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Frankell Baramdyka is a video games artist working with Activision, and he’s posted some pretty sweet looking concept art on his personal blog which reportedly comes from the Activision game Transformers: War for Cybertron.
The artwork looks pretty good, and you can keep up to date with Frankell Baramdyka’s latest updates at his own website here.
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Shia Labeouf may have a squeaky clean image as Sam Witwicky in the Transformers films, but in real life he’s developing into something of a wild child. He’s so wild in fact that he’s developed a reputation for taking his own alcohol to showbiz events and getting royally bladdered (drunk, for our US readers).
This wouldn’t be a problem at most showbiz events, except that Shia had to accompany his girlfriend, English actress Carey Mulligan, to the Oscars this last weekend as she was nominated for her role in ‘An Education’. As Carey was also taking her brother and her parents, she’d warned Shia to be on his best behaviour.
(I’m taking) my mom, my dad and my brother.
According to the Daily Mail, Shia had caused an argument at the New York premier of An Education, after he’d sneaked in a bottle of whiskey and proceeded to crawl into it.
A source for the newspaper stated:
It was very awkward for Carey. Shia stayed in the bar drinking whisky all night and not chatting to anyone. It was very unchivalrous and they had a huge row.
Carey has said that he has to be on his best behaviour and support her at the Oscars – or not to come at all.
Carey didn’t win an Oscar on Sunday night, and Shia Labeouf didn’t turn up at all. Perhaps the ultimatum proved too much for him?
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According to reports, a press event has been scheduled in New York on March 16th to announce the new HTC HD2 on T-Mobile. The HTC HD2 is the latest smartphone from HTC and looks set to compete with the latest iPhone in every possible way.
The best part is, according to sources, the phone will come bundled with both Transformers movies, Transformers and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
The press event is expected to announce a release date for the new phone of March 24th in the US.
The HTC HD2, when it launches on T-Mobile, will have extra features to the regular versions of the phone. Features will include access to eBooks from Barnes and Noble, access to Blockbuster movies and of course the pre-loaded Transformers films on its SD Card.
Windows fans can rejoice too because the HTC HD2 will use Windows Mobile 6.5.
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It was the bookie’s favourite, and this weekend Transformers Revenge of the Fallen proved their faith by winning the ‘accolade’ of Worst Film of 2009 at the Razzies. It didn’t stop there either, as Transformers 2 also walked away with the Razzie for Worst Screenplay, and a special nod for Michael Bay with Worst Director.
Michael Bay didn’t show up in person to collect his award, but Sandra Bullock (who won Worst Actress for All About Steve) did show up to collect her award, and gave a speech!
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It seems that everyone thinks that giants robots and Transformers are cool, and pop-star Rihanna is no exception. Rihanna performed in Germany this last week with a sultry stage performance that involved giant robots, inspired by Transformers. One of the robots even spurted what we can only hope was water over her, in much the same was that Bumblebee did in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen when he cried.
Rihanna was performing at the Echo Awards, which took place in Berlin, where she gave a stunning rendition of ‘Rude Boy’ – accompanied by some giant mechanoids.
The giant Transformers style robots were rather lewd towards Rihanna too, as they pinched her bum and kissed her – it certainly wasn’t child friendly entertainment as you can by the photos!
You can also watch the video of Rihanna and the Transformers here.
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Is there no end to Michael Bay’s ego? According to reports, Michael Bay opted to return for Transformers 3 because he wanted to save jobs in the film industry, believing his movie would make the difference in the midst of recession.
Initially when asked about Transformers 3, Michael Bay said he didn’t want to think about it and wanted to work on a smaller film first, to get a break from giant robots. However, Paramount had other ideas and while Bay was working the PR circuit for Revenge of the Fallen, they announced the release date for Transformers 3 as being June 1st 2011.
Despite being angered by this, Bay has still agreed to work on Transformers 3 because he wants to save jobs – at least according to an interview he gave to Starz.
Michael Bay commented:
The true story is we went to Vegas to celebrate [Revenge of the Fallen] crossing the $400 million mark domestic. I said, “I’m excited to do my small little movie.” They said, “Well, we’re here to talk about that.” I’ve become friends with these guys that run Paramount and they [told me,] “We’re going to get fired if we don’t have a 2011 franchise,” so I’m like you can’t let these guys down.
The economy’s been so rough, it’s kind of important. When you say yes to [a] movie like this you automatically give 3000 people jobs. 1000 for the toys. 2000 for the filmmaking. I’m going to put [the small film] on hold and do it right after [Transformers 3].
Seems Bay’s making Transformers 3 to save the jobs of those he cares most about – nothing to do with the huge pay check he will have received from ROTF as it surpassed the money made by the first Transformers.
