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News briefs: Transformers 2 tops U.K., Japan; Teen Wolf rebooted?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen doesn't open in the United States until Wednesday, but it's already rolled up about $20 million at 846 locations overseas, according to The Hollywood Reporter; the sequel opened at number one in the United Kingdom ($14.1 million from 517 screens) and Japan ($5.8 million from 329 sites).
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Oscar-winning visual-effects specialist Charles Gibson will make his big-screen directing debut with the Geoff Rodkey-scripted supernatural family comedy The Goblin, Variety reported; the story revolves around a suburban family that moves into its new home only to find a curmudgeonly goblin who doesn't want them there.
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Moviehole reported that a remake of the classic Michael J. Fox monster comedy Teen Wolf is in early development; Warner Brothers currently has the project out to writers, looking for the craftiest re-interpretation of Rod Daniels' 1985 hit.
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The Harry Potter Advanced Potion-Making Experience has gone live on YouTube; it is an interactive video-submission contest launched in support of the July 15 opening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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The fifth annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival is now accepting submissions through Sept. 15; the festival is a partnership with Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and the Seattle International Film Festival Group (SIFF).
By E at 4:25 AM ON 06/22/09
Um, excuse me, can somebody please explain to me why non-Americans got to see this movie first?!?! I'm guessing it's because the movie totally sucks . . . or Michael Bay is a terrorist and traitor. (And we know that he's MOVIE terrorist . . . just some stupid no-talent frat boy like Brett Ratner who makes crappy movies.)
By Justo at 5:29 AM ON 06/22/09
Micheal Bay is a great American and a great director, quit trolling E
By Riocaz at 5:59 AM ON 06/22/09
Because the world doesn't revolve around the united states like you think it does E.
By SciFiFan at 7:49 AM ON 06/22/09
Yeah, how dare an America made movie not come out in America first! oh wait! I love other countries, they hate us but what all the stuff we make first..
By MattS at 12:20 PM ON 06/22/09
Britain and Japan hate the United States? Supporting staunch allies is equal to terrorism? What alternate universe do you live in?
On another note I saw the first Transformers with a Japanese exchange student. After the movie was over he was having trouble thinking of how to describe what he felt about it in English. Pulling out his nifty Japanese to English electronic dictionary he kept hitting some buttons until satisfied and then turned it so I could see the screen. On it was one word, "childish".
Keiji, my wife and I all agreed with his dictionary.
By riocaz at 12:42 PM ON 06/22/09
I forgot to point out that Michael Bay almost certainly had nothing to do with the release dates.
A certain little bird I have access to said that the decision was made by the studio based on the number of screens they could get on those dates.
And speaking as a Brit, who got to see it on the press screening 2 weeks ago. Yea it's childish. It has big explosions and lots of Megan Fox running in slow-mo.
It's a popcorn movie. doesn't require a brain. Could have done with some plot. And less "references" to other films... But it's watchable.
By Elmer Jackson at 6:36 AM ON 06/23/09
I can't wait to see Revenge of the Fallen. I love Megan Fox!
By H at 11:00 AM ON 06/23/09
ofcourse its childish it evolved from a cartoon. wat do yuh expect from moving robots ?
By asdf at 3:09 AM ON 06/24/09
Have you seen the two Patlabor movies by Mamoru Oshii? Have you seen Evangelion?
Plus it DIDN'T top Japanese box-office:
By Faddy at 12:26 PM ON 07/01/09
waa00'....transformer 2 is the best m0vie ever made in the histr0y i guesS'..!!
n0w-a-days h0llywo0d is at its peak'.nD micheal bay proved once again he is the besT of all.
we pe0ple need t0 watch m0vies like that acti0n thriller stragedity of american army.
r0ck 0n baY nd megan'..!!
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