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Lee Hyo-Wan has wrriten a full report of the Transformers Asia Junket which took place two days ago in Seoul over at the Korean Times website. You can read the article here or below
By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
Director Michael Bay and rising star Megan Fox sizzled up Monday
night's Asia junket for their mega-action robot film "Transformers,''
held at N Seoul Tower. The film's character model Bumblebee, revealing
its looming yellow 5.2-meter, 3.7-ton figure for the first time, also
heated up the show.
"Korea is a huge emerging world market (in cinema),'' the award-winning
director told journalists that gathered from all over the world for the
event. He was also "very happy'' the world premier for his movie would
take place here on June 28 (opens July 4 in the United States).
It is the first time a major Hollywood film held its opening press
event in Korea. Artist Choe So-ri inaugurated the program with a
stunning drum performance using fire and water, symbolizing the film's
dueling evil Decepticons and good Autobots, respectively.
Based on a popular American comic book and TV series of the same title,
"Transformers'' is about alien robot races battling on Earth to locate
their long lost energy source, to which a teenager named Sam (Shia
LaBoeuf) obliviously holds the key. With the help of Mikaela (Megan
Fox), Sam and others join forces to save the planet.
During the press talk, Bay, 42, exerted much confidence about his film
and its extensive appeal to both fans and non-fans, international and
domestic.
"I grew up a non-`Transformers' fan'' he said, "so when Steven
Spielberg called me a year and a half ago to direct this movie, I
thought ah, it'd be a silly toy movie, (I'm) not really interested, but
since then I became a gigantic `Transformers' fan.'' Bay says his
favorite character is Optimus Prime, the "really cool'' leader of the
human-friendly Autobots.
The director explained that the film "has a kind of a universal appeal
and it brings out the kid in you,'' and that "it's definitely something
new and different you haven't seen this summer, and by using really
groundbreaking visual effects,'' the film "appeals to a lot of
different age ranges.''
Bay continued, "I like to do ideas that are big ideas that really
travel around the world,'' yet this film "was challenging because it
was a cartoon. My job was to make it real and bring it to life
on-screen.'' He said it was tough working with 40 artists and
developing the characters.
Bay is known for his visually stunning and star-making blockbuster
movies: Ben Affleck and Owen Wilson rose to stardom through
"Armageddon'' (1998), Nicolas Cage became a megastar with "The Rock''
(1996) and Josh Hartnett upgraded his heartthrob image with "Pearl
Harbor'' (2001).
For "Transformers,'' newcomer Megan Fox beat the
competition in nine auditions against some 600 other women from
numerous countries. Although she hadn't seen the script upon joining
the cast, she said "I knew that Michael (Bay) was directing it and I
knew that Steven (Spielberg) was producing it, and that's all an actor
needs to know to be excited to trying get involved in a project.
"I was looking for a job and ended up getting the best one,'' she said.
How? "Just look at her,'' Bay said.
The 21-year-old played a sexy and charismatic teenager on-screen, and
told reporters that Bay wanted her to be stronger and tougher. Steering
a truck at full speed with a super size robot trailing behind, the
actress does define rough with a sexy touch.
Fox magnetized camera lenses as she posed for lengthy photo ops on the
red carpet and onstage. Showing off her foxy grin and tattoos,
including the one of Marilyn Monroe's face on her right forearm, the
actress waved to the excited crowd.
Great news for worldwide "Transformers'' fans: Bay explained that the
film's finale was left slightly open-ended because there might be "
two, three, four and five and so on.
"But that all depends on you up there,'' he said to a crowd of Koreans
gathered near the venue's terrace. Someone yelled "Hell yeah!'' and Bay
smiled, "Alright, there you go.''
As for the possibility of real world robots in the near future, Bay
laughed, saying that "there definitely will be a massive alien robot
war in the future,'' in light of his own film. The alluring Ms. Fox
added that artificial intelligence and the like "scare the ****
bollocks out of
me.''
Fox pleasantly surprised the local crowd by enthusiastically stating
that "The Host'' (2006) was her "favorite film'' -- "after
`Transformers,''' Bay insisted. The actress said the monster scared her
enormously and that the fine acting in the Korean blockbuster was
impressive.
About his second visit to Korea, Bay said the country has become "very
big and crowded'' ever since his trip here with his mother 20 years
ago. For Fox, it was her first time traveling outside of the U.S., and
thought Korea seemed beautiful.
Bay and Fox continued onto Australia to promote "Transformers.'' The
film recently won the American MTV award for "Best Summer Movie You
Haven't Seen Yet.''
