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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 […]

Movie Review – 6 Underground (2019)

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6 Underground, 2019. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Adria Arjona, Corey Hawkins, Ben Hardy, and Dave Franco. SYNOPSIS: Meet a new kind of action hero. Six untraceable agents, totally off the grid. They’ve buried their pasts so they can change the future. The on-paper appeal of 6 Underground speaks for […]

Michael Bay’s 6 Underground gets a final trailer

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Ahead of its arrival on Netflix this Friday, the final trailer has been released for Michael Bay’s upcoming action thriller 6 Underground which stars Ryan Reynolds, Melanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Ruflo, Adria Arjona, Corey Hawkins, and Ben Hardy as a team of international operatives on a mission to take down a brutal dictator; watch it here… […]

Ryan Reynolds jokingly calls 6 Underground “the most Michael Bay movie ever”

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Ryan Reynolds is well known for creating joke-infused marketing material for his projects including Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Deadpool, and Deadpool 2. Now, Reynolds his continuing with his streak with Michael Bay’s 6 Underground by teasing on Twitter that this is “the most Michael Bay movie ever”. 🔥Prepare for impact! 🔥@VancityReynolds stars in the most Michael Bay […]

Transformers: The Last Knight box office struggles, Blade Runner 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming a hit and more – Weekend News Roundup

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THE LAST OUTING? Back in 2014, Transformers: Age of Extinction was roundly trashed by critics but the film ended up being the only release to pass $1 billion at the box office that year. It seemed like Transformers was a critic-proof franchise. However the fifth outing, Transformers: The Last Knight, has had a very poor […]

Michael Bay reiterates that he won’t be returning to direct Transformers 6

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With Transformers: The Last Knight set to open this coming week, director Michael Bay has once again reiterated that he won’t be returning for the sixth instalment of the series, which has already been given a 2019 release date by Hasbro and Paramount Pictures. “These movies that I’ve done, they are massive movies,” Bay told […]

Michael Bay says Transformers: The Last Knight “gets us back in the groove” after Age of Extinction

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While the continue to prove immensely popular at the box office, Michael Bay’s Transformers films have certainly suffered diminishing returns in terms of quality, with the most recent instalment Transformers: Age of Extinction hammered by critics, despite its attempts to take the franchise in a new direction. Nevertheless, Bay is back in the director’s chair […]

Michael Bay’s 6 Underground gets a poster and new promo

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With just a month to go until 6 Underground arrives on Netflix, the streaming service has released a new poster and promo for Michael Bay’s action thriller which stars Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Corey Hawkins, Adria Arjona, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Lior Raz, Payman Maadi and Dave Franco; check them out below… What’s the best […]

Michael Bay built a Stonehenge replica for Transformers: The Last Knight, and blew it up

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As we’ve come to be accustomed to from Michael Bay movies – and the Transformers franchise in particular – we can expect to see plenty of destruction in this summer’s Transformers: The Last Knight. And it seems that will extend to the UK’s iconic landmark Stonehenge, with actress Laura Haddock revealing that Bay built a […]

Transformers: The Last Knight featurette explores the wags to riches story of Britain’s Loneliest Dog

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Back in June of this year, Michael Bay announced that he’d cast Freya – dubbed ‘Britain’s Loneliest Dog’, due to being passed over for adoption after being visited 18,000 times in her rescue centre – in Transformers: The Last Knight. Paramount Pictures has now released a featurette which highlight’s Freya’s “wags to riches” story and […]