4-Ton Transformer Stands Tall in Hollywood
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Sure, it's a PR stunt for the new Transformers DVD release. But who can resist taking a peek at an 18-foot-tall movie prop towering in front of a California shopping mall?
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Explosions. Storms. Waves. CGI ace Jos Stam is creating a physics machine that can make special effects look absolutely, completely real.
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Stringing a few festive lights satisfies most people, but Peter Terren of Tesla Downunder lights up a high-voltage Christmas tree. See it and his other electrical creations, which are gaining international attention.
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While unleashing  &quot;Transformers&quot; onscreen this week, Paramount also lifted the  lid on a top-secret project in the form of a teaser trailer for  a new film, &quot;Cloverfield.&quot;
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âThe Awakening,â J. Seward Johnson Jr.âs 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth, is soon to leave a site near the National Mall that millions of tourists have visited.
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The upscale retailer widely beats estimates and raises the bar for its future.
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LOS ANGELES -- To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California at Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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Girl power is proving to  have an incredibly long shelf life. That was made clear at  Thursday's Cheetah Girls show at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los  Angeles.
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The animated spandex-superhero movie figures on Producers Guild of America's list.
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TIME.com looks at Transformers and ten more of Hollywood's most enduring robot concepts and themes
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A device that turns heat to sound and sound to electricity could power spacecraft.
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The humble potato puts on a dazzling display at 13,000 feet above sea level.
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Transformers is a movie in 2007 because of the toy-media industrial complex invented in the 1980s. That's when sprawling lines of figures started to be marketed as characters in a ready-mixed narrative, making them must-have collectibles.
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The company continues its leading role in the film industry.
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Materials that could allow levitating trains and ultra powerful computers to become commonplace are coming of age
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Steven Spielberg is the producer.  Giant, ass-kicking robots are the stars.  So why are Transformers fans so  freaked out? Two words: Michael Bay.
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Sci-fi action film "Transformers" smashed another box-office record by grossing $29.1 million on its second full day of release -- the most ever for a July 4 holiday, according to figures released on Thursday.