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A video was posted on YouTube yesterday of what appears to be the intro sequence for Transformers The Game. The game is still currently under-development but you can view the video by using the flash player below.
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Clantsu member GrendelKhan{TSU} was in attendance at the Korean Junket and has posted pictures and an round-up of the Question and Answer session that took place over on the Clantsu forums here.
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In an interview exclusively with Sci-Fi Wire this morning, Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime in the original animated series, the live action Transformers Movie and Transformers The Game, gave praise to Michael Bay as well as confirming that he recorded three times as much dialog as Optimus Prime will have in the final cut. Here are some quotes.
"Michael Bay is a character unto himself, and he was a cast all
himself,"
When going on to speak about Michael Bay, "He could play all the roles when we
were recording this together."
"Unlike the animated series, when we were all in a room together
recording together, for this movie it was just Michael and [me], and it
was rather fun," Cullen said. "He knew all about the characters and had
a great knowledge of them all. There were only a few times when he
would ask, 'Would Optimus say this?' But that was just at the
beginning. He was very well-versed in the world of the Transformers."
"Michael Bay and I never conflicted in the interpretation of the
character, nothing at that level. I was comfortable with everything he
suggested."
As we reported two days ago, a Transformers Press Conference was held in N Seoul Tower in Seoul, South Korea on the 10th June and had both Michael Bay and Megan Fox in attendance. Well Nelson has now updated MichaelBay.com with three images from the event which you can see by clicking here.
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The Mountain Dew "Transform Your Summer" ad is now out and on YouTube featuring a transforming toaster and directed by Michael Bay. You can view the advert using the You Tube flash player below.
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Hasbro UK have sent us a few super high resolution images of some of the Transformers Movie toys which are (or will be) available in the UK. The images include Optimash Prime, the Optimus Prime voice-changer helmet, Deluxe Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Megatron (Leader Class). The images vary between 1000 x 1200 and 2100 x 2200 pixels.
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Thanks to Sharon from Road Runner High Speed Online (aka Warner Brothers Entertainment) for sending us through two extremely high resolution images (1425x1425 and 1426x1407) images of the final cover of the Goo Goo Dolls "Before It's Too Late [Sam and Mikaela's Theme]" single as well as the final art for Transformers - The Album. The later image is different to the one shown over on IGN as the one we received features a list of all of the artist on the cover. You will find the images in our Official Transformers Movie image gallery, or you can click in the thumbnails below. That image gallery also includes the highest resolution images of the UK and International Transformers posters on the web (1818x2549 and 1920x1200) which were sent to us directly by Paramount Pictures UK.
The album is released on the 3rd July 2007.
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1. Linkin Park "What I've Done"
2. Smashing Pumpkins "Doomsday Clock"
3. Disturbed "This Moment"
4. Goo Goo Dolls "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)"
5. The Used "Pretty Handsome Awkward"
6. HIM "Passion's Killing Floor"
7. Taking Back Sunday "What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost?"
8. Styles Of Beyond "Second To None"
9. Armor For Sleep "End Of The World"
10. Idiot Pilot "Retina and the Sky"
11. Julien-K "Technical Difficulties"
12. Mutemath "Transformers Theme"
You can listen to the Goo Goo Dolls "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" song on the Warner Brothers website in either high or low quality using Quicktime or Windows Media Player via the following links. Quicktime: High Quality - Low Quality
Windows Media: High Quality - Low Quality
Stay with us over the coming weeks as we'll be brining you more news on Transformers - The Album
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Back in April we attended a preview screening of 20 minutes of footage from the Transformers Movie, at the invitation of Paramount Pictures UK. This was where the light-up Transformers t-shirts were first shown off, and we quickly got in contact with the Thumbs Up UK Ltd to bring you exclusive news on the shirts.
Now, with the film due out in a few weeks overseas, and just over a month domestically, Transformers At The Moon as and Thumbs Up UK Ltd have teamed up to give you a chance to win not one, but two of their brand new light-up Transformers T-shirts. (Sizes Medium (Autobot), Small (Decepticon)).
A press conference will be held tonight at the N Seoul Tower in South Korea. Both Transformers Movie director Michael Bay and female lead Megan Fox (Mikela) will be at the event.along with a 5.2 meter, 3.7 ton full size Transformer model said to be either Optimus Prime or Bumblebee in Robot form. Fifty media organisations are reported to be attending the event, so you should expect to see plenty of photographs and videos hitting the internet in the next 24 hours. The movie opens in South Korea on June 28th. The Transformers Movie was originally scheduled for its first general release in South Korea, though after all the recent re-scheduling several other countries also see the film being released on the same day. Due to timezones, New Zealand should now receive that honour.
