Transformers Bumblebee 2018 Movie Receives $22M California Tax Credit
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In a major boon to local production, “Bumblebee,” the spinoff movie from Paramount’s “Transformers” franchise, will shoot in California with the help of a $22-million tax credit.
It’s the largest tax break awarded to date under a state program aimed at curbing so-called runaway production.
The new movie will film entirely in California, according to a Paramount spokesman. Production is expected to take place in the Los Angeles area as well as in Northern California, according to two people familiar with the project who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The production, described only in state records as the “Untitled Paramount Project,” has received preliminary approval to receive a state tax credit of $22 million, according to the California Film Commission.
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Posted by MGrotusque on July 13th, 2017 @ 8:30am CDT
Posted by Va'al on July 13th, 2017 @ 12:33pm CDT
Paramount's Transformers spinoff Bumblebee is quickly rounding out its cast, adding a handful of young actors including Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Ricardo Hoyos and Gracie Dzienny, who are in various stages of negotiations.
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The film will clearly feature a slew of young rising stars: Drucker was most recently seen in Fox’s reboot Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. He’s repped by Coast to Coast and Industry Entertainment.
Hoyos starred on Degrassi: Next Class and also was seen in The Belko Experiment. He’s repped by Industry Entertainment.
Quinn starred opposite Jenny Slate in Gillian Robespierre's Landline, which played at Sundance and hits theaters on July 21. She also stars opposite Joey King in Radium Girls. She’s repped by CAA and Rebecca Kitt & Associates.
Crow has appeared on the TV shows BrainSurge, Big Time Rush and Figure It Out and voiced Carla in the animated film Rio 2. She’s repped by UTA and Untitled Entertainment.
Dzienny’s credits include TV series Zoo and Chasing Life. She’s repped by Innovative Artists and Inphenate.
Posted by Deadput on July 13th, 2017 @ 12:40pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 13th, 2017 @ 12:53pm CDT
Deadput wrote:...who?
You dont know Snoop Dog?
Posted by Optimum Supreme on July 13th, 2017 @ 1:32pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on July 13th, 2017 @ 2:26pm CDT
Optimum Supreme wrote:He clearly is talking about every single human in this movie. On the bright side, if every one is an unknown nobody, maybe it will focus better on the robits than goofy parents or humping dogs.
Should also mean a lower budget that should be put into more robot screen time since their not hiring a bunch of celebrities.
Posted by william-james88 on July 13th, 2017 @ 2:37pm CDT
Optimum Supreme wrote:He clearly is talking about every single human in this movie. On the bright side, if every one is an unknown nobody, maybe it will focus better on the robits than goofy parents or humping dogs.
But werent those humping dogs unknown back then too? Before their big break I mean.
Posted by Microraptor on July 13th, 2017 @ 6:24pm CDT
Posted by SnoopDawg on July 13th, 2017 @ 9:51pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Deadput wrote:...who?
You dont know Snoop Dog?
Yeah, you know ... that rapper guy. He's gonna be in the movie
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 16th, 2017 @ 8:44pm CDT
Posted by WreckerJack on July 18th, 2017 @ 8:22pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on July 18th, 2017 @ 8:48pm CDT
Plus you got to pay to be a member of the site to apply.
Posted by WreckerJack on July 19th, 2017 @ 5:28pm CDT
From what we are told, Hailee Steinfeld will have a starring role as a tomboy who has a job as a mechanic after school. This may not tell us much by itself, but combined with what producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has hinted in the past about taking inspiration from the animated Iron Giant film we can ponder some ideas.
“There are dramatically less Transformers. We hired purposefully Travis Knight, who is a very distinct filmmaker. You can’t compete with Michael, you’re gonna lose. And also I think the audience wants something different all the time, let’s keep them interested. They’re gonna get a very emotionally complex story, a very tight story in terms of its location and in terms of its storytelling. In fact it reminds me a little bit of ‘Iron Giant’ years ago when I did that movie at Warner Bros. It just reminds me a little bit of that where it was very contained and yet it didn’t feel small.”
