Bin laden business

Saudi Binladin (or Binladen) Group (SBG) (Arabic: مجموعة بن لادن السعودية‎ Maǧmūʿat Bin Lādin al-Saʿūdiyyah) is a multinational construction conglomerate and holding company for the assets owned by the bin Laden family, headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.



The bin Laden group is represented in most Saudi cities — Riyadh, Damman — and in a number of capital cities in the region (Beirut, Cairo, Amman, Dubai). According to a synopsis by the PBS news program Frontline:
in Egypt the SBG is headed by Abdul Aziz bin Laden, and represents that country's largest foreign-owned private equity group, with over 40,000 employees.
in Lebanon the SBG, represented by Yehia bin Laden, has been (before the July War) holding negotiations with the local authorities for a $50 million share in the project to rebuild the Beirut Central District within the framework of the Solidere Project and in conjunction with the al Baraka Group and the bin Mahfouz Group.

in London the SBG set up a representative firm called Binexport in November 1990.
On December 20, 2005, the government of Saudi Arabia awarded a consortium of Saudi and Emirati companies, including the Saudi Binladin Group, a $26.6 billion contract to build King Abdullah Economic City.
The Group is constructing Abraj Al Bait Towers in Mecca.


The SBG was founded in 1931 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden Sayyid, whose relationship with the country's founder, Abdel Aziz al Saud, led to important government contracts such as refurbishing the shrines at Mecca and Medina. Mohammed, who overall had 22 wives and 53 children, is also the father of Osama Bin Laden.
After the death of Sheikh Mohammed in 1968, the group was headed by Mohammed Bahareth, brother of Mohammed's first wife and uncle of his oldest children. In 1972, Sheikh Salem bin Laden, the eldest son, took over as his father's successor, with the assistance of several brothers. Upon Salem's death in a plane crash in 1988, the leadership of the group passed to one of his elder sons, Bakr, the current chairman, along with thirteen other brothers who make up the board of the bin Laden group, the most important of these being Hassan, Yeslam and Yehia. By 2002, the company had 35,000 employees worldwide, and was worth US$5 billion.


Web site


The registration for SBG's Internet domain name, saudi-binladin-group.com, was registered on September 11, 2000, for one year, expiring on the same day as the September 11, 2001 attacks. The domain was later acquired by a domain speculator. SBG currently uses sbg.com.sa, which was registered on 2000-01-11.

Bin Laden family tree

Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908–1967)
His sons were:
Salem bin Laden (1946–1988) married Caroline Carey
Ali bin Laden
Thabet bin Laden (d. 2009)
Mahrous bin Laden
Hassan bin Laden
Omar bin Laden
Bakr bin Laden
Khalid bin Laden
Yeslam bin Ladin (b. 1950) married Carmen bin Ladin (b. 1954)
Wafah Dufour (b. 1978)
Najia Dufour (b. 1979)
Noor Dufour (b. 1987)
Ghalib bin Laden
Yahya bin Laden
Abdul Aziz bin Laden
Issa bin Laden
Tarek bin Laden
Ahmed bin Laden
Ibrahim bin Laden
Shafiq bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011) married Najwa Ghanem (b. 1960)
Abdullah Osama bin Laden (b. 1976)
Abdul Rahman bin Laden (b. 1978)
Saad bin Laden (1979–2009)
Omar Osama bin Laden (b. 1981) married to Zaina Alsabah bin Laden
Osman bin Laden (1983)
Ali bin Laden (b. 1984)
Mohammed bin Laden (b. 1985)
Fatima bin Laden (b. 1987)
Kadhija bin Laden (b. 1988)
Khalid bin Laden (1989-2011?)
Miriam bin Laden (b. 1990)
Iman bin Laden (b. 1990)* Bin Laden's daughter free to leave Tehran: Iran FM (AFP 25 December 2009)
Ladin bin Laden (b. 1993)
Rukhaiya bin Laden (b. 1997)
Nour bin Laden (b. 1999)
Amer bin Laden (b. 1990)
Hamza bin Laden (1991-2011?)
Aisha bin Laden (b. 1992)
Sumaiya bin Laden (b. 1992)
Safia bin Laden, born to fifth wife, Amal al-Sadah
Khalil bin Ladin
Saleh bin Ladin
Haider bin Laden
Saad bin Laden
Abdullah bin Laden
Yasser bin Laden
Mohammad bin Laden (b. 1967)

bin Laden family

Bin Laden family, بن لادن‎, also spelled Bin Ladin, is a wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. The family was thrown into media spotlight through the activities of one of its members, Osama bin Laden. The financial interests of the bin Laden family are represented by the Saudi Binladin Group, a global oil and equity management conglomerate grossing $5 billion U.S. dollars annually, and one of the largest construction firms in the Islamic world, with offices in London and Geneva. According to an American diplomat, the bin Laden family owns part of Microsoft and Boeing among other companies.

