Michael Bay

Michael Bay

Michael Bay, February 7, 2008
Born (1965-02-17) February 17, 1965
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Wesleyan University
Art Center College of Design
Occupation Film director, producer, camera operator, actor
Years active 1986–present
Notable work Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers film series
Relatives Leonard Nimoy (cousin-in-law)
Website www.michaelbay.com

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965)[1] is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing big-budget action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic visuals and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions.[2][3] His films, which include Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$5 billion worldwide.[4] He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness.[5] He is co-chair and part-owner of the digital effects house Digital Domain.[6] He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror movies including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).[7]

Despite his considerable success at the international box office, Bay's work is generally held in low esteem by film critics. While The Rock (1996) and Transformers (2007) received generally positive reviews, his other films, including the three Transformers sequels, have been received negatively by critics.

Early life

Michael Bay was born in Los Angeles. He was raised by his adoptive parents Harriet, a bookstore owner/child psychiatrist, and Jim, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).[8] He was raised Jewish.[9] His grandfather was from Russia.[10] His cousin, Susan Bay, is the widow of the late Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy (whom he eventually cast as the voice actor for Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon).[11] He attended the exclusive Crossroads School, in Santa Monica, California.[12] Bay often traces his interest in action films back to an incident during his childhood. As a boy, he attached some firecrackers to a toy train and filmed the ensuing fiery disaster with his mother's 8 millimeter camera. The fire department was called and he was grounded.[13]

Career

Bay got his start in the film industry interning with George Lucas when he was fifteen, filing the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark, which he thought was going to be terrible. His opinion changed after seeing it in the theater and he was so impressed by the experience that he decided to become a film director.[14] He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1986, majoring in both English and Film.[15][16] He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and a favorite student of film historian Jeanine Basinger.[17] For his graduate work, he attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he also studied film.[18]

Michael Bay began working at Propaganda Films, directing commercials and music videos, two weeks after finishing his post-graduate degree.[18] His 90-second World War II-inspired Coca-Cola advertisement was picked up by Capitol Records. His first national commercial for the Red Cross, which won a Clio Award in 1992.[19][20] He directed Goodby, Silverstein & Partners "Got Milk?" advertisement campaign for the California Milk Processors Board in 1993.[21]

Bay's success in music videos gained the attention of producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, who selected him to direct his first feature-length film, Bad Boys. The film was shot in Miami in 1994 and starred Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The action film proved to be a break-out role for Smith, who was segueing from television to films at that time. Shooting in Miami was a good experience for Bay who would later own a home in the city and spend a great deal of time there.[22] The film was completed for $19 million and grossed a remarkable $141 million at the box office in the summer of 1995.[23] Bay's success led to a strong partnership and friendship with Jerry Bruckheimer.[24]

His follow-up film, The Rock (1996), was an action movie set on Alcatraz Island, and in the San Francisco Bay area. It starred Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. It was also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, the latter of whom died five months before the film's release. The film is dedicated to him.[25] Connery and Cage won 'Best On-Screen Duo' at the MTV Movie Awards in 1997 and the film was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Achievement in Sound category for the work of Greg P. Russell, Kevin O'Connell, and Keith A. Wester.[26][27]

Michael Bay on the set of Transformers

In 1998, Bay collaborated with Jerry Bruckheimer again, this time as a co-producer, as well as directing the action-adventure film Armageddon.[28][29] The film, about a group of tough oil drillers who are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid away from a collision course with Earth, starred Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. It was nominated for 4 Oscars at the 71st Academy Awards including Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, and Best Original Song.[30] The film earned 9.6 million dollars on its opening day and a total of 36.5 million through the first weekend.[31] The production budget, $140 million, was one of the highest of the summer of 1998. Armageddon went on to gross over $553 million worldwide.[32]

In 2001, Bay directed Pearl Harbor. It starred Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend in 2001. Again, Bay produced the film with Jerry Bruckheimer. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Song. Again, Kevin O'Connell received another nomination for Best Sound, but he did not win. Pearl Harbor won in the category for Sound Editing, making it Bay's first (and, to date, only) film to win an Oscar.[33] Michael Bay also directed the music video for nominated track "There You'll Be" by vocal artist Faith Hill.[18]

Bay reteamed with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for Bad Boys II, a sequel which also marked Bay's fifth collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer. The film grossed $138 million domestically, enough to cover the production budget, and $273 million worldwide, almost twice as much as the first movie. In 2005, Bay directed The Island, a science fiction film starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It was the first film Bay made without Jerry Bruckheimer as a producer. The Island cost $126 million to produce and earned $35 million domestically and $172 million worldwide. Bay stated that he was not comfortable with the domestic marketing campaign, as it confused the audience to the true subject of the film.[34]

Bay filming Transformers: Age of Extinction; actresses Abigail Klein, Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer are walking in a corridor.