If you are interested in the new Bumblebee film, please have a look here!
Posted by Deadput on July 19th, 2017 @ 5:41pm CDT
Say hello to Nitro Zeus for me.
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on July 19th, 2017 @ 9:05pm CDT
Deadput wrote:Being a voice actor is something I've wanted to do but I'm sure their looking for more experienced actors.
Plus you got to pay to be a member of the site to apply.
It wouldn't hurt to apply. Follow your dreams!
Posted by Bronzewolf on July 21st, 2017 @ 2:09pm CDT
here!
Now, Paramount is cutting costs. Its Bumblebee spin-off is pegged at $70 million-plus (according to sources), compared to Last Knight's $217 million.
A younger cast, headed by Hailee Steinfeld, 20, will be directed by Travis Knight when filming starts in August. The story, centered on the yellow bot, will be set in 1987.
Posted by breacher on July 21st, 2017 @ 5:38pm CDT
Low-budget
A bunch of C-list actors
Very few actual transformers
Do the people at Paramount actual listen to ANY criticism at all? FOR AN ENTIRE DECADE, the fans have been saying, "more transformers, less humans", and after TLK underperformed BOTH critically and financially, they make this. Wouldn't be surprised if this ends up putting the final nail in the coffin for this franchise.
However, If we finally get Cliffjumper, I can be swayed. If they do this right, I want a hotrod-cliff-bee team against starscream, barricade, and maybe a few others. But if this is by the same "transformers universe writers room" it'll probably crash and burn. I'm of the few in the fanbase that actually likes these movies for what they are, but TLK crossed multiple lines.
Posted by griftimus prime on July 21st, 2017 @ 5:40pm CDT
Posted by BERSEKAEL on July 21st, 2017 @ 6:27pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on July 23rd, 2017 @ 2:57am CDT
Pamela Adlon, fresh off a Best Comedy Series Actress Emmy nomination for her FX series Better Things, is in negotiations to join the cast of Bumblebee, Paramount’s first spinoff of its Transformers franchise. Kubo and the Two Strings helmer Travis Knight is directing the pic, which is being toplined by Hailee Steinfeld.
Adlon will play Steinfeld’s mother in the movie scripted by Christina Hodson. The story is mostly under wraps, but it originated from Michael Bay and Paramount’s writers room project. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Bay and Steven Spielberg are producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis.
Bumblebee has staked out June 8 release date.
Posted by SG Roadbuster on July 23rd, 2017 @ 7:04am CDT
"we don't care a-bout the hu-mans
we watch these movies for the ro-bots"
Posted by Optimum Supreme on July 24th, 2017 @ 10:32am CDT
BERSEKAEL wrote:Paint it in red, make the movie about cliff jumper... kind of too much yellow already
You don't even have to call a red Bumblebee by any other name, red Bumblebee's been a thing since 1984.
Posted by Va'al on July 25th, 2017 @ 4:53am CDT
“Bumblebee,” a spinoff from the “Transformers” film series, is the major Paramount film being shot in Marin, a Paramount spokesperson confirmed Friday.
The spokesperson, who was unnamed, declined further elaboration except to say the film is due for a summer 2018 release.
The Paramount confirmation came as other news surfaced in recent days pointing toward the film.
Deborah Albre, Marin liaison to the California Film Commission, noted that a recent Los Angeles Times story referenced “Bumblebee” as being eligible for $22 million in tax credits — the largest amount assigned to a major film since the state film tax credits program started in 2015.
“It’s pretty impressive,” Albre said of the film project’s tax credits, which are tied into the local economy through jobs and use of area resources.
Last month, Albre and other sources indicated that Paramount was planning to shoot a major feature film in Marin and was building a set in Peacock Gap area of San Rafael.
The location for “Bumblebee,” a prequel to the popular “Transformers” franchise, has been a closely held commodity.
