Sloppy drumroll, please. The nominations are out for the 38th annual Razzie Awards, and a familiar franchise leads the way.Transformers: The Last Knight earned an embarrassing nine noms to lead the 2017 field.
The Michael Bay-helmed pic starring Mark Wahlberg and a mess of vehicles that become warriors will battle it…
While some in the industry worry that moviegoing will eventually cave into in-home streaming, Transformers franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura offered up a pragmatic perspective.
“It’s a little daunting right now for us to know where we’re headed. There are increasing reasons to draw attention to other things,”…
Viacom seems to be right in the middle of major media companies reporting Q2 earnings: Its just-released numbers — while beating Wall Street expectations — are not as encouraging as Time Warner and AMC Networks’, but also not as worrisome as Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive’s.
Shares are up…
Travis Knight’s Bumblebee, the Transformers spinoff movie about the beloved yellow racer, will open theatrically stateside on Dec. 21, 2018. The Paramount pic literally started production today and will be entirely shot in the state of California.
Originally Bumblebee occupied a slot on next June’s calendar, June 8…
UPDATE, THURSDAY AM: When the dust settled following the July 4 holiday, Illumination/Universal's leader, Despicable Me 3, ticked a touch higher at the international box office — to $98.8M through the weekend in 52 markets. Adding in Monday through Wednesday figures, the overseas gross is $159.6M for $266.6M…
Wednesday, July 5th FINAL: This past weekend associated with the Independence Day drew $169.7M, -11% from a year ago and ranked as the seventh highest for the holiday. The last time we saw a July 4th weekend that cracked past $200M was five years ago ($230M actually) when Despicable Me 2 benefited from the holiday…
UPDATE, TUESDAY AM, with actuals…: Paramount's Transformers: The Last Knight came in with a $3M bump in the actuals compared to Sunday's estimates. That puts the fivequel at $199.2M in 41 markets at the international box office. The result is closer to the high end of the pre-weekend range. The opening is also 2%…
UPDATED, Monday 9:15 AM: Paramount’s Transformers: The Last Knight is coming in at $68 million over five days, $1M less than where the studio and industry were seeing it yesterday. But the more exciting news was being generated by the second-place blinking contest between Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman and Disney/Pixar’s Ca…
2ND UPDATE, SATURDAY AM: Contrary to domestic, Paramount’s Transformers: The Last Knight is on track to top the opening of Transformers: Age Of Extinction at the international box office. Although the studio is not providing an update today, as Friday estimates came in late yesterday (see below), the unofficial…
3rd Update, Thursday 7:14 AM: Paramount is reporting a $15.65M first day for Transformers: The Last Knightinclusive of Tuesday night’s $5.5M previews. While that’s slightly higher from where we saw it yesterday, it remains the lowest full first day for a Transformers movie. The 5-day outlook is still in the mid-$60M…
Launching into the Paramount presentation at CineEurope here today, President of International Marketing and Distribution, Mark Viane called this past year a “transformative” one for the studio. “We are all extremely excited about this fresh start for the studio as we look to the future with a bold and varied slate,”…
Wednesday is the first official day of summer, which means it is time for more Transformers — just what you have been asking for, right? It actually has been three years since the fourth installment of the Paramount/Hasbro/Michael Bay goldmine, and though Bay once swore he would quit after that one (Age Of Extinction)…
