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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is proving to be a sell out already. Not only are the UK iMax screenings sold out for a lot of the showings but across America hundreds of the midnight showings are already sold out (report Fandango). Here's some more facts
Sold-out
midnight show times (on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) can be found
all across the U.S.A., in cities such as New York, San Francisco,
Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Albuquerque,
Denver, Houston, Nashville, Orlando, Colorado Springs, Tulsa, Fresno
and Buford, Georgia.
Exhibitors are continuing to add 3:45 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. show times on Wednesday morning to meet the fan demand.
Currently,
the film is selling twice as many tickets on Fandango as the original
Transformers sold at the same point in that film’s sales cycle (two
days before release date).
The movie currently represents 87% of today’s ticket sales
And as we noted yesterday, TF 2 showings at 500+ theaters in China are sold out 1.5 weeks in advanced.
In a post on his own message board, Michael Bay urges fans to go see the iMax version of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
Back from Moscow. Fresh from a visit to the former KGB, with second in
command. He told me in his office I'm one of 10 American's, one being a
President, to ever be allowed inside what is now called the FSB. The
only reason was he heard I was in town and he is a fan of my films.
Last night with my crew I saw the IMAX version. Once you get used to
the giant format and your eyes adjust, it's an awesome experience. I
have been waiting until the film was final to judge, and I'm really
pleased. You have to make a point to see it this way - It could be the
very best way to see Transformers.
C'mon guys critics? Give me a break. Do you all have short term memory?
They killed the first one, and it still became a world-wide smash. I
made this for the you, the audience!
Michael
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Transformers Director Michael Bay sent a scathing email to studio Paramount Pictures on the 4th May, reports gossip site TMZ.
"... I have been waiting, and waiting for the anticipation of an 'event movie' to make it into the 'public zeitgeist,' they quote Mr Bay as writing as well as pointing out that he calls the print campaign for the film an "abject failure," with a "pathetic presence" in the L.A. Times. Here refers to the profile of the movie on the MTV Video Awards as "so lame." referring to the fact that the first Transformers in 2007 had a 30-minute segment at
the MTV Movie Awards, but this year the sequel's only support was in
the form of lead actors Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox presenting an award.
Bay makes a attack on Paramount head Sumner with his comment of "You all talk so glowingly about Transformers being the movie of the summer but unfortunately this has not gotten to the public. I still run into so many people even this weekend with kids that ask "is that movie coming out this year?". Your owner Sumner, went on air in wall street last week talking how Paramount was going to claim the summer with Star Trek and G.I Joe. I guess he didn't even know it was coming out either." which points out that the film was being poorly advertised.
Bay goes on to name drop Jerry Bruckheimer in the email with "Over the years Jerry Bruckheimer mentored me on event movies - he had a mantra - "A studio that does not make it an event, will it into an event, thinks the audience will just show up, will always be bittin in the ass". Besides my good friend Steven, Jerry has made a lot more successful movies ten all of us".
Its not all bad news though as on the 6th June Michael sent Paramount Pictures an email praising them and saying that "Paramount is like family. Thank you all for busting your butts and bringing your 'A game' for the release of Transformers".
Well its official, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is big news within the UK and Japan. In the UK the sequal out grossed the first movie by a whopping 71% at $14.1 million from 517 locations.Here's a quote from Michael Bay's own website
Transformers 2 opened spectacularly in their world debuts in the UK and
Japan, grossing a total of $20 mil from 846 locations. The Michael Bay
directed film was a clear #1 in both territories, with the UK’s opening
total of $14.1 mil from 517 locations outperforming rival comic book
sequel Spider-Man 2 by 18%, the original Transformers movie by 71% and
coming within 3% of the Dark Knight weekend total. In Japan, the film’s
gross of $5.8mn from 329 locations was 64% ahead of The Dark Knight,
and only 13% behind Transformers which had the advantage of opening in
summer school holidays.
The franchise’s eagerly awaited second instalment opens across most of the rest of the world next week on Wednesday June 24th."
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Yizhi of TF08.net has sent S250 an image of the upcoming Transformers Revenge of the Fallen deluxe figure Blazemaster in packaging. S250 posted the image on TFW2005.com but you can also view it below. Blazemaster is based on a news helicopter and does not feature in the actual film.
