Already an award-winner for "Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet" at the MTV Movie Awards, Transformers: The Movie looks set to rack up more dubious honors in August. Comics Continuum reports that the movie is up for no less than 10 Teen Choice Awards, in the following categories:

• Choice Movie, Action Adventure: Transformers
• Choice Movie Actor, Action Adventure: Shia LaBeouf - Transformers
• Choice Movie Actress, Action Adventure: Megan Fox - Transformers
• Choice Movie Villain: Megatron - Transformers
• Choice Movie Liplock: Megan Fox & Shia LaBeouf - Transformers
• Choice Movie Breakout Female: Megan Fox - Transformers
• Choice Movie Rumble: Transformers - Josh Duhamel vs. Blackout
• Choice Movie Breakout Male: Shia LaBeouf - A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Disturbia, Transformers
• Choice Movie Chemistry: Shia LaBeouf & Bumblebee - Transformers
• Choice Female Hottie: Megan Fox
  

The Teen Choice Awards will be presented on August 26 on FOX, and if you were born after the original Transformers movie came out, you can register to vote. Thanks to TFW2005 and Comics Continuum for the news.  

The editors at Entertainment Weekly wanted a robot for their cover photo, and when they determined Paris Hilton didn't qualify as "entertainment," they settled on Optimus Prime. Ol' blue-eyes stands proud on the cover of their latest issue, and Transformers: The Movie is the subject of a cover story entitled "When Robots Attack! How Hollywood Fell in Love With a 20 Year Old Toy."

So trot on down to your local newsstand to check out the magazine, or just read the full article online. Thanks to TFW2005 for the news.  

Surely this qualifies as the biggest and most expensive piece of Transformers: The Movie tie-in merchandise yet. Car blog Edmunds Inside Line reports that Monroe Truck Equipment will be rolling out a real, live, production version of the custom GMC TopKick used as Ironhide's truck mode in the movie. This special release duplicate's the movie version's giant wheels, giant smokestacks, giant bumpers, giant winch, and other nigh-comically oversized features.

Click here for the full story, and thanks to Seibertron for the news.  

The Thursday US domestic Transformers: The Movie numbers are in, and Box Office Mojo pegs it at about $19,208,000, down a third from Wednesday, but still quite respectable.  That takes the domestic gross to $84,934,000, and together with the known international numbers (which sadly only go through July 1st), accounts for a grand total of $121,187,961 worldwide.

See the Box Office Mojo page here, and then come discuss it in Skunkobot's thread. 

TFW2005 has new official photos of Transformers: The Movie Deluxe Recon Barricade (redeco), Deluxe Bumblebee  (new Camaro), Deluxe Dreadwing, Voyager Rescue Ratchet (G1-inspired redeco), and Voyager Thundercracker (G1-inspired Starscream remold).

See the thread at TFW2005 here. 

After two full days of official U.S. release, Transformers: The Movie continues to rack up the box-office cash at an impressive rate.  Transformers' July 4 take alone, according to BoxOfficeMojo, was just over $29 million, making the figure since Monday - as quoted by the same site - more than $65.7 million.  With the weekend still ahead, that number is sure to continue climbing!

Several upcoming Transformers: The Movie toys show up in official pictures at TFormers.com.  Check out Payload (pictured here), Final Battle Jazz, Real Gear Robots Laserbeak - rather, Booster - repaint Night Beat 7, and Tight Shot from the TECH line of weapons disguised as electronics.

Then join the discussion at the Allspark Forums in Octavius Prime's thread.