From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow comes A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. Starring Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson, the movie is a minute-by-minute account of what the highest levels of government would do in the face of a nuclear attack on America.
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE had it’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, premiered in competition and received an almost 13-minute ovation. In their review, Time Out says the “nuclear thriller will take your stress levels to DEFCON 1” while Indiewire writes its, “a movie that will ruin your day. You’re welcome.” The Hollywood Reporter says of the film’s music: “The tightly wound tension is maintained also by Volker Bertelmann’s propulsive score, which starts with ominous juddering groans and keeps shapeshifting throughout.”
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE opens in select theaters Oct. 3 in the UK, globally Oct. 10, and on Netflix Oct. 24.
“I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was considered the go-to protocol for surviving an atomic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the threat felt so immediate that such measures were taken seriously.
Today, the danger has only escalated. Multiple nations possess enough nuclear weapons to end civilization within minutes. And yet, there’s a kind of collective numbness — a quiet normalization of the unthinkable.
How can we call this “defense” when the inevitable outcome is total destruction?
I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox — to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, yet rarely speaks of it.”
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE also stars Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Jonah Hauer-King, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke, Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever.
GET READY FOR THE BADDEST COMEDY OF THE SUMMER! DREAMWORKS ANIMATION PRESENTS SAM ROCKWELL, MARC MARON, CRAIG ROBINSON, AWKWAFINA AND ANTHONY RAMOS IN THE BAD GUYS 2.
IN THEATERS AUGUST 1ST.
The special advance screening is at 11am on Saturday, July 26th @ Marcus Ronnie’s Cine (10am suggested arrival).
(from left) Mr. Snake (Marc Maron), Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson), Ms. Tarantula (Awkwafina), Chief Misty Luggins (Alex Borstein), Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos) and Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) n DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2, directed by Pierre Perifel. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Animation
Everyone’s favorite felons are back, and this time, they’ve got company.
In the new action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
Based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Aaron Blabey, which has soared from 8 million to over 30 million copies sold since the first film’s release in 2022, The Bad Guys 2 stars the stellar original cast, led by Academy Award® winner Sam Rockwell as Mr. Wolf, SAG award nominee Marc Maron as safe-cracker Mr. Snake, SAG award nominee Craig Robinson as master-of disguise Mr. Shark, Grammy winner Anthony Ramos as Mr. Piranha and Emmy winner Awkwafina as hacker Ms. Tarantula, aka “Webs.”
The returning voice cast is joined by a new trio of comedic powerhouses as The Bad Girls: Oscar® nominee Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) as Bad Girls leader Kitty Kat, a dangerously clever snow leopard; Oscar® nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Movie Film) as Pigtail, a brilliant Bulgarian wild boar engineer; and Emmy nominee and comedy icon Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Poker Face) as Doom, a wry raven with a knack for deception.
From celebrated returning director Pierre Perifel and producer Damon Ross, The Bad Guys 2 also features the alumni voice talents of Emmy nominee Zazie Beetz as Governor Diane Foxington, BAFTA winner Richard Ayoade as Professor Marmalade, Emmy winner Alex Borstein as Police Chief (now Commissioner) Misty Luggins and Lilly Singh as sensationalist reporter Tiffany Fluffit.
The Bad Guys 2 is co-directed by JP Sans, who served as head of character animation on the first film. The music is by Oscar®-nominated returning composer Daniel Pemberton.
Everyone’s favorite felons are back, and this time, they’ve got company.
In the new action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
THE BAD GUYS (review) grossed $97.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $153.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $250.4 million.
Based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Aaron Blabey, which has soared from 8 million to over 30 million copies sold since the first film’s release in 2022, The Bad Guys 2 stars the stellar original cast, led by Academy Award® winner Sam Rockwell as Mr. Wolf, SAG award nominee Marc Maron as safe-cracker Mr. Snake, SAG award nominee Craig Robinson as master-of disguise Mr. Shark, Grammy winner Anthony Ramos as Mr. Piranha and Emmy winner Awkwafina as hacker Ms. Tarantula, aka “Webs.”
The returning voice cast is joined by a new trio of comedic powerhouses as The Bad Girls: Oscar® nominee Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) as Bad Girls leader Kitty Kat, a dangerously clever snow leopard; Oscar® nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Movie Film) as Pigtail, a brilliant Bulgarian wild boar engineer; and Emmy nominee and comedy icon Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Poker Face) as Doom, a wry raven with a knack for deception.
From celebrated returning director Pierre Perifel and producer Damon Ross, The Bad Guys 2 also features the alumni voice talents of Emmy nominee Zazie Beetz as Governor Diane Foxington, BAFTA winner Richard Ayoade as Professor Marmalade, Emmy winner Alex Borstein as Police Chief (now Commissioner) Misty Luggins and Lilly Singh as sensationalist reporter Tiffany Fluffit.
