emotionally abusive until his death she revealed in an interview that she developed an eating disorder in her adolescence and struggled with manic depression the latter of which ran in my family so there was definitely some wrestling with chemical imbalance going on Fox lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself Fox began her training in dance and drama at age 5 in Kingston Tennessee she attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clipper swim play at age after moving to St Petersburg Florida Fox continued her training when she was years old Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the American modeling and talent convention in Hilton Head South Carolina Fox attended high school at Morningside Academy in Port Saint Lucy until her junior year when she attended Saint Lucy West Centennial High School when she was she tested out of school via correspondence in order to move to Los Angeles California Fox spoke freely about her time in school stating that in middle school she was bullied and had to eat lunch in the bathroom to avoid being pelted with ketchup packets she said that the problem was not her looks but that she had always gotten along better with boys and that rubbed some people the wrong way FOX also said that she was never popular in high school and that everyone hated me and I was a total Outcast my friends were always guys I have a very aggressive personality and girls didn't like me for that I've had only one great girlfriend my whole life in the same interview she mentions that she hated school and has never been a big believer in formal education and that the education I was getting seemed irrelevant so I was sort of checked out on that part of it as careers early roles and breakthrough in Fox made her acting debut in the romantic comedy Holiday in the Sun as spoiled AIS Brian Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart Ashley Olsen which was released direct to DVD on November in the next several years she guest starred on the sitcoms what I like about you and Two and a Half Men fox also appeared as an uncredited extra in the action film bad boys I I in Fox made her feature film debuted opposite Lindsay Lohan in the musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen playing the supporting role of Carla Santini arrival of Lola Lan she was also cast in a regular role on the ABC scum hope faith in which she portrayed Sydney chanowski replacing Nicole pagi Fox appeared in the second and third Seasons until the series was cancelled by ABC in May in Fox won the lead female role of M K Baines in the liveaction film Transformers based on the toy and cartoon Saga of the same name Fox played the love interest of Shia lau's character Sam Wick Wicky Fox was nominated for an M TV movie award in the category of breakthrough performance and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards she had signed on for two more Transformer sequels reprising her role as Mika in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen there was controversy surrounding Fox's appearance while filming the sequel when Michael B the film's director ordered the actress to gain £10 the film was released worldwide on June to box office success Fox was to star in the third installment Transformers Dark of the Moon but was not included because of her statements comparing working under director Bay to working for Hitler she confessed on GQ magazine that she had lost approximately pounds during filming due to consuming a primary diet of water and vinegar citation needed and reportedly had a dispute over her visible loss of weight with the director on set B stated in June that Fox was fired on orders of executive producer Steven Spielberg acclaimed Spielberg denied Fox at the Toronto International Film Festival screening of Jennifer's Body on September in Fox had her first lead role since the Transformer series she portrayed the title character in Jennifer's Body written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody the film initially earned mix to aage reviews upon its release with Fox's performance earning praise however the film grew a cult following over time and was critically reassessed as a forgotten feminist classic according to Cody the film was marketed incorrectly by Executives who focused their efforts on the young male audience in April she began filming the Western superhero film Jonah Hex in which she portrayed Tula black Lila a gun wielding Beauty and Jonah hex's Josh brol and love interest the film was released on June despite receiving top billing Fox described her role in the film as being a cameo Jonah Hex was a critical and Commercial failure in the u s with its International distribution canceled after its poor performance the film was named the worst picture of the Year by the Houston film critic Society s rise to prominence Fox starred alongside Mickey Rock in the drama Passion Play after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival its conventional theatrical distribution was bypassed for a director video release with only two screens briefly showing the film to fulfill contractual obligations Ro remarked that the film was terrible another terrible movie Fox appeared with Dominic monagan in the music video for emenim and ranna's single love the way you lie in FX appeared briefly in Saka Baron Cohen's comedy film The Dictator and had a featured role in Jud ap's comedy film this is she voiced the role of Lois Lane in the animated comedy film Robot Chicken DC Comic special an episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken that aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on September Fox at a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle screening in Sydney on September in January Fox was featured in a Brazilian television commercial for Brahma beer in February Fox set aside her differences with her former director Michael Bay and worked again with him on his reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles starring as the lead human character of April O'Neal in Fox was cast in the role of Amelia delanis in the plarium video game stormfall rise of ballor in October it was confirmed that fox would be temporarily replacing zuie Des Shanel in the television sitcom new girl following Des Chanel's materity leave she starred as Regan Lucas appearing in the fifth and sixth seasons of the series her performance earned positive reviews from critics in Fox reprised her role of April O'Neal in the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows on September it was confirmed that fox would star in the Korean War film The Battle of Jang Zari beside Korean actor Kim mayong Min she played a lead role as margarite haggens an American news reporter in Fox starred in the mystery fantasy film above the Shadows opposite Olivia Thurby and Alan richson directed by Claudia Myers it was released on July by gravit Ventures that same year Fox appeared in zeroville directed by James Franco which was previously shot in the film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office s current work in Fox starred opposite Josh D Hamill in the family comedy film think like a dog which was released on video on demand on June also that year she starred in the lead role of the action film Rogue which was released on August and she starred in The Thrillers midnight in the switchgrass opposite Emil hush and Bruce Willis directed by Randall EMT and death directed by s k Dale in Fox starred in the drama comedy big gold brick alongside Oscar Isaac Andy Garcia Lucy hail and Emory Cohen directed by Brian psos Fox also played a role in the film Taurus a musical drama alongside Machine Gun Kelly Naomi wild and Lil Chay in Fox was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Fox played a Crime Boss Alana in the Thriller film Johnny Clyde with Tyson Ritter Fox played Gina in the fourth Expendables film exp penales released in September of the same year in November Fox released her first book titled pretty boys are poisonous a collection of her own poetry Public Image status and Persona Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times called Fox a sex symbol of the highest order and said she was the first Bonafide sex symbol of the saint Century Craig flaster of MTV stated Transformers broke Fox into the mainstream immediately turning her into a household name an international sex symbol she has been featured on various magazine covers and hottest and most beautiful woman lists throughout the years such as Maxim's hot lists and when F readers voted her the sexiest woman in the world in people named her one of sand ass most beautiful at every age scholar Mark depalo stated that fox achieved instant Fame as Mikaela in Transformers because a highly sexualized erotically idealized figure draped over a car or motorcycle invariably evokes lust in the heterosexual male onlooker and fox did this by leaning over a Camaro while wearing a flimsy pink belly shirt and short skirt which read as an unequivocal sex invite to male viewers the editors of men's health also credited the Camaro scene with contributing to Fox's Fame Fox with two of her tattoos visible Fox at Spike TV scream Awards on October Fox at the the annual Hollywood Life Magazine breakthrough Awards on December fox said all women in Hollywood are known and marketed as sex symbols but that this is okay if the woman knows how to utilize the status she created a character for her Public Image because she was unwilling to sacrifice her true self to the World Scholars wheeler Winston Dixon and gwendel and Audrey Foster disagreed that every woman in Hollywood is marketed as a sex symbol and stated that Fox's celebrity is based on what she admits is an entirely artificial construct designed for dissemination in the internet age a saint Century Media personality in every sense of the word part of her Persona included making outlandish comments which she said helped her reach her level of fame versus being a typical starlord who said all the right things her tattoos which she began getting at age as a form of self-expression helped popularize tattoo fashion she had over nine known tattoos including a picture of Marin Monroe's face on her right forearm and a quote on her shoulder author John terranean argued that Fox's Monroe tattoo enhanced her implicit claims to monro's Legacy as Hollywood's leading sex symbol Fox ended up removing the Monroe tattoo in a series of laser soft because she felt that Monroe's life was full of negativity and she did not want to emulate it the media often compared Fox to actress Angelina Jolie dubbing her the next Angelina Jolie which also affected her image amid this and reports that she was to replace Jolie in a new larac Croft film Fox commented that the comparisons indicate a lack of creativity on the part of the media and attributed them to both she and Jolie being brunette having to tattoos cursing and mentioning and joking about sex which people find outrageous Lynn hburg of the New York Times opined that the Jolie comparison would probably have been made by the media eventually but Fox sped up the process by linking herself to Jolie and that she enjoyed creating entertaining copy by telling Tales of darkness and lust ah in Fox's Public Image came under scrutiny when an unsigned letter from three crew members of Transformers defended director Michael Bay against accusations made by Fox about his onset Behavior including a comparison with Adolf Hitler in response to the letter alleging that Fox's onset behavior is unpleasant in contrast her public Persona ba stated he does not condemn the letter of Fox's outlandish quotes but her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm and that they still work well together a production assistant who worked on trans has also stated that he never saw Fox act inappropriately on set fox said the Letter's claims were false and that she had privately spoken with the parties involved she said she was very fortunate to be a part of the franchise and was looking forward to continuing her work D Paro concluded that Fox's criticism of the media sexually objectifying girls and women was in stark contrast to her sex symbol status and that her Defiance of director Michael Bay and frequent outspoken comments stifled her career media exposure Fox at the premere of Transformers Revenge of the the fallen in Paris on June the increased media exposure was difficult for Fox who acknowledged being shy and insecure to adjust to it also positioned her as a potential role model and later led to her being typer cast she rejected being a formal role model but said that she could make young girls feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right and that she was a different role model for girls that maybe America was not comfortable with she considered being tycast as attractive an opportunity to surprise people when she gives a good performance in a film but said she is interested in portraying less sexualized characters MTV's Craig flaster said that although fox has been typ asked as the big budget sex symbol she has shown comedic range Fox's overexposure in the media LED several men's websites such as askmen to boycott her on August although some refused to do so feeling that the boycott was a publicity stunt and therefore hypocritical in response to the media attension Fox told magazine nylon in September of that year that the studio wanted to make sure the film would make million dollar so they oversaturated the media with their stars and that she did not want to have people get completely sick of her before she's ever even done something legitimate she became much less prominent in the media by after starring in the less commercially successful films Jonah Hex and passion play that same year fox said my biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character I don't regret what has happened to me but I regret the way I have dealt with it Dixon and Foster stated the problem fox faces is that the image construct has replaced the real in the minds of the public and once established a media Persona is hard to recalibrate ah personal life in Fox was targeted by a group of fashion motivated criminals known as The Bling Ring who robbed her then boyfriend Brian Austin Green's