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US release: 9th January 2026The next movie in the long running Transformers series, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate action violence, threat, language
The movie stars comedian, and most worked star of the moment Pete Davidson who has previously been in Set It Up and What Men Want, it also stars Michelle Yeoh who has starred in Butterfly and Sword and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor among many other movies.
The director of the movie this time around is Steven Caple Jr. who has previously directed Class~2015 a TV movie from 2015 and The Land he also directed Creed II.
Movie Synopsis
In the year 1994, a pair of archaeologists from Brooklyn come into an ancient conflict through a globe-trotting adventure with the Autobots that ties in with three factions of the Transformers race: the Maximals, the Predacons and the Terrorcons.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
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Movie breakdown
Synopsis for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
In the year 1994, a pair of archaeologists from Brooklyn come into an ancient conflict through a globe-trotting adventure with the Autobots that ties in with three factions of the Transformers race: the Maximals, the Predacons and the Terrorcons.
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The Batman makes it 4 weeks at the top of the UK box office with no major new releases in cinemas over the weekend while Indian movie RRR is the top new movie of the weekend at number 2. Ambulance also makes its debut inside the top 5 while Oscar contender The Worst Person In the World is new at number 7 with £193,493 and the event movie Don Carlos: Met Opera 2022 is new at 12 with £72,610.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 25th - 27th March 2022
Fourth weekend at the summit for the latest incarnation of the caped crusader as the movie takes £1.6 Million over the weekend, an acceptable 50% drop over last weekend.
The total gross of the film in the Uk now sits at £35.6 Million, it is the top movie of 2022 to date.
It will most likely be toppled from the top next weekend with 2 strong contenders hitting cinemas but this run for a DC superhero movie has been good and a sequel is already being planned.
Indian language movie have always done well in the UK and this new period movie from director S.S. Rajamouli is the top new movie of the weekend entering at number 2.
Taking £650,204 on its debut it has beat out a number of higher profiles movie, the distributer wisely chose to release the movie on a quiet weekend between Hollywood blockbusters.
Director Micheal Bay leaves The Transformers behind and brings to the cinema this hard hitting action drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
The movie makes its debut at number 3 this weekend with a debut gross of £521,049.
Falling to number 4 on its 7th weekend of release is the Tom Holland starring movie co-starring Mark Wahlberg which takes £349,456, a 42% drop over last week.
The movie is the 4th top movie of 2022 sto date.
Critically panned the Catherine Tate starring movie drops to number 5 this weekend with a gross of £289,730, a 52% drop, giving it a £1.1 Million total.
The British Board Of Film Certification has released its 2019 annual report which among other many other things talks about the movies which has the most complaints about their certificates.
Here is the top 5 films which got the most complains, its interesting to see that in the UK most complaints are based around violence in movies.
The Todd Phillips directed critically praised movie starring Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role which also won him the best actor Oscar got 20 complaints.
The movie was given a 15 certificate and according to the BBFC most of the commnets were for the violence and tone, with a small number of people asking for the movie to be banned outright.
Another critical darling and Oscar winning movie most notably for Olivia Colman in the lead role and was given a 15 age rating.
The movie got 12 complaints mainly for the strong language and sex references and acts, although as the BBFC notes most of this is done in a comic association.
Given a 15 certificate the Keanu Reeves movie is a full on tour de force and the 9 complains were about the level of the blood violence.
Interesting the BBFC notes 'Our research shows that violence that is perceived to be 'real' registers more strongly with viewers than violence that is clearly stylised or fantastical.'
Robert Rodriguez directed this critically acclaimed comic book adaptation which was given a 12A age rating on release, the movie got 5 complaints for its strong language and violence.
The British made movie which starred Dwayne Johnsson and was directed by Stephen Merchant for 5 complaints about the movies language and sex references.
Interesting notes
Of interest is the Transformers spin off movie Bumblebee which was submitted to the BBFC in 2 different edits, one was passed 12A and the other PG, only the PG version was shown in cinemas and the film still got 4 complaints about the violence although its purely fantastical robots that are creating the violence and no humans are ever involved.
The report is a fascinating read and can be downloaded here.
All change again at the top of the global box office with M. Night Shyamalan new film Glass taking over from Aquaman, there were no other new film on the top 10.
M. Night Shyamalan brings his blend of mystery and story twists to his latest film which this week takes over at the top of the global box office.
The film which stars Samual L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and James McAvoy takes $90 million from 56 counties on its debut weekend.
Still doing well on a global level is the Transformers movie which this week is at 2 and takes $25 million from 65 countries to bring its total global gross to $412.3 million.
Falling from the top spot this week after celebrating the $1 billion goal the DC movie takes $24.6 million from 80 countries which boosts its total to an amazing $1.06 billion.
After an impressive debut last week the Kevin Hart comedy/Drama is at 4 this week taking $17.7 million from 44 countries which boosts its total global gross to $48 million.
Finishing off the top 5 this week is the horror film Escape room which is still showing in 17 countries and take $14.7 million for a $53 total gross.