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One of the things that you can’t get away from with the Transformers movies is that they’re effects laden bonanzas. With this in mind, the most important people involved with Transformers 3 aren’t its human actors, Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf (although they may think they are) – they’re the geniuses behind ILM (Industrial Light and Magic).
Scott Benza, the animation supervisor on the Transformers movies with ILM, recently spoke with SCI FI Wire about what we can expect from Transformers 3. He stated that we can expect to see some cosmetic changes on Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, with Prime looking more, well, Prime like (he said heroic, but we’re reading between the lines).
Scott Benza commented:
Our two lead characters, Optimus and Bumblebee, needed to be updated for the next chapter in the Transformers series. Bumblebee’s matured a little bit, so I would just say look for subtle changes to his physique that have him look more mature. We always want the robots to look cooler than they did the last time, so [Optimus Prime is] going to look a little more heroic, I would say.
We always want the robots to look cooler than they did the last time, so he’s going to look a little more heroic, I would say
Scott Farrar, visual effects supervisor on the Transformers films with ILM, added:
[Prime will have] little tiny things that maybe the average viewer isn’t going to notice but probably the fanboys will. You actually will run into pieces that are maybe always in the way, and wouldn’t it be nice if that part wasn’t there? Maybe you make a shift in the shoulder, in the chest or what have you. So it might be proportioning, but it also might be for usability, so [the animators]‘ task could be easier, too.
The script for Transformers 3 isn’t complete yet, but the team at ILM are aware of some details that will impact their work – so they’re getting a head start. They also confirmed that they are working on new characters, but no mention of Dinobots yet…
We will keep banging that drum until Michael Bay listens too!
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Only this week we realised that one of our very first Transformers websites, TransformersTheMovie.co.uk, was down due to a mix up with the domain names. This website was originally designed and put live back in 2000, and was a website dedicated to the original 1986 animated Transformers movie.
Looking back on this website we can see how our love for putting Transformers information came about, and hope that now it’s back up that it will provide something for today’s generation of Transformers fans who have come to Transformers through the movies of Michael Bay.
You can visit the website at www.transformersthemovie.co.uk.
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For those of you who attended Auto Assembly 2009, you’ve been waitng for months for the chance to see it again, and for those of you who couldn’t make it, you’ve been wondering what all the fuss was about, but we are now proud to announce that we are releasing the footage of our live script reading from Auto Assembly 2009 on the official Auto Assembly channel on Youtube!
For those of you who don’t know, the script reading took place on the Saturday evening of the convention and featured a brand new 25 minute Beast Wars script written exclusively for the convention and was performed by Gregg Berger, Ian James Corlett, comic artists Simon Williams, Nick Roche, and a number of fans who auditioned for additional roles.
Over the coming weeks we will be uploading the Script Reading and a whole host of other clips from Auto Assembly 2009 – interviews, general footage, guest panels and much much more. As well as this, we be be uploading Highlight Reels from our archives from past events dating back to the very first Auto Assembly event in 2000!
The first videos from this archive are online NOW and new videos will be added every day or two so keep coming back to see all the latest updates. Footage from Auto Assembly 2000, 2001 and the first interview from Auto Assembly 2009 are online NOW and Part One of the Script Reading will be available by the time most of you read this! To see these, just visit the channel at http://www.youtube.com/autoassembly and if you want to know about the videos as they become available, why not subscribe to us?!
The channel will also bring you the latest news and developments on Auto Assembly 2010 which is going to be our biggest and best yet. We want to celebrate Auto Assembly’s 10th Anniversary in style and give you the best Transformers convention that Europe has ever seen. Over the weekend of Friday 13th – Sunday 15th August 2010 we will be bringing you AT LEAST three guests of honour (Garry Chalk and Derrick J Wyatt are already confirmed), a massive Saturday evening programme with a party, live band, costume competition and loads more, toy and art displays, dealers, comic guests, free autograph sessions, video games area, workshops, dedicated childrens programming, video screenings and so much more!
All this will be taking place at the The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. Tickets for the weekend are on sale now through the website for for the weekend for adults and for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Single day passes will be made available for sale closer to the convention.
For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
We hope to see you all in August 2010.
The Auto Assembly 2010 Team
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We reported recently that Transformers Revenge of the Fallen has been nominated for the worst film of 2009 award in the anti-Oscars, the Razzies. It seems that Transformers 2 could well win the award too (despite in our opinion being much better than the first film) as the bookies have installed Transformers 2 as the favourite for the dishonour.
This seems very harsh when GI Joe is also nominated, and that film genuinely was awful.
Bookies Paddy Power have made Transformers Revenge of the Fallen the odds on favourite, at 11/10, to lift the Razzie for worst film. In total, ROF has been nominated for seven different awards.
Think about poor Sandra Bullock though, as she’s nominated for a Razzie for worst actress at the same time as she’s also nominated for an Oscar for best actress.
If you fancy a flutter on the worst film of last year, the odds at the moment are:
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