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5 Transformers Spin-Off Movies That Should Be Made

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Ricky Church with five potential Transformers spinoff movies…With Transformers: The Last Knight potentially being Michael Bay’s final outing directing the franchise, Paramount and Hasbro are focusing on the future by developing not one, not two, but 14 potential spin-offs. A couple spin-offs we already know, such as Bumblebee and an animated prequel set on Cybertron. […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Salvation

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Salvation…  Exiled from civilization, the Dinobots are the last line of defense against the ultimate Cybertronian dinosaur – Trypticon! But how much are the Dinobots willing to sacrifice for a world that hates them? Out of the many transformers in the whole franchise, a lot of people’s favourites are the group […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #8

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #8… Jazz confronts his past-and the Autobot’s future-in front of millions of television viewers. But will he make the people of Earth understand Optimus Prime’s mission… or turn against it? As Optimus Prime and the Autobots continue to recover from their battle with the Junkions and try improving the tenuous […]

Mark Wahlberg doesn’t think Michael Bay will quit Transformers franchise, Transformers 6 not yet plotted out

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Although Michael Bay has said on several occasions that Transformers: The Last Knight will mark his final outing in the Transformers franchise, this certainly isn’t the first time that Bay has suggested he was calling time on the series, and star Mark Wahlberg isn’t convinced that he won’t be back for the next instalment.“It’s one […]

Transformers 6 is yet to find a director despite 2019 release date

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Transformers 6 is eyeing a 2019 release date but the movie does not yet have a director attached.Transformers: The Last Knight is due out in cinemas next week, and will reportedly signal Michael Bay’s final film in the franchise. But there are already plans underway for what comes next for the main series.Hasbro CEO Brian […]

Transformers Bumblebee spin-off will take place in the 1980s

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We’re less than a week away from the release of Transformers: The Last Knight, but Paramount Pictures is already turning its attention to the future of the franchise, specifically the Bumblebee spin-off that will focus on the yellow Autobot scout.The latest issue of Empire, via TFW2005, reveals that the film, directed by Kubo and the Two Strings‘ Travis Knight, will be […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Lost Light #6

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Lost Light #6… You know that sinking feeling you get when you witness the destruction of an entire planet? Rodimus and company are about to feel that. Hardcore. The opening arc to Transformers: Lost Light ends with issue #6 as Rodimus, Megatron and the rest of their team attempt to escape […]

Hailee Steinfeld joins Transformers’ Bumblebee spin-off

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It looks like there’s some movement on the much-discussed Bumblebee spin-off from Paramount’s Transformers franchise. Pitch Perfect 2 star Hailee Steinfeld has entered talks to star in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and will play a tomboy who has a job as a mechanic after school.Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight will helm the film from a script […]

The incredibly convoluted continuity of the Transformers franchise

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Ricky Church on the incredibly convoluted continuity of the Transformers franchise… Since 2007, Michael Bay has been at the helm of the Transformers film franchise, delivering five instalments of Optimus Prime and his Autobot allies. Transformers: The Last Knight has promised to reveal the hidden history between the Cybertronian race and Earth and “why they […]

Transformers: The Last Knight opens to $265 million worldwide, but a franchise low in the U.S.

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It looks like audiences – or Western ones, at least – may finally be tiring of the Transformers franchise, with the latest instalment Transformers: The Last Knight debuting to a series low at the U.S. box office, grossing a $69.1 million five-day opening, and just $45.3 million across the Friday to Sunday period.For comparison, the previous franchise low […]