The family traces its origins to a poor, uneducated Hadhrami named Awad bin Laden, a Kendah tribesman from the village of Al Rubat, in the Wadi Doan in the Tarim Valley, Hadramout governorate, Yemen. He died in 1919. His son was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (died 1967). Mohammed bin Laden was a native of the Shafi`i (Sunni) Hadhramaut coast in southern Yemen and emigrated to Saudi Arabia prior to World War I. He set up a construction company and came to Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's attention through construction projects, later being awarded contracts for major renovations at Mecca, where he made his initial fortune from exclusive rights to all mosque and other religious building construction not only in Saudi Arabia, but as far as Ibn Saud's influence reached. 

Until his death, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden had exclusive control over restorations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Soon the bin Laden corporate network extended far beyond construction sites.

Mohammed's special intimacy with the monarchy was inherited by the younger bin Laden generation. Mohammed's sons attended Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt. Their schoolmates included King Hussein of Jordan, Zaid Al Rifai, the Kashoggi brothers (whose father was one of the king's physicians), Kamal Adham (who ran the General Intelligence Directorate under King Faisal), present-day contractors Mohammed Al Attas, Fahd Shobokshi and Ghassan Sakr and actor Omar Sharif.
When Mohammed bin Laden died in 1967, his son Salem bin Laden took over the family enterprises, until his own accidental death in 1988. Salem was one of at least 54 children by various wives.

Personal life of Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family, and Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas (then called Alia Ghanem). In a 1998 interview, Osama gave his birth date as March 10, 1957.

Osama's parents divorced soon after he was born; Osama's mother then married Mohammed al-Attas. The couple had four children, and Osama lived in the new household with three half-brothers and one half-sister.
Osama was raised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim. From 1968 to 1976, he attended the élite secular Al-Thager Model School. He studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979, or a degree in public administration in 1981. One source described him as "hard working"; another said he left university during his third year without completing a college degree. At university, Osama's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Quran and jihad" and charitable work. He also wrote poetry.
In 1974, at the age of 17, Osama married Najwa Ghanem at Latakia. According to CNN national security correspondent David Ensore, as of 2002 Osama had married four women and fathered roughly 25 or 26 children. Other sources report that he has fathered anywhere from 12 to 24 children.
Mohammed bin Laden was killed in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot misjudged a landing. Osama's eldest half-brother, Salem bin Laden, the subsequent head of the bin Laden family, was killed in 1988 near San Antonio, Texas in the United States, when he accidentally flew a plane into power lines.
The FBI described Osama as an adult as tall and thin, between 6'4" and 6'6" (193– 198 cm) in height and weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg). Interviewer Lawrence Wright, on the other hand, describe him as quite slender, but not particularly tall. Osama had an olive complexion and was left-handed, usually walking with a cane. He wore a plain white turban and had stopped wearing the traditional Saudi male headdress. Bin Laden was described as soft-spoken and mild mannered in demeanor.
Many of bin Laden's children went to Iran after the September 11 attacks and as of 2010 Iranian authorities reportedly continued to control their movement.

Why? (American band)

Why? (stylized WHY?) is an American hip hop and indie rock band. Originally the moniker of Berkeley, California artist Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf, WHY? became a full band before their 2005 release Elephant Eyelash with Doug McDiarmid and Matt Meldon, as well as Yoni's older brother, Josiah Wolf. 

When Matt Meldon left, the band became a three-piece, with Yoni as the primary songwriter and an additional keyboardist at live concerts. In 2008, the group added bassist Austin Brown to their lineup, making them a four-piece once again. In their arrangements, WHY? leans more toward folk and indie rock, as opposed to the more hip hop styling of their label-mates. Their lyrics also tend to be very abstract, focusing more on imagery than on any particular story.
WHY? is also a member of the Anticon collective of Oakland, California.