home for access to Fox's possessions fox has a form of braida called braida type D and has discussed her obsessive compulsive disorder OCD insecurities self Haring and has acknowledged that she has low self-esteem in she said that her Christian faith is still very important to her and she believes it keeps her grounded Fox and then husband green were supporters of generosity water and funded the creation of over 10 water wells for the organization with regard to relationships and her sexuality fox said that she has a general distrust and dislike of men and that the perception of her as a wild and crazy sex bot is false because she is a social Fox stated that she would rather stay at home instead of going out and emphasized that she cannot have sex with someone she does not love she is bisexual and said she believes that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes she stated in I have no question in my mind about being bisexual but I'm also a hypocrite I would never date a girl who was bisexual because that means they also sleep with men and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man uh Fox told in style and Jah girl would come up to me and be like you had a lot to do with me like identifying and understanding that I was gay or understanding that I was bisexual and that of course is by far like the most moving rewarding thing that I have experienced in my life to be a part of something that helped people figure that out or helped people deal with that or feel better about that one of my favorite things that I get called is being like a buy icon and that is one of the things I am the most proud of and she has several tattoos which includes the Chinese symbol for strength that is drawn on the back of her neck a quote from the William Shakespeare play King Lea that reads we will all laugh at gilded butterflies the yin and yang symbol on her left bishes and a crescent moon entwined with a star on her ankle FOX also has a po tattooed near her breast that reads there once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart and another tattoo on her back that quotes fredri nicher and those who were seen dancing were thought to be inan who could not hard be in music she claims that she had it drawn in honor of her Passion Play CoStar Mickey Rog but later clarified that it's not necessarily A homage to him she also once had her ex-husband Brian Austin Green's first name tattooed on her hip but later had it covered she removed the portrait of Marilyn Monroe that was tattooed on her right forearm stating it is a negative character as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life she also has a tattoo on her left collarbone that reads the gunman in Spanish as well as numerous flowers and one snake on her abdomen fox has numerous smaller tattoos splayed across her fingers some of which include dots numbers and a crescent moon Fox revealed in her book pretty boys are poisonous that she has suffered a miscarriage from her pregnancy with what would have been her fourth child relationships Fox and Brian Austin Green at the the Golden Globes on January Machine Gun Kelly and Fox at the NBA Celebrity allar Game on February Fox began dating actor Brian Austin Green in after meeting on the set of hope faith she was years old while he was according to Fox green was initially hesitant to enter a relationship with her due to the age difference stating I had to convince him that I was slightly more responsible and well spoken and had other things to bring to the table besides being they became engaged in November in February they ended their engagement but were reported to have gotten engaged again on June Fox maintained that she and green had been continuously engaged since Fox and Green married on June in a private ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui together they have three sons born in and fox was also a stepmother to Green's son from a previous relationship Fox filed for divorce on August a few days after she and green announced their separation by early they were back together and expecting their third child on April Fox filed to dismiss her second attemp for a divorce in Los Angeles California in May green announced that he and fox had separated after nearly years of marriage and in November Fox filed for divorce from Green for a second time the divorce was finalized on October also in June she and singer Machine Gun Kelly went public about their relationship several weeks after the release of Machine Gun Kelly zachi Jima Bloody Valentine whose music video features Fox on January Fox announced that the two were engaged however on March Fox announced their engagement M was called off Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a American superhero film based on the characters of the same name created by Peter lad and Kevin Eastman directed by Jonathan liebesman and written by Josh appom Andre nech and Evan dogy it is a reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series the film stars Megan Fox will Arnette William fitner Danny Woodburn Abby Elliot nol Fisher Jeremy Howard Pete plk and Alan richson with the voices of Johnny Knoxville and Tony shalal the plot follows the turtles who with the help of their new ally April O'Neal face the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan as well as protect their New York City Home the film was announced shortly before Turtles co-creator Peter Le sold the rights to the characters to Nickelodeon in October in late May Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies brought Michael by and his Platinum Dunes Partners Andrew form and Brad Fuller on to produce the film leasman began negotiations to direct in the screenplay went through numerous rewrites with apple bomb n and doy ultimately getting final credit principal photography began in March in Tupper Lake New York and production concluded in August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered on July in Mexico City and was released in theaters on August the film received generally negative reviews from critics for its screenplay and characterizations while its performances action sequences and visual effects were praised despite this it became a box office success grossing million dollars against a million dollars against budget becoming the highest grossing film in the franchise as well as the highest grossing film from Nickelodeon Movies a sequel Out of the Shadows followed into slightly better reviews but failed to match the first film's box office gross ploted it April O'Neal a local reporter for Channel Eyewitness News in New York City investigates a crime wave by a group of criminals called The Foot Clan at a dock at night she sees the foot raiding cargo containers after an unseen vigilante attacks the thieves April notices a symbol Left Behind April's supervisor bernardet Thompson and her co-workers are oblivious to her story later while covering a charity event thrown by sax Industries April expresses gratitude to the company's CEO Eric saxs who was her late father's partner frustrated by the Vigilante the foot Clan's leader shredder has the foot soldiers take hostages at a subway station in order to draw him out April at the scene becomes a hostage herself four mysterious figures arrive take out the clan and free the hostages April follows them to a rooftop and is shocked to see that the Vigilantes are anthropomorph Mutant Turtles causing her to pass out when she regains Consciousness they advise her not to tell anyone of them as they leave April hears Rafa Hall and Leonardo's names April returns to her apartment and remembers project Renaissance her father's science experiment which involved four Turtles named Leonardo Donatello Michelangelo Rafael and a mutated rat called Splinter unable to convince bernardet of the turtles existence April is dismissed her cooworker ver Fenwick drives her to sax estate where she confides in him about her her Discovery sax believes her and reveals that he and April's father had been experimenting on a mutagen created to cure disease which was thought lost in the fire that killed her dad at Splinter's behest the turtles bring April to their Sewer Lair Splinter explains how April had saved them all from the fire and freed them into the sewer the mutagen caused the five of them to grow and develop humanoid attributes Splinter took on the role of their father using April's father as an example after finding a book on Ninjutsu in a storm drain he proceeded to teach himself then the turtles the fighting style when April reveals she told sax about her discovery of the Turtles Splinter informs her that sax was practically raised by the shredder and works with him then Shredder and the foot soldiers attack the lair defeating Splinter and incapacitating Rafal while the other Turtles are captured April comes out of hiding and she and rafle plan to save the others at sax estate he has the turtles blood drained in order to create an antidote to a deadly virus that sax hopes to flood New York with believing he will become rich from people seeking his cure rapal April and Vern storm the estate and free the other Turtles the group then escapes the compound in pursuit of Sachs on a radio tower in the city sax and Shredder plant a device that will flood the city with the virus while sax is preparing to convert the mutagen into a healing serum sax reveals to April that he killed her father April and Vern subdue Sachs in the lab while the turtles are battling Shredder on the roof during the fight the tower support beams collapse as the turtles try to keep it from falling and infecting the City April confronts Shredder with the mutagen in the struggle the tower collapses and the turtles pull April onto it with them while Shredder falls to the street and is captured by the police believing they are about to die the turtles confess their secrets while rapael gives an impassioned speech about his love for his brothers before they land harmlessly on the street they vanish before the humans find them and return to the sewers where they give Splinter the mutagen and he begins to recover sometime later April meets with ver who tries and fails to ask her on a date the turtles appear in a special modified Turtle van and Michelangelo accidentally blows up Vern's new car with a rocket as the police respond to the explosion the turtles leave but not before Mikey tries to serenate April with Happy Together by The Band The Turtles much to his brother's annoyance and April's Amusement castedit voice actors and motion capture edit Pete PLC motion capture and Johnny Knoxville voice as Leonardo the leader and oldest member of the Ninja Turtles Jeremy Howard as Donatello the most intelligent member of the Ninja Turtles Alan richson as Rafael the strongest member of the Ninja Turtles Noel Fischer as Michelangelo the most childish and youngest of the Ninja Turtles who has a crush on April Danny Woodburn motion capture and Tony shhab voice as Splinter a mutant rat who is the adoptive father and Sensei of the ninja turtles live actioned it Megan Fox as April O'Neal a reporter for Channel News Molina Weissman as young April O'Neal will arnet as Vern Fenwick April's coworker who has a crush on her William ficner as Eric Sachs CEO of saaks Industries with ties to the Foot Clan tooru mamun as the Shredder the leader of the Foot Clan hoopy Goldberg as bernardet Thompson Min noji as Karai a member of the Foot Clan Abby Elliot as Taylor April's roommate Karen kilum as Jim mcnorton K Todd Freeman as Doctor Baxter Stockman a scientist that works at saxs Industries who is briefly seen in flashbacks Paul Fitzgerald as Doctor O'Neal the late father of April O'Neal chance Kelly as Mr retti retti Derek M as Dojo ninja Kevin Eastman is himself credited as Doctor production at develop medit nedit in October following the news of Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage studios's rights to the Teenage Mutant mea Turtles property Nickelodeon announced plans to produce a new film through corporate sibling Paramount Pictures with an expected release dayod we in late May Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael and his Platinum Dunes Partners Andrew form and Brad Fuller on to produce the next film that would reboot the film series for the script the studio originally hired art Markham and Matt Holloway to write the film a year later the studio turned to writers Josh appalam and Andre nech to rewrite the script in February Jonathan leasman began negotiations to direct the film beating out Brett Ratner later in March Paramount pushed back the film's release date to Christmas day in early March ba revealed that Nickelodeon's upfront presentation that the film will be simply titled Ninja Turtles and that the turtles would be from an alien race news of Ba's creative change was met with criticism from within the fan community in response to the announcement actor Robbie rist who voiced Michelangelo in the first three films wrote to ba accusing him of sodomizing the franchise rist later remarked that he could have been out of line since ba makes more money than he does in response to the feedback ba issued a statement asking fans to calm down since the script had not been revealed his team was working closely with his creators and would include all the elements that made them fans begin with both Brian Toki who voiced Leonardo in the first three films and Judith Hogue who played April O'Neal in the film have voiced their support towards the creative change Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter lead expressed his thoughts on the change asking fans to take Ba's advice and wait until more of Ba's plan is made available lad also stated that he felt the ill-conceived plan could be a genius notion as it would allow fans to have the multitude of bipedal anthropomorphic turtles that they have been asking for he would point out that while the concept of a turtle Planet backstory made for a great run of the M science fiction story it had no real place in the Ninja Turtles Universe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman stated that he had been invited behind the scenes of the film and concluded that he was officially on board with the project and that although he could not say much he believed