That statement had more roundabout meaningless industry jargon than a Dilbert comic.

A visual representation of what I mean:

Basically, he said absolutely nothing and Paramount still looks like it's clutching for anything that will work at this point.

 

The statement seems pretty clear though? He is just saying " I think Brian understands both traditional theater shit and digital streaming shit and how to leverage both in the current industry", just with more words to sound smarter as usual.

 

Paramount will be sold to Comcast within the next two years. I don’t see this as a bad thing because Universal already has a relationship with Hasbro and the Transformers franchise via their theme parks and they can’t be any worse than Paramount which produced some of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in recent years. It should also finally separate the franchise from Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

 

And what does that even mean? Suffice to say neither of those are the actual problem given the real problem is that Paramount has just been crapping out shitty films I.E. Snake Eyes.

 

It means that the company who wants to break into streaming without dropping theater experiences thinks that the guy they chose has a good knowledge of streaming and theater experiences. You are overthinking this massively. What makes you think that Paramount would be talking about long-term detailed plans of content production on a generic "congrats to the new guy'' fluff piece?

 

To show confidence in the company? They literally just lost the guy originally brought on to fix things after 2017 piledrived the company into the ground, and that was only 4 years ago. Since then, there's been a pandemic and the entire industry has been crippled.

Granted, the best way to do THAT isn't so much words as it would be kicking Lorenzo's sorry ass out for good.

 

They "lost" the original guy and now have a new guy and so naturally they are talking in media about the fact that they believe the man has the skillset to be able to make the right choices in relation to both the old and new ventures. I genuinely do not know what else you think you want. You are, again, taking too seriously and overthinking a side comment made during a media event whose purpose was to talk about the company's investments in the streaming form-faction, things already set in stone that the new CEO likely hasn't had much of a hand in yet, any serious look at the production pipeline for actual movies and shows and the new CEO's plans for those will be revealed properly in a real media event dedicated to that subject.

 

So what does this mean for movies after ROTB ? Will the current timeline continue or is it gonna be rebooted again after the film rights are acquired by one of the other movie studios ?

 

Prob a transfer of the movie rights if ROTB is a dud at the box office with maybe a real hard reboot of the film franchise.

 

In other words, everyone should make sure to boycott ROTB and spread as much bad ill about it online as possible so we can finally escape the grasp of Paramount. Maybe.

 

I stopped watching Transformers movies in theaters after Age of Extinction. If I do watch ROTB, it'll probably be when it shows up on Amazon Prime long after everyone has stopped caring about what it made at the box office.

 

Oh yes, I have no say on the matter either, I'll pirate it like I pirated the last two films. I have a easier time swallowing bad stuff if it's free.
Assuming it ends up bad of course. If it's good... well, I'll pirate it anyway, it's their fault for making me pay for DOTM and ROTF.

 

Damn dude, you're still tripping out over the 20-30 bucks you spent like 12 years ago?

 

It's less about the money and more about the boredom-induced headache that the films gave me, honestly.

 

I feel like Transformers is safe if only because of its budget. $200M+ budgeted features need to hit a certain profit margin, which is why Disney made certain movies like Black Widow Premium Access or not on D+ at all (like Shang Chi), and put some Pixar movies directly on D+ without charging extra.

Similarly Warner Bros. did release their 2021 movies on HBO Max, but that's a $15 a month service, about twice the amount of D+.

I don't see Paramount putting a new Transformers movie on streaming services at release unless there's a catch or surcharge.

 

You'd rather the movie flop and cost people their jobs instead of simply wishing the movie is good? It's weird (and slightly creepy) to me that "sticking it to Bay/Paramount/Lorenzo" is more important to a lot of people than getting a good film, and people's livelihoods. I'm all for skipping the movie if it's bad, but in the meantime I'd prefer to cheer it on and hope they put together a fun movie that ends up being profitable, and leading to more good movies.

 

So, you're saying that if people don't convince themselves to be ok with Lorenzo's approach to Transformers and cheer for any upcoming movie, that equates to wanting or being responsible for people losing their jobs? Don't wan't to say shill, but that's the most blatantly shilling comment I've ever read in my life, mate.

 

Do you do realize that the director is the creative lead of the film?The movie is in his vision and the paramount and hasbro approved the script.People got to stop worrying about him because I doubt anyone listens to what he says.There are like 10 other producers on the movie.Did Steven spielberg makes the movies better in any way?

 

That's diluting the point, but ok. You do realise that these are producer driven movies, right? The director might have some leg room, but at the end of the day, he's a hired gun and the scripts derive from corporate mandates and market research before he even sets foot. Lorenzo is at the very least, the frontman for the producing team. At the very least, he shares responsibility for how Transformers is approached on film. He seems to be staying around and the approach seems like it remains more or less the same. And people don't like that. People want meaningful and decisive change, that this team of producers (or Lorenzo) don't seem to be willing to commit to. It's not so hard to understand.