The live-action "Transformers" franchise has had a rough couple of years. At first, after director Michael Bay's first entry exploded onto the scene in 2007, it spawned blockbuster after blockbuster. The first three sequels each grossed over $1 billion at the box office, but after that, audiences' appetite for Autobot action took a nosedive. The death knell came with Bay's 2023 "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts," a $200 million venture that remains the live-action franchise's lowest-grossing movie to date at $441 million. For context, that's around $25 million less than the "Bumblebee" spin-off.

"Rise of the Beasts" was such a box office flop that Paramount Pictures all but shelved the live-action "Transformers" series (though over the summer, Bay announced he's finally returning for an e

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