The TV Addict 

More robots in TRANSFORMERS 2 …
One complaint – and some people had many – about the first TRANSFORMERS was that there weren’t enough robots, especially robots fighting. Well, those people can rest easy, as over at Don Murphy’s site screenwriter Roberto Orci revealed that there may be almost 20 transformers in the sequel, ten fighting on each side. That’s a lot of metal flying around should good old fashioned fisticuffs ensue. Which they will. Except I think when robots fight you can’t really call it fisticuffs anymore. But I just like that word. Unless I could replace it with a new word called roboticuffs. Except I’m not sure robots have cuffs. Damn it. Anyway, the only issue that will emerge then is if the human characters seemed to overshadow the robots in the first film, doesn’t this news mean they’ll over shadow the human character? Actually, why am I even saying that’s an issue? That’d be awesome. Who the heck watches a TRANSFORMERS movie for humans? That was a momentary lapse of reason on my part. Clearly.

More people in Roland Emmerich’s 2012…
Despite the fact that Roland Emmerich hasn’t made a decent film in a while (if ever, one could argue, but I maintain INDEPENDENCE DAY is a silly hoot), and his last film 10,000 B.C. holds the distinction of being his worst outing yet, he’s still somehow drawing some impressive actors for his next film, 2012. In addition to John Cusack already being on board, word now comes that Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Oliver Platt are in negotiations to join up as well. Given some of these actors it makes me wonder whether this project might actually be good, or if it’s another case of actors wanting to “have fun” in a sillier project, or slum it, or just make money to put food on the table.

As a border-line obsessive nerd when it comes to all things time-traveling , alternate-realities, and apocalypses, I’m certainly intrigued by the premise that Cusack’s character “opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to prevent an apocalypse predicted by the ancient Mayans.” It does fly in the face of something I can’t get my head around, specifically how a universe containing two versions of the same person doesn’t just completely implode. Either way, given that this is Emmerich we’re dealing with, it’s pretty much guaranteed we’ll see plenty of footage of the world exploding.
Source: Cinematical

More Kate Connor in TERMINATOR 4…
Okay, well that’s somewhat misleading. Instead what has happened is that Charlotte Gainsbourgh, who was slated to play Kate Connor (the wife of John Connor, who was played by Claire Daines in TERMINATOR 3), has left the project due to the scheduling conflicts and has been replaced by the actually much better choice of Bryce Dallas Howard. I have to say, just like 2012, I’m surprised at the level of talent this film is drawing. Especially since I’m not sure I’m really a fan of the idea behind this new trilogy, however ambitious it may be. But I won’t lie, if it’s good enough for Christian Bale, it may have to be good enough for me.