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Movie News: The Taronga Zoo Promo Campaign Features "Rise of the Beasts"

The Taronga Zoo in Sydney has posted a page dedicated to a new campaign geared towards conservation and promoting the upcoming Rise of the Beasts live action Transformers film! The page also has a banner that gives us a nice look at Optimus Prime, Cheetor and Optimus Primal from the film.  You can check out the images from the page below.  Here are some details right from the page:

Movie News: "Rise of the Beasts" Notebook Reveals Optimus Prime Design

The Russian retail site Wildberries has posted a listing for a Rise of the Beasts notebook featuring an image of Optimus Prime on the front and what looks like ancient carvings of animals on the back. The Optimus Prime is essentially a version of the Optimus Prime we saw in the Bumblebee movie, which makes sense since this is a sequel to that film. More interesting is the "carving" which features several animals that represent classic Beast Wars characters.

Movies: Paramount Confirms "Transformers" Movie Slate

With the delay of Rise of the Beasts into 2023, news has been a bit quiet on the movie front lately. Today however, Paramount+ announced via Twitter the plans for the upcoming theatrical films.

Rise of the Beasts will be released in 2023 and serves as the first film of a new trilogy. Meanwhile, a CG animated film will be released in theaters in 2024. Check out the Tweet embedded below.

Movie News: "Rise of the Beasts" Hybrid Autobot/Maximal Symbol Revealed

After its official reveal in June, there has not been a whole lot of news about the next live action Transformers film outside of some leaks from the sets in New York City.  Today a small bit of news came out via the Instagram account of director Steven Caple Jr.  Earlier he posted an Instagram story featuring a symbol that blends the Autobot and Maximal symbols into something unique.  This type of combination has already been seen in Kingdom packaging, but this version