Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Delayed til 2023. Starring Anthony Ramos (In the Heights) and directed by Steven Caple Jr., is one of the most anticipated action films to be released by Paramount Pictures in 2021 (despite the ongoing pandemic) (Creed II). The film was supposed to be released next summer on June 23, 2022, but Paramount Pictures has now pushed it back a full year to June 9, 2023. At the same time, Paramount has pushed back the next Star Trek film, which had been scheduled for that date, by six months to December 22, 2023. As this piece points out, the timing of this second move is very strange because it comes very soon after Disney postponed Patty Jenkins’ Star Wars film, Rogue Squadron, which was scheduled for that same December 23, 2023 release date.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the next Star Trek, including the cast and premise, aside from the fact that it’ll be directed by Matt Shakman (Marvel’s WandaVision) from a screenplay by Lindsey Beer (co-writer of the next Pet Sematary) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (co-writer of Tomb Raider, and Captain Marvel).