Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction
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Directed byMichael Bay
Written byEhren Kruger
Based onHasbro's Transformers action figures
Produced by
  • Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Tom DeSanto
  • Don Murphy
  • Ian Bryce
Starring
CinematographyAmir Mokri
Edited by
  • William Goldenberg
  • Roger Barton
  • Paul Rubell
Music bySteve Jablonsky
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • June 19, 2014 (2014-06-19) (Hong Kong)
  • June 27, 2014 (2014-06-27) (United States)
Running time
165 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • China
LanguageEnglish
Budget$210 million
Box office$1.105 billion

Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action movie based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and the fourth installment in the Transformers movie series. Like its predecessor, the movie was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci, with Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T.J. Miller in supporting roles. It does not feature the original human cast from the previous three films, instead introducing a new human cast as well as new Transformers, including the Dinobots. In the movie, inventor Cade Yeager teams up with Optimus Prime and the surviving Autobots to investigate a manhunt involving Transformers for their hostility.

The movie was released in the United States on June 27, 2014, by Paramount Pictures. It received negative reviews from critics, criticizing its pacing, runtime, direction, plot, and dialogue. The movie was a box office success, grossing $1.105 billion worldwide against a $210 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the only film in 2014 to gross over $1 billion, and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release. It was followed by a sequel, Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017.

Plot

Four years after an invasion that tore Chicago apart, a mechanic and his daughter discover Optimus Prime, which brings down all the Autobots, Decepticons, and a paranoid government agency upon them.

Cast

Humans

Antagonists

Transformers

Autobots

Decepticons

Production

Filming

Michael Bay filming Transformers: Age of Extinction; actresses Abigail Klein, Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer are walking in a corridor.

Bay said that filming had begun on May 28, 2013, in Monument Valley, Utah. Detroit, was used for scenes in Hong Kong. McCormick Place in Chicago, was used for a city in China. The movie was the first movie to be shot using smaller digital IMAX 3D cameras. From May 28 to June 24, 2013, Michael Bay uploaded pictures of several cars used in the movie. He uploaded them to social networks including Facebook and Flickr.

On October 29, Michael Bay's Twitter account tweeted that main photography of Transformers 4 had ended in Hong Kong The cast and crew went to the main land for another week of filming Additional filming in Detroit began in early 2014.

Music

Ehren Kruger wrote the script and Steve Jablonsky wrote the music the movie.

Notes

References

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