it to be awesome via Twitter Cory Feldman who voiced Donatello in the first and third films voiced his support for the film saying that he loves Ba's remakes and he loves baz baz eager to reprise his role in response to the backlash leasman stated that he was glad to hear about the fan response since he and Eastman had been locked in a room working on ideas that from his own perspective as a fan everybody would love while he did not confirm whether or not baz comment did represent the film's premise he did stress on the Ooze itself and its background in the original comic reminding that the Ooze was the product of alien technology in regards to how the turtles would be rendered lias man would not say exactly what visual Direction would be taken but he did state that he enjoyed waiter digital's work in Rise of the Planet of the Apes he also pointed out that the film was not to be exclusively about action but also to focus on brotherhood friendship and responsibility ba posted on his website explaining the title change and stressing that nothing had changed regarding the turtles he also said the reason the title was shortened was a request by Paramount to make the title simple he continued that the turtles were the same as fans remember and regardless of the title change they still act like teenagers he urged everyone to give everybody who was involved a chance as they had the fans interest a top priority and would not let anybody down eastmen revealed some more information about the film stating that April would not be years old like in the cartoon series he feels Ken Wabi would make a great Shredder he would like to bring Ras back as a foot lieutenant and martial arts wise they are looking at Fist of Legend in the Raid Redemption Eastman called it easily the best Turtle movie yet Kevin Eastman stated that the movie is creating its own story but has to be true to the source material or else they will get murdered in August an early version of the script dated January titled the blue door and written by a pbom and nemic was leaked online it featured major changes to the origins The Turtles hail From Another Dimension that consists of Turtle Warriors Splinter is an alien from the same Dimension as well Shredder is Colonel shrer a government agent who is secretly an alien alien who can grow blades from his body the Foot Clan is just the foot an elite Black Ops unit led by Kel shrer Casey Jones is an year old security guard amateur ice hockey player that finds the turtles and is the focus of the film April is also and is having relationship troubles with Casey because she is moving to New York City due to an internship at CBS Raphael is the comic relief instead of Michelangelo and Michelangelo falls in love with a turtle woman from his home planet a cease and desist order was sent by Paramount Pictures to a website that was hosting the script Peter Le read the script and commented on his blog that all true TMNT fans should be grateful to the new powers that be that they did not allow this wretched thing to go any further in response to the blue door ba stated that the draft had been written before he and platinum Dunes joined the project and was promptly rejected sometime before the filming started in April in New York the studio pushed back the film's release date until June and a new writer Evan doy was brought on on board but Paramount postponed the release date again to August in order to avoid competition with family-friendly films released in June as well as one of Paramount and Michael bat's other releases all that Caston jedit Megan Fox was cast as April O'Neal in February marking her first collaboration with ba since her remark comparing him to Adolf Hitler B had confirmed Fox was back on good terms with him as early as April Jessica Beal had expressed interest in playing the part in regards to Fox's casting lad commented that he felt there were better choices to play April but that he would prefer not to get too worked up over the issue Alan richson Pete pek Howard and no Fischer were cast as Rafael Leonardo Donatello and Michelangelo respectively the following month in early April will arnet was cast in a role that was being kept secret until leaked photos revealed that he had been cast as April's cameraman and rival Vern Fenwick soon after that actor Danny Woodburn joined the cast as splinter in early May William fishner was cast in the film as a lead with iconic stature in the turtles mythology marking his third collaboration with Bay following armage Deon and Pearl Harbor his character was revealed to be named Eric saak an angiz version of oroku Saki the shredder at this point in production saaks was intended to be the film's version of the Shredder but that idea was subsequently abandoned in favor of casting actor tooru mamanu as an authentically Japanese incarnation of the character following widespread white whitewashing accusations the movie underwent rutes to change this element of the plot with saxs being changed to the Shredder's adopted son although the film's tie-in video game would retain sax as the shredder also in May former Saturday night livest star Abby Elliot was cast in the film also whoopy Goldberg appeared on set portraying bernardet Thompson a female version of burn Thompson William fishner revealed that beup and rock steady would not be appearing in the film who appeared later in the sequel Abby Elliott played April O'Neal's roommate named as Taylor other actors Johnny Knoxville and Tony shhab joined the film to dub plik and Woodburn as the voices of Leonardo and Splinter respectively film and get it uh principal photography commenced on March in Tupper Lake New New York shooting began in April in New York City and at Jones Beach State Park in WTA on Long Island New York under the code words four squared skew on April the film was renamed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Michael Bay retracted comments that the turtles would be aliens early set photos were made public showing the turtles actors in black and gray motion capture suits complete with life-sized turtle shells with each actor wearing armbands and accents of their corresponding Turtle signature color cinematographer Lula kavalu who was invited to work in the film during production of the remake of Rob op described the process as demanding much imagination and participation of the visual effect supervisor given that despite their presence on the set the actors would effectively be replaced by computer generated creatures production for the film wrapped on August additional filming occurred in January and April according to co-star Alan richson who played Rafal he expressed displeasure with various production issues during filming at first richson was not sure about playing Rafal because he did not wish to play a motion capture character but the promise of career advancement by by producers of prea and the thought of pleasing his son a huge fan of the franchise convinced him to accept the part the TM NT actors were then not given the same special treatments as their live-action co-stars Megan Fox and will arnet and often seem to be mistreated and afterthought by most of the producers including Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures during and after filming of both movies not even allowing many opportunities to do press for the picture and were not invited to the premier as promised and instructed them to not give press interviews while claiming they the turtles were the ones refusing to give interviews but denying saying they wanted interviews richson personally emailed the late Brad gray many times about the situation Allan did not want to return as Rafael after having an unhappy experience making the first movie but was bound by his contract to do so and then was promised it would not happen again on the sequel and then will be giving interviews for the film Sequel and even made appearances at the film sequels premieres but nothing much changed during filming the sequel either visual effect said it um the visual effects of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were handled by industrial Light Magic who had previously worked with Michael Bay and Nickelodeon doing the special effects for the island the Transformers film series lemony snickets a series Unfortunate Events The Spiderwick Chronicles and the animation for the film Rango to make sure the digital Turtles had more nuanced facial expressions the technicians employed a new motion capture system that captured the actor's faces with two high def definition cameras which captured roughly terabyte of data per day along with a more realistic design the effects artists wanted the Ninja Turtles to be Charming intimidating and individually recognizable thus each had a distinctive body figure resembling their personalities and physicality according to effect supervisor Pablo Helman Donatello is more like a basketball player Raph is more like a football player and Mikey is a very short Messi and plays soccer Muses edit main article Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the score the film score was composed by Brian Tyler the soundtrack was released by Atlantic Records on August prior to that a single to promote the film and separate from the album titled Shell Shocked by Juicy J Whiz Khalifa and Ty Dollar dollarin and featuring Kill The Noise and Tyler credited as madsonic was released on July released at theatrical edit um will Arnette and Megan Fox at a special event screening of the film in Sydney the release date was moved around several times until it was set for August the film premiered on July in Mexico City pre Premier Events also occurred in Los Angeles and New York City on September the film was released in mxd for a onewe limited engagement marketing jedit May a teaser trailer for the film was shown at Cinema March before its public release on March the trailer reached over million views on YouTube in its first week on April the first TV spot for the movie was released a second version of the teaser trailer was released on April footage of the the film was shown at cine Europe with an introduction from Megan Fox Playmates Toys produced a new product line of toys based entirely on the film including action figures vehicles and role-play gear Nickelodeon consumer products also announced a complete merchandise lineup of movie based products that will be available in all major retailers from July through the holiday season Paramount released a new trailer which includes the single reptiles theme song by Skrillex on July Pizza Hut announced a new advertising campaign for the film which included the return of the chains cheesy bik Pizza social media contests themed around the film and a television advertisement featuring the new movie incarnations of the characters four motion posters of the turtles were released and new TV spot debuted that day as well an extended behind the scenes featured was shown after the Kids Choice Sports an extended tv spot debuted the following day Paramount promoted the film on July at San Diego Comic Con five new TV spots were released that day as well the music video for the song Shell Shocked debuted on July pentatonics released a new song titled We Are Ninjas and a music video as part of the promotion for the film on August controv sidet in Australia a poster was released which featured the four turtles jumping from an exploding skyscraper as a promotion for its September release the poster sparked controversy due to the film's release date and the resemblance to the September attacks Paramount apologized and removed the poster home Medi it Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released on digital HD on November and was released on DVD and Blu-ray D and D on December the film top the home video sales charts in its first week and achieved the highest ratio of disc sales to theatrical tickets rate it retained the top spot on the home video sales chart in its second weekend overall Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the eighth bestselling film of with million units sold and earning a revenue of dollar million from home video sales the film was made available to MGM on December the film was released on K onra HD Blu-ray on July reception at box office Ed it Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gross dollar million in North America and dollar million in other countries for a worldwide total of million dollars against a budget of million dollars deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be dollar million when factoring together all expenses and revenues it is the highest grossing film in the turtles franchise as well as the highest grossing film produced by Nickelodeon movies on its opening day the film gross dollar million including dollar million from Thursday night showings in its first weekend Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opened in first place with dollar million which exceeded Paramount and box office analysts' predictions of a dollar to million dollars opening and achieved the fourth highest weekend daybut for the month of August after Guardians of the Galaxy the barings the born ultimatum and Rush Hour the movie remained at the number one spot in its second weekend by grossing dollar million down perc but slipped to number two for its third weekend grossing dollar million down percent as Guardians of the Galaxy reclaimed the top spot the film LED the foreign box office during the weekend lasting from October through November by grossing dollar million dollar million coming from China critical response Ed it on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of percent based on reviews from critics with an average score of n the site's critical consensus reads neither entertaining enough to recommend nor remarkably awful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles May bear the distinction of being the dullest movie ever made about talking bipedal reptiles on Metacritic the film has a score of out of based on critics indicating generally unfavorable reviews audiences ped by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of B on a scale of a to F Sandy Angulo Chen of the Washington Post gave the film two out of four stars saying while this reboot is fun it's also