New Bumblebee featurette shines its headlights on Laika’s Travis Knight

Posted 8 years ago

A new featurette for the TRANSFORMERS spinoff BUMBLEBEE has placed Travis Knight, the two-time Academy Award-nominated director/animator and lead animator at Laika Studios in the driver's seat. As the behind-the-scenes and interview footage plays on, we learn about Knight's inspiration for...

Hailee Steinfeld says Bumblebee could be first of new Transformers franchise

Posted 8 years ago

The movies in the TRANSFORMERS franchise have never been critical darlings, but they do make an awful lot of money. However, the last installment, TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT, saw a significant drop in box-office revenue compared to its predecessors, perhaps...

Get your first look at Hailee Steinfeld in Transformers Bumblebee spinoff!

Posted 9 years ago

Despite the TRANSFORMERS brand no longer being a guaranteed mechanized cash cow at the box office these days, production for Paramount Pictures and Hasbro's BUMBLEBEE spinoff has recently started filming in California. Helmed by Laika Studio's visionary Travis Knight (THE BOXTROLLS, KUBO...

Jorge Lendeborg Jr. joins the cast of Transformers spinoff Bumblebee

Posted 9 years ago

Michael Bay's recently released TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT may have garnered the worst reviews of the franchise and, at least so far, hasn't brought in quite as much cash as its predecessors, but Paramount's TRANSFORMERS cinematic universe is still very...

Kubo and the Two Strings director to helm Transformers spinoff Bumblebee

Posted 9 years ago

It seems we're finally getting our first TRANSFORMERS film without Michael Bay at the helm, and Paramount Pictures have certainly made an interesting choice for the director of their upcoming TRANSFORMERS spinoff focused on Bumblebee. Deadline reports that Travis Knight,...

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Set Visit: The Boxtrolls – Part Three: Dining with the Directors

Posted 12 years ago

Click here for Part One of our visit: Welcome To Cheesebridge! Click here for Part Two of our set visit: Meet the Stop Motion Masters! Okay, here’s the thing, folks. I had just spent the past few hours touring the...

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Set Visit: The Boxtrolls – Part Two: Meet the Stop-Motion Masters

Posted 12 years ago

CLICK HERE for Part One of our visit: Welcome To Cheesebridge! My visit to the set of Laika’s latest 3D stop-motion animated feature film, THE BOXTROLLS, was unique in that much of the time spent with the film’s creators did...

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Set Visit: The Boxtrolls – Part One: Welcome to Cheesebridge

Posted 12 years ago

When the good word came down the wire that I was to visit the set of Laika’s newest stop-motion animated feature film, THE BOXTROLLS, it felt as if I had just been given a golden ticket – one that would...