Tag: Transformers
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Shia Labeouf’s Time On Transformers Was Dangerous From Day One
There 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…
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Michael Bay’s Movie Career Started With A Job At Lucasfilm
Many 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…
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Live-Action Voltron Movie Coming From Red Notice Director Rawson Marshall Thurber
From 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…
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Harry Houdini Movie In The Works From Transformers Producers
The 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…
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Michael Bay Says ‘Pearl Harbor’ Explosion Made History: ‘Bullsh*t’ That ‘Spectre’ Has Guinness Record
It’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.…
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Paramount Reveals ‘Star Trek 4’ With Original Cast Details, ‘A Quiet Place III,’ ‘Transformers’ & More
Paramount‘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…
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‘Jersey Shore’ and SpongeBob Hold the Future for the Company Formerly Known as ViacomCBS
ViacomCBS 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…
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New Transformers Sleep Story Premieres On Calm, Because What Are Michael Bay’s Transformers Films If Not Peaceful And Soothing
We 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…
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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Delayed One Year, New Star Trek Movie Coming In 2023
Big 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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Tales From The Box Office: How Blade Runner 2049 Became A Cautionary Tale
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)It is no secret that Hollywood loves a franchise play in the modern age. The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” and “Transformers,” among…