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Aquaman rises to $940 million worldwide as Bumblebee tops China box office

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Having surpassed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to become the highest-grossing instalment of the DC Extended Universe yesterday, Aquaman has held onto top spot at the North American box office for the third weekend in a row, and in the process has pushed its global haul to $940 million. In North America, Aquaman grossed $30.7 million […]

Transformers producer offers update on Cybertron animated movie and Optimus Prime spinoff

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Back in 2015, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro assembled a writers room to plot out the future of Transformers franchise, reportedly coming up with as many as 14 ideas for new big screen adventures for the Robots in Disguise. Well, the universally-negative reception to The Last Knight might have thrown a spanner in the works, with […]

Bumblebee director already has plans for a sequel

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Director Travis Knight served up a genuine Christmas miracle this past week, delivering a Transformers movie that managed to please both fans and critics alike with the 80s set spinoff Bumblebee. The movie serves as a prequel to Michael Bay’s series and given that there’s around a twenty year gap between movies, it would appear that […]

Bumblebee images showcase G1 Transformers designs from the Cybertron battle

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With Bumblebee now in theaters, Entertainment Weekly has unveiled seven new images from the Transformers spinoff, which showcase the classic Generation 1 designs for several characters featured in the film’s opening Cybertron battle, including the heroic Autobots Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Arcee, Brawn, Cliffjumper and Wheeljack and the Decepticons Soundwave, Shockwave and Starscream. Check them out […]

Movie Review – Bumblebee (2018)

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Bumblebee, 2018. Directed by Travis Knight. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, John Ortiz, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Ricardo Hoyos, Gracie Dzienny, Kenneth Choi, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Schneider, Grey Griffin, Steve Blum, Marcella Bragio, Andrew Morgado, David Sobolov, Jon Bailey, Megyn […]

Bumblebee movie almost featured a G1 Megatron cameo

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After sitting through Michael Bay’s vision of the Robots in Disguise for five movies, Transformers fans finally get to see the classic Generation 1 designs on the big screen this month with the spinoff movie Bumblebee featuring appearances from the likes of Optimus Prime, Soundwave and Shockwave as fans of the original cartoon and comic […]

Bumblebee director discusses the film’s classic G1 designs

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Long time fans of the Transformers franchise will finally get to see some of their favourite Robots in Disguise in their classic Generation 1 forms on the big screen this week with the release of Paramount Pictures’ Bumblebee, and IGN has released a new video featurette which sees director Travis Knight discussing the designs for […]

Movie Review – Bumblebee (2018)

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Bumblebee, 2018. Directed by Travis Knight. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, John Ortiz, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Ricardo Hoyos, Gracie Dzienny, Kenneth Choi, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Schneider, Grey Griffin, Steve Blum, Marcella Bragio, Andrew Morgado, David Sobolov, Jon Bailey, Megyn […]

Transformers producer says next movie will be “different”, but it’s not a reboot

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Before Transformers: The Last Knight sunk the franchise to new depths in terms of critical and commercial reception, Paramount Pictures planned to follow-up its new Bumblebee spinoff with a sixth movie in the main franchise. Originally scheduled for release in June 2019, Transformers 6 was pulled from the studio’s slate earlier this year following reports […]

Transformers spinoff Bumblebee was Steven Spielberg’s idea

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During an interview with Yahoo! Movies to promote the upcoming release of Bumblebee, director Travis Knight has credited Steven Spielberg, executive producer on all of the Transformers movies, for coming up with the concept for this first spinoff. “The original idea for this film actually was Steven [Spielberg’s],” said Knight. “We can thank him for […]