Although you won’t have a chance to meet Shia LaBeouf, Josh Drumel, Tyrese Gibson or Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Friday, you will get a chance to meet some folks who might have shared a scene with these Hollywood stars.

At 6 p.m. Friday, extras from the movie “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” will be given the red carpet treatment at a special showing of the new film and Marcus Theatres in Menomonee Falls.

Extras from the movie who shot scenes at the Milwaukee Art Museum will arrive in white stretch limousines and walk the red carpet into the theatre. The theatre is located at W180N9393 Premier Lane.

When the Benzini Bros. Circus train steams across the big screen Friday, Wisconsin will be well represented, but the state could have had a starring role right along with Reese Witherspoon and teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson.

That's because the movie's director, Francis Lawrence, wanted the love story, "Water for Elephants," based in a 1930s circus in upstate New York, to be as historically accurate as possible.

In 2009, Lawrence spent time at Circus World Museum here, studying photographs, films, costumes, documents and circus wagons.

He also got a feel for the topography of Sauk County, which is similar to that of the rolling hills of upstate New York.

At the time it appeared to Steve Freese, executive director of Circus World, that Wisconsin had a reasonable shot of being the backdrop for Lawrence's movie, which is based on Sara Gruen's best-selling 2006 book.

Congratulations to Alice Cooper who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame recently.

To celebrate, here is Alice's best movie scene, EVER, from the original Wayne's World movie.

A Minnesota man is in jail after he allegedly drank alcohol, swore and urinated at a matinee screening of the animated film “Rango” in Wisconsin.

Forty-nine-year-old Timothy Elvester of Aitkin, Minn., is charged with vandalism and disorderly conduct.

A police officer was called Saturday afternoon to the Desert Star Cinema in Lake Delton. The theater manager told the officer a patron was “very intoxicated” and drinking liquor from a pint bottle.

The Baraboo News Republic reports the manager said he had received complaints about the man swearing during the movie. Staff told police Elvester had urinated in the theater and had fallen on the stairs.

The movie was stopped so officers could pull Elvester from the theater, which was about 90 percent full.

As small-town Wisconsin insurance salesman Tim Lippe (rhymes with dippy) in the delightfully bent heartland comedy Cedar Rapids, Ed Helms wears the too-flat haircut and too-wrong sweaters of a 40-year-old virgin. But Tim is no such newbie, thank you very much: He enjoys bedroom time with a MILF-y lady — played with juice by Sigourney Weaver, no less — who was once his seventh-grade teacher in the town of Brown Valley, where Tim still lives. Indeed, the fellow is excited by and grateful for everything the world has to offer. It's just that, until he's sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to represent his firm at an annual insurance convention, the boundaries of his world (and the color palette of his wardrobe) have been defined by Brown Valley's village limits. Boy, does Tim learn a lot about life in one Cedar Rapids weekend, especially with party-hearty fellow conventioneers like those played by John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, and The Wire's Isiah Whitlock Jr. on hand to open his eyes.

Dangerfield in "Back to School"

The location is familiar, the colors on the sweatshirt look right, but what’s the name of that academic institution? Ah, yes — Grand Lakes University, home of the Hooters: the fictitious college attended by Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) in the movie Back to School. Twenty-five years ago, Dangerfield and company came to Madison, using the UW campus as their backdrop while filming exterior scenes. The movie featured not only Dangerfield, but also Sally Kellerman, Adrienne Barbeau, Sam Kinison, Kurt Vonnegut (yep, that Kurt Vonnegut), and Robert Downey, Jr.

Back to School was released in June 1986 and grossed more than $91 million, making it the sixth-highest earning film that year. Dangerfield was both writer and star, and it was perhaps the peak of his film career, coming on the heels of hits Caddyshack and Easy Money. In his subsequent movies, the roles and financial returns were never quite so large.

The movie may also be the high-water mark of the UW’s film fame. In spite of Back to School’s success, campus didn’t catch on as a substitute studio. Evidently, Madison’s distance from Hollywood — plus its eleven-month-long winters — are cinematically inconvenient. Even Back to School shot many of its scenes elsewhere, including the diving competition that formed a critical component in the plot. Dangerfield did his famed “Triple Lindy” not in the Nat, but at the Industry Hills Aquatic Club in Industry, California.

Emma Blankschein made sure she was one of the first online when IMAX tickets to the midnight debut of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I" went on sale about three weeks ago — and that Thursday she, along with the four friends joining her in the AMC Star cinema parking lot nearly 18 hours before the film began to roll — was also the first in line to get a seat. 

"I own 38 Harry Potter books," including volumes in Spanish, Latin and German, said Blankschein, 17 and a senior at Mount Horeb High School. She's never missed a movie and, like the friends with her on Thursday, has taken a Harry Potter-themed tour of England. The five teenagers showed up at the theater at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday wearing hand-painted Harry Potter T-shirts, bracing the cold and cooking pancakes on a camp stove for breakfast. By early afternoon, theater personnel invited them inside.