Stephen King is one of the most celebrated horror authors of all time, and many of his books have been turned into classic films. From “Stand By Me” and “The Shawshank Redemption” to “Carrie” and “Misery,” King has been an almost constant presence at the multiplex since he began publishing books in the 1970s. King […]
Continue readingThere are many ways to die on the set of a Michael Bay movie, and by the time Shia Labeouf wrapped shooting on “Transformers,” he had several near-misses to keep him awake at night. It’s a perilous tale: Labeouf stars as teenage neurotic Sam Witwicky, who finds himself betwixt warring extraterrestrial robot overlords on a […]
Continue readingMany big-time directors got their start with small jobs working for name studios and/or personalities; take James Cameron, for instance, who famously worked in the scene shop and special effects department of Roger Corman’s studios before he broke out with “The Terminator” and other hits.Director Michael Bay is certainly no different, but where Cameron had […]
Continue readingFrom days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a legend. Back in the 1980s, Top Koplar of World Events Productions and Toei Animation brought the Japanese anime television series “Beast King GoLion” and “Kikou Kantai Dairugger Xv” to the United States as “Voltron.” After the success of “Transformers,” the adaptation that […]
Continue readingThe world-famous escape artist and illusionist Harry Houdini is set to get yet another cinematic treatment, this time from “Transformers” producers Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian for Paramount. No plot details have been revealed and the project is still untitled, but there have been rumblings around the industry that the film will be a […]
Continue readingIt’s hard to believe that action director Michael Bay doesn’t hold the title for largest explosion onscreen.Bay, the arguable auteur behind “Armageddon” and the “Transformers” films, told Empire Magazine that it’s “bullshit” that “Spectre” holds the Guinness World Record for largest movie explosion.“James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world,’” Bay said. […]
Continue readingParamount‘s big ViacomCBS Investors Event held this afternoon dropped a barrage of Paramount+ television offerings news about the Taylor Sheridan-verse, yet another “Yellowstone” spin-off, more “South Park,” “Halo” news, and more. However, that’s not all the offered in their battalion of announcements meant to dazzle investors and Wall Street. Included in their offerings was a […]
Continue readingViacomCBS used its Investors Day to get existential. Revealing a business strategy — philosophy? — in which all roads lead to streaming and franchises, it announced that the Company Formerly Known As ViacomCBS would now be Paramount Global, a nod to the company’s oldest asset (Paramount Pictures), its most important product (Paramount+), and the worldwide […]
Continue readingWe could all use a little extra sleep these days, and many of us have used the soothing stories on the Calm app. It generally helps to be lulled to sleep with a soothing story that lets your brain drift off into … Blam! Oh, I’m sorry. Were you trying to sleep? Should I not have […]
Continue readingBig news out of Paramount today. The highly-anticipated next installment of the “Transformers” series, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” will no longer open on June 24, 2022, and will instead be pushed back almost a full year to June 9, 2023. Directed by Steven Caple Jr., “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” stars Anthony Ramos, Dominique […]
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