Apparently one of the movie's sponsors wasn't happy with how their company was portrayed in the movie and also they didn't fulfill a contract obligation to premiere the movie at their building and to include scenes featuring their company in the trailers so they're pulling their sponsorship from the film and demanding any scenes using their company logo or property to be edited out of the film. Considering the film is due for release next week that would mean a serious delay in the movie's release as they re-edit the film. There's supposedly a fight scene that is meant to take place around their building which I think might also require a reshoot at a new location depending on how important that scene is to the plot. Though it's a Micheal Bay film so that's a pretty big MAYBE. They might just leave it out unless it's actually where the climax of the film was suppose to take place. This is of course just my thoughts on the issue. For the full story to see more details go here. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/chinese-company-demands-edits-to-transformers-89470539152.html
From reading the article is seems like it would affect the Chinese release, if anything comes of it. Perhaps they'd receive an edited version of the film with scenes lopped off.
IIRC, this was on the front page in the middle of the Botcon onslaught of news. But still though, I doubt that it would be postponed after it had its worldwide premier. If anything Paramount could pull a frozen and announce a special rerelease or something while cleverly editing out whoever they annoyed.
Well actually if they didn't meet the terms of their contract then the company has every right to pull their sponsorship from the film. They'd be legally required to. Unless the company decided to pull out for no reason when all the contract obligations were actually met which is not the case here, then they could demand all they want and nothing would come from it. Actually it hasn't had a worldwide premier yet. I looked up the release dates for the film and the earliest release anywhere in the world is next week. The latest being on July 4th in a few countries. Also it wouldn't be the first time a movie was pulled from theaters after it was released. Bruce Almighty when it was originally released in theaters had a different phone number in one of the scenes. A real phone number that a lot of people who saw it before the change actually tried calling. In the context of the movie it was suppose to be God's phone number, and coincidentally the real life phone number actually belonged to a Church. The movie was pulled from theaters, the scene was edited with the new 555 number (which 555 numbers are always fake) and that's the version most people actually saw in theaters and on the DVD releases. I actually saw the movie twice in the theaters, once with the original phone number. I had noticed that the number had changed between viewings but didn't find out till later why it had changed. It mad the news at the time. So yes, it is possible even after the movie is released to actually pull it from theaters and re-edit a few scenes. I doubt that they would do a reshoot of a scene in a new location. Most likely they would just remove the scene from the movie entirely or digitally change the companies logo so they can still keep the scenes in the movie. And yeah, this might only effect China, at least for now. They're only asking their government to delay the release of the movie right now, but this could potentially become a world wide problem. I really hope it doesn't because if the movie sucks I want it to suck because Micheal Bay, not because of some Chinese company that I've never even heard of before.
Doubt it would be delayed. With less then a week till release that's plenty of time to delete scenes that the hotel was featured in (doubt it was even featured prominently in the first place) And knowing Bay, he has worked down to the last minute so It could be done.
Staff Edit - 2005 Staff Well I know the article is kinda long but it sounded like a major fight scene in the movie is set to take place right at their hotel. This is why I question weather or not it's even something that can be easily changed by next week.
Is it true that the movie will only be run in China for only a week? they have a law that limits the run for American made movies
China (Chinese gov) probably leaned on the hotel company....remember how the Chinese gov bitched a fest storm about ROTF due to the "chemical Spill " sequence where they said it made china look "embarrassingly run down and backwards" due to the decepticon chase screen time where the cycle bots are smashing around trying to take out deadend. But also back to michael bay....if you sign a contract saying your going to debut the movie @ that hotel...WTF are you doing setting up a premiere @ a hotel in Hong Kong? Personally if i was Paramount and hasbro I would be taking the $$$ spent on the lawsuit and re-editting and refilming out of michael bay's salary.
The Chinese government said nothing to this extent regarding ROTF. It was a Chinese news outlet that relayed opinions expressed by some Chinese viewers, including rebuttals by the news outlet itself. That's it. Had that been the official position of the Chinese government, there wouldn't have been any counter-arguments presented in the same news story that reported on the complaints in the first place.
A Chinese Company Sued Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction... But What Happened Next Was More Than Met the Eye This guy rocks...I thought i would die laughing....
Michael Bay sticks to his deadlines thats for sure. If they have to edit the film it will probably only affect the Chinese version of Age of Extinction. The Worldwide release will probably remain unchanged since it does not have to meet the movie standards of the Chinese government and have less Chinese-dominant scenes.