Discography
LPs
Oaklandazulasylum (Anticon, 2003)
Elephant Eyelash (Anticon, 2005)
Alopecia (Anticon/Tomlab, 2008)
Eskimo Snow (Anticon, 2009)
[edit]Mini Albums/EPs
Part Time People Cage…Or Part Time Key? (self-released, 1999)
Miss Ohio's Nameless (Anticon, 2001)
Early Whitney (Anticon, 2003)
Sanddollars (Anticon, 2005)
Rubber Traits EP (Anticon, 2006)
Alopecia: The Demos!! (self-released, 2008)
Eskimo Snow Demos (ltd online exclusive, 2010)


Yoni Wolf with cLOUDDEAD
Apt. A (Mush Records, 2000)
And All You Can Do Is Laugh (Mush Records, 2000)
I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again (Mush Records, 2001)
JimmyBreeze (Mush Records, 2001)
(Cloud Dead Number Five) (Mush Records, 2001)
Bike (Mush Records, 2001)
Clouddead (Mush Records, 2001)
The Peel Session (Mush Records, 2001)
The Sound of a Handshake/This About the City (Mush Records, 2002)
Dead Dogs Two (Mush Records, 2004)
Ten (Mush Records, 2004)
Yoni Wolf with Odd Nosdam
WHY? collaborated with Odd Nosdam to release a split EP under their own names on Anticon, and an LP on Mush Records under the name Reaching Quiet, as well as being featured on a compilation album.
Reaching Quiet - "113th Clean" on Ropeladder 12 (Mush Records, 2000)
WHY? & Odd Nosdam - The Split EP! (Anticon, 2001)
Reaching Quiet - In the Shadow of the Living Room (Mush Records, 2002)
With other musicians/acts
It's Not Easy Being..., with Greenthink (1998)
Blindfold, with Greenthink (1999)
Object Beings, with Object Beings (2001)
"So Long, Mike, Pt. 1", with Madtoons Beat Orchestra and Black Light District {2001}
Hymie's Basement, with Hymie's Basement (with Fog), (2003)
"What a Day Day" remix from What a Day Day, with Fog (2003)
"Poison Pit" remix from The No Music of Aiffs: The No Music Remixed, with Themselves (2003)
"Into the Trees" remix from Men of Station, with 13 & God (2005)
"Freshman Thesis" from Monkey vs. Shark, with Thee More Shallows(2006)
"Crushed Bones" from The Subtle6 Mix, with Subtle (2006)
"Falling" from Yell&Ice, with Subtle (2007)
"The Wig Master" from Remixed & Covered, with Xiu Xiu (2007)
"Note" from Stop Touching My Cat, with SJ Esau (2007)
"Well Water Black" from Resurgam, with Alias (2008)
"As I Went Out This Morning" from Unusual Animals Vol. 4, with Cryptacize (2008)
"Dice Raw" from Anywhere Out of Anything with Telephone Jim Jesus (2008)
"Rapping 4 Money" from theFREEhoudini, with Themselves, (2009)
"Canada" from an unreleased compilation album, with Themselves, (2009)


Biography
Jonathan Wolf was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Messianic Jewish parents. Before his first year in high school, Wolf discovered an old 4-track in his father's synagogue and began to experiment musically. His forays into rapping, drumming, and poetry followed.
In 1997, while attending art school at the University of Cincinnati, Wolf met fellow student Adam Drucker—better known as Doseone—at the semifinals of the 1997 Scribble Jam. Doseone and Wolf formed the live improvisational group Apogee, along with Yoni's brother Josiah and DJ Mr. Dibbs. The partnership of Wolf and Doseone continued for many years under many guises, including Greenthink and, most notably, cLOUDDEAD.
In 2005, WHY? released Elephant Eyelash, which deviated considerably from their previous full-length Oaklandazulasylum, primarily as less of an independent solo project to more of the sound of a full indie rock band. To accomplish this sound, Yoni enlisted the help of his brother on drums, Matt Meldon on guitar, and Doug McDiarmid as a random task member. The group toured much of 2005 in support of the album as a four-piece; however, by the time of their May 2006 tour with Islands, the group had become a three-piece, because Matt Meldon moved to an island off the coast of Seattle to live with his girlfriend.

