Former IMTA Model of the Year in Movie Event of the Summer!

Josh Duhamel reprises his role as Captain Lennox in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Now playing nationwide and in IMAX, it opened at midnight last night and it already took in 16 million dollars! It's the biggest opening ever for a Wednesday night opening at midnight!

Josh competed at IMTA in New York in 1997 and won Male Model of the Year! Model of the Year is awarded to the Model who has the highest composite score from the IMTA Competitions including Runway, Jeans, TV Beauty Commercial, and Fashion Print. Josh edged out fellow competitor Ashton Kutcher to win the big prize! E!'s Model TV shot an episode featuring IMTA that year and you can see Josh and Ashton competing at IMTA for yourself right here on That IMTA Blog!



Josh signed with L.A. Models who saw him when they were judging and scouting at IMTA. He modeled in L.A., San Francisco and Milan. He soon branched out into acting and landed the title role in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Josh was next cast as Leo du Pres on ABC's daytime drama, All My Children. During his three years on the show, Josh became an audience and critic favorite, and was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2002.

Josh starred as Danny McCoy in NBC's hit Las Vegas during its five season run. Josh has also starred in the feature films, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Turistas and of course, the original smash hit Transformers. Josh will be seen in the 2010 release of the feature film, When in Rome.

Be sure to catch Josh in his latest role and the blockbuster summer hit Transformers 2!

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Josh Duhamel shooting sequel to hit film!

IMTA alum and superstar Josh Duhamel will be reprising his role as Captain Lennox in another Transformers movie according to The Hollywood Reporter. The article stated that "filming began in Los Angeles in recent weeks and is moving to Pennsylvania and then overseas." This Dreamworks film will be directed by Micheal Bay, is expected to be released in June 2009 and has the working title of Transformers 2. The first Transformers: The Movie was the #1 movie of the summer last year and it won an MTV Movie Award.

Josh won Male Model of the Year at IMTA in 1997 where he competed against another very high profile IMTA alum, Ashton Kutcher. After IMTA, Josh landed his first acting job playing the title character in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and he soon began acting on All My Children playing Leo du Pres which won him a Daytime Emmy in 2002. Josh left daytime TV for his breakthrough role on the hit series Las Vegas which aired on NBC for five seasons. Josh has been working on the romantic comedy film When in Rome where he has the lead role of a man who falls under a love spell.

Watch for Josh on the big screen in this new action adventure movie!!!