JoBlo.com/Showest #2

Opening
day of ShoWest, the annual movie industry gathering in

Las Vegas


, got started with a bang! During the opening ceremony we got
introduced to the new POTC trailer by its producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Bruckheimer delivered some interesting history behind the making of
the films, and kicked the clip off by saying, “(POTC3)
is the biggest, baddest movie I have ever worked on! If you thought
that the first two were good, well…they were just appetizers for
what you will see in At World’s End!
” The trailer was the
same description as what we have been seeing on
the web over the past week
.

Later
in the day, the major studios set up booths at the “Red Carpet
Event” and treated exhibitors to cocktails and goodies that were
themed around their upcoming release schedule. One of the coolest
booths was

Paramount


’s, which housed several vehicles from the upcoming film
TRANSFORMERS.


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Speaking
of TRANSFORMERS, holy shit!!! To close out the first day

Michael


Bay


treated delegates to 30 minutes of footage from this
summer’s sure-to-be mega blockbuster! Here is a description:

The
first scene opens with Tyrese, Josh Duhamel, and several other
military personal landing on a base in

Qatar


. Everybody is talking about how excited they are to get home to
their families, and Duhamel’s character mentions that he wants to
hold his baby girl for the first time. The men get settled on the
base, and later that evening there is a report of a military chopper
headed for the base that is not communicating with the tower. The
chopper is identified as USAF45, which was shot down over a year
earlier. The chopper is escorted to the base via 2 fighter jets, and
once landed it begins to transform!

It
is amazing seeing what

Michael


Bay


and the production team have done with these characters. There is a
battle that goes on for a bit, leaving the base in ruins and only
Tyrese, Duhamel, and a few others alive. They flee on foot into the
dessert. End of scene.

The
next scene picks up with the team wondering through the dessert.
Suddenly there is a rumble in the ground, and a giant drilling tower
is knocked over nearly killing the troops. As everybody struggles to
find out what the hell is going on, a scorpion type Transformer
barrows out of the sand. The effects are amazing on this scene! The
troops flee to a nearby village and call for air support from a cell
phone. In classic Bay fashion, there are several swooping shots of
military aircrafts delivering heavy fire on the bot, and eventually
leaving him almost destroyed. Before they can examine the damaged
being, it burrows into the sand, leaving behind a section of his
tail. End of Scene.

The
final scene was a lighthearted one featuring Shia Labeouf riding
through a suburban neighborhood inside Bumble Bee. High jinks ensue
when Labeouf tries to conceal the Autobots from his parents who are
trying to ground him for being 15 minutes late past curfew. We get
to see Optimus Prime transform as well as Bumble Bee. The bots are
working with Shia Labeouf to find some sort of “glasses”. The
scene ends with the bots fleeing and Sector 7 arriving to take
Labeouf into custody for “reasons of National Security.” End of 
scene.

Other
events throughout the day included screenings of the films DISTURBIA
and MR. BROOKS. Both films are worth heading to the cinema to check
out, and both were introduced by the cast. Let me just tell you,
Demi Moore is fine as shit!

There
is plenty more on the way today, and I will be sure to shoot the
juice over as soon as I have it.

Source: JoBlo.com