Thanks to Lee Hyo-won for letting us know about tonight press conference
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The stats are a little odd, which is what Winning Moves had told us in our interview with them. We've not scanned the entire cards, out of respect for Winning Moves, as we'd like to support the Transformers Movie, brand and Winning Moves by buying a set of your own. They only cost £3.99, but what we have done is scan all the artwork / photographs, so you can see all the characters from the Transformers Movie as well as we the first image of the Allspark cube.
Variety have published an article on the Transformers Movie under the headline of "'Transformers' aims for broad audience". You can read the article in full below.
"Transformers" conjures up images of kiddie playthings, ever-changing alien robots that first landed in toy boxes in the 1980s.
DreamWorks
and Paramount think they have something more than a kiddie pic or a
nostalgic tribute -- execs feel that the pic, which launches July 3, is
a four-quadrant summer joyride. The question is how to market the film
to those four groups.
As director Michael Bay deadpans, "I definitely didn't make a toy movie."
The
PG-13 movie is this summer's only big-budget live-action pic that is
not a sequel, and boasts the imprint of action-megapic director Bay and
exec producer Steven Spielberg.
The studio marketing execs are
selling the movie as much more than a toy knockoff, talking up
spectacular special effects, a fast-moving plot and humor.
"The
push has been to defy people's expectations," says Christine Birch,
DreamWorks president of marketing. "When they hear 'Transformers,' they
think 'toy movie.' They think little kids. The movie is
family-friendly, but that doesn't make it juvenile."
One studio
exec says: "You need to get young males, which Bay can. But you also
need to get younger kids, which could be more Steven. The challenge
comes in trying to tell parents it's OK to bring their younger children
without alienating teenagers. It still needs a 'Terminator' toughness."
Rob
Moore, Paramount's president of worldwide marketing and distribution,
says the movie has just that. "It has signature Michael Bay action that
is visually spectacular. But the movie also has a great sense of humor.
You really have a combination."
In testing, DreamWorks and Par
skedded two screenings: One for kids and parents, the other for all
audiences. The scores were almost identical.
Starring Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel, "Transformers" would give DreamWorks and Paramount a much-needed live-action franchise.
Even
before Par acquired DreamWorks, the two entities agreed to collaborate
on a "Transformers" project. It's said to be a passion project for
Spielberg, who was intrigued by its alien themes, and he thought Bay
would be perfect to direct.
After a string of box office hits,
Bay stumbled with DreamWorks' "The Island" ($36 million domestically
and $125 million overseas). If "Transformers" clicks, it will be a
rebound for the director and the action is said to be quintessential
Bay, mirroring such pics as "Armageddon," "The Rock" and "Bad Boys."
And,
at least partly due to Spielberg's mark, it's being hyped as featuring
the same kind of special effects that made "Jurassic Park" work in the
1990s.
Script was penned by the team of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who also wrote Par's upcoming "Star Trek" installment.
"Transformers" was produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto, who secured the film rights from Hasbro.
Although this as been covered in the past, I thought it would be interesting to list this again, with the releases of the two Transformers Themes yesterday.
Here is a list of the tracks said to be from the Transformers Soundtrack. It's interesting to note the first song, by Linkin Park, which adds more validity to the feeling that the song on Sector Seven was by them. The last sone on the albumn, Transformers Theme, was also released on Myspace yeserday as well.
1. Linkin Park "What I've Done"
2. Smashing Pumpkins "Doomsday Clock"
3. Disturbed "This Moment"
4. Goo Goo Dolls "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)"
5. The Used "Pretty Handsome Awkward"
6. HIM "Passion's Killing Floor"
7. Taking Back Sunday "What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost?"
8. Styles Of Beyond "Second To None"
9. Armor For Sleep "End Of The World"
10. Idiot Pilot "Retina and the Sky"
11. Julien-K "Technical Difficulties"
12. Mutemath "Transformers Theme"
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As we reported yesterday, their is a competition on Michael Bay's blog to win a Transformers Press kit, well since the last reported updated the full details of the competition have been made available over on MichaelBays blog. To enter you need simply to answer two questions. The competition is open to residents of the following countries:
US, UK,
Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland,
Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, & Switzerland.
Good luck
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Lee Hyo-Wan has wrriten a full report of the Transformers Asia Junket which took place two days ago in Seoul over at the Korean Times website. You can read the article here or below
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