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Michael Bay

1965 (61 years old)Directing

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Statistics

Total Movies
37
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Total Box Office
$13.95B
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Domestic Gross
42%
$5.86B
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International Gross
58%
$8.09B
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Average per Movie
$303.3M
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Total Budget
$3.60B
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Profitability Gap
+$2.52B
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Avg ROI
5.5x
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Opening Weekends
$1.80B
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Highest Grossing
$1.12B
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Biography

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of history's most commercially successful directors. He is co-founder of the production house the Institute and co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house that has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Information

BirthdayFebruary 17, 1965
Place of BirthLos Angeles, California, USA
Known ForDirecting
Also Known As
Michael Benjamin Bay