Fleetwood Mac

(States Twitter)-Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London.
The only original member present in the band is its namesake drummer, Mick Fleetwood. Despite band founder Peter Green naming the group by combining the surnames of two of his former bandmates (Fleetwood, McVie) from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist John McVie played neither on their first single nor at their first concerts. The keyboardist, Christine McVie, has, to date, appeared on all but two albums, either as a member or as a session musician. She also supplied the artwork for the album Kiln House.
The two most successful periods for the band were during the late 1960s British blues boom, when they were led by guitarist Peter Green and achieved a UK number one with "Albatross"; and from 1975 to 1987, with more pop-orientation, featuring Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four U.S. Top 10 singles (including Nicks' song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only U.S. number one) and remained at #1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the ninth highest selling album of all time.


History
Formation and early years (1967–1970)
Fleetwood Mac were formed in 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road. After he had been in the Bluesbreakers for some time, Green asked if drummer Mick Fleetwood could replace Aynsley Dunbar. Green had been in two bands with Fleetwood—"Peter B's Looners" and the subsequent "Shotgun Express" (which featured a young vocalist named Rod Stewart). John Mayall agreed and Fleetwood became a member of the band.
The Bluesbreakers now consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The fifth song was an instrumental which Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac.


Transitional era (1970–1975)
Kirwan and Spencer were left with the task of having to fill up Peter's space in their shows and on their recordings. In September 1970, Fleetwood Mac released Kiln House. Kirwan's songs moved the band in the direction of 70s rock. Meanwhile, Spencer's contributions focused on re-creating the country-tinged "Sun Sound" of the late 1950s. Christine Perfect, who had retired from the music business after one unsuccessful solo album, contributed to Kiln House, singing backup vocals, and drawing the album cover. Since Fleetwood Mac were progressing and developing a new sound, Perfect was asked to join the band. They also released a single at that time; "Dragonfly" b/w "The Purple Dancer" in the U.K. and certain European countries. Despite good notices in the press, the single was not a success and the B-side has only been reissued once, on a Reprise German-only "Best of" album, making it one of their most obscure songs.


Mainstream success (1975–1987)
After Welch announced that he was leaving the band, Fleetwood began searching for a possible replacement. While Fleetwood was scouting Van Nuys, California, the house engineer for California's Sound City Studios, Keith Olsen, played him a track titled "Frozen Love" (from Buckingham Nicks, Polydor PD 5058, September 1973), which he had mixed there for an American band, Buckingham Nicks. Fleetwood liked it, and was introduced to the guitarist from the band, Lindsey Buckingham, who coincidentally was at Sound City that day recording some demos. Fleetwood soon asked him to join. Buckingham agreed, on the condition that his musical partner and girlfriend, Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks, also become part of the band; Fleetwood agreed.


Broken chain (1987–1997)
Following Buckingham's departure, Fleetwood Mac added two new guitarists to the band, Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. Burnette was mainly added for his singing and songwriting skills and Vito for his lead guitar abilities.
Burnette is the son of Dorsey Burnette and nephew of Johnny Burnette, both of The Rock and Roll Trio. He had already worked with Mick Fleetwood in Zoo, with Christine McVie as part of her solo band, did some session work with Stevie Nicks and even backed Lindsey Buckingham on Saturday Night Live. Furthermore, Fleetwood and Christine McVie played on his Try Me album in 1985. Vito, a Peter Green admirer, played with many artists from Bonnie Raitt to John Mayall, and even worked with John McVie on two Mayall albums.
The 1987–88 "Shake the Cage" tour was the first outing for this line-up, and was successful enough to warrant the release of a concert video (simply titled "Tango in the Night"), filmed at San Francisco's Cow Palace arena in December 1987.


Re-connected chain (1997–2007)
Just weeks after disbanding Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood announced that he was working with Lindsey Buckingham again. John McVie was soon added to the sessions, and later Christine McVie. Stevie Nicks also enlisted Lindsey Buckingham to produce a song for a soundtrack.
In May 1996, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks made an appearance at a private party in Louisville, Kentucky prior to the Kentucky Derby (with Steve Winwood filling in for Lindsey Buckingham). A week later, the Twister film soundtrack was released, which featured the Stevie Nicks-Lindsey Buckingham duet, "Twisted", with Mick Fleetwood on drums. This eventually led to a full Rumours line-up reunion when the band officially reformed in March 1997. The result came in the form of a live concert recorded on a Warner Bros. Burbank, California soundstage on 22 May, which resulted in the 1997 live album The Dance, returning Fleetwood Mac to the top of the US album charts for the first time in 15 years.


