Michael Bay recently screened his cut of Trans­form­ers 2, “Revenge of the Fallen” to exec­u­tive pro­ducer Steven Spiel­berg in an empty Sony the­ater. He has reported back via his Shoot for the Edit forums stat­ing that Speil­berg called it “Awe­some” and pos­si­bly Bay’s best. Work on a new trailer has just fin­ished and it is set to appear before the new Wolver­ine movie, due for release on May 1st in the US.

Steven Spiel­berg sat next to me in a big 100 per­son the­ater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said “It’s awe­some”. He felt this movie was bet­ter than the first — and prob­a­bly my best, who knows — at this point in a movie you start to lose your objec­tiv­ity. I just hope the fans like it. I’m going to start putting it in front of audi­ences in a few weeks — no you are not invited, yet.

We have 60 days left. Let me tell you it will be a race to fin­ish. It’s 12 at night and we are still work­ing here in the edit room. Every­one at ILM and DD are killing them­selves right now, they are doing a stel­lar job on the effects. We also just fin­ished our trailer which is com­ing out with Wolver­ine. Talk to you soon.

Michael

Peaugh is back with an in depth review of the blue Chro­mia motorcycle:

The Hol­ly­wood reporter have posted a video inter­view with Trans­form­ers 2 writ­ers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtz­man. Within they dis­cuss their aims for the project and their deci­sion to return.

Speak­ing with MTV once again, Michael Bay has revealed fur­ther Trans­form­ers 2 details — this time focus­ing on the action scenes,

“There’s no car chase in this movie, […] There’s a lot of dif­fer­ent types of action. In some movies, it’s the same action through­out the entire movie. There’s a lot of dif­fer­ent types of action in this one, and that makes it interesting.”

He went on to con­firm that we would see Dev­as­ta­tor in full IMAX glory before claiming:

“[Sev­eral scenes] are going to be on IMAX, which is awe­some. […] Some of our main scenes were shot with IMAX cam­eras, so the screen will pop wide [if you see the film in an IMAX the­ater]. It’s the first movie to do seri­ous dig­i­tal effects in IMAX quality.”

The open­ing shot of the movie, which should also be in IMAX, will fea­ture Megan Fox and shall beat that ‘flir­ta­tious hood open­ing scene’ from the first movie:

“It’s bet­ter. […] [While film­ing] I was at a gas sta­tion buy­ing ice cream bars, and these 15-year-old boys were look­ing at me. They were like, ‘You’re that dude that directed “Trans­form­ers”!’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah. Do you want to see “Trans­form­ers 2″? They were like, ‘Yeah!’ ” “I said, ‘Why do you want to see it?’ And together, in uni­son, they said, ‘The hot chick!’ […] It will be a good shot for them.”

eBay seller yayabeee has listed Scalpel on the auc­tion site with a host of new images detail­ing every aspect of the toy. Mean­while a video review of the toy has been posted by Peaugh detail­ing the trans­for­ma­tion from micro­scope to robot bug.

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Video Review

A video review of the cur­rently unknown auto­bot jet that car­ries a minia­ture Opti­mus Prime, read full details.

The toy video reviews are prov­ing pop­u­lar and more and more of them are pop­ping up, here there and every­where. This time its a review of the green Skids Deluxe class toy by Dl3anksak47, he has also posted other video reviews on his YouTube chan­nel:

After TF08 released images of Wheelie’s robot and alt mode in toy form, there is now a video review of the blue RC truck. It illus­trates the size of the toy and the trans­for­ma­tion from alt mode to robot mode. It’s head comes out from the rear of the truck whilst the wheels split open to reveal the spindly limbs and claws, the cabin opens up to reveal the auto­bot logo. After pos­ing the crea­ture is returned to his truck like state, (to the tune of the Trans­form­ers score).