In an interview with About,  Shia LaBeouf who plays Sam Witwicky in next year’s  Transformers movie has revealed that the upcoming robot franchise feature is set to be the first of a trilogy.

After being asked to confirm that he had been signed for three movies, LaBeouf said “Yeah, I’m gonna do it. That will be my Lord of the Rings and then I’ll just make indies the rest of my time, for a long time. Elijah [Wood’s] straight. Elijah can do whatever he wants. Why? Because he’s in one of the biggest, the top five grossers ever. People in China know who he is and people in Iceland know who he is. He can do whatever he wants. That’s my whole thing is I’ve got to get to the point where people in Iceland will go see Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. That’s what I’m trying to do.”

Transformers is scheduled for release July 4th, 2007.

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Fox has provided the Inheritance Trilogy site Shurtugal with a high resolution version of the Eragon TV spot that aired during the MLB World Series. Although this might be a video you’ve seen before it now looks a hell of a lot more attractive with the extra pixels.

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During the mid-season break of Lost, which doesn’t return with new episodes until February 2007, ABC and ABC.com will feature Lost Moments, beginning Wednesday, November 15. The first Lost Moment will premiere randomly during the new drama Day Break.

A Lost Moment is comprised of thirty seconds of new footage from upcoming Lost episodes. There will be a total of twelve Lost Moments, one during each airing of Day Break. Each clip will be available online right after Day Break ends.

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MGM studio chairman and chief exec Harry Sloan gave a small update on their plans of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to the big screen speaking to the European Media Leaders Summit in London, according to Variety.

Sloan confirmed that MGM is currently in discussions with Peter Jackson to make two films. The first film would be a direct adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings prequel. The second, meanwhile, would be based on ”footnotes and source material connecting The Hobbit with Lord of the Rings.” Sloan couldn’t give a starting date for the project, though an MGM spokesperson told Variety that production isn’t expected to get underway until 2008 or 2009.

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Frank Miller, the creator of the Sin City graphic novels, told Sci-Fi Wire that he’s planning on co-directing the upcoming sequel with Robert Rodriguez, negating rumours to the contrary. In an interview session following a preview screening of footage from 300, another adaptation of his work, Miller also addressed the storylines Sin City 2 would follow:

“We have all kinds of technical things we want to do, but there’s a major story called A Dame to Kill for [which was, fittingly, the second Sin City story and is a prequel of sorts to The Hard Goodbye] that we’re going to adapt. That’ll include a new femme fatale and other characters.” Rumour has it that Rodriguez has approached Angelina Jolie about playing Ava, an ex-lover of Clive Owen’s character Dwight.

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