Tag: Michael Bay
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Michael Bay’s Tardiness Started A Betting Pool Between Transformers’ Cast And Crew
Some people just have a different sense of time than others. You know that friend who is always late to every meetup? As it turns out, this friend has something in common with “Transformers” franchise director Michael Bay, according to a behind-the-scenes featurette about the 2009 film, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Many actors and crew…
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How Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Dealt With Megan Fox’s Last-Minute Departure
By the time Michael Bay made 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” the director had become intimately familiar with the mechanics of making the gargantuan film series. It might have taken convincing from executive producer Steven Spielberg, but Bay made the franchise synonymous with his brand of blockbuster. The first two films in the series…
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The King Of Jordan’s Transformers Fandom Came In Handy For Michael Bay
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Review: Seth Rogen-Produced Toon Reboot’s Look Is Fresher Than Its Script
It started as a joke. Way back in the ’80s, the phenomenon we now call “superhero fatigue” was already a thing, at least among comics afficionados. Frustrated with pulp creators recycling the same old ideas, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird hatched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The idea was to poke fun at how lame…
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Revenge Of The Fallen’s First Scene Was A Trial By Fire For The Transformers Crew
The term “vulgar auteurism” was coined in the early 2010s to describe the work of low art big-budget filmmakers like Michael Bay. I’ve always felt it was a silly expression, myself. “Auteur” is a loaded word for reasons too complicated to get into here, but for me, “auteur” isn’t necessarily synonymous with quality. It simply…
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Ambulance Is One of Michael Bay’s Best and Most Human Movies
If one were to judge a movie solely from its trailers, then Ambulance, Michael Bay’s latest, checks plenty of the boxes in regard to what exactly a Michael Bay film should theoretically look like in 2022. Plenty of awe-inspiring explosions? Check. Characters shouting? Check. Cars going really, really fast? Most certainly, check (the movie is…
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Imax Spending $124 Million to Buy Full Control of China Subsidiary
Imax announced Wednesday that it plans to spend $124 million to get full ownership of Imax China. The subsidiary is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange and was established in 2011 by Imax to oversee its business in Greater China, which has become a key market for the exhibition company.Imax creates wide-screen technology that…
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Global Box Office Crawls Past Milestone
Paramount was cautious about announcing its plans for the future of the Transformers franchise before the release of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and for good reason. The series was still learning to walk again, after the Michael Bay era ended in an unfavorable spot, and 2018’s spinoff title Bumblebee delivered a barely passable worldwide…
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Pete Davidson’s Improv Inspired the Look of His ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Character
For the first-time team-up between the Autobots and Maximals in the “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” prequel, director Steven Caple Jr. (“Creed II”) was given a lot of creative freedom in designing and animating the characters. Gone was Ilm from the previous six films, giving way to Mpc and Wētā FX. Mpc was the principal…
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What the ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Twist Could Mean for the Series
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Transformers: Rise of the BeastsTransformers: Rise of the Beasts picks up in 1994, seven years after the events of Bumblebee. The film did pick up a few lessons from its immediate predecessor, which benefits the film as a whole. The number of Transformers, good and bad, is relatively…