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Here’s what you all have been waiting for.
There will be only 5,000 of these made.
Here are the specs for the Limited Collectors Edition.
Here are the specs for the 3D Blu-ray Edition.
Pre-order them at Amazon.com now… [ Read more ]!
Michael Bay Addresses Transformers 4 Rumors
Studio’s are passing rumors but I’m not sure what I’m doing? I know I’m going to do Pain and Gain early spring but that’s it for right now. I’m leaving all my options on the table. I’ve got several Studio meetings in the next two weeks.
-Michael Bay… [ Read more ]
'Pain & Gain' + The Rock
From Variety… [ Read more ]:
After a decade in development, Michael Bay’s “Pain and Gain,” a low-budget (by his standards) dark comedy about bodybuilders, is finally moving forward, as Dwayne Johnson is in early talks to topline the long-gestating pic.
Based on a Miami New Times article from 1999, “Pain and Gain” will follow a pair of Florida bodybuilders who get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.
“Captain America” scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely wrote the original script and have compared its tone to the Coen brothers’ “Fargo,” which was also based on a true crime story.
Transformers The Ride debuts in Singapore
Nelson here…
Michael was recently in Singapore for the opening of Transformers The Ride. You can read about it below.
From what I’ve heard from fans, “It was a great ride. A sort of a movie Transformers fan’s heaven” is how they describe it.
SINGAPORE: The world’s first theme park attraction based on the Transformers franchise opened at Universal Studios Singapore on Friday.And appearing alongside the Autobots was director-producer, Michael Bay, who did not rule out the possibility of another Transformers sequel.Mr Bay made a grand entrance in a 2010 edition of the Chevrolet Camaro, which is the same car featured in the Transformers film franchise.With a touch of the Allspark - the life force of the robots - TRANSFORMERS The Ride officially opened after nearly four years in the making.Standing nearly three metres tall, Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, and the much loved Bumblebee are undoubtedly the star attractions.The latest attraction promises to bring the ultimate 3-D battle between the Autobots and Decepticons with groundbreaking visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm.It is also one of the most expensive rides at Universal Studios Singapore with Mr Bay lending his creative input on its development.He said the process was similar to directing a movie, only with a ride element thrown in.Mr Bay said: “I tried to help them sculpt the story and figure out what type of shots we’d like to do, what type of characters we can use.… [ Read more ]
Michael Bay Weighs In on the Importance of Sound
The “Dark of the Moon” helmer talks to THR about how the movie’s climactic Chicago destruction sequence came to be and the scene that caused Industrial Light and Magic’s computer system to crash.
This story first appeared in the Dec. 9 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
The Hollywood Reporter: You have quite a large below-the-line team.
Michael Bay: Roughly 3,000 people worked on this Transformers. Some have been with me since 1995′s Bad Boys. The people I work with are animals.… [ Read more ]