Posted by Va'al on July 29th, 2017 @ 10:32am CDT
According to Acting-Auditions.org, who also prohibit the actual information to be posted elsewhere without permission, they're searching for 70s-80s cars except in the colours black, red, and yellow (and we've seen some of these previously) - but also small USA townfolk, military, highschoolers and minors in the Northern California area for extra and background work! Check out the link above, and good luck if you choose to apply!
Posted by Kurona on July 29th, 2017 @ 10:41am CDT
I'm sorry, I really hate to be a negative nancy, but this just seems bizarre. One of if not the most profitable movie franchises of the last 10 years is asking for donations?
Posted by Microraptor on July 29th, 2017 @ 11:18am CDT
Kurona wrote:Do... do they not have the funds to just purchase 70s/80s cars?
I'm sorry, I really hate to be a negative nancy, but this just seems bizarre. One of if not the most profitable movie franchises of the last 10 years is asking for donations?
TLK underperformed, so they have to save as much as they can. It's only got 70 mil to use after all.
Posted by Tyrannacon on July 29th, 2017 @ 12:39pm CDT
We are starting to shoot a week from today. We had decided to do this well before (The Last Knight) had come out. Our feeling was that we wanted to give the audience a different experience. Bumblebee's designed to be a more intimate movie. There's many fewer Transformers in it. It's set in 1987, so it actually predates all of Michael's movies and therefore is not burdened by the history of those, 'cause it predates it. You have a certain amount of creative freedom.
And as for the future of the Transformers film franchise?
Yeah, I think so. I do. Look, it was a great run. I think going forward, we learned some lessons and I think we need to change it up. I think Michael (Bay, director of all five Transformers films) would be the first one to say that. It's one of the reasons why we were trying to bring in the Arthurian myth, in fact, in (The Last Knight), to create that different sense of what that movie's about. I think we were successful in that way, but obviously not in the box office.
We will update with further developments as they become available!
Posted by Deadput on July 29th, 2017 @ 2:43pm CDT
Make up your darn minds.
Posted by Va'al on July 31st, 2017 @ 12:33pm CDT
Looking forward to a great day #onset #bumblebeemovie #work #work #transformers If you have the power to make someone happy, do it, the world needs more of that. #kindnessrules #rockluv #free2luv
Posted by Va'al on July 31st, 2017 @ 1:47pm CDT
John Cena has nabbed a lead role in the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee.
Hailee Steinfeld is leading the cast of Paramount's new film, which will center on the yellow and black bot Bumblebee. The film will feature a young cast including Jorge Lendeborg, Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Ricardo Hoyos and Gracie Dzienny.
The story is set in the year 1987, where Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
*do not underestimate the arms
Posted by Quantum Surge on July 31st, 2017 @ 1:52pm CDT
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on July 31st, 2017 @ 1:54pm CDT
Va'al wrote:
The story is set in the year 1987, where Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW
Not that I'm complaining, but isn't that basically the same way AOE started off? Anyways, we do have confirmation Bumblebee will be turning into a VW beetle now, so that's cool.
Posted by Kurona on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:01pm CDT
Posted by Ig89ninja on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:02pm CDT
I'm so sorry
Posted by Kurona on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:06pm CDT
Ig89ninja wrote:AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!!!!!!
I'm so sorry
do do do dooooooo
Posted by megamanfan on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:13pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:15pm CDT
Va'al wrote:The spin-off featuring Hailee Steinfeld as lead character, and which has just started production, will also star a WWE wrestler,
Emerje
Posted by Emerje on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:26pm CDT
megamanfan wrote:if i dont see bumblebee in a WWE-style rumble, i will be insanely disappointed.
He could wrestle this guy:
Shockwave the Robot
And yes, that's a real independent wrestler.
Emerje
Posted by Deadput on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:37pm CDT
/s
Posted by william-james88 on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:38pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:50pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on July 31st, 2017 @ 2:53pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The Brony wrestler!
