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Michael Bay is rebooting his own franchise...that is only six years old. In two summers, Bay will release Transformers 4, thus continuing the Bayhem. This is not entirely surprising, given that the vremp-vremp-vremp movies print their own money. On the plus side, maybe this "reboot" means they'll kill off Shia LaBeouf's character. More »
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Michael Bay keeps denying that he's really going to do a fourth Transformers movie. Which shows that he hasn't completely lost his mind. Michael Bay is an artist, who needs to branch out and try something new, before he loses all his cred. Michael Bay should spread his groovy wings, man. More »
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The Air Force's recruiting ads have been like little science fiction movies for years now, despite the slogans promising that this isn't science fiction, but "what we do every day." The latest ad, which aired during the Panthers-Redskins game on Sunday, is full-blown Michael Bay insanity. As Wired's Spencer Ackerman points out, a C-17 plane transformers in mid-air into a different type of plane, and its engines also rotate into a vertical position. You also have to love the futuristic "sickbay" they take the people from the bridge disaster to. [Wired] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5853266&view=rss&microfeed=true The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Hasbro is in "active discussions" with Paramount, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg about a potential fourth Transformers movie. Well, at least it can't be as bad as Transformers 2, right... RIGHT? More »
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Play this trailer for Shark Night 3-D on top volume. At about 0:57, put your ear next to your PC speaker for about a minute. Congratulations! You are now deaf in one ear! (Note: Don't really do that.) More »
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Michael Bay directed both The Island and Transformers 3: Mark of the Spoon, so I guess he's allowed to rejigger a chase sequence from the former for the latter. Watch as Bay's 2005 clone saga becomes stock footage. More »
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Michael Bay is known for going totally pee-on-your-head crazy with the Transformers movies. But could it be that the most batshit insane Transformers stories were already told, a quarter century ago? More »
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What happens when you battle giant robots that blow up half the world? For Tyrese Gibson's Transformers character, Epps, it gave him PTSD. We learned how Gibson coped, and why he keeps getting cast in movies about cars. More »
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There will come a day in the future where humanity wises up and realizes the brilliance of Sir Michael Bay. I only hope I'm alive to witness it. Remember: nothing succeeds likes excess. More »
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Yesterday, Transformers director Michael Bay teamed with James Cameron, film's biggest advocate for all things 3D, to discuss why Dark of the Moon made the jump to 3D...and they showed us tons of new footage to help make their case. More »
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We've got a batch of new summer blockbuster clips revealing the secret alien tech from J.J. Abrams' Super 8, Transformers 3's possible villain, and young Charles Xavier acting somewhat dickish in X-Men: First Class. Watch them now! More »
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You know we're sluts for any sort of FX miniature carnage. ILM has just released this excellent behind-the-scenes look at the FX work on Transformers. It's packed with exploding miniatures! More »
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Optimus is not happy about the lack of communication between Autobots and Earthlings — now the space robot has to clean up our mess... again! Watch Michael Bay's latest Transformers trailer now. More »
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Here's a brand new TV spot for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon that aired during the Daytona 500 and unleashed a handful of new NASCAR Transformers. More »
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The big-screen adaptation of Jobie Hughes and James Frey's extraterrestrial runaways saga I Am Number 4 hits theaters tomorrow. We talked with the cast and director DJ Caruso about the Michael Bay-produced film's many high-octane stunts and why the film isn't a xenobiological Twilight, but rather — in the words of actress Dianna Agron — "kind of like Rebel Without A Cause...with aliens." More »
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Could Michael Bay be explaining to NASA how to get the space shuttle program back on track? Or is he preparing his own totally awesome shuttle explosion? What do you think is going on in this new set pic from Transformers 3? More »
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Mark Coleran, creator of "fantasy user interfaces" for films like The Bourne Ultimatum and Children of Men, is now focusing on solving real-world problems. John Pavlus with Fast Company Design explains. More »
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If you saw last night's new Transformers 3 trailer, you may have noticed some new hot Optimus Prime gliding, smashing and robot bashing action. We've got an exclusive look at the brand new Transformers: Dark of the Moon toys from the Hasbro Mechtech line which seem to show off Optimus Prime's awesome new wingspan. More »
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Michael Bay has just released his Transformers: Dark of The Moon trailer at the Super Bowl. How many new transforming aliens can you count? More »
