BUMBLEBEE | 21 DECEMBER 2018 | The end of the Bayformers Universe

[AniNate]

I'm kind of hoping this turns out good now. If the future really is a bunch more Hasbro toy movies, I at least want them to keep having incentive to hire talented filmmakers to direct them.

[AJG]

I had no idea the directors dad literally owns Nike... How random. 

[AniNate]

29 minutes ago, AJG said:

I had no idea the directors dad literally owns Nike... How random. 

 

Nike money is probably the big reason Laika's been able to keep running past The Boxtrolls. Though with how hard Kubo bombed I suspect dad's cut back on his allowance, hence this movie.

 

 

Edited December 24, 2017 by tribefan695

[Heat Vision]

Couldn't they move this to December 7th, 2018? No films at all for that date. 

[The Futurist]

Here s Little Travis, you re 18 now, you re a man, go conquer the world.

Here s 1B$ my son.

 

[AJG]

50 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

Here s Little Travis, you re 18 now, you re a man, go conquer the world.

Here s 1B$ my son.

 

 

"A small loan of one billion dollars"

[Noodlebug]

The small budget has me concerned a bit. It's a small scale film compared to Bayformers, but still. CGI for these isn't cheap in the slightest. I'm cautiously optimistic.

[Jandrew]

8 hours ago, AJG said:

I had no idea the directors dad literally owns Nike... How random. 

Yes, Phil Knight. He founded Nike. I have his book called Shoe Dog. Good stuff. He talks about Travis.

[filmlover]

6 hours ago, Heat Vision said:

Couldn't they move this to December 7th, 2018? No films at all for that date. 

Unlikely. They'll stick with Christmas because that guarantees theaters will keep it.

[JonathanLB]

Here in Oregon we call him "Uncle Phil," because he funds the U of O football program and is a reason for the school becoming a national powerhouse. Nike is a big part of the community in Oregon. 

 

Among other random fun facts, I went to school with Mark Parker's daughters, one of whom was in my class, and I had been to Mark's house a number of times. He even had a really cool film memorabilia collection. My sister was in the same class as the younger sister, so they'd hang out a fair amount. Mark Parker is CEO of Nike. At the time, he was higher up in the company but he wasn't CEO yet. I think he still lives in the same house, from what I heard, and I see his younger daughter at Blazers games courtside fairly often. I've never met Phil Knight, though.

 

And my girlfriend's uncle worked his entire career in animation at Will Vinton Studios, in the advertising department doing the M&M commercials and a bunch of other stuff, until they split off from Laika because Laika didn't want to handle commercial work anymore after their feature film success. By contrast, my GF's uncle didn't want to do features because I guess there's more uncertainty with your job status than steady commercial work. I personally didn't think Laika movies were doing well enough to justify such a gungho attitude; I thought commercial work helps pay the bills for companies like ILM, at least... it did in the past. I don't know how ILM's economics work now under Disney, but I remember reading in the past commercial work was the most lucrative and high profit, whereas the feature film work was much larger in scale but smaller margins.

[AniNate]

TK's commitment to art for art's sake with Laika has been pretty admirable. I guess he finally had to give in to "commercial work" here.

[MovieMan89]

I'd be more confident in Knight if this didn't have a screenplay written by the woman who only has Shut In and Unforgettable to her name. 

[That One Girl]

18 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

I'd be more confident in Knight if this didn't have a screenplay written by the woman who only has Shut In and Unforgettable to her name. 

 

Unforgettable is glorious

[The Futurist]

Merry Christmas Hailee fans :

 

 

 

 

[MrGamer]

Paramount reacting to today's news of Deadpool 2 moving. 

 

Edited January 11, 2018 by MrGamer

[Chewy]

Bumblebee moving to Feb 2022

[Eric Prime]

 

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, CoolEric258 said:

 

Thank you Jesus.

[Avatree]

kind of a given.

[SLAM!]

I feel bad for Paramount; they're trapped in an ideology that half of their slate should be filled by these atrocious Hasbro tie-in films...

 

But I am very happy Bayformers is done. Very happy.