Michael Bay Dot ComTransformers DVD and HD-DVD sales are top sellers this year
HOLLYWOOD-(BUSINESS WIRE)-The blockbuster hit from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, TRANSFORMERS, is the year’s top-selling week one DVD with North American sales reaching 8.3 million units since the title’s debut on October 16, it was announced today by Paramount Home Entertainment. The biggest original film of the year from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, Inc., is also the best-selling DVD day one for the year with over 4.5 million units sold on Tuesday. Additionally, the smash hit has exploded into the high definition market, selling over 100,000 HD DVDs its first day of release, rocketing past previous releases to become the best-selling day one high definition title on either format since their inceptions.… [ Read more ]
Bay: Transformers DVD could have been better…
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY
Most directors diplomatically go to bat for DVDs of their films. Filmmaker Michael Bay (Armageddon, Bad Boys, The Rock) is just as likely to drop verbal bombs while talking about his DVDs as when he is directing.Bay’s take on the new Transformers DVD, which has sold 8.3 million copies since its release last week: “It’s a good DVD. But not as good as it could have been,” he says. That sales total made Transformers the year’s fastest-selling DVD in North America, according to Paramount Home Entertainment.… [ Read more ]
Michael Bay Planet LA interview
This is one great interview in which Michael talks about the entertainmnet industry and the LA of yesterday.… [ Read more ]
'Transformers II' update
By Jay A. Fernandez, Special to The Times October 10, 2007
Well, DreamWorks and Paramount are finally moving forward with their inevitable “Transformers” sequel, and they’ve done it by putting an enormous down payment on a unique, blockbuster screenwriting crew. In a deal that could ultimately pay out more than $8 million, the studios have hired Ehren Kruger (“The Ring,” “Scream 3″) to write the film’s screenplay with original “Transformers” scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, whose four credited films have produced $1.4 billion in worldwide box office.… [ Read more ]
"Transformers 2" writers
By Borys Kit
Scribe Ehren Kruger and the writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are in negotiations to team to write the screenplay for DreamWorks/Paramount’s “Transformers 2.”
Director Michael Bay, star Shia LaBeouf and producers Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Don Murphy are back in their respective chairs, as is exec producer Steven Spielberg.
The teaming of A-listers to write such a huge project might be an industry first and could have been necessary because Kurtzman and Orci — who wrote the $315 million-grossing first “Transformers” movie — also are busy writing J.J.… [ Read more ]
Bay pumps news blood into "Friday the 13th"
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Transformers” director Michael Bay is reviving the “Friday the 13th” franchise through his low-budget production company.
The remake of the original 1980 horror classic, which turned the villainous Jason into a cultural icon, is being produced for New Line Cinema by Bay’s Platinum Dunes banner. Platinum Dunes was also behind the revival of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Hitcher.”
In the original “Friday the 13th,” the serial killer made only a brief appearance in the final frames and never killed anyone.… [ Read more ]