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Transformers 2: Scabs?

Sci Fi Universe excerpts some comments director Michael Bay made at Rotten Tomatoes, saying he has been hard at work on a sequel to TRANSFORMERS during the writer’s strike:
“We’ve got our characters all designed [...] I always write all my scripts, my movies anyway so at least I’ve got something to give the writers. It’s [...]

Academy names finalists for Best Visual Effects and Make-up Oscars

Given the great abundance of award worthy effects films that are released each year, one has to wonder why the Academy in all its great wisdom, continues to announce a list of seven finalists for the effects Academy Award and then insists on whittling it down to only three nominees.
Every other award category (except for make-up [...]

Ring writer joins Transformers 2 team

Ehren Kruger (who wrote the English-langauge script for the American remake THE RING) is in negotiation to team up with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci on a sequel to TRANSFORMERS. Kurtzman and Orci wrote this summer’s blockbuster hit, which was based on the popular toys. Sci Fi Wire speculates that adding Kruger to the team [...]

Transformers 2 coming in 2009

Paramount and DreamWorks want to get a sequel to TRANSFORMERS into theatres on June 26, 2009, and they hope to get Michael Bay back into the director’s chair.
Despite the tensions between them, DreamWorks and Par have plenty of incentive to move forward with the next installment in the budding franchise. “Transformers,” starring Shia LaBeoufand based [...]

Transformers obliterates Asian box office

TRANSFORMERS has earned $5.2-million during five weeks in Malaysian theatres, surpassing SPIDER-MAN 3 to earn the all time box office crown for that territory. The Michael Bay action flick also surpassed both HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and THE SIMPSONS MOVIE to take the #1 position.
That’s not the only achievement in Asian [...]

Transformers blows things up real good – Science Fiction Film Review

 
This sci-fi action flick featuring Good and Evil robots based on the famous Hasbro toys promises to be another WAR OF THE WORLDS or INDEPENDENCE DAY. Although it strives to appeal to the whole family, it winds up emerging as a kiddie flick on steroids – a big-budget, effects heavy, feature film version of a Saturday morning [...]