forgettable and occasionally infuriating Joe Noire of the New York daily news gave the film zero Stars saying even youngsters May wonder why any hint of charm or fun has scurried away those new to the franchise May withdraw their head into their neck turtle like refer Gman of Newsday gave the film two out of four stars Rover and slightly funnier than the original but still harmless junk at best Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film one and half stars out of four not much of an effort is made to differentiate the personalities of the turtles who all frankly look as grotesque as a Terry Gillam cartoon Nicholas rapold of the New York Times said attached to this movie the title no longer sounds Zen it looks like a series of keywords Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times said that there is something half-hearted about the entire film as if those behind it were involved not because they wanted to make it not because they should make it but just because they could Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a SE saying two brief Thrills only shine a harsher light on the film's laborious pacing and cringeworthy one liners spilling from the mes of the Ninja teens Nancy chernin of the Dallas Morning News gave the film a b writing the turtles engagingly voiced by Alan richson Noel fiser Johnny Knoxville and Jeremy Howard look terrific and the best part is that the film has heart Justin l Of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review writing leasman relies on his genre film resume to keep events moving at a Brisk clip and the motion capture process employed to facilitate liveaction integration with Cutting Edge of ques the Ping sings and the wet arm GRE Justin Chang of variety said the film is neither a particularly good movie nor the pop cultural travesty that some were dreading a a a dow of the a v Club gave the film AC what the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lacks is not Fidelity but a spirit of genuine boyish F the sense that anyone involved saw more than a very specific shade of green in the freshly digital scales of these year old characters Sauron Anderson of the Seattle Times gave the film one out of four stars if ever there was a movie that should not have been made this is that movie Drew hunt of Chicago r wrote that the light comedic tone is weighed down by unimaginative pop culture references and half-witted onliners Bill gyon of the Arizona Republic gave the film two out of five stars saying it's just kind of a mess as unfocused and imit as just kind of a mess as unfor Mutant Turtles at its core stuff happens stuff blows up and this is probably a good time to mention that Michael Bay produced the film alono durald of the rap gave the film a negative review writing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that takes its characters and its premise seriously until it doesn't and that operates at two speeds torts ponderous and hairhead spinning Adam Graham of the Detroit News gave the film a there's enough Turtle power to please kids and fans of the original series Steven R of the Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film two out of four stars the kind of cliched Misfit crime fighters versus demented villains scenario that Kevin Eastman and Peter L happily parodied when they came up with the original Teenage Mutant Ninja chel comic books way back in the S Tom Russo of the Boston Globe gave the film one and a half stars out of five describing the repati as ever is weak even with all the extra layers of digital detail it's still tough to keep these four straight Cliff Lee of the globe and male gave the film one and a half stars out of four writing for having gone to the trouble of making a self-descriptive movie called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles its producers seem ultimately unsure about its most basic concept James berardinelli of Real views gave the film one in a half stars out of four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doesn't so much provide brainless enjoyment as it pummels the the viewer into submission Shell Shocked is a reasonable description of the experience Chris cabin of Slant Magazine gave the film one out of four stars Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles only leaves one with the dim Afterglow of forced normaly of a film so overworked to ensure Mass Market appeal that it loses the Charming oddness and loose goess that has allowed these characters and their frothy appeal to endure video games did it Activision released a Nintendo DS game developed by Magic Pockets based on the film on August to coincide with the movie in which William fenner's Eric saxs an anglicized version of orus Saki is depicted as the shredder as in the original cut of the film prior to rut's changing Sachs into being the Shredder's adoptive son for the film's theatrical release following post test screening criticisms of whitewashing a mobile game also based on the film was released on July selled it main article Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows Noel fiser revealed in an interview that all four of the Turtle actors have signed on for three films lias men and Fuller have confirmed that Casey Jones as well as bbop and rock steady will appear in the sequels there were also plans for crang and dimension X in the sequels as well shortly after the release of the film Paramount announced that a sequel will be released on June with Michael Bay returning as producer and Josh Appel bom and Andre nimc coming back as screenwriters and executive producers Fox and Arnette returned in the sequel along with the character Shredder Dave Green director of Earth to Echo directed the sequel several new actors appear appeared for a sequel Victoria Secret supermodel alisandra Ambrosio was cast as herself and a love interest to Vern also Los Angeles Clippers and Charlotte Hornet's players DeAndre Jordan Matt Barnes JJ Redick Austin Rivers and Spencer Hors make cameos in the film Steven AML has been cast as Casey Jones Tyler Perry was cast as Baxter Stockman and Brian T portrayed Shredder in the sequel Gary Anthony Williams and Steven sheima farle were cast as beup and Rocksteady respectively Britany ishibashi also replaced noi as karay in the sequel Johnny Knoxville did not return to voice Leonardo in the sequel as he was not asked to reprise the role instead Pete plk did both motion capture and voice [Music] subservient seemingly had the potential to rise above the conventional tropes of the horror subon however as its trailer reveals it will likely not offer any new insights into the complexities of human AI interactions undoubtedly though the Megan Fox film seems entertaining enough to attract audiences and perform well at the global box office Megan Denise Fox born May is an American actress she made her acting debut in the family film Holiday in the Sun which which was followed by numerous supporting roles in film and television such as the teen musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen as well as a starring role in the ab Secom hope faith her breakout role was as mikaa Baines in the Blockbuster action film Transformers which she reprised in its sequel Transformers Revenge of the Fallen FOX also portrayed the titular character in the horror comedy Jennifer's Body starred as April oal in the superhero action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of The Shadow and appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the fox sitcom new girl described as a sex symbol fox has made appearances in numerous magazines such as Maxim Rolling Stone and fun she has received two scream Awards and 14 Choice Awards early life Megan Denise Fox was born on May in Oak Ridge Tennessee to parents Gloria Darlene n sisen and Franklin Thomas Fox she spent her early childhood in nearby Rockwood Fox's father a parole officer and her mother divorced when Fox was 3 years old her mother later remarried and fox and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather Tony tanako she was raised very strictly Pentecostal but later attended Catholic school for years she said that her parents were very strict and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house Fox described her stepfather as being verbally mentally and emotionally abusive until his death she revealed in an interview that she developed an eating disorder in her adolesence and struggled with manic depression the latter of which ran in my family so there was definitely some wrestling with chemical imbalance going on Fox lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself Fox began her training in dance and drama at age 5 in Kingston Tennessee she attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim play at age after moving to St Petersburg Florida Fox continued her training when she was years old Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the American modeling and talent convention in Hilton Head South Carolina Fox attended high school at Morningside Academy in Port Saint Lucy until her junior year when she attended Saint Lucy West Centennial High School when she was she tested out of school via correspondence in order to move to Los Angeles California Fox spoke freely about her time in school stating that in middle school she was bullied and had to eat lunch in the bathroom to avoid being pelted with ketchup packets she said that the problem was not her looks but that she had always gotten along better with boys and that rubbed some people the wrong way FOX also said that she was never popular in high school and that everyone hated me and I was a total Outcast my friends were always guys I have a very aggressive personality and girls didn't like me for that I've had only one great girlfriend my whole life in the same interview she mentions that she hated school and has never been a big believer in formal education and that the education I was getting seemed irrelevant so I was sort of checked out on that part of it as careers early roles and breakthrough in Fox made her acting daybut in the romantic comedy Holiday in the Sun as spoiled ays Brian Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart Ashley Olsen which was released direct to DVD on November in the next several years she guest starred on the sitcoms what I like about you and Two and a Half Men fox also appeared as an uncredited extra in the action film bad boys I I in Fox made her feature film debuted opposite Lindsay Lan in the musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen playing the supporting role of Carla Santini a Ral of Lola Lan she was also cast in a regular role on the ABC scum hope faith in which she portrayed Sydney chanowski replacing Nicole pagi Fox appeared in the second and third Seasons until the series was cancelled by ABC in May in Fox won the lead female role of Mikela Baines in the liveaction film Transformers based on the toy and cartoon Saga of the same name Fox played the love interest of Shia lau's character Sam wiwi Fox was nominated for an M TV movie award in the category of breakthrough perform performance and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards she had signed on for two more Transformer sequels reprising her role as Mika in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen there was controversy surrounding Fox's appearance while filming the sequel when Michael Bay the film's director ordered the actress to gain 1010 the film was released worldwide on June to box office success Fox was to star in the third installment Transformers Dark of the Moon but was not included because of her statements comparing working under director Bay to working for Hitler she confessed on GQ magazine that she had lost approximately pounds during filming due to consuming a primary diet of water and vinegar citation needed and reportedly had a dispute over her visible loss of weight with the director on set B stated in June that fox was fired on orders of executive producer Steven Spielberg a claimed Spielberg denied Fox at the Toronto International Film Festival screening of Jennifer's Body on September in Fox had her first lead role since the Transformers series she portrayed the title character in Jennifer's Body written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody the film initially earned mixed to average reviews upon its release with Fox's performance earning praise however the film grew a cult following over time and was critically reassessed as a forgotten feminist classic according to Cody the film was marketed incorrectly by Executives who focused their efforts on the young male audience in April she began filming the Western superhero film Jonah Hex in which she portrayed Tula black Laya a gun wielding Beauty and Jonah hex's Josh broland love interest the film was released on June despite receiving top billing Fox described her role in the film as being a cameo Jonah Hex was a critical and Commercial failure in the u s with its International distribution canceled after its poor performance the film was named the worst picture of the Year by the Houston film critic Society s rise to prominence Fox starred alongside Mickey Rock in the drama Passion Play after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival its conventional theatrical iCal distribution was bypassed for a director video release with only two screens briefly showing the film to fulfill contractual obligations Ro remarked that the film was terrible another terrible movie Fox appeared with Dominic monagan in the music video for am menum and ranna's single love the way you lie in Fox appeared briefly in Saka Baron Cohen's comedy film The Dictator and had a featured role in Jud aau's comedy film this is she voiced the role of Lois Lane in the animated comedy film Robot Chicken DC Comic special an episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken that aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on September Fox at a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle screening in Sydney on September in January Fox was featured in a Brazilian television commercial for Brahma beer in February Fox set aside her differences with her former director Michael Bay and worked again with him on his reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles