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The original “Transformers” gang is getting back together. Michael Bay is in talks to return to the “Transformers” franchise and direct the next installment at Paramount, while Steven Spielberg is returning as executive producer and will oversee the creative direction of the IP, alongside longtime producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Paramount said Tuesday. Bay last directed 2017’s “Transformers: The Last Knight” in the franchise. Paramount Pictures Co-Chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg met with Spielberg as one of their first meetings at the studio following Skydance’s merger with Paramount in August of 2025. Now “Transformers 8” is one of the first…

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Skydance Corporation CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz celebrated the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger closing on Tuesday with a staff memo that lays out what’s next for the combined company. “Bringing Paramount and WBD together fulfills a vision that began with Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount: to build the next-generation media and entertainment company, powered by creativity and technology. The goal was never simply to add more production capacity, brands or IP. It was to unite the talent, resources and capabilities of these companies into a stronger competitor, one with the scale to take on the biggest players in our…

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