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Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Saturday, 24th February 2007 at 10:42:46 GMT
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In a quick video interview with ISEB on the red carpet of the GM Ten event which took place on the 20th Feb, Michael Bay answered a few quetions about the Transformers Movie, such as how the movie is coming along as well as Megatrons voice. He said that he could not say who the voice of Megatron will be but that its getting down to to the wire now and that some (the voice actors) will be people who are unknown as they will "tweak them out a lot". You can watch the interview
here.
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on: Saturday, 24th February 2007 at 10:34:29 GMT
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on: Saturday, 24th February 2007 at 10:23:18 GMT
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Woolworths had, and have now removed, a
listing
for a child's Transformers Movie Optimus Prime dress-up set costume. There is no news on why the item was removed.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Wednesday, 21st February 2007 at 20:37:46 GMT
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Mike Stefanovik, of Digital Toys, has uploaded the first images of Transformers Music Label Rumble, Frenzy as well as previously seen images of Soundwave. Soundwave transforms into a MP3 player whilst Rumble and Frenzy make up the earphones.
Click here for the
images of Rumble and Frenzy
Click here for
images of Soundwave in robot mode and
here for alt mode.
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on: Wednesday, 21st February 2007 at 20:36:13 GMT
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For a few years now Hasbro and General Motors have had a working relationship, seen in the form of the Transformers: Alternators line. Now the GM Vice President, Mike Jackson, speaks out about why GM feels that Transformers is helping to give their brand a global attraction.
"'Transformers' is a compelling project and offers us a global
platform for marketing GM products and building our brands," said Mike
Jackson, GM North America vice president, marketing and advertising.
"It represents the perfect intersection of entertainment, marketing and
design."
ComingSoon.net have an short
article covering the relationship between the two companies, which although doesn't relay anything new, it's an interesting little read.
Four new movie stars "Bumblebee," "Autobot Jazz
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on: Wednesday, 21st February 2007 at 08:55:51 GMT
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TFWorld2005 admin Joe More has
found an auction on Taobao Auctions for a Transformers Movie: Real-Gear Booster X-10. The toy resembles that of G1 Laserbeak and seems to have most fans excited.
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on: Wednesday, 21st February 2007 at 08:47:41 GMT
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AcToys have
images of both Transformers Movie Optimus Prime and Legends of Cybertron 4-pack (inc. Cybertron Megatron, Movie Megatron, Cybertron Optimus Prime, Movie Optimus Prime).
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on: Monday, 19th February 2007 at 08:37:24 GMT
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That's the basic
opinion of US retail giant Wal-Mart according to The Allspark member Sir Optimal Omega IV.
"I don't know if anyone's interested in knowing what Wal-Mart is
planning for the release of the movie, but I happened to look up their
plans the other day at work. Every year at the beginning of February,
Wal-Mart brings all of their store managers, district managers and
other senior management to Kansas City and they have what they call a
"Year Beginning Meeting". Anyway, they talked about the TF movie.
They're
not making a huge push since they seem to think that Spider-Man 3,
Shrek the Third, and Pirates of the Carribean will sell more toys.
Anyway, they listed features with quantities and prices that each store
will get for the movie's release."It sounds like some bad news,
at least initially they may not be fully supporting the line as it vies
for shelf space with other toy lines. Hopefully this is just
preliminary information and they'll be expanding their plans as we get
closer to the release of the movie.
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on: Monday, 19th February 2007 at 08:34:45 GMT
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on: Sunday, 18th February 2007 at 18:46:57 GMT
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on: Saturday, 17th February 2007 at 11:47:52 GMT
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MTV.com has a
video interview with Michael Bay covering the making of the Transformers Movie as well as discussing future sequel possibilities and the input from fans among other things. If you don't want to watch there is a
text version as well.
Thanks to Seibertron for the original report.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Friday, 16th February 2007 at 08:31:59 GMT
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The Allspark have received
full details of Activisions Transformers The Game based on the Transformers Movie due out later this year.
TRANSFORMERS: THE GAME Based on TRANSFORMERS, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures' upcoming live-action feature film due out July 4th, and produced in association with Hasbro, TRANSFORMERS: The Game
lets gamers control the outcome in the battle for Earth as they choose
to protect it as AUTOBOTS or destroy it as DECEPTICONS. Players will
also experience the unstoppable power and massive scale of their
favorite ROBOTS IN DISGUISE such as BUMBLEBEE, BARRICADE and others. KEY FEATURES: - Protect Or Destroy The Earth
As the TRANSFORMERS robot's war comes to Earth, gamers make the
choice to join the AUTOBOTS in protecting our planet or to join the
DECEPTICONS in destroying it. With dual campaigns, the fate of the
world is in players' hands.
- MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
Instantly change from a larger than life robot to a high-powered
vehicle such as a sports car, fighter jet or helicopter. Seamless
transformations leave enemies in the dust or enhance players' combat
strategy with a range of options in both vehicle and robot modes that
take full advantage of the characters' dual forms.
- The World Is Your Playground Players crush,
topple and wreck every object, including buildings and vehicles, in
their path or use the objects as weapons. It is up to the gamer to
decide how best to use their surrounding environment.
- Freedom of Choice An unprecedented line-up lets gamers experience the massive scale, unique abilities and sheer strength of an
army of characters from the TRANSFORMERS universe when they choose to
play as OPTIMUS PRIME, MEGATRON, IRONHIDE, STARSCREAM, BUMBLEBEE and
more.
