The top ten winners of the Make Prime Speak contest have been announced on the official Transformers movie website. The competition was based on fans sending in a line of dialogue that Optimus Prime should speak in Michael Bay’s upcoming live-action Transformers film (released July 4, 2007), currently in post-production.

The winning line, as determined by a jury of filmmakers, will be uttered by Prime speaker Peter Cullen, who had already voiced the character in the popular nineteen-eighties cartoon series. The line is: “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.” The remaining fan submissions that made it into the top ten will also be recorded by Cullen, but won’t feature in the film. Instead, the first two runner-ups will make ringtones and places four to ten will be released online. The full list is located here.

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Variety reports that Fox is developing Them, an hourlong alien-themed project in the works from director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and writers David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) and John McNamara (Profit). The project is based on the graphic novel Six, written by Michael Oeming and Daniel Berman. Eick and McNamara are writing the script for the TV take, executive producing with Mostow.

The plot? Them involves a sleeper cell of extraterrestrial terrorists who take the shape of humans. Their mission is compromised when they start experiencing human emotions, which act like a drug on the aliens. Is it just me, or does this sound like a planetary version of Battlestar Galactica? “On a surface level, it’s a really cool science fiction thriller,” Mostow said. “But underneath, it’s a very provocative show that’s really going to explore what it means to be human, to be a person.” Okay. Does Eick really need a second show to explore this theme?

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Yahoo! Movies has posted a total of 11 movie clips from Casino Royale, the new James Bond film opening next Friday (November 17). The clips include Bond (Daniel Craig) chasing after a speeding jet fuel truck, giving chase in his Aston Martin DBS, playing Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) in heads-up poker, going after Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan) in a bulldozer, clashing with the same atop a construction crane and more. Click here to view all eleven clips, plus all the trailer and the video for Chris Cornell’s title song.

In Casino Royale, James Bond’s first “007″ mission leads him to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world’s terrorists. In order to stop him, and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. Bond is initially annoyed when a beautiful British Treasury official, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), is assigned to deliver his stake for the game and watch over the government’s money. But, as Bond and Vesper survive a series of lethal attacks by Le Chiffre and his henchmen, a mutual attraction develops leading them both into further danger and events that will shape Bond’s life forever.

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EDIT: The can now be viewed online in high-quality Quicktime format at this link.

According to ComingSoon.net, 20th Century Fox will premiere the new trailer for The Simpsons Movie on Sunday (November 12) during the new Simpsons episode which airs on Fox at 8/7c. The big screen adaptation of the (once?) popular TV show is directed by David Silverman and will be released in theaters on July 27, 2007.

The episode on Sunday, titled “GI (Annoyed Grunt)”, features the guest voice of Kiefer Sutherland as a hard-nosed colonel whom Homer falls prey to after landing in a basic military training program. This happens after Bart gets out of a commitment to join the army at 18.

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