Bumblebee (Warner Bros. version)

Bumblebee (stylized as BumbleBee and sometimes marketed as Transformers: Bumblebee) is a 2018 American-Chinese-Japanese science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line character of the same name produced by Legendary Pictures, RatPac Entertainment, Huahua Media, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Bay Films, Tencent Pictures, OLM Inc. and Huahua Media, and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is the sixth installment in the Transformers film series and the first installment of a reboot film sieres. The film is 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 (as the title character), Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, and Peter Cullen in voice roles. It was Knight's first live-action film, as well as the first film in the Transformers series not to be directed by Michael Bay, who instead acted as a producer and also the first film to not have Paramount Pictures involved, instead by Warner Bros. Pictures. Principal photography on the film began on July 31, 2017, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.

Bumblebee premiered on December 3, 2018 in Berlin and was released in Japan by Toho on December 14, and then in the United States on December 21 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received positive reviews, with critics praising its action sequences, Steinfeld's performance, Knight's direction, visuals, and the 1980s setting. Despite being the lowest-grossing film in the series, it was still considered a box-office success, grossing $468 million worldwide against a budget of $102-135 million. A sequel, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, is to be released on June 9, 2023.