Haute Living magazine: Behind the Camera
09/07/2008 09:46 AM
Here’s a snippet from an article on Michael Bay featured in Haute Living magazine.
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He is only in Miami for one week, so his dogs-bullmastiffs named for characters in his films-are not with him this trip. The pampered dogs generally travel everywhere with the star director, and even have their own chauffeur to take them from Bay’s Los Angeles home to his office, but given the short duration of this trip, they wait faithfully for him in L.A. But he explains that they generally love his house on shining Miami waterways and do their best to defend it. The dogs (larger than life, just like the action in his films) take full advantage of the secluded backyard, which borders Biscayne Bay. “If someone comes cruising up to the house on their boat or Jet Ski or whatever, they go bounding over to the water, big barks, big commotion!” Bay laughs. It’s a scene straight from a movie. Picture it: Hogan fans, not aware that the fallen family has moved from their infamous Miami Beach home, rent some Jet Skis and try to glide up to catch a glimpse of the spandex-clad Hulkster. Two dogs, weighing in at 150 pounds, emerge from behind the cabana, barking, snarling, effectively scaring the would-be snoopers away with a start.
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Transformers 2: behind the scenes
09/06/2008 11:37 AM
Transformers 2: Tanker and car explosions
09/06/2008 09:43 AM
Be sure to watch these clips in high quality.
Note: to view the high quality clips you must click on either of the following links and click “watch in high quality.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwkW5Ud--08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3RREEBw5wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIC-ZxiKXoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWk_9-VJIs
Note: to view the high quality clips you must click on either of the following links and click “watch in high quality.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwkW5Ud--08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3RREEBw5wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIC-ZxiKXoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWk_9-VJIs
Update from Michael Bay
07/30/2008 09:43 AM
Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen :
The car crash with Shia is unexpected, but we are still filming. The movie has not shut down - there is plenty to do without Shia. The shooting is also going great - I'm having a blast making this movie! Shia will be back soon and we wish all wish him a fast recovery.
Michael Bay
The car crash with Shia is unexpected, but we are still filming. The movie has not shut down - there is plenty to do without Shia. The shooting is also going great - I'm having a blast making this movie! Shia will be back soon and we wish all wish him a fast recovery.
Michael Bay
Michael Bay talks Transformers and Friday 13th remake
07/15/2008 05:57 PM
From Entertainment Weekly:
During a break on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — described to us as a "remote air force base" at an "undisclosed location" — horror franchise reviver and blockbuster director extraordinaire Michael Bay hopped on the phone to give us the scoop on the Transformers sequel, his other projects in the works, and his reaction to that Dark Knight script circling the Internet with his name on it...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you tell us about Transformers 2? Or, better yet, what will you tell us?
MICHAEL BAY: When we were writing the script, I said to the writers, "I hate sequels that try to make it to the third movie. Pretend like we’re never having a third movie, so let’s go for broke on the second one. I hate those cliffhangers! Let’s just make this movie stand on its own." I really feel this movie is not a forced sequel. I think the script is really good, and I think it’s got a lot of new stuff in it. There are a lot of rumors out there, but we’ve released a lot of fake stuff. We’ve done a really good job of keeping things secret.
Can you give us a hint of something that is true then?
[Laughs] No.
C'mon, anything?
There are some great, new robots that are really inventive.
Read the rest of the interview here.
During a break on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — described to us as a "remote air force base" at an "undisclosed location" — horror franchise reviver and blockbuster director extraordinaire Michael Bay hopped on the phone to give us the scoop on the Transformers sequel, his other projects in the works, and his reaction to that Dark Knight script circling the Internet with his name on it...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you tell us about Transformers 2? Or, better yet, what will you tell us?
MICHAEL BAY: When we were writing the script, I said to the writers, "I hate sequels that try to make it to the third movie. Pretend like we’re never having a third movie, so let’s go for broke on the second one. I hate those cliffhangers! Let’s just make this movie stand on its own." I really feel this movie is not a forced sequel. I think the script is really good, and I think it’s got a lot of new stuff in it. There are a lot of rumors out there, but we’ve released a lot of fake stuff. We’ve done a really good job of keeping things secret.
Can you give us a hint of something that is true then?
[Laughs] No.
C'mon, anything?
There are some great, new robots that are really inventive.
Read the rest of the interview here.
Happy 4th of July
07/04/2008 10:06 AM
We wish you a happy and safe Fourth of July! To everyone else, we thank you for visiting Michael Bay dot com!
Regarding Penn's open letter to Michael Bay
06/26/2008 02:19 PM
Nelson here.
Penn students on Facebook have set up an open letter to Michael Bay. According to the post they seem to think that although Michael has shot at Penn the movie will take place at Princeton. It reads:
Michael has indicated to me that neither school gave him permission to use their names. There was a very funny “mom” scene were both felt it did not represent the school.
