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Akira movie update, Universal’s Dark Universe in potential legal problems and more – Daily News Roundup

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AKIRA The long-gestating Akira movie has seemingly been in development forever by this point. Several director names have been rumoured and attached, but no cast has ever been announced or even a whiff of a production start date. Original director Katsuhiro Otomo has no issues with his vision being remade into a live-action format, but in […]

Hailee Steinfeld joins Transformers’ Bumblebee spin-off

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It looks like there’s some movement on the much-discussed Bumblebee spin-off from Paramount’s Transformers franchise. Pitch Perfect 2 star Hailee Steinfeld has entered talks to star in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and will play a tomboy who has a job as a mechanic after school. Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight will helm the film from a […]

Michael Bay says the Bumblebee Transformers spinoff will be a prequel aimed at a younger audience

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With Transformers: The Last Knight set to hit cinemas this June, Paramount Pictures will soon be turning its attention to its first Transformers spinoff movie, centred on the fan-favourite character of Bumblebee. The project found a director last month in Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings), and now Michael Bay has offered up a few hints […]

Michael Bay was pitched an R-rated, Tarantino-esque Bumblebee Transformers spinoff

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This past weekend we got our first glimpse of the next phase of the Transformers saga with the trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight, the first offering to come out of Paramount’s ‘writers room’, which saw the studio assembling a team of top screenwriting talent to shape the future of the blockbuster franchise. We already […]

Paramount sets release dates for Transformers 5 and 6 and Bumblebee spinoff

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Having set up a writers room last year to plot out the future of the franchise, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro have today announced a new slate of three Transformers films, set for release in 2017, 2018 and 2019. First up comes Transformers 5, which sees Michael Bay returning to direct from a script by Art Marcum […]