Unleashed tour and future projects (2008–present)
On March 14, 2008, the Associated Press reported Sheryl Crow as saying that she would be working with Fleetwood Mac in 2009. Crow and Stevie Nicks collaborated a great deal in the past and she has stated that Nicks has been a great teacher and inspiration for her. In a subsequent interview with Buckingham, he said after discussions between the band and Crow, the potential collaboration with Crow "lost its momentum. However, in a June 2008 interview, Nicks denied that Crow would be joining Fleetwood Mac as a replacement for Christine McVie. According to Nicks, "the group will start working on material and recording probably in October, and finish an album. On October 7, 2008, Mick Fleetwood confirmed on the BBC's The One Show that the band were working in the studio and also announced plans for a world tour in 2009.
In late 2008, Fleetwood Mac announced that the band would tour in 2009, beginning in March. As per the 2003–2004 tour, Christine McVie would not be featured in the lineup. The tour was branded as a 'greatest hits' show entitled Unleashed, although they played album tracks such as "Storms" and "I Know I'm Not Wrong". The first show was on 1 March 2009, and in February they announced a slew of new dates.
According to Billboard, Mick Fleetwood said during a teleconference with reporters on 12 February 2009, "This is the first time we've gone on the road without an album. This is truly a new experience for Fleetwood Mac to go out and play songs that we believe and hope people are going to be familiar with and love.
Remasters


The 1967–69 Blue Horizon albums (Fleetwood Mac, Mr. Wonderful, The Pious Bird of Good Omen and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago) and 1971 outtakes album The Original Fleetwood Mac have been fully remastered & reissued on CD, as have the 1975–79 Warner Brothers albums Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, and Tusk.
Then Play On, Kiln House, the Bob Welch era albums (Future Games, Bare Trees, Penguin, Mystery to Me and Heroes Are Hard to Find) and every release since 1980 (Fleetwood Mac Live, Mirage, Tango in the Night, Behind the Mask, Time and Say You Will) have all yet to be remastered.

ransformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third and final film in the Transformers film series, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is scheduled for release on June 29 in selected locations and July 1, 2011 in the US. The film will be presented in regular 2D, Real D 3D and IMAX,featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound.
Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro are set to reprise their starring roles, with Peter Cullen returning as the voice of Optimus Prime. Ehren Kruger, who collaborated in the writing of the second film, was again involved in the writing. Despite having initially been confirmed for the film, and with the film already into principal photography, it was announced that Megan Fox would not be reprising her role from the previous two films. With Fox's character Mikaela being dropped, Sam was assigned a new love interest, who will be played by English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Also, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, having written the first two films, did not return for the third installment in the series, which Orci had earlier somewhat anticipated, fearing the duo would "risk getting stale. Bay has stated this would be his last installment in the series.


