Paramount has announced another cast addition to Bumblebee, the spin-off from Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise focused on the Autobot scout. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. will join Pitch Perfect 2‘s Hailee Steinfeld in the film. Bumblebee will be a prequel to the main Transformers series and is the first of what Paramount hopes will be a long line […]
Transformers Bumblebee spin-off will take place in the 1980s
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 […]
Hailee Steinfeld joins Transformers’ Bumblebee spin-off
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 […]
Exclusive Interview – Director Travis Knight talks Kubo and the Two Strings
Amon Warmann chats with director Travis Knight about Kubo and the Two Strings… For many Kubo and the Two Strings was the cream of the crop of very good animated movies in 2016. Arguably the most ambitious project yet from Laika studios, it’s a film that is by turns thrilling and moving, and it’s all […]
Blu-ray Review – Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings, 2016. Directed by Travis Knight Featuring the voice talents of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, George Takei, Brenda Vaccaro, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ralph Fiennes and Rooney Mara. SYNOPSIS: Kubo and the Two Strings arrives in a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD set that features the movie in high-def and standard-def, […]
Movie Review – Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings, 2016. Directed by Travis Knight. Featuring the voice talents of Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Rooney Mara, George Takei and Ralph Fiennes. SYNOPSIS: Living with his mother in peace, Kubo’s life is changed when he is tasked with finding the sword unbreakable, armor and helmet to defeat his sinister aunts […]
Kubo and the Two Strings director to helm Bumblebee Transformers spinoff
Paramount Pictures has found a director for the first of its planned Transformers spinoffs, with Deadline reporting that Travis Knight, director of the Oscar-winning Kubo and the Two Strings, has signed on to helm the Bumblebee solo movie. The Bumblebee film emerged from Paramount’s Transformers writers room, and has been written by Christina Hodson (Shut […]