The Bad Guys 2 is co-directed by JP Sans, who served as head of character animation on the first film. The music is by Oscar®-nominated returning composer Daniel Pemberton.
THE BAD GUYS 2 is in theaters AUGUST 1.
(from left) Pigtail (Maria Bakalova), Kitty Kat (Danielle Brooks) and Doom (Natasha Lyonne) in DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2, directed by Pierre Perifel.(from left) Mr. Snake (Marc Maron) and Doom (Natasha Lyonne) in DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2, directed by Pierre Perifel.
(From left) Lily (Sasha Lane) and Tyler (Glen Powell) in TWISTERS, directed by Lee Isaac Chung. Courtesy of Universal Pictures
It’s summer, and tornadoes might be on the news and on your mind, so if a studio is releasing a disaster film with blockbuster hopes, tornadoes and storm-chasing are a good bet. There was just such a blockbuster hit back in the ’90s, TWISTER, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. TWISTERS, starring the rising star of the moment, Glen Powell, and the cute Daisy Edgar-Jones, is a kind of decedent of that action thrill ride, although not exactly a remake nor a sequel but a hybrid of both. Of course, the real star is the visual effects, many generations advanced from the original, with flying objects and terrifying, unpredictable power of tornadoes. In sequel and remake mad Hollywood, you have to wonder what took them so long
The original action thriller had Helen Hunt as a research meteorological scientist chasing storms and grant-funding and Bill Paxton as her estranged husband, a researcher turned weatherman who is done with storm-chasing, plus competition from a corporate weather research company headed by a former colleague. Directed, surprisingly, by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar-nominated writer-director of MINARI, TWISTERS has some echoes of that original film but no academic researchers this time and a very different romance in the story. Instead, we have a professional meteorologist, Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones) working with a private company and a tornado chaser Tyler Owens (from Texas, no less – Glen Powell), who meet on the windswept plains of Oklahoma. She isn’t there for academic research but to aid an old friend, Javi (Anthony Ramos) whose private weather research company is testing some new equipment and needs her expertise. The two have different reasons for being there, different style, different methods, different equipment, but both are there to chase tornadoes.
Glen Powell plays a showboat YouTube channel sensation, who along with his motley crew, chases tornadoes for their daredevil social media show, selling tee-shirts and trinkets along the way. Daisy Edgar-Jones is a professional in meteorology, now a respected figure working out of a high-tech office in New York, but once a storm-chasing Oklahoma graduate student, until a field test of her theory on how to “kill” a tornado goes tragically wrong, a traumatic experience that we see at the opening of the film.
But she is lured back to into the field, and her native Oklahoma, by an old friend who was part of the team helping her test her theory that day. The two have not seen each other for years but he reaches out to her for her expert help testing some new equipment for his weather-data collection business, providing precise, local data on tornadoes to his paying customers. We also get the sense that he has hope to reconnect with her in hopes of kindling romance.
The meteorologists gather in a field with other storm-chasers, some serious and others not, to watch the skies for a developing front with storm potential. YouTube star … and his wild crew pull in a red pickup truck and assorted dinged up vans with music blazing and hoots, drawing a crack from one in the crowd about rednecks from Arkansas.
Personally, I prefer more science in my science fiction (which this kind of is, since it deals in the science of weather and tornadoes), but there is little actual science in this remake/sequel. Kate’s old idea for stopping a tornado is pure fiction and there is a scene with an “eye” in a tornado (that’s hurricanes, not tornadoes, folks). But for most audiences, that won’t matter because they are just there for the FX, with are present in abundance – dazzling visual effects of the power of one of the most terrifying, dangerous forces in nature, the unpredictable tornado.
And you do get those visual jaw-droppers and a visceral thrill ride, although it takes awhile for the story to get started after the early terrifying sequence that shows why Kate is afraid to go back into the field of storm-chasing. After that flashback sequence, the film flashes forward to introduce characters in the present. We get some meet-cute scenes showing the differences between the free-wheeling Tyler and the more professional Kate, and to establish some of the differences between those chasing storms for data-collection and those chasing for thrills and social media likes.
Things really get underway as both sets of storm chasers are taking a break, with Tyler and Kate taking in a local rodeo. Things pick up quickly for the excitement and the storm effects, when a surprise night-time storm hits, sending everyone scrambling.