Cast and characters


Humans
Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky. The leading human character who is friends with the Autobots. Given a grappling gun glove to help fight.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley plays Carly, Sam's new love interest from the original 1984 animated series. Huntington-Whiteley had worked with director Michael Bay before in various Victoria's Secret commercials. Previously Bay had narrowed it to three final candidates: model Brooklyn Decker, actress Sarah Wright, and Huntington-Whiteley being the front-runner, even though she had zero acting experience.
Josh Duhamel plays Major William Lennox. The leader of NEST, an international taskforce battling Decepticons with the Autobots.
Tyrese Gibson plays Chief Robert Epps. A combat controller and a member of NEST.
John Turturro plays Agent Seymour Simmons. A former agent of the terminated Sector 7 unit.
Patrick Dempsey plays Dylan, Carly's boss, who is a race-car driver with a huge collection of cars. Dempsey described his role as "darker" than others and "significant to the plot".Initially cast to play Mikaela's boss, Dempsey's role was reassigned when Mikaela was written out of the film.
Kevin Dunn and Julie White play Ron and Judy Witwicky, Sam's parents.
Glenn Morshower plays General Morshower, a NEST member who communicates with the squad in the Pentagon.
Lester Speight plays Hardcore Eddie, a new NEST Member. He is an experienced soldier who has fought in war along with Epps' father many years ago.
Alan Tudyk plays Dutch, Agent Simmons' assistant.
John Malkovich plays Bruce, Sam's first boss.
Frances McDormand plays Charlotte Mearing, Director of National Intelligence.
Cory Tucker plays Buzz Aldrin
Don Jeanes plays Neil Armstrong
According to representatives for Paramount, Megan Fox's absence from the film was due to Bay ultimately choosing not to renew her role, although representatives for the actress said that it was her decision to leave the film franchise. With Fox not reprising her role, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was chosen to play Sam's new love interest. Ken Jeong will have an undisclosed role in the film, and Kym Whitley has declared being involved in the shoots. A casting call for extras for the film has been said to call for actors to play Iranian military men for scenes to be filmed in Los Angeles, and reportedly the Ukrainian army will be involved as well. Glee's Iqbal Theba confirmed on Twitter that he will have a cameo appearance as the secretary-general of the United Nations.
Autobots
Peter Cullen voices Optimus Prime, the Autobot leader. While he retains his vehicle mode of a blue Peterbilt 379 truck with red flame decals, he has been added a trailer similar to his Generation 1 counterpart, and has been redesigned to look more heroic. Optimus can combine with his trailer and gain a third transformation mode.
Leonard Nimoy voices Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime's predecessor who turns into a Rosenbauer Panther Airport crash tender fire truck. Sentinel Prime is seen as the Autobot in stasis on the Ark in the teaser trailer. Nimoy provided the voice for Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie and had been considered for voicing The Fallen in Revenge of the Fallen.
Bumblebee, Sam's guardian that turns into a fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro. Bumblebee has also gone through some changes, his vehicle mode featuring a new body kit and paint job, and designers modifying him to look more mature.
Ironhide, the Autobot weapons specialist who transforms into a GMC Topkick.
Ratchet, the Autobot medic who transforms into a search and rescue Hummer H2. Ratchet also had some changes done to his vehicle form, as he has been painted green and white.
Sideswipe, the Autobot whose vehicle mode is a silver Chevrolet Corvette Centennial, now upgraded into a convertible.
Mirage, an Autobot who will debut as a red Ferrari 458 Italia.
James Avery will provide the voice of Silverbolt.
The Wreckers, an Autobot sub-team that transform into heavily armed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chevrolet Impala stock cars equipped with machine guns. They function as a Commando Unit. Bill Fagerbakke will voice one of them. The Wreckers are:
Leadfoot, a Juan Pablo Montoya #42 Target car.
Roadbuster, a Dale Earnhardt, Jr. #88 AMP Energy/National Guard car.
Topspin, a Jimmie Johnson #48 Lowe's/Kobalt car.
Wheelie, a former Decepticon returns from his debut in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Brains, a small and intelligent Autobot who built Sam's grappling gun glove.
A blue Mercedes-Benz W212 will debut as an Autobot inventor, whose design resembles Albert Einstein.
Despite Michael Bay's initial denial of their return, the Twins, Skids and Mudflap, were once intended to appear in the film, restyled to both transform into black Chevrolet Sparks with green and orange stripes respectively. Scenes were even shot for them, and their toys were released in the official toy line, but they have allegedly been dropped from the film's final cut.
Plot


The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft on the Moon and must race against the Decepticons to find it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle.
Production


As a preemptive measure, Michael Lucchi and Paramount announced a July 1, 2011 release date in IMAX 3-D for a third Transformers film before completion of Revenge of the Fallen. Director Michael Bay responded, "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 1—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.
On October 1, 2009, Bay revealed that Transformers: Dark of the Moon had already gone into pre-production, and its planned release was back to its originally intended date of July 1, 2011 rather than 2012. Filming started in May 2010, with shooting locations including Chicago, Florida, and Moscow. Due to the revived interest in 3-D technology brought in by the success of Avatar,talks between Paramount, Industrial Light & Magic and Bay had considered the possibility of the next Transformers film to be filmed in 3-D. Testing has been performed in bringing the technology into Bay's work. Michael Bay was reluctant to film with 3-D cameras since in test he'd found them to be too cumbersome for his filming style, but he didn't want to implement the technology in post production either since he was not pleased with the results.


