Transformers: Age of Extinction - In cinemas 10/7/14 (UK)

[iup=3500981]Return_of_the_STAR[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3500770]Irene Demova[/iup] wrote:No, because they get to add the numbers from the week of "previews" to it

Because that makes up for two full days release doesn't it most films get released on a Thursday and have previews before.

[iup=3501577]Skippy[/iup] wrote:My review - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/transformers-a ... ie-1455662

[iup=3501600]Venom[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3501577]Skippy[/iup] wrote:My review - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/transformers-a ... ie-1455662

How would you say it compares to 1?

[iup=3501567]Rog[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3500981]Return_of_the_STAR[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3500770]Irene Demova[/iup] wrote:No, because they get to add the numbers from the week of "previews" to it

Because that makes up for two full days release doesn't it most films get released on a Thursday and have previews before.

I'm telling you it's the deny the brits till after July 4th thing. Makes no sense why it wasn't released the same time as everywhere else otherwise.

UK 5 July 2014
Ireland 5 July 2014
Argentina 10 July 2014
Chile 10 July 2014
Denmark 10 July 2014
Peru 10 July 2014
Sweden 10 July 2014
Mexico 11 July 2014
Norway 11 July 2014
Panama 11 July 2014
Belgium 16 July 2014
France 16 July 2014
Italy 16 July 2014
Austria 17 July 2014
Brazil 17 July 2014
Switzerland 17 July 2014 (German speaking region)
Germany 17 July 2014
Egypt 23 July 2014
United Arab Emirates 24 July 2014
Lebanon 24 July 2014
Venezuela 25 July 2014
Spain 8 August 2014
Japan 8 August 2014

"When the robot hero Optimus Prime returns to movie theaters in June, his toughest foes might not be other transformers but Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Paramount Pictures (VIAB) will release Transformers: Age of Extinction in the U.S., Asia, and parts of Europe smack in the middle of soccer’s World Cup, which runs from June 12 through July 13 in Brazil. The studio will delay the movie’s launch date in many soccer-crazed countries until after the tournament ends to avoid a dent in the box office.

The World Cup, the second-biggest global sporting event after the Olympics, coincides with the peak of the movie industry’s big-budget summer season. “The World Cup will continue to pose more and more of an issue,” says Anthony Marcoly, president of international distribution at Paramount, which is owned by Viacom."

[iup=3501690]Skippy[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3501600]Venom[/iup] wrote:

[iup=3501577]Skippy[/iup] wrote:My review - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/transformers-a ... ie-1455662

How would you say it compares to 1?

About the same level of quality? I'm too apathetic about the series to think about it too much

[iup=3502285]chalkitdown[/iup] wrote:Most of the plot didn't actually make any sense whatsoever. Frasier wants to kill all Transformers because they're dangerous so he.....hires other, far more dangerous transformers to help him? Okaaaaaaay.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures wants more Transformers. Taking a page from Fox’s incubation of three Avatar sequels and what Disney is doing to revive Star Wars with a sequels and spinoffs, the studio is negotiating with Akiva Goldsman to work with franchise director Michael Bay, exec producer Steven Spielberg and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to organize a “writer’s room” that will incubate ideas for a potential multi-part Transformers sequel, and come up with potential spinoff films based on the billion-dollar franchise culled from the Hasbro toy line.

Though Goldsman is the Oscar winning writer of A Beautiful Mind and many other big pics, I don’t get the impression the deal being negotiated calls for him to write one of these films. His will be an oversight role to secure writers and hatch the movies they’ll script. This is happening very quickly. Bay, who has directed all four Transformers films and most recently helmed Transformers: Age Of Extinction, is readying to next direct the Benghazi siege drama 13 Hours. He’d like to have something hammered out when he completes production so that the next Transformers pic can move forward quickly.

This is a major priority for new Motion Picture Group president Marc Evans, who’s tasked with getting more movies made. It marks an intriguing new step as studios put even more of a premium on the care and feeding of tentpole franchises.

James Cameron has come through a long incubation process with three Avatar sequels he’ll shoot back to back. He co-wrote Avatar 2 with Amanda Silver & Rick Jaffa, Avatar 3 with Josh Friedman, and Avatar 4 with Shane Salerno. All those writers spent seven months with Cameron in a writer’s room breaking down the beats of the trilogy. Cameron will shoot all three back to back at Peter Jackson’s WETA studios in Wellington, New Zealand (Jackson is the godfather of this multi-film-shoot movement, doing it with both The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies). Fox is investing a reported $900 million in those Avatar movies but one extended principal production period saves money, and News Corp hopes will drive the bottom line for years to come.

Disney has been ultra-aggressive since it bought Marvel, which has cranked out superhero films with regularity, and it has done the same since buying Lucasfilm. It created the infrastructure for three main Star Wars films — one with JJ Abrams directing and two with Looper helmer Rian Johnson. It also has spinoffs aplenty starting with Rogue One, the Gareth Edwards-directed film to star Felicity Jones and Ben Mendelsohn.

It’s not hard to see why Paramount covets more Transformers installments. The most recent, Transformers: Age Of Extinction, grossed nearly $1.1 billion, and became the top grossing release ever in China. And despite gross payouts that included Bay and the film’s star Mark Wahlberg, the film still generated $250 million in net profits to Paramount and was named Most Valuable Blockbuster in Deadline’s annual breakdown of top domestic grossing tentpole films.

degoose wrote:years ago i was fine with transformers being made into a movie but when the first one came out i was massively disappointed.They have all been really crap and just do not follow any of the stories from the 80's show. The best transformers film is still the 1980's animated movie. strawberry float the rest of them.

Ironhide wrote:The main problems with the live action TF films are:

Most of the robots look almost nothing like their animated versions
Too much emphasis on human characters
The fight scenes are too 'busy' to properly see what's happening
The animated movie is vastly better

Slimgrady wrote:

Ironhide wrote:The main problems with the live action TF films are:

Most of the robots look almost nothing like their animated versions
Too much emphasis on human characters
The fight scenes are too 'busy' to properly see what's happening
The animated movie is vastly better

And the animated movies soundtrack is outstanding.