Tag: Bumblebee
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‘Bumblebee’ Featurettes: Meet Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena’s Human Characters
When you watch a Transformers movie, you’re not exactly going in for the people. But in Bumblebee, the prequel revolving around the beloved yellow Autobot, the human characters are just as important as the robotic ones. Paramount Pictures has released two new Bumblebee featurettes that spotlight two of those human characters brought to life by…
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‘Bumblebee’ Again Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Paramount Pictures claims the top spot in spending for the second week in a row with “Bumblebee.”Ads placed for the sci-fi/action film had an estimated media value of $6.31 million through Sunday for 941 national ad…
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‘Birds of Prey’ Writer Christina Hodson Explains the Long Title, Teases Her ‘Batgirl’ Movie
It was a bit surprising to learn that Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn)—a title that definitely looked like writer Christina Hodson slapped on the cover of the script as a joke—was, in fact, the official name of the Suicide Squad spin-off starring Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. As it turns out,…
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‘Bumblebee’ Film Review: Michael Bay’s Exit from the Director’s Chair Leads to the Best ‘Transformers’ Yet
It’s been 11 years since Michael Bay took the reins of the live-action “Transformers” movies, and in that time he has infused these films with a particular, cacophonous audio-visual aesthetic that has more in common with a rollercoaster at a rave in a war zone than what we would otherwise consider conventional, cinematic storytelling. His…
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Film Review: ‘Bumblebee’
Imagine, if you can, a “Transformers” movie in which the plot is coherent, the robots feel like characters (as opposed to gleaming CG creations), and the action is staged and edited clearly enough to follow. After five rock ’em, sock ’em blockbuster features, it has become clear that audiences would never get such a film…
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‘Bumblebee’ Review: The Best Transformers Movie By Far Actually Cares About People
In 2007, the “Transformers” cinematic universe was launched by Michael Bay, and while the first film of the franchise made a whole lot of money, it was a surprise how bad it was. After all, if there’s one thing America’s greatest auteur of explosions should have been good at doing, it was directing a movie…
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First ‘Bumblebee’ Reactions Tease a Delightful, Franchise-Best Film
Swooping in from the sky like a drunken Starscream, the first reactions to Paramount Pictures’ Bumblebee have arrived. The film—directed by Travis Knight and written by Christina Hodson—is the sixth entry in the Transformers franchise started by explosion aficionado Michael Bay in 2007, based off the toys and cartoons of the 1980s. Bumblee stars Hailee…
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‘Bumblebee’ Early Buzz: This is What ‘Transformers’ Fans Have Been Waiting For
This month brings yet another installment in the Transformers franchise in the form of the spin-off Bumblebee. But if the early buzz is to be believed, this time we have a movie that not only please fans of the original Transformers animated series and movie, but also delivers a story with some character and heart…
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‘Bumblebee’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Paramount Pictures claims the top spot in spending with “Bumblebee.”Ads placed for the sci-fi/action film had an estimated media value of $8.03 million through Sunday for 819 national ad airings on 32 networks. (Spend figures are…
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Paramount Revs Up for ‘Bumblebee’ with Early-Access Screenings
Paramount Pictures announced today that on Saturday, December 8th fans at select theaters in the U.S. and Canada will have the opportunity to attend paid early-access screenings for its latest film in the Transformers series, Bumblebee, starring Hailee Steinfeld. Fans who participate in this one-day only event will get to see the film on the…