Are you in need of a Monday afternoon pick-me-up? Then check out the two jacked hotties (i.e. Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) gracing the latest poster for Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain below.
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Dec 10
2012
01:07 PM ET
Sep 20
2012
11:29 AM ET
Michael Bay's 'Pain and Gain' gets April 26 release date -- POSTER
Paramount has announced an April 26 release date for Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, based on a 1999 Miami New Times story about bodybuilders who turn to kidnapping, torture, and murder. “I just love the characters,” Bay told Entertainment Weekly back in 2007. “It’s these guys that work in a gym, and nothing is good enough, do you know what I mean? The pump is not good enough. They are all looking for the American dream. They end up kidnapping. It’s like a mixture of Fargo and Pulp Fiction and it’s all true. And they’re all knuckleheads. It’s a fun character piece. No action. One car crash.”
Check out the poster below. READ FULL STORY »
Sep 4
2012
12:04 PM ET
'Armageddon' director Michael Bay remembers Michael Clarke Duncan
Image Credit: Everett Collection
Though Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan had many friends in Hollywood, he and explosion-loving director Michael Bay had a special relationship. Bay gave Duncan his first major movie role in 1998, casting the former bodyguard as a driller in Armageddon. Duncan would go on to star in films and TV series like Sin City, The Finder, and, most notably, The Green Mile. The actor passed away yesterday.
Action auteur Bay penned a moving ode to his fallen friend on his website yesterday — proving, once more, that the guy really does know how to tug at our heartstrings. Bay begins by remembering how he and his team discovered Duncan:
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. But I told him “Mike, I hired you for you, I want the sweet, Mr Clarke Duncan I met in that room.” I said, “the audience is going to fall in love with you.”
He looked and smiled with deep voice and said “Ok.”
Mar 27
2012
08:34 PM ET
Rebel Wilson to join Michael Bay's true crime drama 'Pain and Gain' -- EXCLUSIVE
Image Credit: C Flanigan/FilmMagic.com
Before her performance as Kristin Wiig’s kooky roommate in Bridesmaids, Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson was a virtual unknown to most audiences stateside. That will not be a problem by the end of this year. EW has learned exclusively that Wilson is joining the pumped-up cast of Pain and Gain, director Michael Bay’s true crime drama about a cadre of bodybuilders who become embroiled in a kidnapping and extortion plot that does not end well. Wilson will play Ramona Eldridge, who winds up in prison for her involvement in the scheme. She’ll star opposite Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Ed Harris, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony Mackie, and Rob Corddry in the Paramount production, produced by Bay, Ian Bryce, and Donald De Line. The film marks Bay’s first non-Transformers project since 2005′s The Island, and is set to start shooting in Miami this spring. READ FULL STORY »
Feb 14
2012
02:38 PM ET
Michael Bay will direct the next 'Transformers,' but first he's pumped for 'Pain and Gain'
Image Credit: Jaimie Trueblood
Michael Bay announced on his website late Monday night that he had signed a two-picture deal with Paramount Pictures that puts him back in the director’s chair for the next Transformers movie. Shia LaBeouf has said rather adamantly he will not make another film in the billion-dollar grossing franchise, and much of the cast from the previous three films are not expected to return. But producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, and Ian Bryce; and executive producers Steven Spielberg, Bay, Brian Goldner, and Mark Vahradian are coming back for the fourth film. The film is already set to inundate theaters on June 27, 2014.
Before Bay returns to the unending war between Autobots and Decepticons that has reduced cities across our fair planet to rubble, however, he will first helm Pain and Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. READ FULL STORY »
Dec 7
2011
01:17 PM ET
Michael Bay on 'Transformers 4': 'I'm leaving all my options on the table'
Image Credit: Robert Zuckerman
Despite a report that Michael Bay is in final negotiations to direct a fourth Transformers film, the blockbuster director insisted that “Right now I’m not decided,” in a statement posted overnight on his website.
“Studios are passing rumors but I’m not sure what I’m doing” he continued. “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.”
Pain and Gain is a revenge script based on a 1999 Miami New Times story about a kidnapping victim who hunts down the gang of weight-lifters who held him captive. Though his reps did not respond to a request for comment, New York‘s Vulture blog, which had initially reported Bay was nearly locked in for Transformers 4, hinted that agreeing to another sci-fi sequel for Paramount was the key to getting a greenlight for Pain and Gain. (Though it seems unlikely that Michael Bay has to negotiate to get a “passion project” made at this point in his career.)
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Aug 3
2011
11:29 AM ET
'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' crosses $1 billion worldwide
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures
Cue the Michael Bay haters!
In what’s becoming an increasingly common achievement in Hollywood, Transformers: Dark of the Moon crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office on Tuesday, the film’s 35th day of release. In doing so, Dark of the Moon became the first film in the Transformers franchise to earn $1 billion (not surprisingly, it’s also the first one released in 3-D…), as well as Paramount’s first-ever $1 billion box office hit.
The robot-alien blockbuster, which has earned $338.8 million domestically and $663 million overseas, is the third film to surpass $1 billion this summer, following Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
So how long until Paramount officially announces Transformers 4?
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Jul 4
2011
03:52 PM ET
Box office report: 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' blasts off with $116.4 mil holiday weekend
Image Credit: Jaimie Trueblood
To quote the Leonard Nimoy-voiced Sentinel Prime, who himself was paraphrasing Nimoy’s Spock: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” That’s a philosophy that Transformers: Dark of the Moon certainly subscribes to, as it disappointed the few (the critics who gave the film ho-hum reviews) while satisfying the many (the global moviegoing audience). Moon has grossed an estimated $379 million worldwide through Sunday — the third-biggest global opening ever, behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Spider-Man 3. Domestically, Michael Bay’s $195 million alien-robot threequel collected $116.4 million over the four-day weekend. If the estimate holds, that’ll be the largest four-day Independence Day weekend ever, barely beating Spider-Man 2‘s $115.8 million opening. And Moon‘s three-day weekend gross of $97.5 million marks the year’s best debut — at least until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II demolishes it in two weeks. READ FULL STORY »
Jul 3
2011
03:09 PM ET
Box office update: 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' posts year's best opening weekend, while 'Pirates' passes $1 billion worldwide
Image Credit: Robert Zuckerman
Records, records everywhere. Transformers: Dark of the Moon collected $97.4 million this weekend (from Friday to Sunday), according to studio estimates. That’s a significant result in three different ways: (1) largest opening weekend of the year, passing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides‘ $90.2 million debut; (2) biggest Independence Day weekend, beating Spider-Man 2‘s $88.2 million; and (3) third-best July opening weekend, behind The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. READ FULL STORY »
Jul 2
2011
03:14 PM ET
Box office update: 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' dominates Friday with $32.9 mil
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures
Transformers: Dark of the Moon started the holiday weekend off with, yes, a big bang. Michael Bay’s alien-robot threequel generated $32.9 million on Friday, according to early estimates. That’s the third-largest non-opening Friday ever, behind Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Star Wars: Episode III. Speaking of Revenge of the Fallen, it seems poor Dark of the Moon is destined to live in that movie’s shadow. Moon has so far grossed $97.6 million in three days, while Revenge had brought in $127.9 million by this point. READ FULL STORY »
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