The May 2009 edition of Empire magazine goes on sale Thursday 25th March and has some pretty cool features including a look into J.J. Abram’s Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Tron, together with a feature on Transformers star Megan Fox.  Click on the cover image below to launch an interactive tour of the inside of the mag (once launched, flip through the pages via dragging the top corners).

McG says Terminator's (left) look less like toys than Transformers (right)

It seems despite reports that the rivalry between McG and Michael Bay had been dealt with, it would appear to be fresh once again.  In a report on Digital Spy (which I found via Filmonic) McG has voiced his opinion that Terminator Salvation is more realistic than blockbuster rival Transformers.

McG was speaking to Empire when he dismissed Michael Bay’s robot movies, claiming that they rely on “breakdancing”, “backspins” and implausible action scenes.

“I think Transformers is a terrific picture, but that’s a picture whose genesis is in a toy. They’re sort of more colourful and optimistic and the pictures are sort of breakdancing and flips and backspins,” he said.

“But ours is a very different, real world. Ours is a world of, ‘This is where we can be ten years from now’. The whole idea for doing this movie was to honour the first three movies… But begin again!”

Michael Bay started the rivalry earlier this year when he accused McG of copying Transformers ‘giant robots’ as a result of the giant robot that appears in the Terminator Salvation preview.  Since then the rivalry has become one of the hottest topics amongst fans, with Transformers and Terminator fanboys going head to head all over the internet.  It’s really quite funny.

Terminator Salvation and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen will both be released mid year, but Terminator Salvation will get the jump on its toy-based rival.  Salvation will be released on 21 May, whilst you’ll have to wait until 24 June to see Revenge of the Fallen.

Megan Fox in Transformers

In a vote conducted at MSN Movies, Megan Fox has won out to be named the sexiest sci-fi babe of all time.

According to the results of the poll, the top list were:

Megan Fox for Transformers (33 per cent of the vote)
Halle Berry for X-Men (26 percent of the vote)
Milla Jovovich for The Fifth Element (17 percent of the vote)

Natalie Portman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Fisher all came equal fourth.