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Click Here Transformers, the long-planned, live-action movie based on the robot-morp hing cartoon, comic and toy franchise, will roll into theaters July 4, 2 007, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday.
Children of the 1980s likely will be champing at the tie-in lunchbox. co m), said in an email interview about the movie announcement. "The casual or un-familar fan will need to see something awesome to win them over, although a 40-foot robot is usually pretty cool." Cool-looking robots who convert themselves into battle tanks and other ve hicles in order blow up things real good are at the mechanical heart of the Transformers, the classic tale of good automaton (the Autobots) vers us evil automaton (the Decepticons) in a battle for control of Earth. Both Autobots and Decepticons hail from the planet Cybert ron. All this backstory and more was revealed in Transformers, the syndi cated cartoon series launched in 1984 with the help of toy-maker Hasbro, which simultaneously--and savvily--launched a still-thriving merchandis e line. No less savvy today, the makers of the new Transformers movie have alread y begun a full-scale offensive. Transformers: Cybertron, the latest animated se ries, launched this month on Cartoon Network. Burger King cooks up a mon thlong action-figure promotion beginning in August. And this weekend in San Diego, on the occasion of Comic-Con International, the geek world's largest annual gawkfest, an 18-wheel truck touting the franchise's consi derable wares will be beached in the convention hall. In theory then, this thing ain't going to be Transformers: The Movie. Much as Fox is planning to right past cinematic wrongs with an all- new, A-list take on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, another 1980 s cartoon/toy phenomenon that spawned a cheeseball 1980s film, the new T ransformers crew is looking to take its property upscale. net ), Don Murphy, a Transformers co-executive producer, said Spielberg, Dre amWorks and Hasbro are committed to making a film that is no less than " GREAT" (the capital letters are all his). "It will be GREAT," Murphy continued, "and then we will make sequel after sequel. With excellence promised, the powers that be now need only to lock in act ors--none were announced Wednesday--and start cameras rolling. In publicly staking claim to July 4, 2007, Dr eamWorks and Paramount become the first studios to reserve that holiday date for their own. Currently, the only other release on the 2007 calend ar is Spider-Man 3, set for May 4 of that year. com/c onventions/frisco/), described by organizer Brian Savage as being "like a giant group hug for everyone who enjoys Transformers." "The whole movie announcement just adds more fire and fuel," said Savage, director of Hasbro's officia l Transformers Collectors Club. The way Savage sees it, the unlikely secret to the Transformers' success is: Personality.
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