Shia Labeouf

Early IN the upcoming tech-thriller "Eagle Eye," a suspected terrorist is in the back seat of an SUV bouncing along a rugged road in Afghanistan as a U.S. spy drone follows it from the skies overhead. The drone detects a cellphone in the car, captures its number and sends it to Washington. Intelligence agents dial the number and, as its owner starts to answer it, they order the camera to snap a photo, which is then transmitted to a distant American command center where a missile attack is being considered.

Google on Tuesday is noting the 366th anniversary of Maria Sibylla Merian's birth with the gift of the Google Doodle. So what makes Merian special? Her work was a marriage of art and science in a time of few female scientists and little documentation of pupal insects. The 17th century artist and naturalist (thus, the search engine's name spelled out with curled flora, fauna and critters), was captured by butterflies and other pupal insects. PHOTOS: Google Doodles of 2013 The daughter of an engraver and publisher and stepdaughter of a botanical painter, she started studying silkworms as a child in her native Frankfurt, Germany.

Miley Cyrus likes to spend her days playing with her dogs , skateboarding and watching television marathons of "SpongeBob SquarePants" - activities she often chronicles on Twitter. Now, the 19-year-old will have to fit a more adult activity into her schedule: wedding planning. The singer-actress announced last month that she is engaged to 22-year-old "The Hunger Games" star Liam Hemsworth. She becomes the latest in a line of young Hollywood stars to head for the altar, even as Americans are marrying older than they used to, and many are skipping the nuptials all together.

In “The Company You Keep,” the new film directed by Robert Redford, the Oscar winner also stars as a onetime political radical who has lived for decades as a fugitive from justice under a false identity. When the quiet, stable life he has created for himself is jeopardized, he is set back on the run to clear his name once and for all. The film, which opens Friday, has an impressive cast that includes Shia LaBeouf, Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Terrence Howard, Richard Jenkins, Chris Cooper, Sam Elliott and Nick Nolte.

Confirming one of Hollywood's worst-kept secrets, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas announced Friday that 20-year-old Shia LaBeouf has been selected to star in the next "Indiana Jones" movie. LaBeouf, who has the lead role in this weekend's new thriller "Disturbia" and the summer release "Transformers," will star opposite Harrison Ford, who originated the whip-cracking archeologist character in 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

A few weeks ahead of the trifecta of fall film festivals, Sony Pictures Classics has purchased all U.S. rights to Robert Redford's new film "The Company You Keep. " Redford stars in the film that he also directed opposite Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie and Susan Sarandon. The movie centers on a former Weather Underground activist (Redford) who goes on the run from a journalist (LaBeouf) who has discovered his identity. Lem Dobbs ("Haywire") adapted the script from the 2003 novel by Neil Gordon.

The 21st century has so far seen the release of three movies directed by Robert Redford: "The Legend of Bagger Vance," "Lions for Lambs" and "The Conspirator. " So this morning's news that Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the Oscar-winning director's latest, the political thriller "The Company You Keep," prompted a question for SPC Co-president Tom Bernard. Can Redford be relevant again? "This movie has the potential to re-establish him," Bernard says of the film, which focuses on a former Weather Underground militant (Redford)

The career makeover of Shia LaBeouf has taken another unexpected turn with the announcement that the young actor will make his Broadway debut in the spring alongside Alec Baldwin in a revival of the play "Orphans," a drama about two brothers who kidnap a wealthy older man. "Orphans" is scheduled to open April 7 at the Schoenfeld Theater in New York. LaBeouf will play the eldest brother who takes care of his weaker sibling in a run-down house in Philadelphia. Their kidnapping plot heads south when their captive turns on them.

It has been three years since Shia LaBeouf won his Emmy, and a lot has happened in the interim. He loved and lost, moved into a house of his own, came of legal age to vote. Also, he decided to take acting seriously. To the poodle-haired boy who charmed his way into the hearts of critics and Disney Channel loyalists with the tweener sitcom "Even Stevens," the Emmy was, he says, "just a big joke, like, 'Ha, ha. I fooled them.'

Up-and-coming hunks Shia LaBeouf Brawn factor, on a barbell scale of one to five Resume Star of the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens," performed sketch comedy on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," appeared in tween fare "Holes" and "The Greatest Game Ever Played" and in the edgier "I, Robot" and "Constantine." Upcoming films include "Transformers," "Surf's Up" and the fourth "Indiana Jones." In April, LaBeouf, 20, was named ShoWest's male star of tomorrow. Spiritual forefather Tom Hanks.