Movie Transformers (2007)

I like this movie because it look like AI in future. So many thing to learn, develop, test, and apply before we become transformers.

Did you watch it?

Here the synopsis of the movie

Cog AI:

Cog to be a set of sensors and actuators which tries to approximate the sensory and motor dynamics of a human body. Except for legs and a flexible spine, the major degrees of motor freedom in the trunk, head, and arms are all there. Sight exists, in the form of video cameras. Hearing and touch are on the drawing board. Proprioception in the form of joint position and torque is already in place; a vestibular system is on the way. Hands are being built as you read this, and a system for vocalization is also in the works. Cog is a single hardware platform which seeks to bring together each of the many subfields of Artificial Intelligence into one unified, coherent, functional whole.

MIT cog link

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and the most financially successful filmmaker, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion[2]. As of 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. TIME named him in the ‘100 Greatest People of the Century’. At the end of the 20th century LIFE named him the most influential person of his generation.[3]

In a career that spans almost four decades, Spielberg’s films have touched many themes and genres. During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, three of his films: Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park became the highest grossing films for their time. During his early years as a director, his sci-fi and adventure films were often seen as the archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster film-making. In recent years, he has tackled emotionally powerful issues, such as the Holocaust, slavery, war, and terrorism.

Early life

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Arnold and Leahanni Spielberg, née Posner, and he has three younger sisters. His last name comes from the name of the Austrian city where his Hungarian Jewish ancestors lived in 17th century: Spielberg. Spielberg’s family often moved because of his father’s occupation, as a computer engineer; he lived in Camden, New Jersey, Haddon Township, New Jersey, Phoenix, Arizona and Saratoga, California. The first film Spielberg saw was Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth.[4]

Throughout his early teens, Spielberg made amateur 8 mm “adventure” movies with his friends, the first of which he shot at a restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona. He charged admission to his home movies (which involved the wrecks he staged with his Lionel train set) while his sister sold popcorn. At 13, Spielberg won a prize for a 40-minute war movie he titled Escape to Nowhere.[4] At Arcadia High School in Phoenix, Arizona in 1963, the then 16-year-old Spielberg wrote and directed his first independent movie, a 140-minute science fiction adventure called Firelight (which would later inspire Close Encounters). The movie, with a budget of USD$400, was shown in his local movie theater and generated a profit of $100. The local Phoenix press wrote that he could expect great things to come.[5]

After his parents divorced, he moved to California with his father. His three sisters and mother remained in Arizona. He graduated from Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California in 1965, which he called the “worst experience” of his life and “hell on Earth”.[6] Spielberg was given the nickname “Spielbug”[4] During this time Spielberg became an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), as he developed the requirements for the Boy Scout Cinematography merit badge.[7] In later life, he resigned from the national board of BSA after he had been admitted, because of his disapproval regarding the BSA’s anti-homosexuality stance.[8]

After moving to California, he applied to attend film school at UCLA and University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television three separate times but was unsuccessful due to his C grade average. After Spielberg became famous, USC awarded Spielberg an honorary degree in 1994, and in 1996 he became a trustee of the University. He attended California State University, Long Beach to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War.[4] His actual career began when he returned to Universal studios as an unpaid, three-day-a-week intern and guest of the editing department.[9] While attending college at Long Beach State in the 1960s, Spielberg also became member of Theta Chi Fraternity. In 2002, thirty-five years after starting college, Spielberg finished his degree via independent projects at CSULB, and was awarded a B.A. in Film Production and Electronic Arts with an option in Film/Video Production.[10]

As an intern and guest of Universal Studios, Spielberg made his first short film for theatrical release, the 24 minute long movie Amblin’ in 1968. After Sidney Sheinberg, then the vice-president of production for Universals’ TV arm saw the film, Spielberg became the youngest director ever to be signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio (Universal). He dropped out of Long Beach State in 1969 to take the television director contract at Universal Studios and began his career as a professional director.

Early career (1968–1975)

His first professional TV job came when he was hired to do one of the segments for the pilot episode of Night Gallery. The segment, Eyes, starred Joan Crawford, and she and Spielberg were reportedly close friends until her death. The episode is unusual in his body of work, in that the camerawork is more highly stylized than his later, more “mature” films. After this, and an episode of Marcus Welby M.D., Spielberg got his first feature-length assignment: an episode of Name of the Game called “L.A. 2017″. This futuristic science fiction episode impressed Universal Studios and they signed him on a short contract. He did another segment on Night Gallery and did some work for shows such as Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law and The Psychiatrist before landing the first series episode of Columbo (previous “episodes” were actually TV movies).

Based on the strength of his work, Universal signed Spielberg to do three TV movies. The first was a Richard Matheson adaptation called Duel about a monstrous tanker truck who tries to run a small car off the road. Another TV film was made and released to capitalize on the popularity of The Exorcist, then a major best-selling book which had not yet been released as a movie. He fulfilled his contract by directing the TV movie length pilot of a show called Savage, starring Martin Landau. Spielberg’s debut theatrical feature film was The Sugarland Express, about a married couple that are chased by police as the couple tries to regain custody of their baby. Spielberg’s cinematography for the police chase was praised by reviewers, and The Hollywood Reporter stated that “a major new director is on the horizon”.[11] However, the film fared poorly at the box office and received a limited release.

Jaws helped launch Spielberg’s career as a successful hollywood directorStudio producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown offered Spielberg the director’s chair for Jaws, a horror film based on the Peter Benchley novel. The film about a killer shark won three Academy Awards (for editing, original score and sound), and grossed over USD$100 million at the box office, setting the domestic record for box office gross and leading to what the press described as “Jawsmania”.[12] Jaws made him a household name, as well as one of America’s youngest multi-millionaires, and allowed Spielberg a great deal of autonomy for his future projects.[13] It was nominated for Best Picture and featured Spielberg’s first of three collaborations with actor Richard Dreyfuss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg

Release 4 - March 2007

Official website: http://spiderman3.sonypictures.com/

For the video game based on the film, see Spider-Man 3 (video game). For the soundtrack of the film, see Spider-Man 3: The Official Soundtrack.

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3 international poster
Directed by Sam Raimi
Produced by Avi Arad
Stan Lee
Laura Ziskin
Grant Curtis
Written by Comic Book:
Stan Lee
Steve Ditko
David Michelinie
Todd McFarlane
Story:
Sam Raimi
Ivan Raimi
Screenplay:
Alvin Sargent
Starring Tobey Maguire
Kirsten Dunst
James Franco
Thomas Haden Church
Topher Grace
Music by Christopher Young
Danny Elfman
Cinematography Bill Pope
Editing by Bob Murawski
Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release date(s) Flag of World May 1, 2007
Flag of United States May 4, 2007
Running time 139 mins[1]
Country Flag of United States United States
Language English
Budget $258 million
Preceded by Spider-Man 2
Official website
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 superhero film that is the third film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Sam Raimi, who directed the previous two Spider-Man films, returns to direct the third installment with a returning cast that includes Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris and J. K. Simmons. The film also stars franchise newcomers Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard and Thomas Haden Church. Spider-Man 3 will be commercially released in multiple countries on May 1, 2007. The film will be commercially released in the United States in both conventional and IMAX theaters on May 4, 2007.