The effects in TWISTERS are truly thrilling, and massive things fly through the air (although no cows this time). The above sequence, and another awesome one with a movie screen, echo scenes in the original but everything is much bigger, and more impressive. However, audiences should note not to take advice from this film on what to do in a real tornado – heading for a movie auditorium is not the safe choice.
There is little science or accurate information about tornadoes in this one, and Kate’s theory on how to kill a tornado is pure fiction, but the tornado scenes do supply summer escapist thrills, if no practical advice. Also, the romance between the two leads never really takes off, unlike a number of truck and buildings, as there is little to no romantic chemistry between stars Daisy and Glen.
TWISTERS can provide some popcorn fun and summer thrills in the only safe way to encounter a tornado but movie fans hoping for a repeat of the emotional appeal of the original TWISTER likely will be disappointed, as this story is less involving. If you are just there for big visual effects, TWISTERS has thrill delights for you, particularly in a sequence in a movie theater.
Twin Twisters, in Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung.
This summer, the epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces.
From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar® nominated writer-director of Minari, Twisters stars Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing, Normal People) and Glen Powell (Anyone But You, Top Gun: Maverick) as opposing forces who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.
Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system.There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.
As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
Twisters features an exciting new cast, including Nope’s Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nik Dodani (Atypical) and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy).
From Amblin Entertainment, Twisters is directed by Lee Isaac Chung and is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall (Jurassic and Indiana Jones franchises) and by Patrick Crowley (Jurassic and Bourne franchises). The screenplay is by Mark L. Smith, writer of the Best Picture nominee The Revenant. Twisters will be distributed by Universal Pictures domestically and by Warner Bros. Pictures internationally.
This summer, the epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces.
From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar® nominated writer-director of Minari, Twisters stars Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing, Normal People) and Glen Powell (Anyone But You, Top Gun: Maverick) as opposing forces who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.
Debuting in theaters on July 19, watch the brand new trailer now.
Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.
As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
Twisters features an exciting new cast, including Nope’s Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nik Dodani (Atypical) and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy).
(from left) Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), Javi (Anthony Ramos), and Tyler (Glen Powell), in Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung.
This summer, the epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces.
From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes TWISTERS, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar® nominated writer-director of Minari, TWISTERS stars Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing, Normal People) and Glen Powell (Anyone But You, Top Gun: Maverick) as opposing forces who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.
The trailer debuted during Super Bowl 2024.
Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.
As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
TWISTERS features an exciting new cast, including Nope’s Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nik Dodani (Atypical) and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy).
From Amblin Entertainment, TWISTERS is directed by Lee Isaac Chung and is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall (Jurassic and Indiana Jones franchises) and by Patrick Crowley (Jurassic and Bourne franchises). The screenplay is by Mark L. Smith, writer of the Best Picture nominee The Revenant. Twisters will be distributed by Universal Pictures domestically and by Warner Bros. Pictures internationally.
(from left) Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), Javi (Anthony Ramos), and Tyler (Glen Powell), in Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung.Twin Twisters, in Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung.(from left) Lily (Sasha Lane) and Tyler (Glen Powell), in Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung.
DUMB MONEY is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich – until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
DUMB MONEY also stars Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Seth Rogen. Directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo, based on the book “The Antisocial Network” by Ben Mezrich.
Rebecca Angelo, Writer/Executive producer, Lauren Schuker Blum, Writer/Executive producer, Teddy Schwarzman, Producer, Aaron Ryder, Producer, and Craig Gillespie, Director, attend the gala screening of DUMB MONEY at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In their review, The Hollywood Reporter says: the film receiving its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival proves entertaining enough, thanks to its canny screenplay relating the story as a Frank Capra-style battle between the little people and the rich bigwigs hoisted by their own petards, and the fun performances by a terrific ensemble.
L-r, CHEETOR, MIRAGE and ARCEE in PARAMOUNT PICTURES and SKYDANCE Present
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A BAY FILMS Production “TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS”
Ok, another Transformers movie. All the others (6 in total if you include Bumblebee) have been pretty solid fan favorites under the direction of uber-action director Michael Bay. I was expecting more of the same this time around…. but hang on, not so fast. This is different.
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS is set in 1994, and for those keeping score, that’s a whole 8 years before the Bay-helmed Transformers: The Movie (2007). And because this installment is more like a prequel, it doesn’t have to worry about being a continuation of the same story. One of the more noticeable differences is that unlike the first film, the Transformers are not here to save and protect the human race, rather they are suspicious and view humans as enemies. They are “hiding” on earth because there is something preventing them from getting back to their home planet.
