We have entered Day-2 at CinemaCon 2018 and Paramount Pictures has already generated a lot of positive buzz even before their official presentation tomorrow.
Over the last couple of months, we heard only from Hasbro regarding their new 5-Year Agreement with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon (both owned by Viacom). Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos saw CinemaCon as a good opportunity to finally break the ice. Speaking to LA Times, Mr. Gianopulos stated the following:
In May, [Jim Gianopulos] flew to the Pawtucket, R.I., offices of Hasbro, the toy and game company behind such Paramount franchises as “Transformers” and “G.I. Joe.” Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner wanted to accelerate his company’s growth in the film business and have a greater creative voice in the films based on its toy and game properties.
The companies quickly struck an exclusive five-year production and financing deal. Projects include a G.I. Joe reboot, as well as movies based on more obscure Hasbro properties such as M.A.S.K. and Micronauts. Goldner said he expects Hasbro to make two live-action movies and one animated film a year with Paramount.
LA Times did not forget to grab a quote from Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner as well:
“Literally, he’s a database of what works and what doesn’t work in movies,” Goldner said. “Jim exudes a level of optimism and an understanding of the business, and a positive attitude that’s very infectious.”
With the above quotes, we now have a better understanding of the new Hasbro-Paramount Agreement which followed the disagreement between China’s HuaHua Media and Paramount. Thanks to all the revealed info we have so far, staff members at TFW2005 mapped out the roadmap. You can check it out, after the jump. Let us in on your thoughts on the thread associated with this news post.
Possible Hasbro-Paramount Movie Schedule is as follows…
2018:
- Transformers: Bumblebee (December 21st, 2018)
2019*:
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Live Action Movie (TBD)
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Live Action Movie (TBD)
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Animation (TBD)
2020:
- G. I. Joe (March 27th, 2020)
- Micronauts (October 16th, 2020)
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Animation (TBD)
2021:
- Dungeons and Dragons (July 23rd, 2021)
- Paramount/Hasbro Event Film (October 1st, 2021)
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Animation (TBD)
2022:
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Live Action Movie (TBD)
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Live Action Movie (TBD)
- Untitled Hasbro-Paramount Animation (TBD)
Empty slots to be allocated from the above schedule:
- M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand (Live Action – TBD)
- Visionaries (Live Action – TBD)
- Action-man (Live Action – TBD)
- ROM: The Space Knight (Live Action – TBD)
[*] Note: Sequel to Transformers: The Last Knight which was originally scheduled to be released on June 28, 2019 still remains un-allocated from the official listings.
Darth Gonzo
G.I. Joe has tapped a writer for the movie.
Evan Spiliotopoulos Tapped to Write 'GI Joe' for Paramount
electronic456
I'm still fairly certain that they did have a fanbase they had to please.
I mean look at how some people reacted when Jon Voight turned out to be a bad guy in the first film.
Ash from Carolina
I think I keep forgetting about them because they fall somewhere in the middle for me. I certainly can't call them bad but at the same time I can't call it a series I love. It's like I remember the crazy new stunt they pull off each film but the story details often escape my memory. (Not sure how much I'd bank on my memory these days)
UltraAlanMagnus
You & Sevenlima should be buddies.
Temenos
Sadly, that will come to end sooner or later and it will be ''Mission: Impossible'' to find someone with as much star power as Tom Cruise if they go down a spin-off/reboot route.
electronic456
I don't know why but you seem to forget their Mission Impossible franchise as if they don't matter. It's running longer than the Transformers franchise.
Autobot Burnout
I think a big part of it is that the people who are making the most important decisions are the most out of tune with understanding why these franchises can work.
Deadpool as being an R-rated, 4th-wall breaking action-comedy where the biggest draw is that the main character is an unappolegtic asshole to literally everybody (including the audience) except his girlfriend and sometimes his best friend was denied by that one moron at Fox for years. I honestly don't remember his name but he's largely the reason why Fox's initial efforts at any superhero films aside from Xmen proper were such garbage. But the exact second he left Fox, the studio immediately greenlighted the new Deadpool and all of a sudden the thing that guy had been hell bent on preventing from ever happening suddenly is setting records thought unheard of for R-rated films. X-men First Class was a success because it cut all the needless fat as well as revisited the original X-men at the start of that franchise and then Fox made an entire sequel where the entire plot is essentially STOP X-MEN 3 THE LAST STAND FROM EVER HAPPENING. And of course now Disney has all of Fox's Marvel rights so they'll eventually just roll those back under Marvel proper.