- Variety of Combat For
head-to-head battles, fans engage in melee combat that reflects each
TRANSFORMERS robot's character, scale, weight and power along with
melee weapons and special moves unique to each character. The game's
ranged combat offers a wide array of projective weapons designed to
take out enemies from afar.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 19:26:00 GMT
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Both Michael Bay's blog, Shoot for the Edit, Playthings.com and WNED.org have information on the Transformers Movie preview event held at the US Toyfair in New York. Where as previous reports have been from the fans, this gives Mr Bay's views on how the event went.
From
Shoot for the Edit
Toy Fair screens 25 minutes of 'Transformers'
By DADE HAYES
The invitation at first sounded too wacky to be believed. At
Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, hallowed province of
Fassbinder and Truffaut, footage from Paramount and DreamWorks'
Michael Bay pic "Transformers" would be shown to a crowd of toy
enthusiasts.
But so it went Tuesday night for an audience stocked with
consumer-product execs, toy collectors and general robot
evangelists in Gotham for the American Intl. Toy Fair. The footage
totaled 25 minutes from the film based on Hasbro's revived 1980s
toy line -- "not necessarily the best scenes, but some of the
scenes that were finished," cautioned Bay.
Ecstatic applause greeted each of the four long sequences.
The last time Bay took a high-octane passion project into a
high-end setting, he presided over a similar screening for "The
Island" at the Academy theater in Beverly Hills. That spring 2005
event began an anxious couple of months leading to one of the most
troubled releases of recent summers.
This time, Bay seemed gratified to be playing to an inherently more
sympathetic crowd. "You guys aren't really the target audience," he
joked.
The footage contained plenty of what producer Jerry Bruckheimer has
termed "Bay-os" -- automatic weapon fire, rumbling car engines,
sweaty military dialogue ("Bogey in the weeds and he's not
squawking!"
. But the scenes were spiked with
wit and exuberant popcorn energy. In one scene, John Turturro,
appearing as a mysterious, "Men in Black"-esque agent, savors the
line "Bingo! Take him and bake him!"
A brief panel session preceded the footage. Bay was joined by
DreamWorks production chief Adam Goodman and Brian Goldner, chief
operating officer of Hasbro and an exec producer on the pic. "It
reminds me of 'Back to the Future' or 'Close Encounters' -- real
Amblin film from back in the day," Goodman said.
Beyond the trio onstage Tuesday, the film is exec produced by
Steven Spielberg and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Don
Murphy. None of the latter three was in Gotham for Tuesday's
event.
But another producer who did attend, Tom DeSanto, compared the
experience to the way "X-Men," which he exec produced, first snuck
up on audiences in 2000. "People were really going to give that one
the smell test," he said. "And it was a real surprise."
From
WNED To drum up excitement for DreamWorks' and Paramount Pictures'
"Transformers" ahead of its July 4 bow, Hasbro hosted an event Tuesday
night with director Michael Bay, screening four scenes and 22 minutes
of footage for a packed theater of Toy Fair attendees. "I
thought if I could make this totally real, it could be a really fun
movie," Bay said of turning the top-selling action toy line into a
film. The Transformers and its back story of the Autobots and the
Decepticons have already been turned into a comic book, nine different
animated series and an animated movie in 1986. "It is the first
time ever that you will see the Transformers characters as real," said
Hasbro chief operating officer Brian Goldner, who is an executive
producer on the film. "We believe this movie will take the Transformers
brand to the next level. 'Transformers' is the first of its kind in a
summer where there are many movie sequels."From
Playthings:-
Goodman, president of production for Dreamworks at a sneak peak of
the film last night, the company is dedicated to supporting retailers
with this film and the product tied to it. "For Dreamworks and
Paramount, it's the single biggest initiative we've ever had,
globally," says Goodman. "Our effort in marketing is something we're
putting together." He adds, "We don't have a Die Hard franchise or a
Lethal Weapon sitting on our shelves, so we're always looking for the
freshest, newest idea. When it started with the idea of Robots in
Disguise, we had to do it. It's the first major franchise for
Dreamworks."
Director Michael Bay, who was also on hand to discuss the film and
told some of the property's inherent challenges, like how to make live
actors look like they were interacting convincingly with something that
is 35 feet tall. "It was a fun movie to do," he said. "And it has four
quadrant appeal.
Category: Transformers Movie News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 08:36:35 GMT
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Primal-Prime has posted some
infomation on TFormers regarding the Transformers Movie coverage at the Tokyo International Gift show :-
According to a close Japanese contact who recently visited the "Tokyo International Gift Show", (a trade-only show for shops, stores and retailers in Japan and abroad) at Tokyo's "Big Sight" in Japan; Takara were on-hand to offer some tit-bits of info to those interested.
1. The Movie will be out in AUGUST, due to the "General Japanese public having little or no knowledge or exposure to Transformers or specifically the MOVIE brand of Transformers robots, unlike the USA/Europe general public, which has already seen pictures of Transformers robots in magazines, TV show previews, etc".
2. No robot pictures were shown at the event, only pictures of the human characters, due to the same reasons mentioned above. It would seem that the Japanese side of things wants to keep the movie bots a secret for as long as possible with the general Japanese public in order to create more of a shock-value with them perhaps.
3. There will be a premier of sorts (known in Japan under the Japanese-English term "roadshow") on 4th of August, 2007.
4. The only robots at the small Takara booth were old G1 bots up to present day Binaltech bots.
5. For more info, please check out the pics (at TFormers) to glean what you can from the Japanese language printed on the flyer.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 20:22:21 GMT
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