This is kinda cool...

EW has gotten its hands on the first nine pages of "I Am Number Four," the sci-fi alien novel that Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg are currently developing with DreamWorks.

Book, written by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of authors James Frey and Jobie Hughes), hits stores via Harpercollins on August 3.

Read the first nine pages here.

Michael Bay's The Institute is teaming up with Kalliope Films on a 3D film based on the classic Grimm Brothers fairytale "Hansel and Gretel."

Scott Gardenhour and Kira Madallo Sesay will produce the live-action pic.

Founded by Michael Bay and Gardenhour, The Institute is the commercial production house behind "Jumper" and "Pearl Harbor."

Madallo Sesay, meanwhile, is the founder of Kalliope Films.

"Hansel and Gretel" is scheduled to begin lensing in spring 2011 in Germany. Joseph C. Pepe, the lead character designer on "Avatar" will design the mythological characters.

Bay is currently shooting the third installment of "Transformers."

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Director Michael Bay has confirmed the Victoria's Secret message suggesting model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley will replace thesp Megan Fox in the next "Transformers."

Bay made the announcement Wednesday on his official website.

The third installment in the "Transformers" franchise has already begun shooting at the Spruce Goose Howard Hughes hangar in Playa Vista, and according to Bay's producing partner, Ian Bryce, will film "as much...in L.A. as possible."

Bay, coincidentally, has prior history with the ladies of Victoria's Secret. He once-directed a commercial for VS called "A Thousand Fantasies." (There were no explosions in the ad, unfortunately. Just helicopters 'n babes.) Watch here.