The brand new, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer which leaked out online over the weekend is now available in official, glorious high-res format. Michael Bay has done it again. It’s an eye-popper. See it below along with our screencapped image gallery, or watch it in extreme high-res over at Yahoo.

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More images leaking out from the 2009 US ToyFair. This time it's our first look at Devastator, the massive, multi-robot transformers which is supposed to show up in Revenge of the Fallen. Along with Devastator, we have a first look at the toy version of the massive, wheeled robot you probably saw in the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Super Bowl trailer (that's him to your right). Nope, that wasn't Devastator.

Check out both, massive, gigantic sized robots after the jump, courtesy of Action-Figure and TFormers.com, where they have even more.
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At first glance, WALL-E is a complicated science fiction tale, set against a grand post-apocalyptic backdrop. But it's an illusion. More than any other recent film by the geniuses at Pixar it’s a kids’ movie, maybe their most simplistic and accessible yet. If WALL-E were a book, it’d be in the children’s department emblazoned with a title like “My First Science Fiction Story” and there would probably be a page for coloring somewhere before the back cover. They’ve taken a fairly ambitious sci fi concept and made it the perfect window for kids into a broader world of imagination and perhaps even activism. Does it have some appeal for adults? Sure. It’s still smart sci fi, just told in the most straightforward, easy to understand way possible. They’re happy to have you in the theater, but mostly they want your 8-year-old son or daughter. So maybe for adults there aren’t a lot of surprises, but that doesn’t mean you won’t revel in the Pixar-perfect execution of another story well told.

It happens in a far off future where mankind has turned Earth into a trash dump. I mean that literally. There’s no attempt at a complicated explanation for how our planet got screwed up. Basically we ruined the Earth by littering. It’s something kids can understand, why bother getting lost in a more complex problem like global warming? Man’s solution to the overabundance of garbage was to abandon the Earth, and live life roaming the stars inside spacefaring pleasure cruisers. Now, 700 years since our departure from Terra, the human race has morphed into a bunch of overweight layabouts. Basically we’re all starfaring, super-fat babies.
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Disney's WALL-E is going retro with some really incredible, 50s style poster artwork created specially for the film. The four incredibly cool posters below are available for sale over on Acme Direct... where they don't come cheap. But what you're getting here isn't some cheap promotional one sheet, but real, beautiful, geektastic artwork.

Check out all four posters after the jump:

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Imagi and Summit Entertainment have announced the complete voice cast of their animated Astro Boy movie. Announcement after the jump:

We've been hearing rumors that this might happen for awhile, and now it's assured. Marvel head Avi Aarad is making a movie out of Robosapien.

You know Robosapien. He's that little toy robot in Fry's Electronics that you always walk past and think "wow that looks cool" and then you keep right on walking because you can't imagine any circumstance in which you'd ever actually want to buy it.

Apparently some people do buy it, because if you do a little Google searching you'll discover there's a whole mod community of techies out there modifying, upgrading, and tweaking these things to do some pretty cool stuff.

And somehow the support of that handful of people has led to Robosapien becoming a movie. I'm picturing Short Circuit, without the military angle.
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Stop in the name of the law! MGM may be planning to resurrect Robocop. Everything that was old is new again. If they can bring back Terminator then why not Detroit's top cop?

The news comes via a press release sent around by the lion-headed studio late last week, in which they list it among a group of MGM owned franchises which they plan to make more out of in the coming year. Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

MGM is planning an exciting fall and winter release schedule. In partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM will bring new installments of two of its tentpole franchises – the new James Bond movie QUANTUM OF SOLACE and Steve Martin in PINK PANTHER 2. MGM will also release United Artists’ international thriller VALKYRIE, starring Tom Cruise on October 3. With the appointment of Parent, MGM will enter its new phase of evolution by focusing on its major movie franchises highlighted by JAMES BOND and PINK PANTHER sequels, THE HOBBIT, THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 2, THE OUTER LIMITS, ROBOCOP, DEATH WISH and FAME, among others.

The computer animated, movie version of the popular, classic cartoon series Astro Boy has it's lead. Imagi Studios told us tonight that they've hired Freddie Highmore to provide Astro Boy's voice.

I know there are a lot of people out there with an attachment to this character, but to be honest I'm only reporting on it because it's a robot, and let's face it I'm obviously a sucker for anything automaton related. Just look at the site. However I somehow missed out on this particular phenomenon. Apparently it's an anime riff on the old Pinocchio theme.
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I’ve given it a few episodes now, and I think I’m ready to declare Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles good. Really good.

Against all odds they’ve managed to retain the gritty, hard-edged action style of the movies while at the same time adding a more thoughtful, dramatic side to cater to the limited effects budgets and multiple episode requirements of television.

A lot of the credit for it working has to go to Lena Headey, who, I wish had been playing the character all along. No offense to Linda Hamilton, it’s just that unlike Arnold as the Terminator, her performances in the movies simply haven’t aged well.

I do have one question though. Are the scenes with the cops scripted by a different writing team? They seem entirely out of step with the rest of the series, and worse they’re incredibly clumsy. How many times do we have to watch Agent Ellison make some perfectly logical, intelligent point only to be shouted down by the gang of adolescent teens that serve as his colleagues? I’m getting a little sick of that dynamic. We get it, Ellison is on his own. No one believes in him. Now someone feed that blonde chick to this week’s Terminator.
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