Loose version of the toys are already listed on eBay with auctions here, here and here
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on: Sunday, 21st June 2009 at 10:37:18 BST
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MichaelBay.com has posted some Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Fun Facts.
Robots
14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.
Disk space
TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.
Rendering times
If
you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had
to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the
Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premiere!
A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
Imax
Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
ILM screen time
ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.
Devastator
Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.
Devastator totals
Number of geom pieces: 52632
The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles
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Paramount Pictures have posted a video from the London Premier of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen which took place this past Monday in Leicester Square. The movie, which is released across the UK this Friday had its first public screening of the final edit last Friday at the FDA screening which also took place in London with Transformers At The Moon in attendance. You can view Paramount Picture's video below.
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Michael Bay has posted a video clip from Transformers Revenge of the Fallen which takes place at Mikela's father's garage and shows Wheelie in action.
On Friday 12th June were were invited to attend the FDA screening of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen at the Oden in Leicester Square, London. The event was an invitational only affair with over a thousand people in the audience form all types of media forms.
Before the film began it was announced that we were the first audience to see the final edit of the film despite the world premier in Japan a few days before hand which showed a pre-finished edit of the movie.
The review will contain spoilers though we will try to limit them as much as possible. As with most press events their has been an embargo on reviews which was lifted today.
The film takes place a few years after the end of the first movie an opens with a flashback scene showing the Transformers first arrival on Earth thousands of years ago. These Transformers were the original Primes including one who would later be cast out and forever dubbed as The Fallen. The film jumps to modern day China and the first action scene with narration from Optimus Prime explaining how more Autobots have now arrived on Earth and how they have teamed with the humans to protect Earth and round up the last remaining Decepticons. The first thing you notice with the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is the improvement on the visuals during action sequences.
The film then jumps back to the human side of the story of which the premise is Sam moving away to go to college, trying to cope with a long distance relationship with Mikaela and return to a normal life. After discovering a shard of The Allspark in his old jacket Sam starts to see Cyber-glyphs which is soon followed up by a small action sequence involving various home applicances coming to life. There are various comedic scenes involving Sam and his parents both at their house and on campus which helps to keep the mood light-hearted and is clearly designed to give his parents more screen time in the second film. For those with small children their are various seuxal and drug references throughout these scenes. Bumblebee is back not being able to speak again which is explained with a throw away line commenting that he has been "having trouble with his vocal processor again". Whilst at college Sam meets two new human characters in Alice and Leo. Leo is another comedy relief character who is often teams with Mudflap, Skids or the returning Agent Simmons with Alice being a rival love-interest with a secret. During this time Soundwave (one of three characters voiced by Frank Wellker), a Decepticon satellite, track down another Allspark fragment which is being held on a military base. He sends down Ravage (who is never named) to retrieve the fragment in order to resurrect Megatron.
The pace of the movie picks up again as it builds towards one of the major points of the movie which takes place within a forest including one of the better fight sequences with Optimus Prime taking on three Decepticons. Prime is even more bad-ass than in the first movie and now has two blades and two guns whilst the Decepticons seem some what weaker.
From this, which is feels like the mid-point of the film, the pace then slows down dramatically with heavy focus on the Humans. Some more characters are introduced, as are more plot holes, with the story progressing slowly. Its this part of the movie which will no doubt come into criticism from reviewers for its pacing.
The locations change as the film starts to set itself up for the finale. The build up is a little slow, contains a mix of comedic and serious scenes as well as explaining some more of the back story and introducing The Matrix of Leadership.
The pace picks up again for the finale which visually is much clearer than the first film with the full cast on show. There is a lot of Transformers in the end sequence, although some of the models are reused. Devastator appears towards the end of the movie though we ended being a little let down with the use of the character. The visuals were certainly impressive and no doubt the combination sequence in the Imax version should be extremely impressive.
Overall Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is more of the same. Its bigger and louder than the first, visually its still stunning with vast improvements in the fight sequences although it is let down by the pacing in the middle of the film, some plot holes and once again lack of characters for many of the Transformers.
Some of the new characters, Sideswide, Arcee, Mudflap and Skids and introduced early on though only Mudflap and Skids have any real screen time. Jolt appears in the background of only two sequences (that we spotted), Ratchet has one line and if you blink you might miss him, Ironhide is used a bit more but still not much, Bumblebee feels like he appears less than the first movie, Mudflap and Skids are in it a fair bit (possibly too much) oh and Arcee does not combine in the film. Wheelie will split opinions. Some people will love him, others will hate him.
