Following up from the story we ran last night, as predicted regarding the open letter from three Transformers Revenge of the Fallen crew, and sent to Nelson (editor of Shoot for the Edit)regarding Megan Fox's recent comments about Michael Bay, the letter / comments have now been removed from Michael's website (as we predicted).

Michael Bay has posted the following comment.

I don’t condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don’t condone Megan’s outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3.

Michael

If you want to read the crew's original reaction then you can still do so on Transformers At The Moon and the news story which we posted last night, mirroring the story for exactly this reason.

Nelson, the admin of Michael Bay's website and message board has posted the following "open letter" response from three disgruntled members of the team that worked on Transformers and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen in reference to comments that were made by Megan Fox and recently published in various magazines and newspapers around the world.  Her comments included a line that compared Mr Bay to Adolf Hitler when he was on the set.  You can view a copy of the letter below just in case it gets retracted.

"Nelson,

This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans.  We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years.  Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay.  This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice.  He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth.  She was famous!  She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina.  You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.  

We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work.  One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film. 

Megan has the press fooled.  When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles.  The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set.  We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set? 

When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star.  And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”.  We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way.  But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was?  Well, here let’s get some facts straight.

Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game.  He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors.  He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.

He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years.  And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew. 

Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business!  Not one person got hurt!

And who is the real Megan Fox?  She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around.  She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom.  She shows little interest in the crew members around her.  We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you.  All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.  

Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!   

Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice."

The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!" I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.

So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.

But ‘Fame’ is fleeting.  We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!

-Loyal Transformers Crew­­"

TFCToy has posted a testshot of a green early version of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Class Megatron figure on ebay

Evem if you are not interested in bidding on the item it is well worth taking a look at this "Minty Movie Megatron".

Thanks to Mr Neurie for letting us know about the latest Transformers Revenge of the Fallen toys to be released in Ireland which include the Ice Cream version of Skids and Mudflap.

TFW2005.com are running a story, from Kapow Toys that Waves 4 and 5 of the best selling Transformers Revenge of the Fallen toyline has been delayed (wave 4) and cancelled (Wave 5) in the UK!  This is said to be due to the demand in the US for those toys, so stock allocated for the UK will now be sold domestically in the US.

The figures in these waves of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe toys (including the Ice Cream Truck Twins Skids & Mudflap, Dead End, Jolt and Blaze Master) and the Wave 5 Voyagers (Long Haul and Grindor)  No reason is given for the apparent cancellation of the fifth wave of Voyagers.

They also report however that the Wave 5 Deluxes, including Arcee, Stalker Scorponok and Swerve, has begun to creep into stores - although they do not say which or where.

Both Amazon.co.uk and Play.com have listed the DVD for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen as 30th November 2009.  This is over one month later than the North American release, due on 20th Octber.

HMV are also reporting that they will have a exclusive 2 disk edition of the film, although there is no word on what the extra features will contain.

Below you will find a copy of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen DVD and Blu-ray press release.  There is an image of the US cover at the bottom of the article as well as links to theAmazon.con Blu-Ray listing , Amazon.com DVD listing

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With more action and more thrills, TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen captivated audiences to earn over $820 million at the box office and become the #1 movie of the year in North America and throughout the world. The latest spectacular adventure in the wildly popular TRANSFORMERS franchise will make its highly-anticipated DVD and Blu-ray debut on October 20, 2009 in immersive, two-disc Special Editions, as well as on a single disc DVD, from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Hasbro; distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment. The eagerly-awaited home entertainment premiere will be accompanied by one of the division's biggest marketing campaigns ever, generating awareness and excitement of galactic proportions.

From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen delivers non-stop action and fun in an all-new adventure that the whole family can enjoy. Featuring out-of-this-world heroes in the form of the mighty AUTOBOTS and a malevolent and powerful villain known as THE FALLEN, the film boasts some of the most sensational--and complex--visual effects in film history set against the backdrop of spectacular locations around the world. In addition to audience favorites OPTIMUS PRIME and BUMBLEBEE, the film's human stars have returned to help save the world including Shia LaBeouf (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Megan Fox (How to Lose Friends & Alienate People), Josh Duhamel ("Las Vegas"), Tyrese Gibson (Four Brothers) and John Turturro (The Good Shepherd).

The TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen two-disc Blu-ray and DVD feature over three hours of in-depth, immersive special features that let viewers further explore the world of the legendary ROBOTS IN DISGUISE. Among the engrossing content is a multi-chapter documentary, including interviews with the cast and crew, that chronicles the entire making of the film from development and design to filming in locations around the globe, working with the U.S. military, creating the groundbreaking visual effects and putting it all together to produce the biggest film of the year. The discs also include an all-access featurette following renowned director Michael Bay through an entire day, a comprehensive exploration of the "confidential files" on a dozen of the TRANSFORMERS characters featured in the film, multi-angle breakdowns of some of the most sensational action sequences and much, much more.

The Blu-ray and two-disc DVD packages also will feature augmented reality technology that will allow owners to interact with a holographic image of OPTIMUS PRIME utilizing their webcams and a special website. Fans will be asked to piece together the Matrix of Leadership to bring OPTIMUS PRIME back to life, help repair his armor and calibrate his weapons by actually controlling his aim during target practice.

As an added bonus, the Blu-ray will include an exclusive interactive feature that gives viewers the ability to customize their own robot characters and get a glimpse at a rogue robot. Out of all the available permutations, one will unlock an exclusive interview with Michael Bay about his plans for the next adventure.

Two-Disc Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray:

The TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen two-disc Special Edition DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround with English, French and Spanish subtitles. The Blu-ray will be presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital with English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese subtitles. The disc breakdown is as follows:

Disc 1:

Commentary by Michael Bay, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman

Disc 2:

• The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen--This multi-chapter documentary chronicles the entire creation of the film and includes interviews with the cast and crew:
• Seeds of Vengeance - Development and Design - After the overwhelming success of 2007's Transformers, how do the filmmakers top themselves for the sequel?
• Domestic Destruction - Production: United States - Michael Bay believes in going big: Big action and big explosions. Cast and crew are pushed to the limit as they traverse the U.S. from New Mexico to Pennsylvania.
• Joint Operations - Production: Military - No other filmmaker in the world enjoys the kind of military access and cooperation Michael Bay has. Here we see just how efficient our armed forces are and the awe and respect shown by the cast.
• Wonders of the World - Production: Middle East - You can't really reproduce Egypt anywhere but Egypt so off we go to Giza and Luxor.
• Start Making Sense - Editing - In order to turn over the massive amount of film as quickly as possible to VFX, four editors work tirelessly in a unique tag-team approach to shape the film.
• Under the Gun - Visual Effects - Revenge of the Fallen features the most complicated VFX in film history. So complicated in fact that the filmmakers were unsure they would make the deadline. The DEVASTATOR VFX alone required 83% of ILM's total render farm capacity.
• Running the Gauntlet - Post-Production and Release - Working seven days a week, Michael Bay and company usher the film through sound design, Digital Intermediate color-timing and a globe-trotting whirlwind of premieres.
• A Day with Bay: Tokyo--An intimate and fun all-access journey with Michael Bay as he travels to Tokyo, Japan for the world premiere of the biggest film of the year.
• 25 Years of TRANSFORMERS--Access an all-new featurette celebrating a monumental milestone for one of Hasbro's most successful and popular franchises.
• NEST: Transformer Data-Hub--Explore conceptual artwork created by the production for 12 of the most popular AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS from the film.
• Deconstructing Visual Bayhem with Commentary by Pre-Vis Supervisor Steve Yamamoto-- A series of multi-angle pre-visualization sequences allowing viewers to learn how some of the film's most spectacular scenes were created with an introduction by Michael Bay.
• Extended Scenes
• Music Video: Linkin Park's "New Divide"

• NEST: Transformer Data-Hub--A database of some of the TRANSFORMERS characters that appear in the new film, offering users access to each robot's confidential file including:
• Innovative 3D spin galleries of each robot
• A timeline for each TRANSFORMERS character charting its origins, back story and design evolution from toys to animated series to comics and finally feature films
• Giant Effing Movie - A very personal look at the making of the movie.
• The Matrix of Marketing--An archive of the film's promotional media including trailers, posters and television spots.

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen has now officially broken into the top 20 worldwide grossing movies of all time having now taken $806 million at the box office.

Credit to BoxOfficeMojo.

As we reported would be the case on Sunday, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen has now broken into the top 10 grossing movies ever within the US and we expect it will move past Star Wars Episode III into 9th slot by the end of the week.  The movie, which has grossed just under $380 million within the US alone would need to pass $404 million in order to take the number 8th slot away from Spider-man.

On the worldwide listings Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is now up to 23rd position and is set to pass E.T into 22nd within the next few days (if it has not already done so as collating worldwide ticket sales is always slower than US sales).  Its quiet possible that the film will find it self taking the number 20 slot by the time it stops being screening in cinemas.  It is currently reported as having grossed $791.6 million worldwide

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