Movie Chronicles

New Transformers 2 Trailer leaks early! April 29th, 2009

UPDATE: Final Trans­form­ers 2 Trailer released in HD
See also our in depth analy­sis of the trailer with high qual­ity screen­shots of all the key scenes, robots and Megan Fox.

A grainy in-theater ver­sion has leaked early, given the qual­ity of these things, this one is pretty watch­able. Lots of new footage and a lot more of the sto­ry­line in this trailer. Includ­ing a shot of Dev­as­ta­tor climb­ing up a pyra­mid.

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UPDATE: Chang­ing video source to one that works, though sound is out of sync:

or alter­na­tively:

Trailer descrip­tion

- Opens with Sam telling Bum­ble­bee he’s not com­ing to col­lege
– “Look at this place, I feel smarter already”, Sam’s par­ents at col­lege
– Sexy pan­ning shot of Megan Fox strad­dling a bike
– Sam has a ‘men­tal melt­down’ in the mid­dle of his class (as reported from the Prince­ton film­ing), see­ing sym­bols, mark­ing them into the ground
– Sam meets Opti­mus in a ceme­tery (cemetary film­ing set report)
– More of Bum­ble­bee and the Twins in the dessert, some of that GM promo footage too
– Find­ing the sym­bols on some­thing ancient, pre­sum­ably behind that paint­ing
– Mega­tron returns! We see him ris­ing from the depths of the ocean and ris­ing up behind Mega nFox
– “Mega­tron wants what’s in my mind“
– “Fate rarely calls on us at a moment of our choos­ing“
– We see Sam and Mikaela jump­ing rooftops
– Bum­ble­bee ducks a swing­ing arm from Demol­isher
– Explo­sions in a library
– Sil­ver Sat­urn Astra (as seen at Prince­ton) fly­ing through the air with pre­sum­ably Shia falling out and Megan Fox call­ing after him
– Opti­mus Prime attack­ing the char­ac­ter with rotor blades on his back, pos­si­bly Black­out
– Prime fly­ing through the air after Mega­tron attacks him
– Bricks float­ing in cir­cles around one of the pyra­mids, F-16s fly past, Dev­as­ta­tor climbs up the side of the pyra­mid (same angle on the pyra­mid as seen in the offi­cial shots)
– Jet­fire stoops down
– Dev­as­ta­tor crushes a vehi­cle before he starts suck­ing up sand with his giant vor­tex mouth
– We see a robot, pos­si­bly Mud­flaps being sucked towards the vortex

Assembling 2011, Fan Made Avengers poster April 26th, 2009

Although the tagline is now out­dated (we’ll see a release in 2012), Este­van Garza has made two excel­lent Avengers posters to keep us happy. Included are Thor, Cap­tain Amer­ica, Iron Man, War Machine, Black Widow, The Hulk and Nick Fury.

Rampage, Demolisher and Mixmaster Video reviews April 26th, 2009

Shortly after I posted the Chro­mia and Mega­tron video reviews Peaugh posted up three more con­struc­ti­con reviews show­cas­ing the Voy­ager class Mix­mas­ter and Demol­isher toys and Deluxe Rampage.

Demol­isher Constructicon

Ram­page Constructicon

Mix­mas­ter Constructicon

GB3 to have Ghostbuster cadets April 26th, 2009

Dan Akroyd has offered up a cou­ple of Ghost­busters 3 tid­bits for us. There shall be Ghost­buster cadets, pre­sum­ably in train­ing, using all the new Ghost­buster tools that have been devel­oped since their last big NY out­ing. Harold Ramis main­tains that every­body from the orig­i­nal cast shall return, though Sigour­ney Weaver is doubtful.

“There will be a whole new gen­er­a­tion that has to be trained, and that whole new gen­er­a­tion will be led by an indi­vid­ual who you’ll all love when you meet him but I’m not going to tell you any­thing yet,” teased Aykroyd. “They’ll be lots of cadets, boys and girls, who’ll be learn­ing how to use the psy­chotron, the accel­er­a­tors and all the new stuff, the neu­ron split­ter, which is going to be the inter­planer, inter­cep­tor and all these great tools that they’re going to have, to flip from dimen­sion to dimension.”

The word, ‘Cadet’ implies there may be some sort of ghost and para­nor­mal acad­emy. And using the word ‘lots’ sug­gests there will be a large group of Ghostbusters.

Time to throw an odd­ball out there, with mere spec­u­la­tion you can see how this might spread out to form a num­ber of Ghost­buster fran­chises across the US, tack­ling the para­nor­mal every­where, rather than just NY.

Transformers 2 World Première on June 8th in Tokyo April 26th, 2009

A Japan­ese blog, Eiga, has posted details sug­gest­ing that the World Pre­mière of Trans­form­ers Revenge of the Fallen may be in Tokyo on June 8th, four days prior to the US, at TOHO Cin­e­mas, Rop­pongi Hills. Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox will all be in attendance.

The rather jum­bled translation:

[Eiga​.com Movie News] 07 to the hit record pub­lished in the SF block­buster, “Trans­form­ers” sequel, and four days ear­lier than the United States will be pub­lished June 20 in Japan, the world’s fastest “Trans­form­ers / Revenge” . The world pre­mière will be at the unveil­ing of the world’s first film, in Tokyo June 8 TOHO was decided at the Rop­pongi Hills SHINEMAZU. Accord­ing to this, direc­tor Michael Bay, Shire of RABUFU star, Megan Fox, who plans to visit Japan.

