Fate rarely calls on us at a moment of our choos­ing… Not really any new footage here, a re-cut of some of the things we’ve already seen, nonethe­less, a new TV Spot for us:

We’ve just seen the Trans­form­ers 2 movie ren­der­ing, and we’ve also seen the toys and CG mod­els, now for some­thing slightly dif­fer­ent, one of the orig­i­nal con­cept designs for The Fallen:

Lots of small news items com­ing out at the moment, didn’t seem worth giv­ing each of them their own post. Here goes:

Movie com­pleted this week

Michael Bay has com­mented that he hopes to have pro­duc­tion of Trans­form­ers Revenge of the Fallen com­pleted by the end of Wednesday:

“I’m a lit­tle stressed because I’m fin­ish­ing the movie tomor­row. Maybe Wednesday.”

That’s only 5 days before the world pre­mière in Tokyo!

ET exclu­sive TF2 footage today

ET will be air­ing some exclu­sive new footage from the movie some time today, as well as an inter­view with Megan Fox and Shia.

Box Office Track­ing — $175m 5-day opener?

From Nikki Finke:

[…] Rival stu­dios are telling me they expect Trans­form­ers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen to open with a high of $175M for its 5-day open­ing from Wednes­day, June 24 to Sun­day, June 28. Because the sequel came onto track­ing HUGE today. Para­mount will try to lower expec­ta­tions. But here’s what can’t be argued: Spider-Man 2 opened on Wednes­day, June 30, 2004, and did $152 mil­lion for its first 5 days. So Trans­form­ers 2 feels like at least it should be in the $160+M range.

IMAX tick­ets on sale in Australia

The IMAX in Syd­ney has put up its pre-orders for TF2, which can now be pur­chased. The first show­ing is at 12:01am. Buy tick­ets.

Wednes­day, Jun 24, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
12:01AM (MIDNIGHT) 3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM
Thurs­day, Jun 25, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM
Fri­day, Jun 26, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM 11:59PM
Sat­ur­day, Jun 27, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
12:00PM 3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM 11:59PM
Sun­day, Jun 28, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
12:00PM 3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM
Mon­day, Jun 29, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM
Tues­day, Jun 30, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM
Wednes­day, Jul 1, 2009 — IMAX Syd­ney.
3:00PM 6:00PM 9:00PM

Famous mag­a­zine inter­view Shia

via Cine­plex:

“Mike has been bet­ter this time, he’s more com­fort­able and he’s doing dif­fer­ent stuff,” says LaBeouf, look­ing buff but for the cast on his bro­ken hand, dur­ing an inter­view in Los Ange­les last autumn. “It’s wild to watch Mike grow up and to acknowl­edge it. Every film­maker, every movie out, some­thing changes. You either gain some­thing or you lose some­thing, and I think this time Mike has gained a lot. I also think work­ing with Steven is really trans­form­ing Mike. His prepa­ra­tion is very dif­fer­ent on this one than it was on the first one.”

[Regard­ing request for Megan to gain some weight] “Megan Fox is gor­geous, still,” LaBeouf gal­lantly affirms. “And no, I didn’t think she was too skinny when she came back to do this. Megan has never looked bad. There’s always some­thing that Michael says, but he’s been good.”

“It’s big­ger, faster and stronger than what we did the first time,” he says. “We’re blow­ing every­thing up. I was just at Hol­lo­man Air Force Base, where we blew up an entire town! There are new char­ac­ters that are inter­est­ing. Our ban­ter is fast and it’s fun, it’s table tennis.”

“There’s cool stuff that hap­pens to Sam. Sam starts to lose his mind. He starts hav­ing visions of his grand­fa­ther, Archibald Witwicky, and that’s fun to play around with. And recess time with John Tur­turro [who plays the addled fed con­stantly at odds with Sam] is always fun…. It’s like Groundlings The­ater,” LaBeouf says, ref­er­enc­ing the L.A. com­edy troupe whose alumni include Will Fer­rell and Lisa Kudrow. “You’re ad lib­bing all day long. One of the beau­ti­ful things about Mike is that he’ll allow it. You can do free-form thought the whole day.”

The exclu­sive Fallen image that MTV released recently is now avail­able at a higher res­o­lu­tion. Click the image for the full version:

The exclu­sive new Trans­form­ers Revenge of the Fallen clip from the MTV movie awards is now online.

The clip shows us:
– Sam and Megan hid­ing from Decep­ti­cons
– Starscream, Long­haul (first proper look), Rav­age and oth­ers tear apart the city search­ing for them
– An insec­ti­con flies in through a whole, Sam catches it and squishes it but it’s already too late
– Starscream tears the roof off and Sam and Megan run

Down­load the MTV footage — 1280x res­o­lu­tion, MP4, 25mb

Screen­shots

Here are nine ultra high res­o­lu­tion (~2,000 x 3,000 res) pro­mo­tional shots from Revenge of the Fallen — show­ing the auto­bots, Megan Fox, Shia and sol­diers; clock­ing in at just shy of 45mb in total.

Megan Fox

Gallery

Dur­ing the Bot­Con awards Michael Bay pre­sented some new footage of the Trans­form­ers sequel. Seib­ertron described the new footage:

With our antic­i­pa­tion at its high­est level, the atten­dees of Bot­con roared into cheer as the first clip of the movie started. The footage started with John Tur­turro and Sam’s roo­mate in the mid­dle of a con­struc­tion zone look­ing on to a group of con­struc­tion vehi­cles sur­round them. The con­struc­ti­cons were revealed when Mix­mas­ters Decep­ti­con sym­bol is shown and Scav­enger begins to trans­form. At the same time the other con­struc­ti­cons move closer to form Devastator!!!

Scav­enger lit­er­ally forces all the other con­struc­ti­cons into the gestalt ala Scor­pion in Mor­tal Kom­bat [I think he means that “Come Here!” with chain grab move — ed]. Tuturro then runs with Sam’s roo­mate when the scene cuts to Sam and Mikaela run­ning from Rampage.

Ram­page begins chas­ing Sam’s father when Sam jumps in front of him to draw his atten­tion. Sam then says “Wait, it’s not them you want. It’s this, the MATRIX!” He then holds up an item and con­tin­ues to coax Ram­page when Bum­ble­bee arrives. The bat­tle begins.

Ram­page and Bum­ble­bee fight fero­ciously with Bum­ble­bee get­ting the bet­ter of Ram­page when Rav­age enters the fray. Using his hip can­nons he blasts Bee and jumps on his back. Bum­ble­bee then forces Ram­page to the ground when Ram­page lunges for Sam and takes Rav­age and tears him apart piece by piece.

Bum­ble­bee then rips Rampage’s arm off and decap­i­tates him.

Linkin Park’s offi­cial YouTube chan­nel has updated with a 30 sec­ond Trans­form­ers 2 TV spot with the track ‘New Divide’ play­ing over the top. No new footage though:

EDIT: Update with HD ver­sion of new TV Spot:

Or catch it on Vimeo.