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Went back in to the archives of “Bay material” and picked up a small story the Hollywood Reporter did on John Schwartzman. In the article he talks about working with Michael on “Armageddon.” You can read it here… [ Read more ].

Happy Holidays

I would like to wish everyone that visits this site a Merry Christmas. Hope you can enjoy the holidays wherever you are. To those in Venezuela and Russia, you will be in our prayers, may God be with you.
And to all those who have in some way contributed to this site (with your emails, news, pictures, etc), we only hope that by this time next year we’ll all be watching Micheal Bay’s “Pearl Harbor.”… [ Read more ]

ILM

Just some little news today. ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) will be doing the visual effects for Pearl Harbor. And Jerry Bruckheimer has his web site on standby mode. Go to www.jbfilms.com… [ Read more ].

'Pearl' Jam / A big-spending director gets the green light from frugal Disney

Michael is featured in an article on the Hollywood Reporter chosing him as “Person of the Week.” Before reading it, I would like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Take care.
‘Pearl’ Jam / A big-spending director gets the green light from frugal Disney
By Stephen Galloway
No one has ever accused Michael Bay of lacking chutzpah. But when the thirtysomething director’s new movie, tentatively titled “Pearl Harbor,” got the green light last week, a great many pundits had their breath taken away.… [ Read more ]

MSN…

No major news today. I did get an e-mail telling me how msn.com describes this site :
“Very flashy tribute to the director of such films as ‘Armageddon’ and ‘The Rock’ features video clips, a bio, a filmography, and a chat room.”
Hey not bad eh? I’ll share something with you guys & girls today. Remember when I met Michael at his office? Well, one of the things that I mentioned to him is that I get a lot of “fucking, angry e-mails” from people who hate Bay’s work (most of them envious people).… [ Read more ]

Disney opens fire on 'Pearl Harbor': $145 mil

Ok, Disney has given Michael the greenlight on doing Tennessee! Read more about it below
By Chris Gennusa
The Walt Disney Co. has said yes to the most expensive live-action film ever greenlit, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay’s $145 million “Pearl Harbor” (a k a “Tennessee”) written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”).
While other pictures — most notably 20th Century Fox and Paramount’s $200 million opus “Titanic” and Warner Bros.’ “Wild Wild West” — have cost more, no movie has been given the go-ahead with such a lofty price tag.… [ Read more ]

VFX update

It’s been a while since I posted something significant. I’ve moved from Massachussetts to California, and I’m in the process of getting settled. Well, one of the dilemas in bringing Tennessee to the screen will be getting all the visual effects done in time for its Christmas 2000 release. Got this from the Hollywood Reporter:
Visual effects have become a hot spot in the ongoing battle to get Michael Bay’s World War II epic “Tennessee” green-lighted. The sizable effects job — easily 300 shots, insiders say — was originally to have gone to Dream Quest Images, which made sense because Disney, the studio producing “Tennessee,” owns Dream Quest, and two of the company’s top effects supervisors — Richard Hoover and Hoyt Yeatman — have long-established relationships with Bay, with whom they worked on “Armageddon” and “The Rock.”
Because of the high volume of work and fairly tight turnaround, it was decided the work would be split between two shops, and Industrial Light & Magic entered the mix.… [ Read more ]

Pearl Harbor

“Corona’s Coming Attractions” has posted on their site some info on “Pearl Harbor” that you can read here… [ Read more ]. I’m not putting the site’s credibility down (they have been known to give accurate in the past), but in regards to the latest news (posted October 14, 1999) on the budget, casting, etc…it’s partially inaccurate, so don’t worry.
Anyways, the movie is still scheduled to come out on Christmas 2000. The start of principal photography might be pushed back a month.

Michael talks Pearl Harbor

HONOLULU, Hawaii - Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay will begin filming an epic big-budget drama set around the Pearl Harbor bombing here early next year.
Bay, who directed the 1998 blockbuster ‘Armageddon’ and ‘The Rock,’ and Bruckheimer, who produced the films, head the production team for the $100 million-plus ‘character-driven love story’ tentatively titled ‘Tennessee’ under Disney’s Touchstone moniker (Daily Variety, June 25). Randall Wallace, who won a screenwriting Oscar for ‘Braveheart,’ is the scribe.
The picture, which looks to be the second most-expensive ever produced in Hawaii (after ‘Waterworld’), will spend plenty on spectacular special effects, including a re-creation of the bombing, Bay said.… [ Read more ]

Meeting Michael Bay

While in Los Angeles, I got the chance to meet Michael at BayFilms. Click here to read about it and see some pictures… [ Read more ].