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Shia LeBeouf nominated for Rising Star Award

Date: Tuesday, January 8th 2008 4:12pm CST
Categories: Movie Related News, People News, Digital Media News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Variety.com

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As found on Variety.com, BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) have posted their nominations for the 2008 Orange Rising Star Award to be given out at the British Academy Film Awards, to be held on February 10th.

Shia LeBeouf has been nominated for his performance in the Transformers Movie. The other nominees are as follows:
- Ellen Page (“Juno”)
- Sienna Miller (“Stardust”)
- Sam Riley (“Control”) and
- Tang Wei (“Lust, Caution”)

The Award will be decided by a public vote.

To see the full Variety article, please click here.

Beast Wars: Ascending #4 teasers from Simon Furman

Date: Tuesday, January 8th 2008 3:47pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News, Reviews, People News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Simon Furman

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Simon Furman has once again updated his blog, this time with many hints and teasers about the upcoming Beast Wars: the Ascending Issue #4, to be released Wednesday the 9th of January.

In his short recap Furman discusses Guido Guidi and his efforts on the art side, after replacing Don Figueroa who left the series at after issue #3, and a brief recap of the issue.

Furman concludes his synopsis with a cryptic clue...

Suffice it to say, the action starts on page 1 and doesn’t stop until page 22. And inbetween there’s triumph, torment and tragedy aplenty. No one is guaranteed to survive (and many don’t) and no happy endings are assured. In fact, as so often happens, the ending is also a beginning. Those who know their Beast Wars will be pleased the final scenes on page 22 (I hope!).

There are spoilers aplenty in this blog update, especially for those who may have not kept up to date with the series, so consider yourselves forewarned.

Furman also has a link to Don Figueroa's cover for Issue #4, which you can also see below:


To read Simon Furman's full blog entry, please click here, and don't forget all discussion on all things Beast Wars: Ascending can be made in our Comics Discussion Forum.

Transformers Movie on Blu-Ray Still To Come?

Date: Saturday, January 5th 2008 5:41pm CST
Categories: Movie Related News, People News, Digital Media News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.shootfortheedit.com

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Michael Bay, the director of the 2007 Transformers movie, has left a message on his board, letting fans know that he has not lost his hope to one day release the Transformers movie on the High Definition format of Blu-Ray. The following has been taken directly from his post.

"Well another studio down. Maybe I was right? Blu ray is just better. HD will die a slow death. It's what I predicted a year ago. Now with Warner's down for the count with Blu Ray. That makes it easier for Wal-Mart to push Blu Ray. And whatever Wal-Mart pushes - wins. Hd better start giving out those $120 million dollars checks to stay alive. Maybe they can give me some so I can give it to my Make-A-Wish charity, just to shut me up. Have faith people Transformers will come out in Blu-ray one day!

Bay".

Newsarama Interview with Transformers Mosiac

Date: Thursday, January 3rd 2008 5:34pm CST
Categories: Site News, Comic Book News, Site Articles, People News, Digital Media News, Interviews
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Josh van Reyk, Newsarama

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The Transformers Mosiac team seem to be getting themselves ever more and more exposure.

Shortly after the release of their first comic "series" War Journal, Transformers Mosiac script writer Josh van Reyk has been interviewed by Newsarama.

In the Interview Josh talks about his involvement in the creation process of both the Mosiac and War Journal projects, who else was involved in the War Journal project and what we can look forward to for the rest of 2008.

To read the full interview from Newsarama, please click here.

You can also read the full War Journal Comic released by Transformers Mosiac here on Seibertron.com by clicking here.

Simon Furman drops hints on whats to come in 2008

Date: Tuesday, January 1st 2008 9:24pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News, People News, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Tazprime, Simon Furman

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Simon Furman has been busy over the New Year period, again updating his blog, revealing many little tidbits of information on what we already knew to be coming up in the year 2008.

First off from me, a trio of Spotlights: Blaster, Arcee and Grimlock. All feed into the main ‘ongoing’ storyline to greater or lesser extents, with all three characters having scores to settle or something to prove (or both). Arcee is perhaps the most pivotal, but Blaster has definite repercussions, as does Grimlock, which in and of itself leads into one of my main IDW/TF projects for 08.

Furman also hints at which direction the upcoming main books will be travelling:

And, of course, there’s Revelation itself, the fourth (fifth including Stormbringer) arc in the IDW/TF-verse, as the Dead Universe storyline that’s been bubbling under for a while now explodes into (un)life!

Add to that a hint of the upcoming summer story:

There’s also a series that goes back to a time before anything we’ve seen so far in the new IDW/TF-verse, one that will underpin the entire Infiltration/Escalation/Devastation/Revelation continuity.

and finally add to all the IDW Transformers work; Titan UK Transformers stories alongside other works such as Torchwood, Dr Who and TMNT stories and you have one busy writer.

To read Furman's full blog update, please click here, and to discuss all the upcoming IDW Transformers related work in this thread.