Tencent Pictures and Paramount co-produced "Bumblebee" and will continue to cooperate in the future

Recently, Tencent Pictures officially announced that it will work with Paramount Pictures to co-produce the movie "Bumblebee". The film will be released in China on January 4, 2019, and in North America on December 21 this year. This is the first cooperation between Tencent Pictures and Paramount, and they will continue to cooperate in the sequel to "Top Gun" and other works in the future.

The movie "Bumblebee" was imported by China Film Group Corporation and distributed by China Film and Huaxia Film Group. Tencent Pictures participated in the global investment and joint marketing of the film in China, and assisted in market promotion. As the first derivative action science fiction movie in the "Transformers" series, "Bumblebee" will continue the worldview of the previous work while also opening a new chapter.

The first derivative movie of the "Transformers" series IP, the first generation of "Bumblebee" appears cool and cute with a heavy responsibility

Tencent Pictures has been committed to international exploration since its inception, and Bumblebee, as a blockbuster IP at the end of 2018, will also become an important part of Tencent Pictures' overseas cooperation layout. As one of the most watched and influential IPs in the world, the Transformers series has grossed over 4.3 billion US dollars at the global box office for its five films. Now the most popular character Bumblebee has made his solo debut, which has attracted strong attention from fans around the world.

Bumblebee is directed by Travis Knight, who was nominated for an Oscar for the animated film Kubo and the Two Strings, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg. It stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. The new cast will bring the audience a new growth story of Bumblebee. The film's story takes the background back to where the adventure began - in 1987, Charlie (played by Hailee Steinfeld), an 18-year-old girl in adolescence, found the scarred Bumblebee in a wasteland in a seaside town in California. What kind of story will happen between them? Let's wait and see!

In the trailer, fans discovered the appearance of Optimus Prime. How the inexperienced Bumblebee will fight against the Decepticon camp under the guidance of Optimus Prime is undoubtedly a big suspense of the film. As for the detailed plot development, let's see how the director reveals it to us when the film is released.

Tencent Pictures joins hands with Hollywood giant Paramount to launch the most powerful Hollywood movie IP of the year

As one of the six major Hollywood film companies, Paramount has a very glorious film history in addition to the IP of "Transformers", and has produced many classic films that are both popular and well-received, such as "The Godfather", "Forrest Gump", "Indiana Jones", "Top Gun", "Titanic", etc. "A Quiet Place" in April this year broke the record and set the highest box office of original horror movies in history, with a global box office of more than 340 million US dollars; "Mission: Impossible 6: Fallout" in the "Mission: Impossible" series has become the highest-grossing series of films in the world so far, with a global box office of more than 791 million US dollars, and also with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%, it has become the highest score in the series. This time, Tencent Pictures cooperates with it and will participate in the investment and joint marketing of the sequel of "Top Gun" in the summer of 2020. What kind of sparks will be created is also very exciting.

Regarding the cooperation with Tencent Pictures, Jim Gianopulos, Chairman and CEO of Paramount, said: "We are very pleased to reach this cooperation and bring Bumblebee's origin story to the Chinese market where Transformers is popular. Tencent Pictures has participated in many excellent overseas projects, proving its professional and rich experience in marketing in China. We sincerely look forward to working with Tencent Pictures to create this heartwarming movie. Considering the enthusiasm of Chinese audiences for the original "Top Gun", we are also looking forward to the subsequent cooperation on the "Top Gun" sequel."

Some of the international film projects in which Tencent Pictures has participated

In the past three years, Tencent Pictures has teamed up with Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Lionsgate, Sony Columbia Pictures, and Marvel Studios to collaborate on projects such as "Warcraft", "Kong: Skull Island", "Wonder Woman", "La La Land", "Ready Player One", and "Venom: Let There Be Carnage". Among them, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" continues to be a hit, and its box office in mainland China has exceeded 1.8 billion yuan, helping the film to break the 800 million US dollar mark worldwide and rise to fifth place in the 2018 global box office revenue list.

Bumblebee is another overseas collaboration of Tencent Pictures after Venom. This time, Tencent Pictures has joined hands with Paramount, a Hollywood film company with strong IP and experience, to jointly create the first spin-off of the Transformers series. Cheng Wu, Vice President of Tencent Group and CEO of Tencent Pictures, said: "First of all, I am very happy to cooperate with Paramount to add new vitality to this IP that is loved by fans all over the world. "International Exploration" is one of the six major cultural product lines of Tencent Pictures. We hope to connect high-quality partners around the world through a focused and vertical layout, and tell good stories through film and television. The choice of Bumblebee is also based on this. In addition to participating in global investment, Tencent Pictures will also participate in it as a joint marketing and market promotion. We will give full play to the professional capabilities of various departments, mobilize resources across the platform, and work side by side with Paramount to help the film be loved by audiences around the world."