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Transformers (film Series)
''Transformers'' is a series of science fiction action films based on the ''Transformers'' franchise of the 1980s. Michael Bay directed the first five films: ''Transformers'' (2007), '' Revenge of the Fallen'' (2009), '' Dark of the Moon'' (2011), '' Age of Extinction'' (2014), and '' The Last Knight'' (2017), and has served as a producer for subsequent films. A sixth film '' Bumblebee'', directed by Travis Knight and produced by Bay, was released on December 21, 2018. A seventh film, '' Rise of the Beasts'', directed by Steven Caple Jr., is to be released in 2023. The series has been distributed by Paramount Pictures and, for the first two films, DreamWorks Pictures. The original ''Transformers'' series has received negative to mixed reception, except for ''Bumblebee'', which received positive reviews. It is the 13th-highest-grossing film series, with a total of $4.8 billion; two films in the series have grossed over $1 billion each. Films Development ''Transformers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has produced and directed, which include '' Armageddon'' (1998), ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001) and the ''Transformers'' film series (2007–present), have grossed over worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror films, including '' The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (2003), '' The Amityville Horror'' (2005), '' The Hitcher'' (2007), ''Friday the 13th'' (2009) and '' A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (2010). Despite his commercial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rise Of The Beasts
''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' is an upcoming American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' toy line and primarily influenced by the ''Beast Wars'' storyline. The film is the seventh installment in the ''Transformers'' film series and a stand-alone sequel to ''Bumblebee'' (2018). The film is directed by Steven Caple Jr. from a screenplay by Joby Harold, Darnell Metayer, Josh Peters, Erich Hoeber, and Jon Hoeber. It will star Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback as well the voice talents of Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, and Peter Dinklage. The film will center around three factions of Transformers tied to Earth's past, with the setting being in 1994 Brooklyn, New York City, and in parts of Peru such as Machu Picchu, Cusco, and Tarapoto, San Martín. ''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'' is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States on June 9, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. Premise In the year 1994, a pair of human archaeologists from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making motion pictures and adaptations of popular novels. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes '' The Client''; '' Batman Forever'' and its sequel '' Batman & Robin''; ''I, Robot''; '' I Am Legend''; ''Cinderella Man,'' and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited. He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series '' Fringe''. In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film '' A Beautiful Mind'', which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with ''A Beautiful Mind'' director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel '' The Da Vinci Code'' for Howard's film. He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 sequel ''Angels & Demons''. Goldsman is also known for co-developing the DC Comics TV series '' Titans'' and the Paramount P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Marcum And Matt Holloway
Art Marcum and Matt Holloway are an American screenwriting duo, best known for writing the scripts of ''Iron Man'' and '' Punisher: War Zone''. Career In 2008, Marcum and Holloway wrote the script of Marvel Studios' superhero film ''Iron Man'', which was directed by Jon Favreau and released on May 2, 2008, by Paramount Pictures. The duo also wrote the script for the action film '' Punisher: War Zone'', directed by Lexi Alexander and released on December 5, 2008, by Lionsgate. They were hired by Paramount to co-write a script with John Fusco for the 2014 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' film, but their script was ultimately never used. In 2019, they were hired by Sony to write the script for the adventure film ''Uncharted'', directed by Ruben Fleischer. In 2020, it was revealed that the duo had provided rewrites for two projects in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe: The first being ''Morbius'' (2022), directed by Daniel Espinosa. The other being ''Kraven the Hunter'' (2023), direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Nolan
Ken Nolan () is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for adapting the 2001 biographical war film ''Black Hawk Down'' from the non-fiction book of the same name. Life and career Nolan was born in Detroit and raised in Buffalo, New York and Portland, Oregon. He applied twice to the UCLA Film School but was turned down both times. He ultimately attended the University of Oregon, earning an English degree. He moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s to pursue a career as a screenwriter, working at Richard Dreyfuss' company using ''The Screenwriter's Workbook'' by Syd Field as a guide. He wrote several screenplays before breaking through in 1994, writing a series of spec scripts for Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures. His first produced screenplay was an adaptation of Mark Bowden's 1999 non-fiction book ''Black Hawk Down'', which was ultimately made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name by Ridley Scott. He initially wrote a 60-page treatment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehren Kruger
