Me, yesterday: “Hey Ryan, before I go, I wanna pull up the new Transformers trailer on you laptop, ok?”

Ryan: Yeah sure.

(minutes later)

Me: Sweet, come take a look at the last seconds of this trailer. Devastator is huge.

Ryan: I’m not interested in Transformers.

Me: Why not? They’re the best.

Ryan: They are NOT the best.

Me: That’s not what I mean. I mean that it’s a special effects movie and from this trailer, it looks like it might be the best special effects movie this summer.

Ryan: I don’t care about that Shia LaBeouf stuff.

Me: Me niether. But you have some of the best motion graphics artists in the world disassembling vehicles and rebuilding them as giant fighting robots. And each part needs to respond to the light a certain way, and have it’s own weight…it’s complex stuff.

Ryan: I get it. I just have no interest in seeing it.

Me: Not even in IMAX? Dude, if you like visual effects and/or robots you need to see this movie this summer.

Ryan: I don’t like visual effects or robots.

Me: What you talking about, Willis?

Ryan: Okay, I kinda like robots.

Trailer under the cut…

In case you missed it, Robert Rodriguez is going to re-boot the Predator franchise with a project he’s calling “Predators.” Over the weekend, I found myself telling people the history of this project a few times, so I thought I’d pass on a few key points so you too can sound awesomely smart. And when your friends are like: “Where did you get this awesome info?” you can tell them to visit this site and keep me in business…

The Dark Knight is going ot push its way long beyond the $1 billion total gross mark if you let it, and the best way to inflate that box office? Re-release the IMAX version of the film.

To this point, I’ve seen The Dark Knight on regular DVD and Blu-Ray, and though the Blu-Ray edition is gorgeous on a huge HD TV, when the IMAX sequences break our of the letterboxing and bring some of the best textures I’ve ever seen in a home theater setting, there’s something to be said for seeing these sequences against a screen that could fight Godzilla if it was sentient (coming soon to a theater near you: Godzilla V. Magic IMAX screen).

This Friday, The Dark Knight returns to select IMAX theaters, probably one near you. We just got the press release with the official listing of theaters, so if you want to catch Batman: HUGE! this time around, make the jump…

Will Farrell plays park ranger Rick Marshall in the film adaptation of Land Of The Lost, the hit 1974 TV series (later remade in 1991 for two short seasons).

The Land Of The Lost film has been in the development run-around since 1995, when the rights to the movie adaptation were owned by Disney. When the Mouse House didn’t pull the trigger, it moved to Sony Pictures in 2000 where it floundered until April 2005, when Universal picked it up and booted it towards Adam McKay and Will Farrell of Anchorman and FunnyorDie.com. Universal then took the project to Robert Rodriguez, who was going around town attaching his name to anything that moved (at the time), including a live action adaptation of The Jetsons, which thankfully wasn’t greenlit. When Robert finally passed, Brad Silberling (Casper, City Of Angels) was brought in to direct Farrell as the star.

We know all that, but we really don’t know that much about the movie, except it now has a poster. You can view the full thing at Cinematical by clicking the banner image (or HERE). You can see the film itself on June 5th, 2009.

“Rogue mutant Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) goes all in.”

That’s the caption that will bring one of the most popular X-Men mutants to the big screen, as evidenced by Empire Magazine. Gambit, the Creole mutant who has the ability to to add an explosive charge to non-human objects (he chooses to use playing cards, so he can throw exploding Kings into everyone’s face), will be played by Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch in Gavin Hood’s upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Expect a Wolverine trailer with The Day The Earth Stood Still on December 12th.

We might have blown a false whistle the other day when we speculated that Jayden James Spears, Britney’s 2-year-old son with Kevin Federline had suffered a seizure. The official word was: “Jayden James Federline was admitted to the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center on Sunday, November 9th. Doctors concluded he had a reaction to something he ingested. He is expected to be discharged tomorrow.”

So, yeah, kid is fine. He just might be allergic to cheetos…or God knows what because it hasn’t been disclosed.

And what better way to celebrate being alive and two years old than going to an alligator farm with your Mom and your Aunt?

Mindy Kaling has come a long way since starring in the off-off-Broadway Matt and Ben, where Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discover the Good Will Hunting script after it falls out of the sky. Mindy then became Kelly on NBC’s The Office when she was hired out the writer’s room and donned the cowl of the character.

Her newest side-project is called House Poor and is featured on Strike TV.