starring as the lead human character of April O'Neal in Fox was cast in the role of Amelia in the plarium video game stormfall rise of Balor in October it was confirmed that fox would be temporarily replacing zuie Des Shanel in the television sitcom new girl following Des Chanel's maternity leave she starred as Regan Lucas appearing in the fifth and sixth seasons of the series her performance earned positive reviews from critics in Fox reprised her role of April O'Neal in the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows on September it was confirmed that fox would star in the Korean War film The Battle of Jung Z Ari beside Korean actor Kim mayong Min she played a lead role as margarite haggens an American news reporter in Fox star in the mystery fantasy film above the Shadows opposite Olivia Thurby and Alan richson directed by Claudia Myers it was released on July by gravit Ventures that same year Fox appeared in zeroville directed by James Franco which was previously shot in the film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office s current work in Fox starred opposite Josh haml in the family comedy film think like a dog which was released on video on demand on June also that year she starred in the lead role of the action film Rogue which was released on August in she starred in The Thrillers midnight in the switchgrass opposite Emil hush and Bruce Willis directed by Randall EMT and until death directed by s k Dale in Fox starred in the drama comedy big gold brick alongside Oscar Isaac Andy Garcia Lucy hail and Emory Cohen directed by Brian petsos Fox also played role in the film Taurus a musical drama alongside Machine Gun Kelly Naomi wild and Lil Chay in Fox was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Fox played a Crime Boss Alana in the Thriller film Johnny Clyde with Tyson Ritter Fox played Gina in the fourth Expendables film Expendables released in September of the same year in November Fox released her first book titled pretty boys are poisonous a collection of her own poetry Public Image status and Persona Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times called Fox a sex symbol of the highest order and said she was the first Bonafide sex symbol of the saint Century Craig flaster of MTV stated Transformers broke Fox into the mainstream immediately turning her into a household name an international sex symbol she has been featured on various magazine covers and hottest and most beautiful woman lists throughout the years such as Maxim's hot lists and when F readers voted her the sexiest woman in the world in people named her one of sand s most beautiful at every age scholar Mark dealo stated that fox achieved instant Fame as Mikela in Transformers because a highly sexualized erotically idealized figure draped over a car or motorcycle invariably evokes lust in the heterosexual male onlooker and fox did this by leaning over a Camaro while wearing a flimsy pink belly shirt and short skirt which read as an unequivocal sex invite to male viewers the editors of men's health also credited the Camaro scene with contributing to Fox's Fame Fox with two of her tattoos visible Fox Spike TV scream Awards on October Fox at the the annual Hollywood Life Magazine breakthrough Awards on December fox said all women in Hollywood are known and marketed as sex symbols but that this is okay if the woman knows how to utilize the status she created a character for her Public Image because she was unwilling to sacrifice her true self to the World Scholars wheeler Winston Dixon and gwendel and Audrey Foster disagreed that every woman in Hollywood is marketed as a sex symbol and stated that Fox's celebrity is based on what she admits is an entirely AR AR official construct designed for dissemination in the internet age a saint Century Media personality in every sense of the word part of her Persona included making outlandish comments which she said helped her reach her level of fame versus being a typical starlord who said all the right things her tattoos which she began getting at age as a form of self-expression helped popularize tattoo fashion she had over nine known tattoos including a picture of Marilyn Monroe's face on her right forearm and a quote on her shoulder author John terranean argued that Fox's Monroe tattoo enhanced her implicit claims to Monroe's Legacy as Hollywood's leading sex symbol Fox ended up removing the Monroe tattoo in a series of laser s because she felt that monro's life was full of negativity and she did not want to emulate it the media often compared Fox to actress Angelina Jolie dubbing her the next Angelina Jolie which also affected her image amid this in reports that she was to replace Jolie in a new Lara Croft film Fox commented that the comparisons indicate a lack of creativity on the part of the media and attributed them to both she and Jolie being brunette having to tattoos cursing and mentioning and joking about sex which people find outrageous Lynn hburg of the New York Times or pined that the Jolie comparison would probably have been made by the media eventually but Fox sped up the process by linking herself to Jolie and that she enjoyed creating entertaining copy by telling Tales of darkness and lust ah in Fox's Public Image came under scrutiny when an unsigned letter from three crew members of Transformers defended director Michael Bay against accusations made by Fox about his onset Behavior including a compar with Adolf Hitler in response to the letter alleging that Fox's onset behavior is unpleasant in contrast her public Persona ba stated he does not condemn the letter of Fox's outlandish quotes but her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm and that they still work well together a production assistant who worked on Transformers also stated that he never saw Fox act inappropriately on set fox said the Letter's claims were false and that she had privately spoken with the parties involved she said she was very fortunate to be a part of the franchise and was looking forward to continuing her work D Paro concluded that Fox's criticism of the media sexually objectifying girls and women was in stark contrast to her sex symbol status and that her Defiance of director Michael Bay and frequent outspoken comments stifled her career media exposure Fox at the premere of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen in Paris on June the increased media exposure was difficult for Fox who acknowledged being shy and insecure to adjust to it also positioned her as a potential role model and later led to her being typer cast she rejected being a formal role model but said that she could make young girls feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right and that she was a different role model for girls that maybe America was not comfortable with she considered being typer cast as attractive an opportunity to surprise people when she gives a good performance in a film but said she is interested in portraying less sexualized characters MTV's Craig flaster said that although fox has been typ asked as the big budget sex symbol she has shown comedic range Fox's overexposure in the media LED several men's websites such as ask men to boycott her on August although some refused to do so feeling that the boycott was a publicity stunt and therefore hypocritical in response to the media attention Fox told magazine nylon in September of that year that the studio wanted to make sure the film would make million dollars so they oversaturated the media with their stars and that she did not want to have people get completely sick of her before she's ever even done something legitimate she became much less prominent in the media by after starring in the less commercially successful films Jonah Hex and passion play that same year fox said my biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character I don't regret what has happened to me but I regret the way I have dealt with it Dixon and Foster stated the problem fox faces is that the image construct has replace the real in the minds of the public and once established a media Persona is hard to recalibrate ah personal life in Fox was targeted by a group of fashion motivated criminals known as The Bling Ring who robbed her then boyfriend Brian Austin Green's home for access to Fox's possessions fox has a form of braida called braida type D and has discussed her obsessive compulsive disorder OCD insecurities self-harming and has acknowledged that she has low self-esteem in she said that her Christian faith is still very important to her and she believes it keeps her grounded Fox and then husband green were supporters of generosity water and funded the creation of over 10 water wells for the organization with regard to relationships and her sexuality fox said that she has a general distrust and dislike of men and that the perception of her as a wild and crazy sex bot is false because she is a social Fox stated that she would rather stay at home instead of going out and emphasized that she cannot have sex with someone she does not love she is bisexual and said she believes that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes she stated in I have no question in my mind about being bisexual but I'm also a hypocrite I would never date a girl who was bisexual because that means they also sleep with men and men so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man uh Fox told in style and jly a girl would come up to me and be like you had a lot to do with me like identifying and understanding that I was gay or understanding that I was bisexual and that of course is by far like the most moving rewarding thing that I have experienced in my life to be a part of something that helped people figure that out or helped people deal with that or feel better about that one of my favorite things that I get called is being like a byy icon and that is one of the things I am the most proud of M she has several tattoos which includes the Chinese symbol for strength that is drawn on the back of her neck a quote from the William Shakespeare play King Lea that reads we will all laugh at gilded butterflies the yin and yang symbol on her left bishes and a crescent moon entwined with a star on her ankle FOX also has a poem tattooed near her breast that reads there once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart and another tattoo on her back that quotes friedr Nicha and those who were seen dancing were thought to be inan who could not hard to be in music she claims that she had it drawn in honor of her Passion Play CoStar Mickey Rock but later clarified that it's not necessarily A homage to him she also once had her ex-husband Brian Austin Green's first name tattooed on her hip but later had it covered she removed the portrait of Marilyn Monroe that was tattooed on her right forearm stating it is a negative character as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life she also has a tattoo on her left collarbone that reads the gunman in Spanish as well as flowers and one snake on her abdomen fox has numerous smaller tattoos splayed across her fingers some of which include dots numbers and a crescent moon Fox revealed in her book pretty boys are poisonous that she has suffered a miscarriage from her pregnancy with what would have been her fourth child relationships Fox and Brian Austin Green at the the Golden Globes on January Machine Gun Kelly and Fox at the NBA Celebrity allstar game on February Fox began dating actor Brian Austin Green in after meeting on the set of hope faith she was years old while he was according to Fox green was initially hesitant to enter a relationship with her due to the age difference stating I had to convince him that I was slightly more responsible and well spoken and had other things to bring to the table besides being they became engaged in November in February they ended their engagement but were reported to have gotten engaged again on June Fox maintained that she and green had been continuously engaged since Fox and Green married on June in a private ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui together they have three Sons born in and fox was also a stepmother to Green's son from a previous relationship Fox filed for divorce on August a few days after she and green announced their separation by early they were back together and expecting their third child on April Fox filed to dismiss her second attempt for a divorce in Los Angeles California in May green announced that he and fox had separated after nearly years of marriage and in November Fox filed for divorce from Green for a second time the divorce was finalized on October also saw in June she and singer Machine Gun Kelly went public about their relationship several weeks after the release of Machine Gun Kelly zachi who see My Bloody Valentine whose music video features Fox on January Fox announced that the two were engaged however on March Fox announced their engagement was called off Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a American superhero film based on the characters of the same name created by Peter lad and Kevin Eastman directed by Jonathan leisman and written by Josh app bomb Andre nech and Evan dogy it is a reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series the film stars Megan Fox will Arnette William fitner Danny Woodburn Abby Elliot Noel fiser Jeremy Howard Pete plusk and Alan richson with the voices of Johnny Knoxville and Tony shhab the plot follows the turtles who with the help of their new ally April O'Neal face the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan as well as protect their New York City Home the film was announced shortly before Turtles co-creator Peter Le sold the rights to the characters to Nickelodeon in October in late May Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies brought Michael by and his Platinum Dunes Partners Andrew form and Brad Fuller onto produce the film leasman began negotiations to direct in the screenplay went through numerous rewrites with apple bomb nech and dogy ultimately getting final credit principal photography began in March in Tupper Lake New York and production concluded in August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered on