This past Tuesday, the nominations for the eighty-second annual Academy Awards were announced and this year, it looks like scifi/fantasy films have taken another step into the mainstream consciousness of both the Academy and movie-goers alike. What’s wonderful to see [...]
Read moreSCIFI MAFIA CHRISTMAS LOOT: Day Seven – Transform And Roll Out, With Ultimate Bumblebee
Transform On Day Seven of SciFi Mafia’s 21 Days of Christmas Loot with a fan-fave Autobot: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Ultimate Bumblebee. It doesn’t matter how old you are, transforming this robot toy will bring a smile to any [...]
Read moreTransformers: ROTF Tops 2009 DVD Charts In One Week
Home Media Magazine says that in one week's time, the Revenge of the Fallen DVD and Blu-ray has become the top-selling home entertainment release of 2009. On the first day it was available, October 20th, the Transformers sequel sold two million [...]
Read moreOrci and Kurtzman Not Writing Transformers 3
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have revealed that they will not be writing the screenplay for Transformers 3. Director Michael Bay recently confirmed that the third installment in the blockbuster franchise will be released on July 1, 2011. The pair, who penned [...]
Read more‘Roberto Orci’ To Receive Norman Lear Writer’s Award
Screenwriter and producer Roberto Orci has been having a hell of a year. As writer of two of 2009's biggest blockbusters (Michael Bay-directed "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" reboot) as well as producer for the year's [...]
Read moreBay’s ‘Transformers’ Beats Box Office Predictions
The box office year got its first $300 million domestic grosser on Tuesday and Michael Bay's film has a worldwide gross that tops $600 million. Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" passed that magical milestone after pushing its U.S. and Canadian [...]
Read moreOptimus “Rolls Out” A Victory Over Ice Age
Final studio data has transformed a tentative tie for box office supremacy to a clear weekend victory for Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," which topped the domestic pack with $42.3 million. Fox's "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" ended up [...]
Read more‘Transformers’ Crushes The Box Office
Aside from its whopping five-day domestic tally -- the second highest of all time -- Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" broke records in several countries overseas, leading to a massive $387.3 million worldwide through Sunday, one of the best [...]
Read moreVideo: Michael Bay Press Conference at the National Air and Space Museum
Director, Michael Bay and Phil Strub (Director of Entertainment Media at Department of Defense) held a short press conference at that National Air and Space Museum ahead of a special IMAX screening for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Check it out! [...]
Read more‘Transformers 2’ Blast Makes Guinness Record And The Top 10 Movie Explosions
No one can argue that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn't explosive. It's bigger, louder, and Michael Bay is officially going down in the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest explosion on film with actors present. Popular Mechanics put together [...]
Read more‘Revenge Of The Fallen’, Second Only To ‘The Dark Knight’
Paramount's sequel "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" rang up $60.6 million in its first day in domestic release. Par released the early estimate of first-day box office Thursday morning. The figure included more than $16 million from midnight Wednesday performances, as [...]
Read more‘Transformers’ Rolls Out With $16 Million
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" stormed about 3,000 locations Tuesday night, and the first midnight screenings of Michael Bay's action sequel captured a mighty $16 million. It puts the Paramount release in impressive company: While "The Dark Knight" holds the record [...]
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