This is where we come in. A giant, malevolent, planet-eating dark god known as Unicron is out to destroy every planet in the universe, starting with one that is inhabited by a faction of Transformers known as the Maximals (yes, there are other Transformers besides Autobots and Decepticons). Before the planet is ultimately destroyed, the leader of the Maximals, a gorilla named Apeling, sacrifices himself and sends what is left of the Maximals through a time-traveling portal to prehistoric earth. This includes Airazor (Michelle Yeoh) a peregrine falcon, and Optimus Primal (Ron Perlman) a lowland gorilla that was named after the hero of the Autobots, Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen).
L-r, OPTIMUS PRIMAL, CHEETOR, WHEELJACK and ARCEE in PARAMOUNT PICTURES and SKYDANCE Present
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A BAY FILMS Production “TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS”
Back to 1994, Brooklyn, NY. When museum researcher Elena (Dominique Fishback) accidentally cracks open a bird sculpture relic with strange markings, it turns out to be a Transwarp Key that can open a portal that either gets the remaining Autobots on earth back to their home planet of Cybertron, or much worse, it can allow the aforementioned evil Unicron to use the portal to destroy the universe.
Across town, Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) is an ex-military electronics expert, trying to support his family. He attempts to steal a silver-blue Porsche 964 Carrera, and once inside discovers that it’s really an Autobot named Mirage (Pete Davidson). Let me just stop here and say, yes, THAT Pete Davidson. Whoever made the decision to cast him in this role was GENIUS. Davidson delivers with the sarcastic, smart-ass wit and humor of Bugs Bunny, combined with the ultimate heart of Bumblebee. He connects so well to the audience that it makes me wonder why the past Transformers movies didn’t think to make use of household names to voice the Transformers. It really made a difference here (this reviewer secretly hopes for a stand-alone Mirage movie because Davidson is so fun!)
MIRAGE in PARAMOUNT PICTURES and SKYDANCE Present In Association with HASBRO and NEW REPUBLIC PICTURES A di BONAVENTURA PICTURES Production A TOM DESANTO / DON MURPHY Production A BAY FILMS Production “TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS” Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
Meanwhile, Optimus prime becomes aware of the Transwarp Key and puts out a call for all Autobots to assemble. Unicron is also coming for the key, and he sends the Terrorcons, led by the especially nasty Scourge (Peter Dinklage) to retrieve it. This is where Mirage enlists Noah’s help and convinces a skeptical Optimus Prime to let him join the team. The Terrorcons have snatched the key and the only way to get it back is to combine forces with the remaining Maximals to get it back and thus, save the universe.
Again, director Steven Caple Jr.’s TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS, feels so different than previous Transformers movies. You have the new characters, the Maximals, who because they have the characteristics of the animals they embody, they feel more real and more personal than what was, in the past, just basically talking robots. There is much more emotion in their existence. And speaking of emotions, it’s really quite a feat that the star and most recognizable of the Autobots, Bumblebee, still elicits such a reaction from the audience. Any time Bumblebee is onscreen in this movie, the audience goes absolutely nuts.
Another cool aspect of TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS is the music. The score from film composer Jongnic “JB” Bontemps is fantastic, but what really connects is the early 90’s hip hop tracks that are used to pump up the action sequences. They fit nicely into the time frame and has the audience moving in their seats. This fun film will delight fans of the classic ’90s animated television series “Beast Wars: Transformers.”
All in all, TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS is the best TRANSFORMERS of them all and is exactly what the franchise needed. It feels fresh and the infusion of the new characters is what is needed going forward, and we are ready for more of the same! Transformers, Roll Out!
4 out of 4 stars
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS arrives in theaters June 9, 2023.
L-r. RHINOX, WHEELJACK, OPTIMUS PRIME, MIRAGE, CHEETOR, ARCEE, OPTIMUS PRIMAL and Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, below, star in PARAMOUNT PICTURES and SKYDANCE Present
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A BAY FILMS Production “TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS”
Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – to join them as allies in the existing battle for earth.
Directed by Steven Caple Jr. and starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, the film arrives in theatres June 9, 2023. The score is from composer Jongnic “JB” Bontemps (Wedding Season, Redfall).
Use the new “Transform Your Car” AR Lens on Snapchat to convert your car into a full-size robot!
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts presents the Transform Your Car AR Lens on Snapchat. For the first time, Transformers fans can experience what they’ve always imagined: seeing their own car convert into a full-size robot. Built on SnapML, Snapchat’s machine learning technology, a user’s phone can scan any car—regardless of make, model, year or color—and watch as it converts into a robot.
Paramount Pictures is the first brand to utilize CarML (Machine Learning), a new technology created using SnapAR to apply effects to cars everywhere. The Transform Your Car Lens experience brings the blockbuster IP to every fan by giving them a Transformer, created from their own car.