July in Mexico City and was released in theaters on August the film received generally negative reviews from critics for its screenplay and characterizations while its performances action sequences and visual effects were praised despite this it became a box office success grossing million dollars against a million dollars against budget becoming the highest grossing film in the franchise as well as the highest grossing film from Nickelodeon Movies a sequel Out of the Shadows followed into slightly better reviews but failed to match the first film's box office gross pled it April O'Neal local reporter for Channel Eyewitness News in New York City investigates a crime wave by a group of criminals called the footclan at a dock at night she sees the foot raiding cargo containers after an unseen vigilante attacks the thieves April notices a symbol Left Behind April's supervisor bernardet Thompson and her co-workers are oblivious to her story later while covering a charity event thrown by sax Industries April expresses gratitude to the company's CEO Eric saaks who was her late father's partner frustrated by the Vigilante the foot Clan's leader shredder has the foot soldiers take hostages at a subway station in order to draw him out April at the scene becomes a hostage herself four mysterious figures arrive take out the clan and free the hostages April follows them to a rooftop and is shocked to see that the Vigilantes are anthropomorphic Mutant Turtles causing her to pass out when she regains Consciousness they advise her not to tell anyone of them as they leave April hears Rafal and Leonardo's names April returns to her apartment and remembers project Renaissance her father's science experiment which involved four Turtles named Leonardo Donatello Michelangelo rapael and a mutated rat called Splinter unable to convince bernardet of the turtle's existence April is dismissed her cooworker ver Fenwick drives her to saak estate where she confides in him about her Discovery sax believes her and reveals that he and April's father had been experimenting on a mutagen created to cure disease which was thought lost in the fire that killed her dad at Splinter's behest the turtles bring April to their Sewer Lair splinter explains how April had saved them all from the fire and freed them into the sewer the mutagen caused the five of them to grow and develop humanoid attributes Splinter took on the role of their father using April's father as an example after finding a book on Ninjutsu in a storm drain he proceeded to teach himself then the turtles the fighting style when April reveals she told sax about her discovery of the Turtles Splinter informs her that sax was practically raised by the shredder and works with him then Shredder and the foot soldiers attack the lair defeating SP linter and incapacitating Rafal while the other Turtles are captured April comes out of hiding and she and rafle plan to save the others at sax estate he has the turtles blood drained in order to create an antidote to a deadly virus that sax hopes to flood New York with believing he will become rich from people seeking his cure Rapa April and Vern storm the estate and free the other Turtles the group then escapes the compound in pursuit of Sachs on a radio tower in the city sax and Shredder plant a device that will flood the city with the virus while sax is preparing to convert the mutagen into a healing serum sax reveals to April that he killed her father April and Vern subdue sax in the lab while the turtles are battling Shredder on the roof during the fight the tower support beams collapse as the turtles try to keep it from falling and infecting the city April confronts Shredder with the mutagen in the struggle the tower collapses and the turtles pull April onto it with them while Shredder falls to the street and is captured by the police believing they are about to die the turtles confess their secrets while rapael gives an impassioned speech about his love for his brothers before they land harmlessly on the street they vanish before the humans find them and return to the sewers where they give Splinter the mutagen and he begins to recover sometime later April meets with Vern who tries and fails to ask her on a date the turtles appear in a special modified Turtle van and Michelangelo accidentally blows up Vern's new car with a rocket as the police respond to the explosion the turtles leave but not before Mikey tries to serenate April with Happy Together by The Band The Turtles much to his brother's annoyance and April's Amusement castedit voice actors and motion capture edit Pete pek motion capture and Johnny Knoxville voice as Leonardo the leader and oldest member of the Ninja Turtles Jeremy Howard as Donatello the most intelligent member of the Ninja Turtles Alan richson as Rafael the strongest member of the Ninja Turtles Noel fiser as Michelangelo the most childish and youngest of the Ninja Turtles who has a crush on April Danny Woodburn motion capture and Tony shhab voice is lter a mutant rat who is the adoptive father and Sensei of the ninja turtles live actioned it Megan Fox as April O'Neal a reporter for Channel News Molina Weissman as young April O'Neal will arnet as Vern Fenwick April's coworker who has a crush on her William ficner as Eric saak CEO of saaks Industries with ties to the Foot Clan tooru mamun as the Shredder the leader of the Foot Clan hoopie Goldberg as bernardet Thompson M noji as Karai a member of the Foot Clan Abby Elliot as Taylor April's roommate Karen kilum as Jim mcnorton K tood Freeman as Doctor Baxter Stockman a scientist that works at saxs Industries who is briefly seen in flashbacks Paul Fitzgerald as Doctor O'Neal the late father of April O'Neal chance Kelly as Mis retti retti Derek Ms as Dojo ninja Kevin Eastman is himself credited as Doctor production at develop medit nedit in October following the news of Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage Studio's rights to the Teenage Mutant mea Turtles property Nickelodeon announced plans to produce a new film through corporate sibling Paramount Pictures with an expected release dead whis in late May Paramount and Nickelodeon had brought Michael baay and his Platinum Dunes Partners Andrew form and Brad Fuller on to produce the next film that would reboot the film series for the script the studio originally hired art Markham and Matt Holloway to write the film a year later the studio turned to writers Josh appalam and Andre nech to rewrite the script in February Jonathan leasman began negotiations to direct the film beating out Brett Ratner later in March Paramount pushed back the film's release date to Christmas day in early March baay revealed that Nickelodeon's upfront presentation that the film will be simply titled Ninja Turtles and that the turtles would be from an alien race news of Ba's creative change was met with criticism from within the fan community in response to the announcement actor Robbie rist who voiced Angelo in the first three films wrote to ba accusing him of sodomizing the franchise rist later remarked that he could have been out of line since ba makes more money than he does in response to the feedback ba issued a statement asking fans to calm down since a script had not been revealed his team was working closely with his creators and would include all the elements that made them fans begin with both Brian Toki who voiced Leonardo in the first three films and Judith Hogue who played April O'Neal in the film have voiced their support towards the creative change Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter lad expressed his thoughts on the change asking fans to take Ba's advice and wait until more of Ba's plan is made available lead also stated that he felt the ill-conceived plan could be a genius notion as it would allow fans to have the multitude of bipedal anthropomorphic turtles that they have been asking for he would point out that while the concept of a turtle Planet backstory made for a great run of the mill science fiction story it had no real place in the Ninja Turtles Universe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman stated that he had been invited behind the scenes of the film and concluded that he was officially on board with the project and that although he could not say much he believed it to be awesome via Twitter Cory Feldman who voiced Donatello in the first and third films voiced his support for the film saying that he loves Ba's remakes and he loves Ba's baay eager to reprise his role in response to the backlash leasman stated that he was glad to hear about the fans response since he and Eastman had been locked in a room working on ideas that from his own perspective as a fan every body would love while he did not confirm whether or not Ba's comment did represent the film's premise he did stress on the Ooze itself and its background in the original comic reminding that the uz was the product of alien technology in regards to how the turtles would be rendered lias man would not say exactly what visual direction would be taken but he did state that he enjoyed waiter digital's work in Rise of the Planet of the Apes he also pointed out that the film was not to be exclusively about action but also to focus on brotherhood friendship and responsibility ba posted on on his website explaining the title change and stressing that nothing had changed regarding the turtles he also said the reason the title was shortened was a request by Paramount to make the title simple he continued that the turtles were the same as fans remember and regardless of the title change they still act like teenagers he urged everyone to give everybody who was involved a chance as they had the fans interest a top priority and would not let anybody down eastmen revealed some more information about the film stating that April would not be years old like in the cartoon series he feels Ken watari would make a great Shredder he would like to bring RZ back as a foot lieutenant and martial arts wise they are looking at Fist of Legend and the Raid Redemption Eastman called it easily the best Turtle movie yet Kevin Eastman stated that the movie is creating its own story but has to be true to the source material or else they will get murdered in August an early version of the script dated January titled the blue door and written by AEL bom and nimic was leaked online it featured major changes to the origins the turt hail From Another Dimension that consists of turt Warriors Splinter is an alien from the same Dimension as well Shredder is Colonel shrer a government agent who is secretly an alien alien who can grow blades from his body the Foot Clan is just the foot an elite Black Ops unit led by Kel shrer Casey Jones is an year-old security guard amateur ice hockey player that finds the turtles and is the focus of the film April is also and is having relationship troubles with Casey because she is moving to New York City due to an internship at CBS yes Raphael is the comic relief instead of Michelangelo and Michelangelo falls in love with a turtle woman from his home planet a cease and desist order was sent by Paramount Pictures to a website that was hosting the script Peter L read the script and commented on his blog that all true TMNT fans should be grateful to the new powers that be that they did not allow this wretched thing to go any further in response to the blue door ba stated that the draft had been written before he and platinum Dunes joined the project and was promptly rejected some time before the filming started in April in New York the studio pushed back the film's release date until June and a new writer Evan doggy was brought on on board but Paramount postponed the release date again to August in order to avoid competition with familyfriendly films released in June as well as one of Paramount and Michael bat's other releases All That cast and jedit Megan Fox was cast as April O'Neal in February marking her first collaboration with ba since her remark comparing him to ad Hitler be had confirmed Fox was back on good terms with him as early as April Jessica Beal had expressed interest in playing the part in regards to Fox's casting lead commented that he felt there were better choices to play April but that he would prefer not to get too worked up over the issue Alan richson Pete pek Jeremy Howard and NL Fischer were cast as Rafael Leonardo Donatello and Michelangelo respectively the following month in early April will arnet was cast in a role that was being kept secret until leaked photos revealed that he had been cast as April's cameraman and rival Vern Fenwick soon after that actor Danny Woodburn joined the cast as splinter in early May William FNA was cast in the film as a lead with iconic stature in the turtles mythology marking his third collaboration with ba following armage Deon and Pearl Harbor his character was revealed to be named Eric saaks an angiz version of oroku Saki the shredder at this point in production Sach was intended to be the film's version of the Shredder but that idea was subsequently abandoned in favor of casting actor to mamanu as an authentically Japanese incarnation of the character following widespread white whitewashing accusations the movie underwent rutes to change this element of the plot with sax being changed to the Shredder's adopted son although the film's tie-in video game would retain sax as the shredder also in May former Saturday Night Live star Abby Elliot was cast in the film also whoopy Goldberg appeared on set portraying bernardet Thompson a female version of burn Thompson William fishner revealed that beup and Rocksteady would not be appearing in the film who appeared later in the sequel Abby Elliot played April O'Neal's roommate named as Taylor other actors Johnny Knoxville and Tony shhab joined the film to dub plik and Woodburn as the voices of Leonardo and Splinter respectively filming get it uh principal photography commenced on March in tppa Lake New York shooting began in April in New York City and at Jones Beach State Park in WTA on Long Island New York under the code words four squar skew on April the film was renamed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Michael Bay retracted comments that the the turtles would be aliens early set photos