Dominique Fishback plays archaeological researcher Elena Wallace who is quite literally shut out of elite institutions despite her expertise in the field and has her ideas flagrantly stolen by her boss. She will never be offered a seat at the table so learns to work around the system.

Likewise, co-star Anthony Ramos (pictured above with Autobot newcomer Mirage) plays Noah, a man who has served his country in the armed forces and is unable to secure a stable job to pay for his kid brother’s health care. When offered a chance by his friend Reek (actor and award-winning rapper Tobe Nwigwe) to make the cash to save his brother’s life he takes it.

The ‘American Dream’ is not working for any of them so each character finds a workaround. When faced with obstacles in their real lives, both Ramos and Nwigwe, have, as Wu-Tang Clan would put it, had to learn to get over the heartaches and the pain to get the dollar, dollar bill y’all. Nwigwe says Friday is his ultimate 90s ‘American Dream’ movie while Ramos is a fan of the Rocky films.

We meet at the end of a long day of interviews; our is the last interview of the day and the two actors let out a whoop of relief as we enter the door. They’re in good spirits as we ponder on what the best album cover of the 1990s is and their back and forth is both hilarious and sweetly supportive…

Tobe Nwigwe: I would say Illmatic or Doggystyle.

Anthony Ramos: Hmm when did The Blueprint come out?

TN: Early 2000s

AR: Damn!

TN: I got you! Regulate by Warren G? You ain’t interested haha!

AR: When did The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill come out? That one? I also love Big L.

TN: That’s 90s for sure!

With Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts having major themes on the ‘American Dream’, we had to ask Nwigwe and Ramos how they have overcome obstacles in their own lives and careers to reach their goals: “I’ve done some gigs for $200 a week,” says Ramos. “It’s crazy, it’s wild. I’ve done shows where the producer didn’t pay me for three weeks. I was supposed to take a job at a clothing store and I didn’t because I was doing this show and I was like, nah, I need to pay my rent.

“I was working in a bakery at the same time. I grew up in the projects, my mum was making $30,000 a year with three kids and two bedrooms. It was crazy and that was in Bushwick pre-gentrification. It was a lot. Single parent and all that you know. But here we are to tell the tale.”

For Nwigwe, he says he “had to build a company from having absolutely no knowledge of the entertainment industry and how everything works. That’s the music industry as well as the film industry.”

All that work has clearly paid off, now being part of a major live-action franchise that’s been going on for 16 years. Indeed, can you believe that Michael Bay’s first live-action Transformers was released way back in 2007? And that’s not counting the Transformers animated series, movie (and toys!).

That significance is clearly not lost on Nwigwe. “We were able to gain traction and catch the eye of Steven Caple Jr. who is very in tune with the culture,” he tells us. “To have this opportunity is something I could never have imagined I would be able to have.”

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be in theatres on 9 June 2023. Read our review here.

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We’re heading back to the Nineties – well, 1994 to be exact – to team up with Optimus Prime and the Maximals to save the world from a planet-eating enemy.

Watch the brand new trailer here…

Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new breed of Transformer – the Maximals – to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

Directed by Steven Caple Jr, the movie stars Anthony Ramos (In The Heights), Dominique Fishback (Project Power), Tobe Nwigwe (Mo), Peter Cullen (Transformers), Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Liza Koshy (Work It), John DiMaggio (Futurama), David Sobolov (The Flash), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Loot), Pete Davidson (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso).

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be in theatres on 9 June 2023. Watch more trailers at the SciFiNow YouTube Channel.

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Autobots, roll out! We’re ready to take a heavy hit of Nineties nostalgia in the first trailer for the latest Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

Watch the first trailer here…

Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new breed of Transformer – the Maximals – to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

Directed by Steven Caple Jr, the movie stars Anthony Ramos (In The Heights), Dominique Fishback (Project Power), Tobe Nwigwe (Mo), Peter Cullen (Transformers), Ron Perlman (Nightmare Alley), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Liza Koshy (Work It), John DiMaggio (Futurama), David Sobolov (The Flash), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Loot), Pete Davidson (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso).

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be in theatres on 9 June 2023. Watch more trailers at the SciFiNow YouTube Channel.

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Autobots, roll out! The title for the latest Transformers movie has been officially announced as Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts as production on the film begins.

We’ve also been given an official logline on what we can expect from Rise Of The Beasts and it looks like we’ll be heading back to the Nineties and meeting Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons!

Returning to the action and spectacle that first captured moviegoers around the world 14 years ago with the original Transformers, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a Nineties globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

The movie will be directed by Steven Caple Jr (The Land) and stars Anthony Ramos (In the Heights) and Dominique Fishback (Project Power)

 Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts will be in in cinemas Summer 2022.

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