Let's break this down numerically.  Number of dimensions in which owners of 3D television sets will be able to watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon as of January 31, 2012: 3.  Number of discs included in the just-announced "Ultimate Edition" Blu-ray: 4.  Number of hours covered by the special features on those four discs: more than 10.  Number of discs included in "Limited Collector's Edition" Blu-ray Trilogy: 7.  Number of plaques featuring movie images and Michael Bay's autograph accompanying said 7-disc trilogy: 1.  Number of minutes spent by gluttons for punishment who insist on watching all three films in the toy-based trilogy: 448.  Number of times Casablanca could be viewed in those 448 minutes: 4.392.

It's Friday, ladies and gentlemen, and three separate studios have unveiled three very different posters for three wildly different upcoming films.  First, Fox has provided the first teaser poster for the Farrelly Brothers' new take on The Three Stooges, featuring the silhouettes of Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Larry, Curly, and Moe, respectively. 

Second, FilmDistrict and GK Films have released another new poster for The Rum Diary, the Johnny Depp-starring adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's first novel.  Like the last poster for that film, this one includes Depp and a trashed hotel room, but this time you can see his face. 

Finally, Warner Bros has unleashed the one-sheet for New Years Eve, director Garry Marshall's follow-up to Valentine's Day.  Like its predecessor, this film is being marketed on it's ridiculously huge and recognizable ensemble cast, with the titular holiday telling you everything else you need to know.

This summer, Transformers: Dark of the Moon became the second highest grossing movie of the year, pulling in more than a billion dollars globally and proving itself an exception to the sudden trend of audiences pumping the figurative brakes on the 3D format.  All this thanks to the cinematic equivalent of a shiny object, as Michael Bay took his action orchestration to the next level and ILM animators obliged with unbelievably detailed, smoothly moving robots.  Just in case you didn't get enough of those alien robots incomprehensibly beating the hell out of each other and causing all manner of collateral damage, then Paramount is happy to announce that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will return to IMAX 3D for a two-week run starting this Friday, August 26th.  Because a billion dollars quite simply is not enough, not when some Boy Wizard is out there raking it in.

The term "fanboy" is illustrative of the strange place that nerd culture find itself in nowadays.  Five or ten years ago, the word was not terribly well-known, and referred to an obsessive, probably maladjusted genre enthusiast, with connotations of D & D sessions, Cheeto fingers, and maternal basements.  Now, though, the term and the nerd culture with which it is associated has moved right into the middle of the mainstream.  Seemingly anyone can and will describe themselves as a fanboy for something or other.

But I've gotten off track here.  The point is that Nickelodeon has a series titled Fanboy & Chum Chum, in which the hero is a fearless, comic-book loving youngster who, along with his stalwart sidekick Chum Chum, turns each ordinary day into a colorful, pulpy adventure just like the ones found in his favorite medium.  Today we have a new behind-the-scenes promo from the series, with Josh Duhamel and Jamie Kennedy, who respectively voice supporting characters Oz and Kyle.

Of the almost seven billion human inhabitants of planet Earth, approximately four billion will appear in the romantic comedy New Year's Eve.  With this new ensemble tale, director Garry Marshall and writer Katherine Fugate apply the same formula of star-studded volume and idealized holiday shenanigans that worked for them in last year's Valentine's Day.  In fact, based on this first trailer, you might expect that New Year's Eve is a sequel to Valentine's Day, particularly given the presence of Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Biel, but the new film simply a spiritual sequel, with both actors playing wholly different characters.  Plus, while that film took place in Los Angeles, New Year's Eve is set in New York.  So it's totally different.

While watching the highlights from the premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon at the Moscow International Film Festival, you may have wondered about a possible Stateside premiere event.  After all, what's more American than cars turning into giant robots and causing billions of dollars in property damage?  Arguably nothing, not even apple pie or baseball.  Well you're in luck, as Paramount Pictures and Yahoo! Movies are teaming up to present a live video stream of Dark of the Moon's star-studded New York premiere, which you can see here at 5:30 pm EST/2:30 pm PST.  Not only that, but we've also got a new clip from the film, introducing Frances McDormand.

The second half of the 20th Century was largely defined by the seemingly intractable struggle between the world's two post-WWII superpowers, the Soviet Union and America, with nuclear arsenals backing up incompatible ideologies.  The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, though, and of course, nothing translates better than giant extraterrestrials beating the hell out of each other.  Transformers: Dark of the Moon held its premiere the Moscow International Film Festival last week, and it was the biggest premiere in Paramount's history.  Luckily, there's a video of the event, including appearances from Shia LaBeouf, Michael Bay, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Tyrese Gibson, and more, along with plenty of new footage mixed in for good measure.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon starts showing in 3D and IMAX 3D at 9:00 pm tomorrow, but Paramount has taken one last opportunity to release one more action-packed trailer for the third installment of the franchise.  "Action-packed" actually might not properly describe this preview, as the one-minute trailer is crammed with the kind of robot fights and explosions that audiences demand from a Transformers movie.  It's the sort of trailer that almost swaggers with its promise of full-force spectacle, and it even includes the now-familiar sight of Shia LaBeouf screaming, "Optimus!"

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is only a week away from wreaking cinematic havoc all over this great nation of ours, so billboards, bus ads, merchandising tie-ins, and TV spots are legion.  Nonetheless, two new TV spots are worth a second look, as they both include a lot of heretofore unseen imagery and provide a very brief summation of the Transformers franchise as a whole.  There's lots and lots of giant robots in full-on action mode, Peter Cullen's awesome Optimus Prime voice, token concessions to plot, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as Sam Witwicky's beautiful love interest, and even a little bit of humor from Shia Labeouf and Bumblebee.

Linkin Park have contributed a closing song to both Transformers and the first sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, so of course the band is back for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the finale of Michael Bay's transform-O-trilogy.  A new trailer for the 3D spectacle acts as an ad for both Linkin Park's new single "Iridescent" and the film itself.  In what is essentially a music video, the human characters do a lot silent emoting, but the bulk of the trailer consists of staggering action on a citywide scale.  While the frenetic robot-wrangling is abundant and impressive, many a money shot gets a little spoiled in the process.