Huh?
(Google search)
ahhhhh?
Posted by Va'al on July 31st, 2017 @ 3:23pm CDT
Read on below for more information, including more details from the movie's plot!
PARAMOUNT PICTURES TO RELEASE “BUMBLEBEE” ON DECEMBER 21, 2018
PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON TRAVIS KNIGHT’S NEW FILM BEGINS MONDAY, JULY 31st
The film will shoot entirely in California
HOLLYWOOD, CA (July 31, 2017) – Paramount Pictures, in association with HASBRO, announced today that principal photography has commenced on “BUMBLEBEE.” The film’s shoot will take place entirely in California, including in Southern and Northern California.
Directed by Travis Knight (“KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS,” “CORALINE”), the film stars Hailee Steinfeld (“EDGE OF SEVENTEEN”), Pamela Adlon (“BETTER THINGS,””LOUIE”), John Cena (“DADDY’S HOME 2,” “TRAINWRECK”), Stephen Schneider (Comedy Central’s “BROAD CITY”), Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (“SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING”), Jason Drucker (“DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAUL”), Kenneth Choi (“AMERICAN CRIME STORY”), Ricardo Hoyos (“DEGRASSI: NEXT CLASS”), Abby Quinn (“LANDLINE,” “THE SISTERHOOD OF THE NIGHT”), Rachel Crow (“DEIDRA & LANEY ROB A TRAIN”), and Grace Dzienny (“ZOO”).
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
The film is produced by “TRANSFORMERS” franchise veterans Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Michael Bay, along with executive producers Steven Spielberg, Brian Goldner and Mark Vahradian. Chris Brigham (“ARGO,” “INCEPTION”) will also executive produce. The screenplay is written by Christina Hodson (“UNFORGETTABLE”).
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About Paramount Pictures Corporation
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Posted by Kurona on July 31st, 2017 @ 3:35pm CDT
Posted by Burn on July 31st, 2017 @ 3:56pm CDT
Have it opening near a Star Wars movie ... lol. They want it to fail?
Posted by SureShot18 on July 31st, 2017 @ 4:21pm CDT
Posted by SnoopDawg on July 31st, 2017 @ 4:35pm CDT
Burn wrote:Adding Cena is enough reason for me to not go and see it.
Have it opening near a Star Wars movie ... lol. They want it to fail?
Which Star Wars movie is it opening near? Unless I don't know of a secret Star Wars movie coming out then, the only one in 2018 is the Han Solo movie which is being released in May ...
Posted by SnoopDawg on July 31st, 2017 @ 4:39pm CDT
Kurona wrote:That's a shame, I'd be seeing the Star Wars movie around that time instead -- and this was the only Transformers movie I was looking forward to. Ah well, watch it on Netflix in a few years it is.
Again, which Star Wars movie is opening in December 2018?
Posted by Kurona on July 31st, 2017 @ 4:58pm CDT
SnoopDawg wrote:Kurona wrote:That's a shame, I'd be seeing the Star Wars movie around that time instead -- and this was the only Transformers movie I was looking forward to. Ah well, watch it on Netflix in a few years it is.
Again, which Star Wars movie is opening in December 2018?
I just assumed the 2018 Star Wars movie to come out around Christmas, as the others the past couple of years have. My mistake!
Posted by SnoopDawg on July 31st, 2017 @ 5:15pm CDT
Kurona wrote:SnoopDawg wrote:Kurona wrote:That's a shame, I'd be seeing the Star Wars movie around that time instead -- and this was the only Transformers movie I was looking forward to. Ah well, watch it on Netflix in a few years it is.
Again, which Star Wars movie is opening in December 2018?
I just assumed the 2018 Star Wars movie to come out around Christmas, as the others the past couple of years have. My mistake!
Oh okay. Yeah, the Star Wars movies will be released in May starting with the Han Solo movie and and followed by Episode 9 in May 2019. Sorry if my question seemed provocative.