Does anyone know what the status is of those live action films that were coming out based on Evangelion and Transformers? Are they still in production, or were they (hopefully) sacked?

not sure about those two but i think battle angel alita is still going to be made with james cameron as director

and here I really wanted to see Optimus Prime as an actual morphing fire truck...

^ that'd be crazy! i want to watch too T_T but only to see them transform