In 2007, he directed and teamed up with Steven Spielberg to produce Transformers, a live action film based on the Transformers franchise. The film was released in the U.S. and Canada on July 3, 2007, with 8 p.m. preview screenings on July 2. The previews earned $8.8 million, and in its first day of general release it grossed $27.8 million, a record for Tuesday box office attendance. It broke the record held by Spider-Man 2 for the biggest July 4 gross, making $29 million. On its opening weekend, Transformers grossed $70.5 million, amounting to a $155.4 million opening week, giving it the record for the biggest opening week for a non-sequel. As of November 2007, the film has made over $319 million domestically and over $708 million worldwide. Bay returned as director and executive producer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was released on June 24, 2009 and went on to gross over $832 million worldwide. Although it received mostly negative reviews by critics,[35] including aggressively critical reviews by American film critics such as Roger Ebert,[36] Michael Phillips[37] and David Denby (who referred to Bay as "stunningly, almost viciously, untalented"),[38] the film was well received by its intended audience and was one of the highest-grossing films of 2009.[39][40] In 2010, it earned seven Golden Raspberry Award nominations and winning three: Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay.[41] It was also one of the best selling DVD and Blu-ray Discs of 2009, second only to Twilight in DVD format and the number one of all time in Blu-ray format until it was surpassed by Blu-ray sales of James Cameron's Avatar in April 2010.[42][43][44] Bay directed Transformers: Dark of the Moon, released on June 28, 2011.[45] His next film was a "small" film he had been developing for years, called Pain & Gain.[46] The true crime story, based on events described in a Miami Herald article[47] written by Pete Collins, concerns a group of bumbling bodybuilders working together to commit a robbery.[48]

Bay produced DreamWorks' I Am Number Four, based on a series of novels by Pittacus Lore published by HarperCollins Children's Books. D. J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) directed.[49][50] Bay will co-produce One Way Out, a reality series that pits ordinary people against each other as they try to keep their pasts hidden and builds toward a showdown where all those secrets will be revealed.[51]

Gideon's Sword, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's novel set for release in February 2011, was optioned by Bay Films and will be produced by Michael Bay. The main character, Gideon Crew, avenges the death of his father.[52][53] On February 13, 2012, Paramount Pictures announced that Bay would produce and direct a fourth Transformers movie. The film, titled Transformers: Age of Extinction, was released in June 2014.[54] As of June 2013, Bay is committed to directing a live action adaptation of the video game series Ghost Recon, to be produced by Warner Bros..[55]

Production and effects companies

Platinum Dunes

Main article: Platinum Dunes

Bay founded this production house with fellow producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form in 2001.[56] Platinum Dunes is named after one of Bay's first student films at Wesleyan University. Brad Fuller also graduated from Wesleyan and worked for Bay as an executive assistant before joining him in this business venture. The company's first film, a remake of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, grossed $107 million worldwide.[57] Platinum Dunes produced lucrative remakes of classic horror films and introduced new directors like Sam Bayer and Marcus Nispel to feature film audiences. Their most recent horror film production, A Nightmare on Elm Street starring Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger, was released April 2010. The film made 32.9 million dollars in its opening weekend, covering nearly its entire 35 million dollar budget and went on to gross over 100 million dollars worldwide.[58]

Paramount Pictures signed a first look deal with Platinum Dunes in 2009.[59] As part of this new relationship, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon brought the Platinum Dunes producers on to produce the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, rebooting the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form co-produced with Galen Walker, Scott Mednick and Marina Norman and are working on the sequel for a June 3, 2016 release date.[60][61][62]

Platinum Dunes is currently in the process of selling an unnamed TV series to a "major cable network" with Bay in talks to direct the pilot.[63]

Digital Domain

Main article: Digital Domain

Bay and Wyndcrest Holdings, a Florida-based investment firm, acquired the digital effects company Digital Domain from James Cameron and Stan Winston in 1996, infusing the struggling business with a $50 million investment.[6] Digital Domain considered an initial public offering in 2009 but ultimately withdrew the offer, because of the lack of interest. Currently a work for hire visual effects production house, Digital Domain plans to expand its efforts in the video gaming industry and become a full-fledged motion picture production house. Headquartered in Venice, Los Angeles, California, the company is also working to open branches in Vancouver, Canada and the state of Florida.[64]

The Institute

After leaving Propaganda Films, Bay and producer Scott Gardenhour, also formerly at Propaganda, formed The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness[65] (now known as The Institute), to produce commercials and other projects. Through The Institute, Bay has directed and produced spots for Victoria's Secret, Lexus, Budweiser, Reebok, Mercedes-Benz, and Nike. His most recent advertisement for Victoria Secret was the 2009 "A Thousand Fantasies" holiday campaign.[66]

