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Transformers: The Last Knight passes $600 million at the global box office

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It may not have enjoyed the same kind of success as the previous instalments in the series, but Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight has now reached the $600 million milestone at the global box office. The Last Knight has grossed $601.1 million around the world, with $130.1 million domestically (a franchise […]

Exclusive Interview with Transformers’ John Barber and Steve Kurth

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Ricky Church chats with Transformers’ John Barber and Steve Kurth… If you’ve seen the commercials with a transforming razor, that’s the latest addition to the vast Transformers mythology, Hydrobot. He was introduced earlier this summer through IDW’s one-shot comic, Schick Hydrobot and the Transformers, written by John Barber and drawn by Steve Kurth. Barber is the writer […]

Transformers: The Last Knight Blu-ray details and special features revealed

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Paramount Pictures has announced that Transformers: The Last Knight is set for release on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray Combo Packs September 26th and on Digital HD September 12th, and will also be includes in the Transformers 5-Movie Blu-ray Collection, also out on September 26th. SEE ALSO: Order via Amazon US or Amazon […]

Akiva Goldsman no longer involved with Transformers franchise

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Back in 2015, Paramount Pictures set up a writer’s room spearheaded by Akiva Goldsman, with a view to working out the future direction of the Transformers franchise. Since then, we’ve had Transformers: The Last Knight, which was mauled by critics, and failed to match the box office performance of its predecessors, while production on the […]

Comic Book Review – First Strike #1

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Ricky Church reviews First Strike #1… A Hasbro comic book event! A new era of peace is dawning as Earth formally joins the Cybertronian Council of Worlds. That is… until Baron Ironblood joins Destro, Storm Shadow and other nefarious villains in a terrorist attack on Iacon! As chaos takes hold on Cybertron, it will be left […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Till All Are One #12

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Till All Are One #12… Starscream makes his most desperate move yet in order to protect himself from Elita One’s rising power. But for once the master of manipulation’s only choice is to make himself helpless to another. Good thing no one’s got a grudge against Starscream, right? Mairghread Scott delivers […]

Shockwave joins Transformers: Forged to Fight

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One of the most feared and powerful of all the Decepticons has joined the fight, with Shockwave the latest character introduced to the hit mobile game Transformers: Forged to Fight. Check out a brief gameplay trailer below showing Shockwave battling Grimlock, along with details of his special abilities and attacks… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14U17tYVJ4 SIGNATURE ABILITY Undo: Shockwave activates […]

First look at Hailee Steinfeld’s Charlie in Transformers Universe: Bumblebee

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With production underway on the first Transformers spinoff movie Bumblebee – now titled Transformers Universe: Bumblebee – actress Hailee Steinfeld has taken to Twitter to give us a look at her character Charlie Watson, complete with 80s costume; check it out here… On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard […]

Hasbro confirms new Transformers animated movie and TV series

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During its annual Media & Investor Day, Hasbro has confirmed that an animated Transformers feature film is in development for theatrical release, as well as a new animated series to follow Transformers: Robots In Disguise. The theatrical film, the first since 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie, will reportedly explore the origin myth of the Transformers […]

Flame Toys’ Drift Transformers figure now available to pre-order

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Bluefin has unveiled a batch of promotional images for Flame Toys’ upcoming Drift collectible figure from IDW’s Transformers comic. The Autobot is available to pre-order now, priced at $299.99, and is set for release in January 2018; take a look here… Set for release in January 2018, this extraordinary rendering is officially licensed and depicts […]