Penn students on Facebook have set up an open letter to Michael Bay. According to the post they seem to think that although Michael has shot at Penn the movie will take place at Princeton. It reads:
Princeton? Really? You HAD to shoot at the University of Pennsylvania and choose to have us 'play' Princeton? Shia couldn't have gone to UPENN? Join this group and ask Michael Bay to CGI the University of Pennsylvania (not Princeton) back into Transformers 2.
Michael has indicated to me that neither school gave him permission to use their names. There was a very funny “mom” scene were both felt it did not represent the school.
Transformers Blu-ray specs
06/25/2008 05:05 PM
PRODUCT INFO:
Runtime: 2 Hr. 23 Min. 24 Sec.
Languages: English Subtitled, French Dubbed & Subtitled, Portuguese Subtitled, Spanish Dubbed & Subtitled
Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus, 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, 5.1 PCM (Uncompressed)
US Rating: PG-13 - For intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor, and language.
DVD Features:
• Commentary: Commentary by Director Michael Bay
• Featurette: OUR WORLD:
• Featurette: The Story Sparks HD
• Featurette: Human Allies HD
• Featurette: I Fight Giant Robots HD
• Featurette: Battleground HD
• Featurette: THEIR WAR:
• Featurette: Rise of the Robots HD
• Featurette: Autobots Roll Out HD
• Featurette: Decepticons Strike HD
• Featurette: Inside the AllSpark HD
• Featurette: Transformers Tech Inspector (TBD) HD
• Trailers: TRAILERS (will play after the feature via a menu):
• Trailers: Iron Man Trailer HD
• Featurette: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE:
• Trailers: Transformers Teaser Trailer HD
• Trailers: Rise of the Autobots HD
• Other: Transformers H.U.D. (Heads Up Display)
• Other: BD-Live Features (TBD
• Featurette: From Script to Sand: The Skorponok Desert Attack HD
• Featurette: Concepts HD
• Trailers: Trailers HD:
• Trailers: Teaser Trailer 1 HD
• Trailers: Theatrical Trailer 2 HD
• Trailers: Theatrical Trailer 4 HD
• Easter Eggs: EASTER EGGS:
• Easter Eggs: Michael Bay Cameo HD
• Easter Eggs: Girl in Dress HD
• Easter Eggs: Bay Bot HD
• Easter Eggs: Casting Mojo HD
Michael Bay at Princeton
06/25/2008 01:31 PM
From the NJ.com:
Ben and Michael Bay
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
BY ROBERT STERN
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Imagine staging a car crash amid the Gothic-style stone edifices of Princeton University.
That prospect made Hollywood director Michael Bay a tad uneasy as he planned filming part of the sequel to last year's blockbuster "Transformers" movie.
He didn't know if the university, where scenes for his next "Transformers" movie have been shot for the last two days, would go along with the bent metal of an action flick.
"I thought the school was going to freak out and did a little" before accepting the crash shots, Bay said yesterday during a brief interview.
But it's all in a day's work when filming the story of a teenage hero caught in the middle of a war between two races of robotic aliens who's now off to college.
Dormitory, lecture hall and other scenes featuring lead actor Shia LaBeouf and others are also being shot at Princeton for the DreamWorks studio film, which is scheduled for release on June 26, 2009, under the title "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
In one scene shot inside one of Princeton's large lecture halls, LaBeouf's character attends an Astronomy 101 class, Bay said.
In another shot at Princeton's Dillon Gymnasium, he and co-star Megan Fox are among dozens of students fleeing the building into a courtyard and parking lot ahead of some yet-to-be-revealed menace.
And while filming here is officially a closed set, hundreds of onlookers for the last two days lined the perimeter of some of the scenes -- though they were periodically instructed to keep quiet and take no pictures.
For a time yesterday afternoon, the area outside Dillon Gymnasium was the place to be for a glimpse of the celebrities and a chance to see the cameras rolling.
Tony Qian, a 2007 West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South graduate now attending the University of Delaware, even lucked into a spot as an extra during casting calls that were done before filming in Princeton began. The best part for him so far was some small talk between takes with the two lead stars.
"I got to talk (briefly) to Shia and Megan," Qian said. "That would probably be the coolest."
LaBeouf asked him how he was doing, he said, and the three of them went over how not to run into each other during a panicked exodus from a building.
Bay, the director of last year's "Transformers" movie and the new one in the making, said the first two days of filming on and near the Princeton campus have gone very well.
The film crew is scheduled to wrap up its Princeton work today.
In a brief interview outside Princeton's Whig Hall during a catered lunch break for the cast and crew yesterday, Bay shed a little light on Princeton's role as a setting in the "Transformers" sequel.
The university angle to the plot "is all about Sam growing up and going to college ... a teenager growing into a man," Bay said.
Sam is college student Sam Witwicky, LaBeouf's character in the special-effects-packed film about warring good and evil robots from another planet that come to Earth disguised as cars, planes, trucks and other machines.
In the first movie, Witwicky and his love interest, Mikaela Banes (played by Fox), help the faction of good robots, the Autobots, in their battle against the evil Decepticons.
