Bumblebee (film)

Bumblebee
A yellow robot with glowing blue eyes, a teenaged girl, and stern-looking man are superimposed over a sunset at the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTravis Knight
Written byChristina Hodson
Based onTransformers
by Hasbro
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEnrique Chediak
Edited byPaul Rubell
Music byDario Marianelli
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • December 3, 2018 (2018-12-03) (Sony Center)
  • December 21, 2018 (2018-12-21) (United States)
Running time
114 minutes[1][2]
Countries
LanguageEnglish
Budget$102–135 million[4][5][6]
Box office$468 million[5]

Bumblebee (stylized as BumbleBee and sometimes marketed as Transformers: Bumblebee) is a 2018 science fiction action film based on the Hasbro and Takara Tomy's Transformers toy line character of the same name. It is the sixth installment in the Transformers film series, serving as a spin-off and prequel to the 2007 film. The film is directed by Travis Knight and written by Christina Hodson. It stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, and Pamela Adlon, and features Dylan O'Brien (as the title character), Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, and Peter Cullen in voice roles. It was Knight's first live-action film,[7] as well as the first film in the Transformers series not to be directed by Michael Bay, who instead acted as a producer. Principal photography on the film began on July 31, 2017, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Set in 1987, Autobot Bumblebee is sent to Earth but is injured and is found and helped by a teenage girl named Charlie.

The film premiered on December 3, 2018, at the Sony Center in Berlin, and was released in the United States on December 21, by Paramount Pictures. It received positive reviews from critics, which praised its action sequences, Steinfeld's performance, Knight's direction, visuals, and the 1980s setting.[8] Despite the film being the lowest-grossing installment of the franchise at the time, it was a box office success, grossing $468 million worldwide against a production budget between $102–135 million. A sequel, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, was released on June 9, 2023.

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  2. ^ "BUMBLEBEE [Re-edited version,2D]". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Bumblebee (2018)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  4. ^ "Bumblebee". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Bumblebee". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  6. ^ Film and Television Tax Credit Program Program 2.0 (PDF) (Report). California Film Commission. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Spiegel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Campbell was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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