July 3 is the orig­i­nal 1907 open­ing date is in 1900 North Amer­ica 300 mil­lion dol­lars, all in world record 700,000,000 grossed 800 mil­lion dol­lars. In the same year in Japan was pub­lished in the August 4 date, fun rev­enue and 41 bil­lion yen was a big hit, DVD has sold 64 mil­lion copies.

“Trans­form­ers”, was released TAKARATOMI 85 years, the orig­i­nal toy robot that trans­forms into var­i­ous vehi­cles, such as. The lat­est “Trans­form­ers / revenge” of the Trans­form­ers toys come from TAKARATOMI May 30 will be released on Sunday.

Steven Spielberg’s and accom­plished, fol­low­ing the orig­i­nal recently, and coach bay is said to have seen a rush of peo­ple in this film, in doing so, to fur­ther scale-up from the orig­i­nal con­tent, “if this SUGO it! “divulging that excla­ma­tion. The pre­vi­ous total of 12 trans­form­ers of the body appeared in the film is more than five times over 60 new and orig­i­nal from 5000 and cost 100 mil­lion dol­lars, twice the num­ber reported three bil­lion dollars.

The block­buster that sort of “place of birth” will be unveiled the first in Japan, but is likely to receive atten­tion from around the world.

Transformers re-release and new trailer RSVP April 26th, 2009

Para­mount Pic­tures have released the RSVP details for the the­aters show­ing the Trans­form­ers re-release and brand new accom­pa­ny­ing Trans­form­ers 2 trailer. The flier pro­vides a list of RSVP email addresses and sug­gests that by email­ing them you can reserve a seat. This is not the case. To grab a ticket you must turn up at the the­ater as early as pos­si­ble, to guar­an­tee a seat — the addresses are used to deter­mine pop­u­lar­ity, as TLAMB discovered.

There shall also be a cos­tume com­pe­ti­tion — the best dressed Auto­bot or Decep­ti­con shall win a trip to the pre­mière in Los Angeles.

Thanks for the RSVP for the spe­cial screen­ing of TRANSFORMERS. The screen­ing is FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY, as this RSVP is to estab­lish an accu­rate head count and does not guar­an­tee seat­ing. No one will be admit­ted once the screen­ing begins.

Come to the screen­ing dressed as the coolest/most creative/awesome Trans­former ever and be entered to win a trip to the Pre­mière in Los Angeles!!!!

Trans­form­ers re-release locations

Los Ange­les: 7pm at The Bridge Cin­ema De Lux, in IMAX
New York: 8pm at AMC Loews Lin­coln Square in IMAX
San Fran­cisco: 7pm at AMC Metreon in IMAX
Chicago: 8pm at Navy Pier in IMAX
Toronto: 7pm at Sco­tia­bank in IMAX
Philadel­phia: 7pm at UA King of Prus­sia in DIGITAL
Wash­ing­ton DC: 7pm at AMC George­town in DIGITAL
Dal­las: 7pm at Stu­dio Movie Grill Royal Lane in 35MM
Boston: 7pm at AMC Boston Com­mon in 35MM
Phoenix: 7pm at Harkins Tempe Mar­ket­place in Tempe in DIGITAL
Seat­tle: 7pm at Cin­erama in 35MM
Atlanta: 7pm at Regal Atlantic Sta­tion in 35MM
Miami: 7pm at AMC Sun­set in South Miami in 35MM
Detroit: 7pm ar Emag­ine Novi in Novi, MI in DIGITAL
San Diego: 7pm at Regal Edwards Mira Mesa in 35MM
Den­ver: 7pm at UA Col­orado Cen­ter in 35MM
Sacra­mento: 7pm at UA Mar­ket Square in 35MM
Orlando: 7pm at Pre­mière Fash­ion Sq Mall in DIGITAL
Min­neapo­lis: 7pm at AMC South­dale in Edina in 35MM
Bal­ti­more: 7pm at AMC White Marsh in 35MM

Mixmaster packaging, battle-mode and bio April 26th, 2009

Mixmaster’s toy pack­ag­ing fea­tures a bio and pic­tures of all three toy modes — alt, robot and battle.

Res­i­dent chemist and explo­sives expert for the élite among the Decep­ti­cons, Mix­mas­ter has spent his entire life learn­ing all there is to know about chem­i­cal inter­ac­tion. He can make thou­sands of poi­sons, explo­sives, and deadly gasses from the mate­ri­als around him. The other Decep­ti­cons rely on him to fash­ion pow­er­ful war­heads for their mis­siles, and dan­ger­ous ven­oms in which to coat their blades.

Skids & Mudflaps, Concession Cups, Ratchet Bio April 26th, 2009

Con­ces­sion Cups

Col­lider were snap­ping shots on the ShoW­est con­ven­tion floor, included in their round up are Trans­form­ers 2 con­ces­sion cups fea­tur­ing Bum­ble­bee, Mega­tron, Opti­mus Prime and Starscream.

Ratchet Bio

Rac­ing across the dunes of the north­ern Sahara Desert, the roar of this engine echo­ing off the ever-shifting dunes, Auto­bot Ratchet charges toward the inevitable con­fronta­tion with Mega­tron and his assem­bled Decep­ti­con army. Though he has bat­tled against odds this bad in the past, no fight before has meant so much. He knows the fate of the uni­verse rests on the out­come of this con­flict, and he will do every­thing in his power to see to it that his allies come through it safe and victorious.

Skids & Mudflaps

TF08 have posted some close up shots of TF2’s mech­a­nized Jar Jar Binks buck toothed twins toys; Skids and Mudflaps.

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