were made public showing the turtles actors in black and gray motion capture suits complete with life-sized turtle shells with each actor wearing armbands and accents of their corresponding Turtle signature color cinematographer Lula calu who was invited to work in the film during production of the remake of Robocop described the process as demanding much imagination and participation of the visual effect supervisor given that despite their presence on the set the actors would effectively be replaced by computer generated creatures production for the film wrapped on August additional filming occurred in January and April according to co-star Alan richson who played Rafal he expressed displeasure with various production issues during filming at first Rich complexities of human AI interactions undoubtedly though the Megan Fox film seems entertaining enough to attract audiences and perform well at the global box office Megan Denise Fox born May is an American actress she made her acting debut in the family film Holiday in the Sun which was followed by numerous supporting roles in film and television such as the teen musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen as well as a starring role in the abcm hope faith her breakout role was as Mika Baines in the Blockbuster action film Transformers which she reprised in its sequel Transformers Revenge of the Fallen FOX also portrayed the titular character in the horror comedy Jennifer's Body starred as April O'Neal in the superhero action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows and appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the fox sitcom new girl described as a sex symbol fox has made appearances in numerous magazines such as Maxim Rolling Stone and fum she has received two scream Awards and 14 Choice Awards early life Megan Denise Fox was born on May in Oak Ridge Tennessee to parents Gloria Darlene n sisen and Franklin Thomas Fox she spent her early childhood in nearby Rockwood Fox's father a parole officer and her mother divorced when Fox was 3 years old her mother later remarried and fox and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather Tony tanako she was raised very strictly Pentecostal but later attended Catholic school for years she said that her parents were very strict and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house Fox described her stepfather as being verbally mentally and emotionally abusive until his death she revealed in an interview that she developed an eating disorder in her adolescence and struggled with manic depression the latter of which ran in my family so there was definitely some wrestling with chemical imbalance going on Fox lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself Fox began her training in dance and drama at age five in Kingston Tennessee she attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim play at age after moving to St Petersburg Florida Fox continued her training when she was years old Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the American modeling and talent convention in Hilton Head South Carolina Fox attended high school at Morningside Academy in Port Saint Lucy until her junior year when she attended saint Lucy West Centennial High School when she was she tested out of school via correspondence in order to move to Los Angeles California Fox spoke freely about her time in school stating that in middle school she was bullied and had to eat lunch in the bathroom to avoid being pelted with ketchup packets she said that the problem was not her looks but that she had always gotten along better with boys and that rubbed some people the wrong way FOX also said that she was never popular in high school and that everyone hated me and I was a total Outcast my friends were always guys I have a very aggressive personality and girls didn't like me for that I've had only one great girlfriend my whole life in the same interview she mentions that she hated school and has never been a big believer in formal education and that the education I was getting seemed irrelevant so I was sort of checked out on that part of it as careers early roles and breakthrough in Fox made her acting debut in the romantic comedy Holiday in the Sun as spoiled ays Briana Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart Ashley Olsen which was released direct to DV on November in the next several years she guest starred on the sitcoms what I like about you and Two and a Half Men fox also appeared as an uncredited extra in the action film bad boys I I in Fox made her feature film debut opposite Lindsay Lan in the musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen playing the supporting role of Carla Santini a Ral of Lola Lohan she was also cast in a regular role on the ABC scum hope faith in which she portrayed Sydney chanowski replacing Nicole pagy Fox appeared in the second and third Seasons until the series was cancelled by ABC in May in Fox won the lead female role of Mika Baines in the liveaction film Transformers based on the toy and cartoon Saga of the same name Fox played the love interest of Shia lau's character Sam wiwi Fox was nominated for an MTV movie award in the category of breakthrough performance and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards she had signed on for two more Transformer sequels reprising her role as Mika in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen there was controversy surrounding Fox's appearance while filming the sequel when Michael B the film's director ordered the actress to gain1 the film was released worldwide on June to box office success Fox was to star in the third installment Transformers Dark of the Moon but was not included because of her statements comparing working under director Bay to working for Hitler she confessed on GQ magazine that had lost approximately pounds during filming due to consuming a primary diet of water and vinegar citation needed and reportedly had a dispute over her visible loss of weight with the director on set B stated in June that fox was fired on orders of executive producer Steven Spielberg a claimed Spielberg denied Fox at the Toronto International Film Festival screening of Jennifer's Body on September in Fox had her first lead role since the Transformer series she portrayed the title character in Jennifer's Body written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody the film initially earned mixed to average reviews upon its release with Fox's performance earning praise however the film grew a cult following over time and was critically reassessed as a forgotten feminist classic according to Cody the film was marketed incorrectly by Executives who focused their efforts on the young male audience in April she began filming the Western superhero film Jonah Hex in which she portrayed Tula black Laya a gun wielding Beauty and Jonah hex's Josh broland love interest the film was released on June despite receiving top billing Fox described her role in the film as being a cameo Jonah Hex was a critical and Commercial failure in the u s with its International distribution canceled after its poor performance the film was named the worst picture of the Year by the Houston film critic Society s rise to prominence Fox starred alongside Mickey Rock in the drama Passion Play after premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival its conventional theatrical distribution was bypassed for a director video release with only two screens briefly showing the film to fulfill contractual obligations roor remarked that the film was terrible another terrible movie Fox appeared with Dominic monagan in the music video for am menim and ranna's single love the way you lie in Fox appeared briefly in Saka Baron Cohen's comedy film The Dictator and had a featured role in Jud aau's comedy film this is she voiced the role of Lois Lane in the animated comedy film Robot Chicken DC Comic special an episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken that aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on September Fox at a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle screening in Sydney on September in January Fox was featured in a Brazilian television commercial for Brahma beer in February Fox set aside her differences with her former director Michael Bay and worked again with him on his reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles starring as the lead human character of April O'Neal in Fox was cast in the role of Amelia delanis in the plarium video game stormfall rise of Balor in October it was confirmed that fox would be temporarily replacing zoie Des Shanel in the television sitcom new girl following Deschanel's maternity leave she starred as Regan Lucas appearing in the fifth and sixth seasons of the series her performance earned positive reviews from critics in Fox reprised her role of April O'Neal in the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows on September it was confirmed that fox would star in the Korean War film The Battle of jangari beside Korean actor Kim mayong Min she played a lead role as margarite haggens an American news reporter in Fox starred in the mystery fantasy film above the Shadows opposite Olivia Thurby and Alan richson directed by Claudia Myers it was released on July by gravitas Ventures that same year Fox appeared in zeroville directed by James Franco which was previously shot in the film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office s current work in Fox starred opposite Josh D Hamill in the family comedy film think like a dog which was released on video on On Demand on June also that year she starred in the lead role of the action film Rogue which was released on August and she starred in The Thrillers midnight in the switchgrass opposite Emil hush and Bruce Willis directed by Randall EMT and until death directed by s k Dale in Fox starred in the drama comedy big gold brick alongside Oscar Isaac Andy Garcia Lucy hail and emry Cohen directed by Brian psos Fox also played a role in the film Taurus a musical drama alongside Gun Kelly Naomi wild and Lil Jay in Fox was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Fox played a Crime Boss Alana in the Thriller film Johnny Clyde with Tyson Ritter Fox played Gina in the fourth Expendables film Expendables released in September of the same year in November Fox released her first book titled pretty boys are poisonous a collection of her own poetry Public Image status and Persona Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times called Fox a sex symbol of the highest order and said she was the first Bo un ified sex symbol of the saint Century Craig flaster of MTV stated Transformers broke Fox into the mainstream immediately turning her into a household name an international sex symbol she has been featured on various magazine covers and hottest and most beautiful woman lists throughout the years such as Maxim's hot lists and when fun readers voted her the sexiest woman in the world in people named her one of sand ass most beautiful at every age scholar Mark depalo stated that fox achieved instant Fame as Mika in Transformers because a highly sexualized erotically idealized figure draped over a car or motorcycle invariably evokes lust in the heterosexual male onlooker and fox did this by leaning over a Camaro while wearing a flimsy pink belly shirt and short skirt which read as an unequivocal sex invite to male viewers the editors of men's health also credited the Camaro scene with contributing to Fox's Fame Fox with two of her tattoos visible Fox at Spike TV scream Awards on October Fox at the the annual Hollywood Life Magazine breakthrough Awards on December fox said all women in Hollywood are known and marketed as sex symbols but that this is okay if the woman knows how to utilize the status she created a character for her Public Image because she was unwilling to sacrifice her true self to the world scolars wheeler Winston Dixon and gwendel and Audrey Foster disagreed that every woman in Hollywood is marketed as a sex symbol and stated that Fox's celebrity is based on what she admits is an entirely artificial construct designed for dissemination in the internet age a Saint Century Media personality in every sense of the word part of her Persona included making outlandish comments which she said helped her reach her level of fame versus being a typical starlord who said all the right things her tattoos which she began getting at age as a form of self-expression helped popularize tattoo fashion she had over nine known tattoos including a picture of Marilyn Monroe's face on her right forearm and a quote on her shoulder author John terranean argued that Fox's Monroe tattoo enhanced her implicit claims to Monroe's Legacy as Hollywood's leading sex symbol Fox ended up removing the Monroe tattoo in a series of laser sof because she felt that Monroe's life was full of negativity and she did not want to emulate it the media often compared Fox to actress Angelina Jolie dubbing her the next Angelina Jolie which also affected her image amid this in reports that she was to replace Jolie in a new Lara Croft film Fox commented that the comparisons indicate a lack of creativity on the part of the media and attributed them to both she and Jolie being brunette having to tattoos cursing and mentioning in about sex which people find outrageous Lynn hburg of the New York Times opined that the Jolie comparison would probably have been made by the media eventually but Fox sped up the process by linking herself to Jolie and that she enjoyed creating entertaining copy by telling Tales of darkness and lust ah in Fox's Public Image came under scrutiny when an unsigned letter from three crew members of Transformers defended director Michael Bay against accusations made by Fox about his onset Behavior including a comparison with Adolf Hitler in response to the letter alleging that fox is on set behavior is unpleasant in contrast her public Persona ba stated he does not condemn the letter or Fox's outlandish quotes but her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm and that they still work well together a production assistant who worked on Transformers also stated that he never saw Fox act inappropriately on set fox said the