Bumblebee (film)

Bumblebee
Bumblebee
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Travis Knight
Written by	Christina Hodson
Based on	Hasbro's Transformers action figures
Produced by	Lorenzo di Bonaventura; Tom DeSanto; Don Murphy; Michael Bay; Mark Vahradian;
Starring	Hailee Steinfeld; John Cena; Jorge Lendeborg Jr.; John Ortiz; Jason Drucker; Pamela Adlon;
Cinematography	Enrique Chediak
Edited by	Paul Rubell
Music by	Dario Marianelli
Production; companies	Allspark Pictures; Di Bonaventura Pictures; Bay Films; Tencent Pictures;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 3, 2018 (Sony Center); December 21, 2018 (United States);
Running time	114 minutes
Countries	China; United States;
Language	English
Budget	$102–135 million
Box office	$468 million

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. 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, Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, and Peter Cullen in voice roles. Set in the 1980s, Autobot Bumblebee (O'Brien), is sent to Earth and becomes friends with a teenage girl, Charlie (Steinfeld).

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.^[7] 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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^ ^a ^b "Bumblebee (2018)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
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[1] "BUMBLEBEE (2018)". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on May 20, 2019. Retrieved December 15, 2018.

[2] "BUMBLEBEE [Re-edited version,2D]". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2019.

[bfi-3] "Bumblebee (2018)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022.

[NUM-4] "Bumblebee". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[BOM-5] "Bumblebee". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[cagov-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.

[Campbell-7] Cite error: The named reference Campbell was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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Bumblebee (film)

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