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May 20 2013 10:15 AM ET

'Transformers 4' casts Chinese actress Li Bingbing

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Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Resident Evil: Retribution, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) has been cast in Transformers 4.

The news was first reported by China’s m1905.com, a state-owned film site. The casting comes during recent high-profile efforts to court and increase Chinese interest in Hollywood tent-poles: Iron Man 3 was shot with footage specifically for the country, which is now the world’s second-largest film market. Meanwhile, Transformers 4 Chinese Actors Talent Search Reality Show will air this summer, a reality TV competition to cast four speaking roles in the upcoming film, which jettisons franchise star Shia LaBeouf in favor of Mark Wahlberg.

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May 1 2013 07:56 PM ET

Casting Net: Daniel Radcliffe to play American reporter in 'Tokyo Vice'; Plus Reese Witherspoon, more

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• In case you chose to forget about Equus and Kill Your Darlings, we’re just here to remind you that Daniel Radcliffe is really never going back to his Harry Potter days. He’s just lined up a new project: an adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice, a non-fiction account of Adelstein’s work as an American crime journalist in Japan. Music video director Anthony Mandler (Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” and Rihanna’s “Diamonds”) will helm the feature, and playwright J.T. Rogers will write the script. [Deadline]

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Apr 16 2013 09:22 AM ET

Paramount and IMAX make five-picture deal that includes 'Transformers 4' and 'Interstellar'

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Paramount will release five of its biggest upcoming tentpole movies — including Transformers 4 and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar — on IMAX, continuing the studio’s partnership with the supersize-screened movie theater company. “We’re thrilled and honored to once again team up with our longtime partners Christopher Nolan and Michael Bay,” said Greg Foster, chairman and president of IMAX Entertainment, in a statement following an announcement at Cinema-Con. “We can’t wait to showcase their vision to IMAX fans around the world.”

Nolan and Bay have previously used the special IMAX cameras to capture crisper action sequences in 70 mm, notably in the last two Dark Knight films and the most recent Transformers film. The Dark Knight Rises featured about an hour of IMAX footage, and Nolan has become a huge advocate for the technology. “For me, it’s simply the best way to make a film, and why more people haven’t done it I could not tell you,” Nolan told Film Comment in November.

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Apr 2 2013 02:02 PM ET

Paramount co-producing 'Transformers 4' with Chinese company

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In a move sure to prove devastating to the domestic robot-car industry, Paramount Pictures has announced that it will co-produce the upcoming Transformers 4 with China Movie Channel and Jiaflix Enterprises, marking the most high-profile example yet of Hollywood’s expanding relationship with China. In a press release, Paramount explains in extremely vague technical terms that it has entered into a “Cooperation Agreement” with the China Movie Channel, which will “cooperate with Paramount in broad-based support of the production of the film in China.”

The nature of this “broad-based support” is left vague, but presumably it will involve clearing out large stretches of major cities in China so Michael Bay can film a really important scene featuring several giant alien robot cars fighting about something while Mark Wahlberg fires a gun into the air and screams something like “Grab the Nexus! Crap, Decepticons!” while the fading sunlight dapples the sweat on his bare granite biceps. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 8 2013 05:27 PM ET

Michael Bay teases plot of 'Transformers 4'... and the future of the franchise

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Less than a month after Michael Bay officially announced that the plot for Transformers 4 is still top-secret — which is technically true, insofar as no one knows the specific reason why the good giant robots will once again fight the evil giant robots using product placement and Victoria’s Secret models (spoiler alert)– the action-film director has offered some intriguing new hints about the upcoming fourquel. In a post on his personal website, the director explains that he has hired an unknown actor named Jack Reynor for a major role in the movie we clearly have to refer to as Trans4mers. Says Bay: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 17 2012 04:21 PM ET

Michael Bay refutes reports of 'Transformers 4' script leak

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Swiftly nipping a fanboy-fueled web rumor in the bud, Michael Bay has publicly denied that a Transformers 4 script has been leaked.

Unleashthefanboy.com writer Steve Lemlek posted earlier Monday that 120 pages of the anticipated script had surfaced, according to an unnamed source, with the big baddie villain named as chaos-loving robot Unicron.

Transformers 4 director Bay, who has been working with past Transformers sequels screenplay writer Ehren Kruger, responded with a resounding “WRONG!”

“Some Internet sites this morning reported that some document recovery guy has found a legitimate 120 page script of Transformers 4. I can absolutely 100 percent say this is completely false,” said Bay in a statement from Paramount Pictures. “The only two people in the world that have our unfinished script are Kruger and myself. Also we are only up to page 70 in our T4 script. Maybe this guy has a cartoon or something else – but definitely not our movie!”

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‘Transformers 4′ gets a new logo — and Mark Wahlberg

Nov 8 2012 08:37 PM ET

'Transformers 4' gets a new logo -- and Mark Wahlberg

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Hey, Optimus Prime — say hello to your motherboard for me.

Michael Bay has officially confirmed that the star of Transformers 4 will be Mark Wahlberg, who worked with the director on his upcoming crime tale Pain and Gain.

The Transformers sequel, planned to debut June 27, 2014, also has a sleek new logo based on the Decepticon insignia.

“Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on Pain and Gain and I’m so fired up to be back working with him. An actor of his caliber is the perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the Transformers’ legacy,” said Bay.

Last week, the director denied rumors that he was looking to have Wahlberg take over the blockbuster robot franchise from Shia Labeouf, and said he was considering him for another film — not in the Transformers franchise.

Then he followed up on his website, saying … maybe that wasn’t such a bad idea after all: “Let’s say some ideas are gaining traction with me and my writer – so I’m here to say thanks internet chatter.”

 

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