Transformers

Media company Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) has another reason to celebrate with its Despicable Me franchise hitting the $5 billion milestone with the recent success of "Despicable Me 4" in movie theaters. Here's a look at the important milestone and how it stacks up to other movie franchises...

Hasbro Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) has raised $500 million of corporate debt through a sale of 10-year bonds, its first bond sale since 2019. The toy giant behind staples such as Monopoly, Beyblade and Play-Doh and film franchises Transformers and G.I. Joe issued debt with yields of 1.6% above treasury bills...

ViacomCBS’s (NASDAQ:VIAC) Paramount Pictures has teamed up with ByteDance-owned TikTok to incorporate the iconic voice of Optimus Prime into the platform’s text-to-speech functionality.  What Happened: Paramount Pictures has teamed up...

Mattel Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) is expected to report a year-over-year decline in earnings when it issues its results for the quarter ending March 2023, according to analyst expectations. By The Numbers: The toymaker is expected to post a quarterly loss of 25 cents per share on revenues of $740.74...

The gaming company that brought the successful “Pokemon Go” mobile app to life has its sights set on a professional sports league with a similar goal of getting people outside to play. What Happened: Niantic is working on a licensed game from the National Basketball Association (NBA)...

The company responsible for one of the most popular mobile games of the last decade will turn its efforts to creating a game based on the popular Transformers brand. What Happened: Niantic Labs, the company best-known for creating “Pokemon Go,” is creating “Transformers: Heavy...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) superstar John Cena did some dangerous outside-the-box promotion for his recently-announced leading role in Viacom, Inc. (NYSE: VIAB)'s “Transformers” spin-off movie “Bumblebee.” On Tuesday’s episode of "...

IMAX Corporation (USA) (NYSE: IMAX) announced over the weekend that the release of Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s "Captain America: Civil War" achieved a record-level debut in China. IMAX said the film grossed $10 million across 283 IMAX screens in China. The company added that the film is on pace to...

Over the last few days, Hollywood took a trip to Las Vegas for the annual CinemaCon event. It was there that exhibitors from all around the country came to see what movies are going to be burning up their screens through the rest of the year and beyond. This is a studio-by-studio recap of the...

Over the past few years, Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB)'s Paramount has relied very heavily on franchises to succeed at the box office. From "Mission Impossible" to "SpongeBob SquarePants," the Viacom-owned studio has had a ton of recognizable IP at its disposal. On Friday, Paramount unveiled it had...

While American moviegoers are gearing up for the release of the latest installment of the iconic “Jurassic Park” franchise, “Jurassic World,” Comcast Corp (NASDAQ: CMCSA) investors are eagerly awaiting the movie’s weekend box office numbers. This year has...

Investors are definitely intrigued by the rumor that Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and DreamWorks Animation Skg Inc (NASDAQ: DWA) will merge. As of this writing, shares of DreamWorks were up more than 11 percent. Hasbro, however, was trading down more than 4 percent. "Obviously [CEO Jeffrey...

By now, there is almost no segment of society that hasn’t at least explored the use of 3D printing technology in some way. A recent Benzinga article looked at how 3D printing was transforming the world through its impacts on the automotive industry, space exploration, food, the...

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is rumored to be interested in acquiring Xbox Entertainment Studios from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Few analysts were interested in talking to Benzinga about the rumor, which may turn out to be completely false given Microsoft's official statement on the matter....

Have you ever seen news on a company and thought, "Hmm, that company's name sounds like it could be a Transformer?" Well, the analysts at Benzinga have and went on to compile a list of 20 stocks that could be the names of Transformers. And just for fun, the 20 stocks were formed into an equal-...