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Transformers 3 Release Date Announced Already

Guess they're assuming 2 will be awesome enough for a third?

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Mark your calenders...that is if you have a 2011 one laying around.  Paramount and Dreamworks have announced that Transformers 3 will be released on July 1, 2011.  We know that Marvel is releasing Thor on June 17 and Captain America on July 22 so it doesn't look like we'll have to decide which movie to see opening day. 

Apparently there hasn't been any confirmation whether or not Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf and (more importantly) Megan Fox will return.  I guess Paramount is assuming that Transformers 2 is going to bring in a truckload of money.  Maybe they're just trying to lock in that week so some other summer action movie doesn't try to claim it first.


UPDATE


Apparently there seems to have been a mistake with the date.  According to MichaelBay.com, Bay posted the following:
I said I was taking off a year from Transformers. Paramount made a mistake in dating Transformers 3 - they asked me on the phone - I said yes to July 4 - but for 2012 - whoops! Not 2011!!! That would mean I would have to start prep in September. No way. My brain needs a break from fighting robots. -- Michael