There are several new Decepticon characters in the movie, 99% of
which are never named, very few speak, even less have characters and
several towards the end are just generic CG renders. The Fallen is
introduced as a sort of Emperor to Megatron's Darth Vader and is used
to explain more of the Cybertronian history. Like the first movie a lot of the Decepticons are killed (many very easily), Megatron seemed like a watered down version of his character from the first film. Devastator felt, unfortunately, rather week and although not in the film massively Starscream certainly gains the most from the movie with some nice lines showing his character.
Plot Holes The first movie contained a lot of minor plot holes with the sequel continuing this theme. Timing once again is a problem for the film with an examples being when Mikela flies out to college and Jordan being suddenly a lot closer to Cario than it actually is. Geographically speaking the location of some of the temples in Egypt are wrong. Jetfire's alternative mode doesn't make any sense. He's suppose to have have been off-line for a very long time and yet his spark is inside a SR-71 Blackbird which is from the 1960s.
In the final scene "the Constructicons" appear in both combined (Devastator) and individual modes at the same time.
Some little nods
There are once again some nods for the fans. Mentions include Engeron the Matrix of Leadership, a line from Epps "if god created us in his image then you have to wonder who created him" which is to tease thoughts of Primus and Unicron amongst others.
Overall Overall we both enjoyed the film and will certainly be seeing it again. It fits in nicely with the first, should certainly sell well. Die-hard fans may be a little disappointed with the amount of screen time that some of the new characters receive as well as the lack of dialogue for many of the cast.
The movie opens first within the UK and Ireland and then is released worldwide. Whether it will out gross the first movie will be interested to see. I expect it will perform better at the UK box office this time around as it has less competition and is opening much earlier.
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Modxtoy has been updated with scans from the New Type The Live 07 Magazine scans. The images show the Takara-Tomy Revenge toys (the Japanese Revenge of the Fallen line)
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Many thanks go to Simon Dick, Alan Taylor, Barry Shaw, Peter Brown and Matthew Messenger for sending us through various images of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers Henkei and Transformers Animated figures.
Koujin Ohno–who is credited with inventing Transformers as we now know
them–gave Michael an Optmus Prime statue to show his appreciation with
what Michael has done for the franchise.
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Paramount Pictures UK are holding their Film Distribution Association screening of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen today in Leicester Square in London. The film kicks off at 18:30 and is an invitational only event.
Transformers At The Moon was in attendence for the event to watch the early screening of the film, but don't worry although we will tell you what we thought of the film we won't be posting any spoilers.
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In a recent report by online movie ticket source Fandango, it appears
that pre sales for the upcoming release of Transformers Revenge of the
Fallen have been selling in a big way.
With less than two weeks to go before its June 24 release date,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is already seeing brisk ticket
sales on Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination.
Currently, the film represents 21% of ticket sales on Fandango (as of
June 11 at 9 am PT).
According to an ongoing Fandango survey of moviegoers planning to see Transformers 2:
* 81% of respondents say Megan Fox is the one star they're most excited to see in the new movie.
* 76% say they are fans of director Michael Bay.
* 72% say the IMAX presentation of Transformers 2 will be an important part of their moviegoing experience.
* 71% of respondents are 18-34 years old; 68% are male.
"Fans are already scooping up tickets for Transformers 2's opening week
showtimes, especially for the IMAX screens," says Ted Hong, Chief
Marketing Officer for Fandango. "The movie is garnering some great
Internet buzz, and filmgoers are clearly ready for another
action-packed summer popcorn movie. With Transformers 2, Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince, Ice Age 3, Public Enemies, Bruno, G.I. Joe
and other highly-anticipated movies opening within a few weeks of each
other, it looks like a banner year for the movies."
Check out the article and by your pre sale tickets by clicking here.
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Choose Your Fate
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
Ep 8: Nino Sexton
Nino Sexton was a simple crook, proud of his speed and agility. He was bought down to earth with a bang however when he ran into the Autobots during an attempted heist. ....
OTFCC 2003 (USA)
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US Sheet 1
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Transformers Animated
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