Ehren Kruger (born October 5, 1972) is an American film screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing three of the five installments in the original ''Transformers'' film series: '' Revenge of the Fallen'', '' Dark of the Moon'', and '' Age of Extinction'', in addition to the American version of '' The Ring'' and its sequel '' The Ring Two'' and the American adaptation of '' Ghost in the Shell''. Life and career Kruger was raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, graduating in 1990. He graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His produced screenplays include '' Arlington Road'', '' Scream 3'' and ''Reindeer Games''. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for '' The Ring''. He also did uncredited rewrites to '' Scream 4'', when Kevin Williamson had to leave production. Early on in his career after penning the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (; born January 13, 1957) is an American film producer and founder and owner of Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is best known for producing the G.I. Joe and ''Transformers'' film series. The films he produced have earned over $7 billion at the box office. Life and career Di Bonaventura spent the 1990s as an executive in the film industry eventually rising to president of worldwide production for Warner Bros. Pictures. His production company -- Di Bonaventura Pictures—is based at Paramount Pictures. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding ''The Matrix'' into production, purchasing the rights to the ''Harry Potter'' books by J. K. Rowling. In 2007 Di Bonaventura purchased the film rights to the six-part series of fantasy novels ''The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel'' by Michael Scott. Di Bonaventura said that Scott's "fantastic series is a natural evolution from Harry Potter." In the documentary '' Side by Side,'' Di Bona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom DeSanto
Tom DeSanto (born January 1, 1968) is an American film producer and screenwriter. Career DeSanto is a founding writer/producer behind several of the biggest franchises in movie history (''X-Men'', ''Transformers''). DeSanto's films have grossed more than $5 billion worldwide with a per film average of more than $746 million at the box office, in addition to billions more in home video, merchandising, and video games. After the success of ''X-Men'', DeSanto began working on a reboot of ''Battlestar Galactica'' to developed for Universal Television. The show eventually returned in 2003 but under the direction of Ronald D. Moore. DeSanto then become part of the creative team for '' X2: X-Men United'', including the continuation of the Phoenix story line which DeSanto set up in the first film. That same year, he went moved towards ''Transformers'', another dormant property that he was a fan of since childhood. DeSanto brought the idea to his friend, and fellow producer Don Murp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Murphy
Don Murphy (born April 1967) is an American film producer who produced '' Natural Born Killers'', ''Real Steel'', '' Splice'' and many other films, including ''Transformers'' and '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''. Personal background Born in April 1967, Murphy grew up in Hicksville, New York and was educated at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York. He attended Georgetown University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the McDonough School of Business. Having excelled academically, he was accepted into Georgetown Law. Murphy was the film critic for the Georgetown school newspaper, '' The Hoya'', for three years, and in summer jobs at his father's advertising agency worked on ad campaigns for such films as ''Blow Out'' (1981), '' Under the Rainbow'' (1981) and ''Ragtime'' (1981). In 1986 Murphy realized that his calling lay in films rather than law; he enrolled in the School of Cinema-Television (now named USC School of Cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce (born 1956) is an English film producer. Starting as a production assistant on ''Return of the Jedi'', he is now an award-winning film producer. He now lives with his two children, Alex and Mac, and his wife Taylor, in Los Angeles, California. Career Bryce has won and been nominated for many awards, including multiple Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards and BAFTA nominations for his work as a producer. For Steven Spielberg's World War II drama Saving Private Ryan, he won a Golden Globe Award and nominations from the "Academy Awards" and BAFTA. The film was one of the top-grossing films of 1998. Almost Famous, another Bryce production, received a BAFTA Best Film award in 2000. Bryce co-produced all the films of the ''Transformers'' series, one of the biggest movie franchises of the 21st century. Personal life Bryce grew up in Bristol, England, but moved to the US when he was a young adult. After marrying his wife Taylor, they moved to Los Angeles. They have two kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rogers (writer)
John Rogers is an American screenwriter. He is known as the creator of the television series '' Jackie Chan Adventures'' (2000–2005), '' Leverage'' (2008–2012; 2021-present as '' Leverage: Redemption'' on Freevee), '' The Librarians'' (2014–2018), and '' The Player'' (2015). Rogers co-wrote the films '' American Outlaws'' (2001), ''The Core'' (2003), ''Catwoman'' (2004), and '' Marry Me'' (2022), and co-wrote the story for the film ''Transformers'' (2007). Early life and education Rogers was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. While at McGill, he wrote for the school's comedy magazine ''The Red Herring''. Career Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie ''Transformers'', released in 2007. He wrote an early screenplay for ''Catwoman'' and created the cartoon series '' Jackie Chan Adventures''. He also co-wrote the science fiction adventure film ''The Core''. In 2004 Rogers wrote and executive-prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Kurtzman
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the ''Star Trek'' franchise since 2009, co-writing the scripts to ''Transformers'' (2007), '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Star Trek'' (2009), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013), and ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing ''The Mummy'' (2017). He'd made his directorial debut with '' People Like Us'' (2012), co-written by him, Orci, and Jody Lambert from a story by him. Kurtzman is known, alongside Orci, for frequently collaborating with Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams, as well as co-creating the more recent ''Star Trek'' shows, including '' Star Trek: Discovery'', '' Star Trek: Picard'', and '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life, family and education Kurtzman was born into a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles, California. His longtime screenwriting partner Roberto O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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