Rise of the Beasts

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.

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.

Transformers fans who were looking forward to seeing Autobots, Decepticons, Maximals, Predacons and Terrorcons mixing it up on the big screen will have to wait an additional year.  According to Deadline, Rise of the Beasts has been moved from June 24, 2022 all the way to June 9, 2023.  No reason was cited for this move, however the Cybertronians are not alone.  A new Star Trek film that had been in development has

Thanks to several sources including The "Transformers Perú" Facebook Page and the Twitter feed of Citranite fans now have several photos of the vehicles being used as the alt-modes of Transformers characters from the film.

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

The Official Transformers Movie Facebook Page and Collider have teamed up to announce that Ron Perlman has been officially cast in the role of Optimus Primal for the upcoming live action film Rise of the Beasts. No doubt, fans of the original Beast Wars series will be disappointed that actor Garry Chalk is not reprising the role however Perlman is no stranger to the Transformers franchise.

Today's Transformers: Rise of the Beasts press event threw a lot of information into the ether. Among them was information on several of the characters in the film. Here's a rundown of the characters based on the descriptions and notes I took during the event (including actor names where revealed). You can read my archived live Tweets here.

Today has been an insanely exciting day to be a Transformers fans.  Paramount held a virtual event where the title of the next live action Transformers film was revealed to be: "Rise of the Beasts"!   As rumors have suggested, this film will not only feature Autobots and Decepticons, but also Maximals, Predacons and Terrorcons!  I live Tweeted during the event and you can read all my archived