Accidents
Filming was temporarily delayed on September 2, 2010 in Hammond, Indiana, when an extra was seriously injured during a stunt. The accident happened when a steel cable snapped from a car being towed, owing to a failed weld, hitting the extra's car and damaging her skull. The extra, identified as Gabriella Cedillo, had to undergo brain surgery. The injury has left her permanently brain-damaged, paralyzed on her left side and her left eye stitched shut. As a result, Paramount took responsibility for the accident and covered all medical costs incurred by Cedillo. In spite of this, on October 5, Cedillo's family filed a lawsuit, which cites seven counts of negligence against Paramount, D.W. Studios and several other defendants (not including Bay), with total damages sought in excess of US$350,000.


Release and marketing
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is set to be released on July 1, 2011 in 3D. Originally set to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters, it was announced in November 2010 that no IMAX 3D shots were made for the film. It was later announced in January 2011 that the film will indeed release in IMAX 3D. A two-minute teaser trailer was announced on November 27,[98] and was posted to the web on December 9, 2010. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin discover the Ark on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in the trailer. A thirty-second television advertisement for the film aired during Super Bowl XLV on FOX on February 6, 2011. The first full theatrical trailer was released on April 28, 2011. A 3D trailer is expected to be released on May 20, 2011 with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 3D, which should complete the promotional campaign for Dark of the Moon.
Soundtrack
On April 13, 2011 Mike Shinoda announced on his blog that Linkin Park's song "Iridescent" will be the new single for the film, continuing the streak of the band's songs as the theme songs of the film series. The single follows "What I've Done" being used in the first film, and "New Divide" for the second. The music video for Iridescent will be directed by Joe Hahn.
Home media
During Hasbro Investor Day, it was announced that the DVD and Blu-ray Disc will be released in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Video game
Activision is set to develop a video game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Nintendo 3DS. The trailer for the Dark of the Moon video game was released in February 2011. The game will be developed by High Moon Studios, who previously developed Transformers: War for Cybertron. It has also been announced that the game will also feature "Stealth Force." Autobots Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Warpath, Stratosphere, Breakaway and Mirage have been confirmed to be in the game while Deceptecons Megatron, Soundwave, Laserbeak, Starscream, Mixmaster and Shockwave have been confirmed to be in the game as well.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

(States Twitter)-Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley (born 18 April 1987) is a British model and actress, best known for modelling for Victoria's Secret and for replacing Megan Fox as the lead female character in the upcoming film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, part of the Transformers franchise.


Transformers: Dark of the Moon
In May 2010, it was announced that Huntington-Whiteley would be replacing Megan Fox as the female lead in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, set for release on 1 July 2011. She had previously worked with the film's director, Michael Bay, on a Victoria's Secret commercial. MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the 'Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011'.


Personal life
Huntington-Whiteley was born at the Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, England, the daughter of Fiona, a fitness instructor, and Charles Huntington-Whiteley, a chartered surveyor. She has two younger siblings, Toby and Florence. Her great-great-grandfather was politician Sir Herbert Huntington-Whiteley, 1st Baronet, and her great-grandmother was descended from Polish Jewish immigrants of the 1870s. She grew up in Tavistock, Devon, and in 2003, while studying at Tavistock College, Huntington-Whiteley was discovered by Profile Model Management while seeking internships with several London based modelling agencies.
Huntington-Whiteley dated Tyrone Wood, the youngest son of Ronnie Wood, from August 2007 until October 2009, before beginning a relationship with French actor Olivier Martinez. In April 2010, she began dating English actor and martial artist Jason Statham.


Career


Victoria's Secret and modelling, 2006-present
Since 2006, Huntington-Whiteley has modelled for American lingerie and beauty products brand Victoria's Secret. She made her debut with the brand in the Victoria's Secret 2006 Fashion Show, walking the Los Angeles runway.
She remained unknown in the fashion industry up until 2008 when she replaced Agyness Deyn for Burberry's fall/winter collection. She got her first British Vogue cover, for the November 2008 issue, which saw her pictured alongside Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn in a feature celebrating British models. Harper's Bazaar's annual "Best Dressed List" placed her 6th on their list for the year 2008. The following year, she was featured as the face of Karen Millen's spring/summer 2009 advertising campaign. Huntington-Whiteley received an Elle Style Award for 2009's "Model of the Year. She starred in a short film for Agent Provocateur playing a woman whose boyfriend forgets Valentine's Day. For autumn/winter 2009, she modelled campaigns for Godiva and Miss Sixty. In late 2009, Huntington-Whiteley officially became a Victoria's Secret Angel, modelling for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York city.