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The Pacific has reportedly a budget around $200 million which, if correct, would almost certainly make it the most expensive TV project of all time. The new mini has quite a legacy to live up to when it debuts next year. Though its initial post-9/11 run on HBO was relatively lackluster, Band of Brothers kept gathering fans as the years passed. Runs on basic cable networks such as History Channel followed. The DVD set for Brothers still manages to float into the top ranks of Amazon’s best-selling DVDs (and is currently selling great in Blu-ray).

Cool Facts

- 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
- If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
- Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
- Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
- The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
- All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
- Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
- If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.

Disk Space

- Trans1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
- 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Rendering Times

- If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premier!
- A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
- IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

IMAX

- Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
- IMAX frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
- IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM Screen Time

- ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

Devastator

- Devastator is as tall as a 10 story building.
- Devastator has more than 10 times the number of individual parts found in an average car.
- Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Devastator Totals

- Number of geom pieces: 52632
- The total number of polygons: 11,716,127
- The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
- The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles

Isabel Lucas interview on Rove (live in studio with Rove McManus) promoting her new movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Includes: Transformers audition in a car, running in high heels (bonus: Ross Noble & Lily Allen demonstrate) plus would she pose nude for charity?

Update: KF sent in the link for this bit:

Trailer 1 (4.30.09):
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Trailer 2 (5.24.09):
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2 Behind-the-Scenes Videos (9.17.08):
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Super Bowl Spot (2.1.09):
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3 TV Spots (5.18.09):
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TV Spot 4 (5.28.09):
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TV Spot 5 (6.1.09):
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TV Spot 6 (6.3.09):
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TV Spot 7 (6.3.09):
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TV Spot 8 (6.3.09):
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TV Spots 9 & 10 (6.12.09):
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German-Dubbed Clips (6.10.09):
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English Wheelie Clip (6.11.09):
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Both actors light up with energy when describing the dangers and awe of working on an explosive Michael Bay set. Lucas worked with Shia and Megan in a giant library set as Sam’s college while Ramon was stuck in the hot desert dodging explosions. Click here for all the vids.