TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Hong Kong Premiere Photos; Watch Imagine Dragons Performance (Video)

(Photos by Jessica Hromas/Getty Images for Paramount)

Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, had its world premiere in Hong Kong at the Cultural Centre on Thursday, June 19th. The event marked the biggest and first-ever global premiere of a Hollywood blockbuster staged in Hong Kong.

Fans watched as Bay and his cast, including Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Li Bingbing, Han Geng and the band IMAGINE DRAGONS walked the red carpet bordering the magnificent Victoria Harbour.

The filmmakers, cast and crew celebrated the film’s first ever showing anywhere in the world and this latest installment in the TRANSFORMERS franchise has set yet another bar for cinematic innovation. The premiere in Hong Kong also featured a 21-foot tall Optimus Prime robot.

“We are very excited to be hosting the film’s world premiere in Hong Kong where we were welcomed with great enthusiasm during production,” said director Michael Bay. “It’s the perfect location to unveil the film ahead of its worldwide opening later this month. I hope the people of Hong Kong and China enjoy how we’ve showcased much of the region’s unique and iconic scenery in the movie.”

Celebrating this movie milestone, the Grammy Award-winning band IMAGINE DRAGONS, who wrote the original song “BATTLE CRY” for TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, performed live on the rooftop of Harbour City following the film’s screening.

The red carpet session and the IMAGINE DRAGONS live performance were streamed in 24 markets, allowing fans across the globe to share in these first-ever moments held in Hong Kong.

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION is produced by Paramount Pictures, with production assistance in mainland China by 1905 (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd., China Movie Channel and Jiaflix Enterprises.

The film will release on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 in Hong Kong and on Friday, June 27th, 2014 in the U.S.

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Produced By Don Murphy & Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce, the film is based on Hasbro’s Transformers™ Action Figures.

The fourth film in director Michael Bay’s global blockbuster franchise stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Li Bingbing, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, T. J. Miller, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor and Titus Welliver star.

The film begins after an epic battle that left a great city torn, but with the world saved. As humanity picks up the pieces, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history… while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs.

With help from a new cast of humans, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet. In an incredible adventure, they are swept up in a war of good and evil, ultimately leading to a climactic battle across the world.

In T4, John Goodman will play Autobot Hound, Ken Watanabe will play Drift, while Peter Cullen reprises his role as the voice of Optimus Prime, and Frank Welker takes on another new character, Galvatron.

Rounding out the voice-over cast are actors John DiMaggio, Mark Ryan, Robert Foxworth and Reno Wilson. DiMaggio and Ryan will take on the new characters Crosshairs and Lockdown respectively, while Foxworth reprises the role of Ratchet and Wilson returns as Brains.

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