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According to Michael Bay’s blog, he and Steven Spielberg have scheduled the summer of 2009 for the release of Transformers 2.

Sweet!

‘Course we knew this was going to happen anyway, but it looks like we’ll be seeing them giant battlin’ robots a year earlier than previously expected.

And since every other fan of Transformers has already said what they want in the sequel, here’s my personal list of things I’m hoping that this second Transformers movie will have:

– More Transformers!
The first movie was a great setup for the series and introduction to the concept. I think that’s why the number of Transformers that we saw was relatively limited. The next chapter should be able to expand the cast of both Autobots and Decepticons significantly.

– Give the Transformers more screen time
A lot of people complained about how much of Transformers was focused on the

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Yesterday was the premiere of Transformers in the IMAX format. The allure of watching the Autobots and Decepticons hash it out on what I call “the big-a$$ screen” was too much to pass up, so on Tuesday Lisa and I ordered our tickets for last night’s 7 p.m. show at the IMAX Theater at Exploris in downtown Raleigh.

But this really is the kind of thing best shared with friends too. So Chad Austin also got him a ticket and we got in touch with Eric Wilson, a really good friend of ours who I hadn’t seen in like 15 years. He drove a few hours to Raleigh and we all hooked up at Chad’s place about 5 minutes from the Exploris. After a quick bite at the Armadillo Grill, we headed over to the theater.

The best part of going to see Transformers last night, without a ...

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There’s just nineteen days left before the CD of Steve Jablonsky’s Transformers score comes out, which a lot of us have been looking forward to since the movie came out. Well, Marco van Bergen has discovered something about the soundtrack. Remember the unearthly chanting that’s in a lot of the music for the Decepticons, like when Frenzy is hacking the computer and during the “roll call” scene? Marco and I talked about it and comparisons to John Williams’s “Duel of the Fates” from the Star Wars Episode I soundtrack came up. The chorals in “Duel of the Fates” were a Sanskrit translation of an ancient Welsh poem called “Battle of the Trees”. So might Jablonsky have done something similar with the Decepticons music?

Well, Marco did some asking-around in the right places and here’s what he found out:

I was wondering for a longer time now what the great

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Seibertron.com is reporting that this summer’s smash hit movie Transformers – which has come up for discussion a few times on this blog for one reason or another – will be out on DVD and HD-DVD here in the U.S. on October 16th!

Am wondering though if this will include the “extra” footage that is going to be in the IMAX release coming out later this month. Some are already speculating that there might be a “special edition” release of the movie too with that and other things (I haven’t found anywhere that there are going to be deleted scenes on this DVD release).

Still, that’s going to be pretty nifty: the CD of Steve Jablonsky’s Transformers score out on October 9th, and then the movie itself on DVD a week later 🙂...

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Here is the e-mail that arrived earlier this afternoon from Steve Jablonsky, the composer of the orchestral score for the movie Transformers.

Hey Chris,

My assistant forwarded your email to me a while back. I checked out your petition, and I wanted to personally thank you and everyone that signed. Support from fans like you really means a lot to me, and it makes me very happy that so many people enjoyed the Transformers score. Sorry it has taken so long to get it released. A score release was always in the works, it just took a while to pull everything together. But I’m glad it’s finally coming out.

So thank you again, and a big thanks to the thousands who signed. Feel free to post this on your site or blog or wherever you like, so I can pass along thanks to everyone.

Steve

Thanks Steve! And on ...

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Look! It’s the poster for Transformers in IMAX!

And lookie here, courtesy of Amazon.com: the track listing for the Steve Jablonsky score CD!

1. Autobots
2. Decepticons
3. All Spark
4. Deciphering the Signal
5. Frenzy
6. Optimus
7. Bumblebee
8. Soccent Attack
9. Sam at the Lake
10. Skorpinok
11. Cybertron
12. Arrival to Earth
13. Whitwicky
14. Downtown Battle
15. Sector 7
16. Bumblebee Captured
17. You’re a Soldier Now
18. Sam on the Roof
19. Optimus vs. Megatron
20. No Sacrifice, No Victory

Seems pretty loaded, with twenty tracks and all....

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The irony didn’t sink in until a short while ago: all summer I’ve been championing the release of Steve Jablonsky’s orchestral soundtrack from the movie Transformers. And Transformers was a Paramount production. Well, Paramount is owned by Viacom…

…and now Viacom is claiming that I infringed on its copyright because I uploaded onto YouTube a video that Viacom made by violating MY copyright!

No good deed goes unpunished, I suppose.

Okay, just had to get that out of the way for sake of the irony, ‘cuz I do appreciate irony (even when it’s not going my way). Anyhoo, I found this on Amazon.com’s page for what is apparently now being called Transformers: The Score:

Looks beautiful! I soooo can’t wait to have this in my CD collection....

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Since news broke here on Sunday night that the soundtrack CD of Steve Jablonsky’s score for Transformers would be coming out on October 9th from Warner Bros. Records, I’ve watched the album’s product page on Amazon reflect considerable demand for this CD. When it first listed on Sunday night it was somewhere in the 40,000-ish area so far as sales ranks go. Yesterday morning around 10:30 EST it was #1,618. Currently it’s at #217 and some are saying it might be in double-digits within the next few days. The Transformers score CD has also jumped significantly at the Barnes & Noble site (currently at #669).

All of those are just from presales, for an album that word is only now really getting around that it’s coming out.

Every indication right now is that this is set to become a major selling CD. And sales are probably going to soar even ...

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Well folks, it’s now looking like we have a release date for the album containing Steve Jablonsky’s awesome score from the movie Transformers: it’s apparently rolling out on October 9th, 2007!

It must have just listed in the last little while ‘cuz I checked Amazon at around 8 p.m. on Sunday night and it wasn’t there. But sharp-eyed Transformers fan Chris Barry in the past hour found it here on Amazon and then spotted it here at Barnes & Noble and then again here at Best Buy. It’s street price is listing at $18.98 but there is some retail price difference depending on which site you look at. And as previously reported here, it will be coming to us courtesy of Warner Bros. Records.

So ummmm… yay!!! We’ll soon have this awesome score in our CD collections! At least I hope that we will all go ...

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