With the resurgence of movies based on toys in recent years, it was high time to reach into the past and dust off the hidden gem that started it all. Many people who grew up watching the “Transformers” television show will remember that in 1986 Hasbro released a full length animated feature film called “The [...]
Like the plot of a dystopian fairy tale, the marketing campaign for last summer’s blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was a well-oiled machine selling a film about machines. We saw giveaway contests, multi-platform games, the requisite high-tech tie-in (LG’s new Versa), free movie posters with purchase, and Burger King kid’s meals with one of [...]
[Click Photo to Enlarge] Do you ever get the feeling that big Hollywood blockbusters are just heartless products following an established formula to maximize profits? Well, that assessment may be more true than you think. The folks at physorg.com have published an article explaining how “Hollywood movies have found a mathematical formula that lets them [...]
The objectified star of a million adolescent fantasies, Megan Fox has ascended the misogyny-fostering ranks of Hollywood’s considerable plastic actress sector faster than you can say “botox.” Funny thing is, she’s managed to become Tinseltown’s most sought after leading lady without ever being required to act. Director Karyn Kusama, best known for 2000′s “Girlfight,” aims [...]
Apparently Hollywood feels toys are a more ripe source material for films than actual source material these days. After Paramount’s intensely lucrative endeavors into the action figure world with the “Transformers” films and the recently successful “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” Warner Bros. has decided to get in on the game with a film [...]
2007′s “Transformers” was a mindless, tasteless, overly CGI-ed and under-plotted piece of explosion-driven schlock. Not a terribly good movie, but a reasonably good time nonetheless. It’s sequel, however, refuses to take its anti-intellectualism, anti-tolerance, anti-progress, anti-humanity, or anti-cinema lightly. “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is the most aggressively bad movie I have ever seen. There [...]
Besides Brando, perhaps the greatest thing to ever happen to cinema is the advent of the robot. Humanity has been obsessed with idea of sentient beings made of metal and wires either taking over the planet or supplanting the dog as man’s best friend. And so, in honor of these, our would-be rulers, I have [...]
Adam Goodman, Paramount’s newly minted President, has made the action-comedy pitch “License to Steal” his first major acquisition, paying seven figures upfront for it, according to Variety. Shane Salerno will loosely model the script after the concept of high-end repo agents who travel the world to reclaim pricey toys explored in Marc Weingarten’s Salon.com article. [...]
Michael Bay and his studio overlords are a great deal richer than they were three days ago. Despite scathing reviews and a general consensus that it fails to equal its predecessor, “Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen,” Paramount-DreamWorks’ action-packed sequel to Bay’s smash hit, “Transformers” continued its domination of the box office Friday raking in [...]
Shia LaBeouf is headed to Wall Street. The star of Michael Bay’s upcoming “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” confirms he will appear in director Oliver Stone’s follow up to “Wall Street” entitled, “Money Never Sleeps.” LaBeouf describes the film as “a walk and talk money movie” that’s “wordy and heady.” The “Indiana Jones and the [...]
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