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First things first: I have yet to hear any news about a CD release of the score from Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which was once again masterfully composed and orchestrated by Steve Jablonsky. A bunch of readers have been asking me about this for the past several months (and quite often more than once!). No word either on the rumored box set that would have Jablonsky’s complete score from all three Transformers movies, which I would gladly plunk down serious coin for and based on the enthusiasm I’ve been observing, so would many others out there.

Until we have something more substantial to go on (and I tend to believe that it will be coming sooner than later) here’s something ya might wanna check out: Music from the Transformers Trilogy!

Performed by London Music Works, this CD includes 16 tracks from the three movies: six ...

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It was this afternoon and my retinas are still exhausted!! Between Michael Bay’s signature ‘splosions and blowing stuff up real good and all those pretty pixels from Industrial Light and Magic, magnified to ginormous proportions (not to mention the gigawatts of sound coming at ya) it was quite the Transformers experience! I’ll recommend seeing it at least once in IMAX 3D as it was certainly worth driving to Durham to catch it there (along with lifelong best friend Chad, who after seeing it agreed with what I wrote in my original review a few days ago that this was a better Transformers movie than the first one!

Now, if we can only get a fourth Transformers flick. I’m still hoping to see Unicron depicted in the live-action series (and the more I think about it the more I’m liking the idea of Morgan Freeman voicing the Dark God and Devourer ...

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When it comes to Transformers: Dark Of The Moon‘s orchestral score, you can’t get much more authoritative a source than the man who composed it! A short while ago Steve Jablonsky sent me an e-mail about the current state of the score album’s CD. In it he not only explains what’s going on with it, he also provides a fascinating insight into the makings of a major summer blockbuster!

So without further ado, here is Mr. Jablonsky…

Hi Chris

Nice to hear from you. As you probably know the score is now up on iTunes. The physical CD situation has been more complicated. I finished the album weeks ago, but we didn’t actually finalize it until a few days ago. Michael Bay is really happy with the score and he wanted to check out the album before it went out. As you might imagine, he’s a busy dude. He’s

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This popped up tonight on Amazon.com’s page for the product listing…

It’s still listed as “Currently unavailable”. But we’ve got the album cover art.

That has to be mean something good, right?

(Incidentally, at this moment I’ve got iTunes playing “Decepticons” from Transformers: The Score. With this one track composer Steve Jablonsky did something that had never adequately been done before in the whole history of the Transformers franchise: conveyed the utterly alien nature of the Transformers. I love this music!!)...

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Dear Michael Bay: You may now consider yourself fully forgiven for Pearl Harbor.

I could also say that you are now also forgiven for the previous Transformers movie, but since you’ve made up for Pearl Harbor, saying as much would just be redundant.

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon… is at last THE Transformers live-action movie that I have dreamed of someday seeing on the big screen! Now I love like mad 2007’s Transformers and I’m kinda starting to at last warm up to Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. But this third movie… I kid you not folks… is not only better than the previous sequel, it is by a wide degree better than the original film of the franchise!!

Whoa.

Michael Bay has been paying attention to his own handiwork. He has seen what is good and what is bad. And good googely moogely, the man ...

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Hey gang, we are just a few days away from Transformers: Dark of the Moon and, starting to get stoked about this movie in the biggest way! Maybe it’s something to do with having bought the Blu-rays of both the previous films last week and watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for only the second time ever. And oddly enough, two years later I’m much more entertained by that movie. It still has its problems (namely “Car Car Binks” aka the Autobot twins, and I genuinely feel sorry for whoever it was at Industrial Light and Magic who was handed the task of digitally animating Devastator’s ummm… “wrecking ball testicles”) but y’know, I wound up digging it way more than before as a Transformers live-action flick. In fact, as I write this my desktop PC is busy ripping the Blu-ray so I can put both these movies on my iPad!...

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On his official site, Michael Bay has publicly vowed that a third Transformers flick for summer after next. It’s set to roll out on July 1st, 2011.

From his blog…

Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st 2011. Not 2012.

Today is Day One. This morning started with an ILM meeting for five hours in San Francisco. Currently I’m flying with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about new characters.

P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to

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