Hasbro Cinematic Universe (My Version)/Transformers (2007 film)

Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's toy line of the same name. It is the first installment in the Transformers film series as well as the first film in the Hasbro Cinematic Universe (HCU). The film is directed by Michael Bay with a screenplay by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman from a story by John Rogers, Orci and Kurtzman, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Ian Bryce, Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Anthony Anderson, Rachael Taylor, with John Turturro, and Jon Voight. The film combines live-action scenes with computer-generated imagery characters by Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain.

The film centers around a teenager boy named Sam Witwicky, who buys a Camaro for his first car

Transformers premiered on June 27, 2007 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and opened on July 3, 2007 in the United States and on July 27, 2007 in the United Kingdom. Distributed by Paramount Pictures in North America and Universal Pictures in international markets, the film received generally positive reviews from critics, praising it for its performances, script, direction, visual effects and musical score. It became a critical and commercial success, grossing $709.7 million over a $147 million budget, making it the highest-grossing film of the year. Its success spawned six successful sequels, six successful prequels, a spin-off, and seven successful crossover films with G.I. Joe and Battleship. Michael Bay directed the first three films: Transformers (2007), Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and Dark of the Moon (2011) while Peter Berg directed the other four: Rise of the Dark Spark (2014), The New Knights (2017), Wrath of Unicron (2020), and Fall of Cybertron (2023).