As the battle continues in the second film, LaBeouf and Fox reprise their roles. Although both characters have grown from high school- to college-age since the first "Transformers" installment, only LaBeouf's Witwicky is off to college because Fox's Banes can't afford school, Bay said.
With Witwicky enrolled at a fictional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel, Banes comes from Los Angeles as a visitor to her friend's new campus, Bay said.
Campus scenes were shot at both Princeton and, earlier this month, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Bay, who said the Princeton campus reminds him of his alma mater, Wesleyan University, said he decided to put Princeton in the movie (though it won't be called Princeton) because the campus is so beautiful.
"I just love the look of the university," he said.
Neither the university nor representatives for the filmmakers would divulge how much DreamWorks is paying to do some of the filming here.
Ben and Michael Bay
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
BY ROBERT STERN
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Imagine staging a car crash amid the Gothic-style stone edifices of Princeton University.
That prospect made Hollywood director Michael Bay a tad uneasy as he planned filming part of the sequel to last year's blockbuster "Transformers" movie.
He didn't know if the university, where scenes for his next "Transformers" movie have been shot for the last two days, would go along with the bent metal of an action flick.
"I thought the school was going to freak out and did a little" before accepting the crash shots, Bay said yesterday during a brief interview.
But it's all in a day's work when filming the story of a teenage hero caught in the middle of a war between two races of robotic aliens who's now off to college.
Dormitory, lecture hall and other scenes featuring lead actor Shia LaBeouf and others are also being shot at Princeton for the DreamWorks studio film, which is scheduled for release on June 26, 2009, under the title "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
In one scene shot inside one of Princeton's large lecture halls, LaBeouf's character attends an Astronomy 101 class, Bay said.
In another shot at Princeton's Dillon Gymnasium, he and co-star Megan Fox are among dozens of students fleeing the building into a courtyard and parking lot ahead of some yet-to-be-revealed menace.
And while filming here is officially a closed set, hundreds of onlookers for the last two days lined the perimeter of some of the scenes -- though they were periodically instructed to keep quiet and take no pictures.
For a time yesterday afternoon, the area outside Dillon Gymnasium was the place to be for a glimpse of the celebrities and a chance to see the cameras rolling.
Tony Qian, a 2007 West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South graduate now attending the University of Delaware, even lucked into a spot as an extra during casting calls that were done before filming in Princeton began. The best part for him so far was some small talk between takes with the two lead stars.
"I got to talk (briefly) to Shia and Megan," Qian said. "That would probably be the coolest."
LaBeouf asked him how he was doing, he said, and the three of them went over how not to run into each other during a panicked exodus from a building.
Bay, the director of last year's "Transformers" movie and the new one in the making, said the first two days of filming on and near the Princeton campus have gone very well.
The film crew is scheduled to wrap up its Princeton work today.
In a brief interview outside Princeton's Whig Hall during a catered lunch break for the cast and crew yesterday, Bay shed a little light on Princeton's role as a setting in the "Transformers" sequel.
The university angle to the plot "is all about Sam growing up and going to college ... a teenager growing into a man," Bay said.
Sam is college student Sam Witwicky, LaBeouf's character in the special-effects-packed film about warring good and evil robots from another planet that come to Earth disguised as cars, planes, trucks and other machines.
In the first movie, Witwicky and his love interest, Mikaela Banes (played by Fox), help the faction of good robots, the Autobots, in their battle against the evil Decepticons.
As the battle continues in the second film, LaBeouf and Fox reprise their roles. Although both characters have grown from high school- to college-age since the first "Transformers" installment, only LaBeouf's Witwicky is off to college because Fox's Banes can't afford school, Bay said.
With Witwicky enrolled at a fictional East Coast school with an Ivy League feel, Banes comes from Los Angeles as a visitor to her friend's new campus, Bay said.
Campus scenes were shot at both Princeton and, earlier this month, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Bay, who said the Princeton campus reminds him of his alma mater, Wesleyan University, said he decided to put Princeton in the movie (though it won't be called Princeton) because the campus is so beautiful.
"I just love the look of the university," he said.
Neither the university nor representatives for the filmmakers would divulge how much DreamWorks is paying to do some of the filming here.
Back to Alamogordo
06/13/2008 09:06 PM
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico -DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay will return to New Mexico to film major sequences for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Governor Richardson announced Monday. The next installment of the box office hit Transformers is expected to hit theaters next summer.
"Transformers was a huge success and I am pleased that Dream Works, Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay have decided to return to New Mexico to film the second installment," said Governor Richardson.
The first film, starring Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox and John Turturro, grossed more than $700 million worldwide.
The current production has been prepping in Alamogordo since April and expects to begin filming in the fall.
Source: KVIA
"Transformers was a huge success and I am pleased that Dream Works, Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay have decided to return to New Mexico to film the second installment," said Governor Richardson.
The first film, starring Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox and John Turturro, grossed more than $700 million worldwide.
The current production has been prepping in Alamogordo since April and expects to begin filming in the fall.
Source: KVIA