Paramount and Michael Bay have unveiled a new trailer for “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.”

Exec produced by Bay and Steven Stielberg, “Dark of the Moon” features a couple of new faces: Rosie Huntington Wheatley, who replaced love interest Megan Fox, and Frances McDormand, whose husband (Joel Cohen) was no doubt as far away from the set as possible.

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” opens wide July 1.

The end is nigh, Potter fans.

Warner Bros. has debuted the official trailer for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II,” the final chapter in WB’s wizardry saga.

Based on J.K. Rowling’s popular series, “Deathly Hallows: Part II” features Daniel Radcliffe and his pals battling arch-nemesis Voldemort to the death.

Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Ralph Fiennes co-star.

Directed by David Yates, the final Potter pic marks an end to Hollywood's most successful movie franchise ever. (Harry Potter pics have grossed over $5 billion to date)

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II” opens nationwide July 15.

Alice Ward, the real-life mother and manager of Micky Ward, has died, according to the Lowell Sun.

Melissa Leo won an Oscar for her portrayal of Ward in the "The Fighter."

Ward had been hospitalized in Boston since early January after suffering cardiac arrest. She was 79.

Embattled actress/TMZ staple Lindsay Lohan made a surprise appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” Monday evening to discuss her ongoing legal troubles.

“I’ve made a lot of mistakes,” the 24 year-old admitted. Lohan, who was just handed a 120-day jail sentence for violating her probation, apparently received a standing ovation from the “Tonight Show” audience. She was filling in for Kristin Chenowith, who was bumped from the show at the last-minute.

Lohan recently signed on to star opposite John Travolta in the crimepic "Gotti: Three Generations," which is scheduled to lense this fall once Lohan completes her mandatory jail sentence at the Lynwood County Correctional Facility in Los Angeles.  

The Lohan/Leno interview will air in its entirety tonight on NBC.

 Watch portion of the interview below:

New York, NY, April 25, 2011 – The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired from Submarine Entertainment all rights to THE BULLY PROJECT, the acclaimed new documentary from Emmy and Sundance award-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch (AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR PART HARMONY) that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, April 23. The deal covers all rights in North America, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Germany. TWC also acquired the film’s distribution rights for pan-Asian satellite TV, and will be the sales agent for the remaining global territories. THE BULLY PROJECT is directed by Lee Hirsch, produced by Hirsch and Cynthia Lowen, and written by Lowen and Hirsch. Cindy Waitt is the executive producer.

Sebastian Junger, the co-director of "Restrepo," has written a beautiful piece in Vanity Fair about his friend and fellow war correspondent Tim Hetherington, who was killed in an RPG attack Wednesday in Misurata, Libya.

Junger, who addresses the letter to his confrère, reveals that Hetherington was planning to make a war film about the affinity of young men and war.

Before this last trip you told me that you wanted to make a film about the relationship between young men and violence. You had this idea that young men in combat act in ways that emulate images they’ve seen—movies, photographs—of other men in other wars, other battles. You had this idea of a feedback loop between the world of images and the world of men that continually reinforced and altered itself as one war inevitably replaced another in the long tragic grind of human affairs.That was a fine idea, Tim—one of your very best. It was an idea that our world very much needs to understand.

Junger, who worked together with Hetherington for Vanity Fair magazine before going on to co-produce/direct "Restrepo," goes on to write:

I’m in the truck with you. I’m imagining those last minutes. You’re on your back watching the tops of the buildings jolt by and the blue Mediterranean sky beyond them. I almost drowned once, and when I finally got back to the beach I was all alone and I just lay there watching the clouds go by. I’d never really thought about clouds before, but there they were, all for me, just glorious. Maybe you saw those clouds, too, but you weren’t out of it yet, and you probably knew it. I know what you were thinking: What a silly way to die. What a silly, selfish, ridiculous mistake to have made. Don’t think that, brother. You had a very specific vision for your work and for your life, and that vision included your death. It didn’t have to, but that’s how it turned out. I’m so sorry, Tim.

You can read the full letter here.  

Sony has released a red-band trailer for the Ruben Fleischer comedy, “30 Minutes or Less.” Pic stars Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride and tells the story of a junior high history teacher and a pizza-deliver man who are forced to rob a bank when one of them is strapped to a bomb vest. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld produced the film, which opens wide August 12, 2011.

Tim Hetherington, the award-winning photojournalist and co-director of "Restrepo," was killed Wednesday in Libya.

Tall, intelligent and warm-hearted, Hetherington always sought out the truth with his camera, with projects ranging from last year’s Oscar-nominated “Restrepo” doc to his award-winning photography for Vanity Fair.

I was fortunate enough to have met Hetherington at Sundance last year. I remember feeling so impressed afterward by Hetherington's polite reservations about "Restrepo's" building acclaim. Instead he was focused on getting the message out there about  Afghanistan and the platoon he and Sebastian Junger lived with (and loved).

“We miss it. We want to get back out there,” he beamed at the end of our interview.

And we will miss you, Tim.

R.I.P.

 
(Above: Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts star in the coming-of-age romancer)

Fox Searchlight has changed the title of the Emma Roberts-starrer, "Homework," to "The Art of Getting By," the studio announced Tuesday.

Pic, which co-stars Freddie Highmore, was one of four Searchlight acquisitions this past January at the Sundance Film Festival.

Written and directed by Gavin Wiesen, “The Art of Getting By” tells the story of a lonely, fatalistic teen (Highmore) who is befriended by a beautiful girl (Roberts).

P. Jennifer Dana, Darren Goldberg, Gia Walsh, and Kara Baker produced.

"The Art of Getting By" will open June 17th (limited) before expanding nationwide in July.

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(Above: Robert Pattinson takes pictures with fans outside the "Water for Elephants" premiere at the Ziegfeld in New York)

Hundreds of Twihards gathered outside the Ziegfeld on Sunday to catch a glimpse of Robert Pattinson before his latest pic, Fox 2000's"Water for Elephants," made its New York debut.

Although thesp's exit from the theater post screening included swarms of fans and high-pitched screams, Pattinson and co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz's arrivals at the swanky Le Cirque after party was met with little disturbance.

Helmer Francis Lawrence admitted that despite working with Will Smith and Keanu Reeves in the past, Twihards "surprised" him. "There is a rabid energy to his fans that I have never experienced before," he said. "They really want a piece of him."

Waltz, for his part, admitted to never having seen any of the "Twilight" pics. "I'm not a member of the target audience," he revealed. --Addie Morfoot