In a very brief post on his blog “Shoot for the Edit”, Michael Bay responded to claims about Jonah and Teresa Palmer:

No we have stopped nego­ti­at­ing with Jonah, and Teresa Palmer was not con­sid­ered for a role — you have wrong info.

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Isabel Lucas’ man­age­ment agency, Meiss­ner Man­age­ment, has listed Isabel as a cast mem­ber of the Trans­form­ers sequel:

ISABEL LUCAS
NEW — Fea­ture Film “TRANSFORMERS 2” Dream­Works US Pro­duc­tion. Role of ALICE.

Alice is not listed in the cast break­down we saw leaked a short while back.

Start­ing as of last night, Warner Bros. have began air­ing a cou­ple of tele­vi­sion spots for the Dark Knight. Thanks to all those that sent this in.

“Out of the dark­ness, comes the Knight” — not too hard to think that one up!

Here you go:

TV Spot #1:

TV Spot #2:

/Film just got an exclu­sive pack­age of 40 high res­o­lu­tion images sent their way by reader KillingJoke — 30mb of them. These include lots of Aaron Eck­hart, Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal, Chris­t­ian Bale, Mor­gan Free­man, Heath Ledger and Chris Nolan close-ups. What’s most inter­est­ing are the pic­tures that show the film­ing of The Dark Knight.

This set appears to be for press usage, most likely for the plethora of press arti­cles we will be see­ing in the com­ing months. Some of the shots we have seen before, but maybe not at this res­o­lu­tion. No real spoil­ers in these shots either:

EDIT:

Sorry folks.

Zdravko wrote in to tell us that Hot Toys have some new intri­cately designed Dark Knight busts:

WENN are report­ing that within min­utes of going on sale, Mattel’s Joker action fig­ure has sold out:

Bat­man fans have cleaned out New York toy stores’ entire sup­ply of Heath Ledger’s Joker action fig­ure, within min­utes of them going on sale.

Devo­tees of the comic book series lined up early to clear shelves of the $9.99 toy.

Ebay is rid­dled with these fig­ures sell­ing for much more than their retail price, up to $55 each.

Via /Film

/Film have been tipped off about a pos­si­ble film shoot at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia (Sam Witwicky will be in college):

I’m a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia and a few of my friends involved in stu­dent gov­ern­ment told me that Trans­form­ers 2 will be shoot­ing on cam­pus in one of the nicer fra­ter­ni­ties this sum­mer. Im guess­ing these scenes will involve Shia/Jonah at col­lege. Michael Bay was also seen on cam­pus a few weeks back, so I guess that sort of con­firms that the film will be par­tially shot here. Thought you might like to know.

Rumors have recently put Super­bad star, Jonah Hill, in con­tention as Shia LaBoeuf’s room­mate in the Trans­form­ers sequel, as described by some leaked cast­ing descrip­tions:

[CHUCK] 19–25 yrs., Sam’s room­mate at Prince­ton. He runs a con­spir­acy the­ory web­site. Funny in an irrev­er­ent, edgy way, he is shocked to see his con­spir­acy the­o­ries come to life. (2nd Lead)

How­ever, Enter­tain­ment Weekly are report­ing that talks between Hill and Dream­Works have bro­ken down and shall not be Sam Witwicky’s comic sidekick.