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Lionsgate has decided to change the working title of JOHN RAMBO to the more macho RAMBO TO HELL AND BACK. Here’s the publicity site for the flick that confirms the title change. Link

I personally like the original title. It felt like a return and reimagining of the series, rather than a typical sequel.

Here’s the previously released unrated trailer

Amazon has a video exclusive of the making of the digital robots by ILM and Digital Domain.

I wish Amazon would allow embedding of video, like every other video share site.

WATCH IT!

Countingdown.com posted and then took down an official PDF story outline for Transformers 2, but not before other sites were able to grab the file and share it around. This is as official as it gets for leaked spoilers.

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VH1 talked to George Lucas about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

“We did ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’ [TV show in 1992], and in the process of that, one of the scripts we were working on was about a crystal skull. I became fascinated with it there,” Lucas revealed Wednesday on the red carpet for the American Film Institute’s 40th anniversary at the ArcLight. “We’ve been through lots of different versions [of ‘Indy 4′] the last 14 years, with five different writers. [But with crystal skulls] there’s just a lot of aspects that seem to fit into our kind of a movie.”

While Indy’s Holy Grail “Crusade” gave him a taste of immortality, and his “Temple” quest for Sankara Stones brought him a glimpse of “fortune and glory,” those relics are stuffy museum pieces compared to the power of the crystal skulls, Lucas asserted.

“I think this is actually better, it’s up there with the Ark of the Covenant,” he declared of the fourth film’s “McGuffin” (a term coined by Alfred Hitchcock to describe an object which drives a film’s plot). “Sankara Stones and the Holy Grail were a little tough, but I think this time we’ve really got a great one.

“The skulls themselves are real and a lot of the stuff in the movie is real, just like in the other movies,” Lucas continued. “We don’t base it on a lot of phony-baloney stuff. It’s all based on at least true mythology that exists today that … a certain amount of the population actually believes in.”

Lucas emphasized that “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is shaping up to be the best Indy flick since the first one, even going so far as to call “Skulls” tonally most like “Raiders.” But whereas the Ark of the Covenant has very few historically ascribed powers, true believers attribute all sorts of abilities to the crystal skulls, ranging from the skulls being psychic amplifiers to tools of death to repositories of ancient knowledge (something like an Atlantian supercomputer).

So which theory will be in the film?

“There’s several different kinds of skulls, several different kinds of theories, several myths that are surrounding them,” Lucas said, clearly delighted by his secret knowledge. “So, you just have to put all the pieces together, look it up and figure out which one it is. Or just wait until the movie comes out, which is so much easier.”

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ComingSoon is reporting that a Special Edition extended cut of TRANSFORMERS will be released on IMAX theatres September 21. This news comes on the same day that Michael Bay reacts negatively to Paramount’s decision that they are going HD-DVD exclusive.

The IMAX version will be different from the original theatrical release, however — more footage is promised. No details are available yet, although it’s easy to guess that the added scenes are likely to be flashy special effects that will look fabulous on IMAX, as opposed to more backstory or dialogue. After all, no one is going to rush to see Transformers at IMAX so they can hear the conversations more clearly. In July, Erik Davis told us about an interview with Mark Ryan, the voice of the Bumblebee robot, in which the actor mentioned DVD material of a prequel that would set up a potential second film.