Paramount's problem is, in a way, very similar to what led to the downfall of Dreamwave Comics back in the mid-2000s (ignoring how Pat Lee is a scum sucking piece of shit who still owes people money and is hiding in China). Dreamwave's twilight years were spent desperately trying to push its licensed franchise comics like Megaman and Transformers, instead of trying to push its own original stuff which from what I recall hearing could have had potential. Sure, Paramount has had the smaller films be minor successes, but where they're coming up short is management trying to get big budget movies to be profitable on name brand alone and they just don't seem to comprehend that isn't working. Ironically, Bumblebee was nearly canceled and the aparent lack of belief on Paramount's part that the film is going to do well (not entirely unfounded given how much of a bad taste TLK left in even the most diehard fan's mouth) has left Knight with a considerable amount of control, and as a result what little we know so far is that he's repeatedly declared himself a lifelong fan of the franchise and the feedback on the preview clips having gems like "what little was shown of Bumblebee was a better film than all of the previous Transformers films combined". Personally, I think it's too little, too late to save the movieverse even if Bumblebee does well, but a positive reception all the same might actually improve whatever the successor movie franchise will entail. And hopefully they fire that fucker Lorenzo DiBonaventura because he sounds like he's been a right asshole about the franchise since day 1.
Ash from Carolina
At least Fox is both hit and miss. Yea it's the studio that somehow thought the Thing with no pants was a brilliant idea for a Fantastic Four so dark and gloomy Batman had to call and say lighten up a bit guys. Sure it's the studio behind the worst X-Men movies you could possibly make. But Fox is also the studio that came out with some really damn good X-Men film and it's a fan boy favorite these days for the costume, the wit, and level of fan love that went into Deadpool.
Paramount though, outside of some mid to low budget gems that people weren't really expecting has been a studio that you could burn down and say nothing of no real artistic value was lost. GI Joe movies so bad even GI Joe fans were maybe it's best if the brand just died. Going out into space is cool in Hollywood again but even with the big anniversary of Star Trek it had people going no thanks I'll get my space adventure fix somewhere else. The studio so window licking stupid that someone thought Megan Fox was a fit to play April O'Neil. It seems like everything the Rock touches can draw a crowd except when he makes a movie for Paramount. Domestically we watched Transformers films after Revenge of the Fallen take a box office tumble because more of the same and soft reboots weren't putting butts back in theater seats.
Looking at what studios are dominating the box office and where Paramount is at it is a pretty big climb out of the hole if they want to do more than just cross their fingers that once in a while something like A Quite Place will come along to make up a bit for them being the same studio that made Cloverfield Paradox which was so bad they had to sell it to Netflix or the studio that said hey let's make Sherlock Gnomes. Out of the major studios Paramount is the studio that has been wearing the loser crown more than any other studio.
Temenos
Is this the best you can come up with?
I'm not a part of any cult, thanks for presuming though.
TFfanatic88
I don't care. Paramount ruined Transformers, just like they ruined GI Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Star Trek. They deserve to go bankrupt for how evil and creatively bankrupt they are.
TFfanatic88
The Cult of Bay, ladies and gentlemen. They wouldn't know a good action movie if one came up and smacked them in the face. Christ, even Dragonball Evolution was a work of art compared to Bayformers, at least it was hilariously bad and it was more faithful to it's source material.
electronic456
All for one franchise….
That is pretty pitiful…..
In that case, Fox should die because of what they did with Fantastic Four. WB for all the DC properties. Disney for Star Wars and remaking animated classics.
"Calm down, calm down."
I'm inclined to say that even Francis Ford Coppolla can make a movie that isn't that great.
I remember not feeling anything after seeing his Dracula movie.
Yes, I'm also going to say Stanley Kubrick has movies that I did not like such as Lolita.
Projecting this thought bugles my mind.
Ignoring the idea that maybe further down the line there were very much plenty of gems and trash that have happened after the 80s.
It's going to be a long list of things.
Temenos
Good one, but go ahead and keep posting those quippy video responses and that constructive criticism that you've graced us with… oh wait.
The word troll certainly hasn't lost it's meaning.
TFfanatic88
At this point, "hyperbole" has lost it's meaning, it's become a buzzword for Bay cucks to throw at the detactors for laying truth bombs about why the films are unwatchable garbage.
Temenos
Lol ''soul''.
It was a half decent cartoon in the 80s and acted as one giant toy ad for Hasbro. Talk about hyperbole.
transf0
The only successful cinematic universe I've seen other than the MCU is The Conjuring universe. Each film in that series has some of the best budget:gross ratio. TF films, by nature, require huge budgets; if they're wanting to make a universe it better be really good.
transf0
The irony, it burns! Literally the same exact thing can be said for G1. In fact, critical consensus of TF07 is considerably higher than TF:TM. The movie industry didn't get worse. Your rose-tinted glasses just got thicker.
Darth Gonzo
Yeah ThatHashTag show reported on an old script, because the Rock has said he's to busy and won't free for a new G.I. Joe until 2021, as well as Hasbro and Paramount saying that the next G.I. Joe is a full reboot for the last few months now.
Ash from Carolina
With the news that Paramount is attempting to get the Rock to play Roadblock again it makes you wonder if the studio isn't already backtracking on rebooting. A cinematic universe is hard enough to build even if you have everything mapped out well in advance but if it's a pile of soft reboots that they are working with it just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
The films under the new leadership are still so far off that it's hard to know if they can crack the code to make popular films.
pilot00
Hey wait a second! You want to tell me, that all those posts in the media about how well everything went into the meeting were nothing but half truths and when we told so back then, we were all lynched? I call sorcery!