Letter's claims were false and that she had privately spoken with the parties involved she said she was very fortunate to be a part of the franchise and was looking forward to continuing her work dealo concluded that Fox's criticism of the media sexually objectifying girls and women was in stark contrast to her sex symbol status and that her Defiance of director Michael Bay and frequent outspoken comments stifled her career media exposure Fox at the premere of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen in Paris on June the increased media exposure was difficult for Fox who acknowledged being shy and insecure to adjust to it also positioned her as a potential role model and later led to her being typer cast she rejected being a formal role model but said that she could make young girls feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right and that she was a different role model for girls that maybe America was not comfortable with she considered being typer cast as attractive an opportunity to surprise people when she gives a good performance in a film but said she is interested in portraying less sexualized characters MTV's Craig flaster said that although fox has been tpass as the big budget sex symbol she has shown comedic range Fox's overexposure in the media LED several men's websites such as askmen to boycott her on AUST although some refused to do so feeling that the boycott was a publicity stunt and therefore hypocritical in response to the media tension Fox told magazine nylon in September of that year that the studio wanted to make sure the film would make million dollars so they oversaturated the media with their stars and that she did not want to have people get completely sick of her before she's ever even done something legitimate she became much less prominent in the media by after starring in the less commercially successful films Jonah Hex and passion play that same year fox said my my biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character I don't regret what has happened to me but I regret the way I have dealt with it Dixon and Foster stated the problem fox faces is that the image construct has replaced the real in the minds of the public and once established a media Persona is hard to recalibrate ah personal life in Fox was targeted by a group of fashion motivated criminals known as The Bling Ring who robbed her then boyfriend Brian Austin Green's home for access to Fox's possessions fox has a form of braida called braida type D and has discussed her obsessive compulsive disorder OCD insecurities self Haring and has acknowledged that she has low self-esteem in she said that her Christian faith is still very important to her and she believes it keeps her grounded Fox and then husband green were supporters of generosity water and funded the creation of over 10 water wells for the organization with regard to relationships and her sexuality fox said that she has a general distrust and dislike of men and that the perception of her as a wild and crazy sex bot is false because she is a social Fox stated that she would rather stay at home instead of going out and emphasized that she cannot have sex with someone she does not love she is bisexual and said she believes that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes she stated in I have no question in my mind about being bisexual but I'm also a hypocrite I would never date a girl who was bisexual because that means they also sleep with men and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man and box told in style and JIA girl would come up to me and be like you had a lot to do with me like identifying and understanding that I was gay or understanding that I was bisexual and that of course is by far like the most moving rewarding thing that I have experienced in my life to be a part of something that helped people figure that out or helped people deal with that or feel better about that one of my favorite things that I get called is being like a bu icon and that is one of the things I am the most proud of and she has several tattoos which includes the Chinese symbol strength that is drawn on the back of her neck a quote from the William Shakespeare play King Lea that reads we will all laugh at gilded butterflies the yin and yang symbol on her left bishes and a crescent moon entwined with a star on her ankle FOX also has a poem tattooed near her breast that reads there once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart and another tattoo on her back that quotes friedr nicher and those who were seen dancing were thought to be inan who could not har the be in music she claims that she had it drawn in honor of her Passion Play CoStar Mickey Ro but later clarified that it's not necessarily A homage to him she also once had her ex-husband Brian Austin Green's first name tattooed on her hip but later had it covered she removed the portrait of Marilyn Monroe that was tattooed on her right forearm stating it is a negative character as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life she also has a tattoo on her left collarbone that reads the gunman in Spanish as well as numerous flowers and one snake on her abdomen fox has numerous smaller tattoos sped across her fingers some of which include dots numbers and a crescent moon Fox revealed in her book pretty boys are poisonous that she has suffered a miscarriage from her pregnancy with what would have been her fourth child relationships Fox and Brian Austin Green at the the Golden Globes on January Machine Gun Kelly and Fox at the NBA Celebrity allstar game on February Fox began dating actor Brian Austin Green in after meeting on the set of hope faith she was years old while he was according to Fox green was initially hesitant to enter a relationship with her due to the age difference stating I had to convince him that I was slightly more responsible and well spoken and had other things to bring to the table besides being they became engaged in November in February they ended their engagement but were reported to have gotten engaged again on June Fox maintained that she and green had been continuously engaged since Fox and Green married on June in a private ceremony at the Four Season Resort on Maui together they have three sons born in and fox was also a stepmother to Green's son from a previous relationship Fox filed for divorce on August a few days after she and green announced their separation by early they were back together and expecting their third child on April Fox filed to dismiss her second attempt for a divorce in Los Angeles California in May green announced that he and fox had separated after nearly years of marriage and in November Fox filed for divorce from Green for a second time the divorce was finalized on October also in June she and singer Machine Gun Kelly went public about their relationship several weeks after the release of Machine Gun Kelly zachi Jima Bloody Valentine whose music video features Fox on January Fox announced that the two were engaged however on March Fox announced their engagement was called off Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a American superhero film based on the characters of the same name created by Peter lad and Kevin Eastman directed by Jonathan leasman and written by Josh applebomb Andre nech and Evan doy it is a reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle film series the film stars Megan Fox will Arnette William fitner Danny Woodburn Abby Elliot nol Fischer Jeremy Howard Pete plk and Alan richson with the voices of Johnny Knoxville and Tony shalal the plot follows the turtles who with the help of their new ally April O'Neal face the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan as well as protect their New York City Home the film was announced shortly before turtle's co-creator Peter Le sold the rights to the characters to Nickelodeon in October in late May Paramount pictures and Nickelodeon Movies brought Michael by and his Platinum Dunes Partners Andrew form and Brad Fuller on to produce the film leasman began negotiations to direct in the screenplay went through numerous rewrites with apple bomb nech and doy ultimately getting final credit principal photography began in March in Tupper Lake New York and production concluded in August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered on July in Mexico City and was released in theaters on August the film received generally negative reviews from critics for its scream play and characterizations while its performances action sequences and visual effects were praised despite this it became a box office success grossing million dollars against a million dollars against budget becoming the highest grossing film in the franchise as well as the highest grossing film from Nickelodeon Movies a sequel Out of the Shadows followed into slightly better reviews but failed to match the first film's box office gross pled it April O'Neal a local reporter for Channel Eyewitness News in New York City investig Ates a crime wave by a group of criminals called The Foot Clan at a dock at night she sees the foot raiding cargo containers after an unseen vigilante attacks the thieves April notices a symbol Left Behind April's supervisor bernardet Thompson and her co-workers are oblivious to her story later while covering a charity event thrown by sax Industries April expresses gratitude to the company's CEO Eric sax who was her late father's partner frustrated by the Vigilante the foot Clan's leader shredder has the foot soldiers take hostages at a subway in order to draw him out April at the scene becomes a hostage herself four mysterious figures arrive take out the clan and free the hostages April follows them to a rooftop and is shocked to see that the Vigilantes are anthropomorphic Mutant Turtles causing her to pass out when she regains Consciousness they advise her not to tell anyone of them as they leave April hears Rafal and Leonardo's names April returns to her apartment and remembers project Renaissance her father's science experiment which involved four Turtles named Leonardo Donatello Michelangelo rapael and a mutated rat called Splinter unable to convince bernardet of the turtle's existence April is dismissed her cooworker ver Fenwick drives her to saak estate where she confides in him about her Discovery sax believes her and reveals that he and April's father had been experimenting on a mutagen created to cure disease which was thought lost in the fire that killed her dad at Splinter's behest the turtles bring April to their Sewer Lair Splinter explains how April had saved them all from the fire and freed them into to the Sewer the mutagen caused the five of them to grow and develop humanoid attributes Splinter took on the role of their father using April's father as an example after finding a book on Ninjutsu in a storm drain he proceeded to teach himself then the turtles the fighting style when April revealed she told sax about her discovery of the Turtles Splinter informs her that sax was practically raised by the shredder and works with him then Shredder and the foot soldiers attack the lair defeating Splinter and incapacitating Rafal while the other Turtles are captured April comes out of hiding and she and raffle plan to save the others at sax estate he has the turtles blood drained in order to create an antidote to a deadly virus that sax hopes to flood New York with believing he will become rich from people seeking his cure Rafa April and Vern storm the estate and free the other Turtles the group then escapes the compound in pursuit of saxs on a radio tower in the city sax and Shredder plant a device that will flood the city with the virus while sax is preparing to convert the mutagen into a healing serum sax reveals to April that he killed her father April and Vern subdue Sachs in the lab while the turtles are battling Shredder on the roof during the fight the tower support beams collapse as the turtles try to keep it from falling and infecting the city April confronts Shredder with the mutagen in the struggle the tower collapses and the turtles pull April onto it with them while Shredder falls to the street and is captured by the police believing they are about to die the turtles confess their secrets while Raphael gives an impassioned speech about his love for his brothers before they land harmlessly on the street they vanish before the humans find them and return to the sewers where they give splin to the mutagen and he begins to recover sometime later April meets with Vern who tries and fails to ask her on a date the turtles appear in a special modified Turtle van and Michelangelo accidentally blows up Vern's new car with a rocket as the police respond to the explosion the turtles leave but not before Mikey tries to serenate April with Happy Together by The Band The Turtles much to his brother's annoyance and April's Amusement cadid voice actors and motion capture edit Pete ploszek motion capture and Johnny Knoxville voice as Leonardo the leader and oldest member of the Ninja Turtles Jeremy Howard as Donatello the most intelligent member of the Ninja Turtles Alan richson as Rafael the strongest member of the Ninja Turtles Noel Fisher as Michelangelo the most childish and youngest of the Ninja Turtles who has a crush on April Danny Woodburn motion capture and Tony shhab voice as Splinter a mutant rat who is the adoptive father and Sensei of the N Ninja Turtles live actioned it Megan Fox as April O'Neal a reporter for Channel News Molina Weissman as young April O'Neal will arnet as Vern Fenwick April's coworker who has a crush on her William ficner as Eric saxs CEO of sax Industries with ties to the Foot Clan tooru mamun as the Shredder the leader of the Foot Clan hoopy Goldberg as bernardet Thompson Min noi as Karai a member of the Foot Clan Abby Elliot as Taylor April's roommate Karen kilum as Jim mcnorton K tood Freeman as Doctor Baxter Stockman a scientist that works at saxs Industries who is briefly seen in flashbacks Paul Fitzgerald as Doctor O'Neal the late father of April O'Neal chance Kelly as Mr retti retti Derek M as Dojo ninja Kevin Eastman as himself credited as Doctor production at develop medit nedit in October following the news of Nickelodeon purchasing all of Mirage Studio