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Just how exactly will I Am Number Four bring the Twilight feeling to a story about an alien refugee? Six new clips from the film show just how Twi-cracky this film will get. Plus tons of Michael Bay-style explosions. Spoilers? More »
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The more we see of this alien-adventure movie, the more we're starting to see the thumbprints from its producer, Michael Bay. Bikinis, beach babes, spinning angles - Hell, it's even got the "cool guys don't look at explosions" shot. Watch. More »
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The first trailer for the new Transformers movie is out. Michael Bay takes it to the extreme by implying that there were Transformers alive and kicking during the famous Apollo 11 moonwalk. Enjoy! More »
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College Humor has a ridiculously well done run down of the Social Network remade by other directors such as Guillermo del Toro, Michael Bay and Wes Anderson. Clearly, GDT's Facebook Monster is the coolest version. More »
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James Frey's I Am Number Four didn't blow us away... but as a movie pitch in book form, it worked great, since Michael Bay and DJ Caruso have already filmed it. And it's just the first of many. More »
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The Michael Bayifier photo editor allows you to turn everyday photos into adrenaline-pumping scenes of incendiary baditude — just look what we did to io9! Add a Shia head or ten for beaucoup comic relief! [Via The Presurfer] More »
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Alexander Semenov has created this neat Transformers fan movie about two fellows who decide to hold an impromptu duel. The lesson we should all walk away with? Never bring a bicycle to a giant robot fight. More »
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Here's a movie trailer that keeps raising the stakes, all in the course of one minute. There are Mayans, cosmicness, weird artifacts, investigators, lizard people, aliens, big honking UFOs... and then a guy shoots a tracking dart at a UFO! More »
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Some of the most exciting, memorable science fiction of the past few years has come out in the young-adult section. And then there are books like the much-hyped I Am Number Four, which is pretty forgettable. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Michael Bay is finally admitting that Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen may not have been a perfect movie. But Transformers 3, now filming, will drop the "dorky comedy" and substitute an intense mystery. More importantly, it'll end Bay's Transformers story. More »
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Michael Bay is slowly colonizing all of your childhood memories and adding boatloads of dynamite. Bay's production company has just been brought onboard to produce the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. More »
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Looking back at the most recent films he made with Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers 2 — the young star admits that they both kinda sucked. More »
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While Michael Bay is location-scouting on the Space Coast of Florida, home of the Kennedy center, details are spilling out about the next Transformers film. Which sounds like it has even more aliens in it this time around. More »
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The pulp science fiction renaissance has begun. Edgar Rice Burroughs and E.E. "Doc" Smith both have Hollywood blockbusters in the pipeline. The Burroughs-inspired Avatar broke DVD sales records. But can today's creators update pulp storylines without including the cultural baggage? More »
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We're getting more and more interested in Michael Bay's alien film, I Am Number Four. Especially since he just cast the Number Four, and it's Alex Pettyfer from Beastly. But can this movie really make a February 2011 release date? More »
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Oscar winner Frances McDormand, Oscar nominee John Malkovich, and a Ferrari have all been cast in Michael Bay's Transformers 3. Who will play the giant red robot with robot testicles? Check out Bay's T3 update letter. More »
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An artist who's reportedly working on the Transformers 3 tie-in game has posted a ton of concept art on his blog, including a couple of strange planets where some action takes place. Does this reflect the movie's storyline at all? More »
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If an asteroid really was on a collision course with Earth, blowing it up wouldn't do much good because the chunks would still have the same momentum. So what do you do? "How I Saved The World" has the answer. More »
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Hollywood has finally revealed the massive new list of Academy Award nominations — and a few other awards for "excellence" — this week. You'll never guess which nominations Land of The Lost and Transformers 2 snagged. More »
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While NASA and other space agencies keep their telescopes trained on near-Earth objects that could smash into us, we don't know how to prevent an impact. Here are some of the best (and weirdest) ideas for protecting Earth from incoming asteroids. More »
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Piss off, Twilight — the new teenagers in hiding are aliens. Gawker intern/novelist James Frey's series I Am Number Four is being turned into a movie by D.J. Caruso and Michael Bay. Huzzah, something new to spray ab muscles onto. More »
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