451 Media Group

Bay co-founded 451 Media Group with Doug Nunes (who serves as CEO), and with John and Anthony Gentile, who previously marketed brands such as Micronauts, Visionaries, Sky Dancers and the Power Glove. In 2015 the company announced an interactive publishing division to offer "augmented reality" content from printed graphic novels with digital video. The graphic novels employ Touchcode technology from T+ink (previously used in the Power Glove), in which ink used in the printing process unlocks access to exclusive content that is housed on the Machinima Network, which is transferred to users' touch-screen-enabled mobile devices when the printed books are touched to those devices. The company's premiere slate of graphic novels will be unveiled at the October 2015 New York Comic-Con. The creators involved include Scott Rosenberg, Skip Woods, George Pelecanos, Mark Mallouk, Clay McLeod Chapman and Peter and Paul Williams.[67][68][69][70]

Personal life

Bay lives in Los Angeles and Miami with his two bullmastiffs, Bonecrusher and Grace, named for characters in Transformers and Armageddon, respectively. As a boy, he donated his Bar Mitzvah money to an animal shelter and often includes his bullmastiff dogs in his films.<ref Bonecrusher appeared as Mikaela's dog "Bones" in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Mason, his first bullmastiff, was named for John Patrick Mason, played by Sean Connery in The Rock.[71] Bay previously had another dog, Mason, whose final appearance in a film was as Miles' dog in Transformers. Mason died during production of that film in March 2007.[72][73]

Bay owns a $50 million Gulfstream G550 jet, as well as a Bentley, a Range Rover, an Escalade, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and two Camaros from the Transformers franchise.[74]

Filmography

Year Title Producers Writers Studio Budget Box office
1995 Bad Boys Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland, Doug Richardson and George Gallo Columbia Pictures $19 million $141.4 million
1996 The Rock David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner Hollywood Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures		 $75 million $335.1 million
1998 Armageddon Jerry Bruckheimer and Gale Anne Hurd Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Jonathan Hensleigh, J. J. Abrams and Robert Roy Pool Touchstone Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures		 $140 million $553.7 million
2001 Pearl Harbor Jerry Bruckheimer Randall Wallace $449.2 million
2003 Bad Boys II Ron Shelton, Jerry Stahl, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley and Ron Shelton Columbia Pictures $130 million $273.3 million
2005 The Island Ian Bryce and Walter F. Parkes Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci DreamWorks Pictures
Warner Bros.		 $126 million $162.9 million
2007 Transformers Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and John Rogers DreamWorks Pictures
Paramount Pictures		 $150 million $709.7 million
2009 Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen		 Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci $200 million $836.3 million
2011 Transformers:
Dark of the Moon		 Ehren Kruger Paramount Pictures $195 million $1.124 billion
2013 Pain & Gain Donald De Line and Ian Bryce Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely $26 million $96.2 million
2014 Transformers:
Age of Extinction		 Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce Ehren Kruger $210 million $1.104 billion
2016 13 Hours:
The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi		 Erwin Stoff Chuck Hogan $50 million $67 million[75]
2017 Transformers:
The Last Knight		 Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce Ken Nolan, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway $260 million N/A

Frequent collaborators

Actors/actresses

Actors Bad Boys
(1995)		 The Rock
(1996)		 Armageddon
(1998)		 Pearl Harbor
(2001)		 Bad Boys II
(2003)		 The Island
(2005)		 Transformers
(2007)		 Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen
(2009)		 Transformers:
Dark of the Moon
(2011)		 Pain & Gain
(2013)		 Transformers:
Age of Extinction
(2014)		 13 Hours:
The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
(2016)		 Transformers:
The Last Knight
(2017)
Kim Coates
Vic Manni
Michael Taliferro
Stanley Anderson
Billy Devlin
Anthony Guidera
Ed Harris
Dwight Hicks
Marshall R. Teague
Tony Todd
Ben Affleck
Peter Stormare
Steve Buscemi
Michael Clarke Duncan
Chris Ellis
William Fichtner
Steven Ford
Shawnee Smith
Glenn Morshower
Michael Shannon
Jon Voight
Megan Fox
Brian Stepanek
Shia LaBeouf
Josh Duhamel
John Turturro
Kevin Dunn
Hugo Weaving
Peter Cullen
Charlie Adler
Frank Welker
Reno Wilson
Robert Foxworth
Ken Jeong
Mark Wahlberg

Criticism

Despite his box office success, Bay has found little critical praise, and his name is often used pejoratively among art-house circles.[76] The 2004 puppet film Team America: World Police directed by Matt Stone and Trey Parker (creators of South Park) features a song titled "The End of an Act", which bashes Bay and Pearl Harbor.[77] Bay has responded to his critics, saying "I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime."[78]

Year Film Rotten Tomatoes
Overall
1995 Bad Boys 43%[79]
1996 The Rock 66%[80]
1998 Armageddon 39%[81]
2001 Pearl Harbor 25%[82]
2003 Bad Boys II 23%[83]
2005 The Island 40%[84]
2007 Transformers 57%[85]
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 19%[86]
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 35%[87]
2013 Pain & Gain 49%[88]
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction 18%[89]
2016 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 51%[90]
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight N/A
Average 40%

Accolades

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