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New & Improved Web Site
Welcome to the new and improved Michael Bay Dot Com!
As you can see there have been some cosmetic and structural changes.
A little bit of backstory from my end. For the past six years or so the web site was maintain using Rapidweaver… [ Read more ]—which was so awesome—but after a while, this site grew too big. Updates where taking a bit longer than usual due the fact that each time there was some sort of a change—and depending which kind of change—it would sometimes take up to ten minutes to update the entire web site.
Michael Bay Huffington Post Interview
From the Huffington Post… [ Read more ]:
It’s a little strange to listen to Michael Bay complain about how difficult it was to get his next feature film, “Pain & Gain,” financed and produced. Especially when you consider that Bay’s last three films — all installments in the “Transformers” franchise — have earned more than $2.7 billion worldwide. Oh, and that the budget for “Pain and Gain” — starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as two Miami bodybuilders who become involved in a kidnapping plot that’s much too bizarre to sum up in a few words — is only $25 million.
Pain & Gain
Yes it’s coming in April!
It’s my $26 million dollar film that I’ve had for many years, finally I had a moment to shoot it, and it that was a blast! I filmed it in Miami. Pain & Gain is still in the cutting room.
But what I can say this film is a funny, twisted, true crime story. The people who have seen it say to me it’s totally original in its style. But you guys will be the judges.… [ Read more ]
Want To Work With Michael Bay?
From USAToday… [ Read more ]:
The next Transformers movie could have an unlikely film credit: yours.
Doritos, the Frito-Lay brand that has embraced the Super Bowl as the salty snack’s sweet spot for consumer-generated commercials, on Wednesday will announce plans to seriously boost the booty in its seventh annual Crash the Super Bowl contest.
Doritos will link up with one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, Michael Bay, whose Transformers films have created a movie empire.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, ranks as the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time by raking in $1.2 billion at the box office.
Digital Domain
For those people and press asking: I stopped being an officer or director of the company over three years ago, and have not owned stock in the company for some time. I have remained a loyal client and supporter of the company however. It has amazing people and talent, and it still can be a great company! During this difficult time, my thoughts are with the great people I’ve had the pleasure to work with at DD.
Michael Bay… [ Read more ]
Michael Clarke Duncan
I’m really bummed at losing such a great guy in my life today, Michael Clarke Duncan.
I gave him his first big movie role in Armageddon as Bear. We found him in a gym. He cried at the first audition because he was so proud to audition for a “Michael and Jerry movie”, he just wanted to make his mom proud. We gave him the role in the room.
His first day on Armageddon he sucked. I remember looking to Ben Affleck and thinking we might need to fire him.… [ Read more ]
Ninja Turtles Script
The leaked script for Ninja Turtles that different sites continue to comment on was written well before I, or anyone at Platinum Dunes, was involved with the project.
That script saw the shredder a long time ago.
This is tired, old news — Wait for the movie!
-Michael… [ Read more ]
P.S. To end this stupid merry go round and explain the math. Yes we signed on two years ago to Turtles, but with no deal in place. Deal completed towards end of last year.
Michael Bay Top Forbes' List of Highest-Paid Filmmakers
Thanks to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Bay had a spectacular year financially. The 3-D movie (the third in the Transformers series) was panned by the critics but audiences around the world flocked to see it, spending $1.1 billion on tickets. Bay has a great deal on the films that gives him a healthy share of the profits and money from Transformer toys. We estimate Bay earned $160 million between May 2011 and May 2012.
Read the complete article.
View the video on Youtube… [ Read more ].
Tony Scott
I heard when I was at dinner tonight. I thought it was one of those pranks on the internet. There was only one story on line and the story was removed, it had to be a prank. Tony would never…
He was the guy that was always so nice. He knew I looked up to him over the years, and he always had that smile whenever we would see each other. He’d always be interesting in talking shop. Then I called Jerry, and he told me it’s true.… [ Read more ]