In front of a bunch of blockbusters movies helped push his net worth Exceeding the top speed in one of his patented car chases, Michael Bay was a music video and commercials director looking for his big break in Hollywood. Bad Boys was this break.
bay Bad Boys established him as a certifiable Hollywood director, proved Will Smith could be an action movie star and set the stage for the director’s bigger blockbusters (and box office) to come. But not before the studio got involved in the shoot.
“Bad Boys” was a turning point for Bay
Bay previously directed music videos for Meat Loaf, Styx and Vanilla Ice, among others Bad Boys. He also directed Got Milk? commercial (about youtube), which featured some of his now-famous sweeping dolly shots and extreme camera angles. But bays Bad Boys Success marked his transformation from music video to action film director.
With a modest budget (by Bay standards) of $19 million (per IMDB), Bad Boys surpassed $15 million in its opening weekend. It grossed $141 million worldwide. To this day it is one of the few Book movies that don’t totally stink.
blacksmith wasn’t the first choice Mike Lowery opposite Martin Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett, but he owned the role and showcased his action film skills. Smith exited Six Degrees of Separation and Made in America to independence Day, men in blackand Wild, wild west according to Bad Boys lifted.
But the studio apparently sabotaged Bay’s set before the film was finished.
Bay said the studio turned off power during filming
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The creative forces that lead the way Bad Boys Including a rookie filmmaker and two leading actors with no entries on their Hollywood action film resumes. Even with a relatively meager budget of $19 million, it’s not hard to see why the studio might have its doubts.
According to Bay, those doubts manifested themselves in the studio literally turning off the power.
While discussing one of his patented shots – in which the camera revolves around the actors and the action is the focus – with Weekly entertainmentBay said it started with the power being cut Bad Boys set.
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“Sony didn’t believe in the film because two black actors don’t sell abroad. They didn’t have confidence in it,” Bay said. “I saw James Cameron’s film True Lies, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, this guy has so much money.’ I only have 9 million dollars.
“And they literally turned me off. They turned off the electricity. That’s how rude they were in this movie. Luckily I’ve had 500 days of film set experience doing videos, commercials and working with some of the most famous athletes in the world and that’s when you really know how to handle a***holes.”
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Bay has a few details wrong – the budget was $19 million and Columbia was the theatrical distributor. It’s not far-fetched, however, for a novice filmmaker to get creative in response to a threat to his shoot.
Bay survived the blackout, landed a smash hit, and launched his hugely successful Hollywood career.
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Bay’s success on Bad Boys paved the way for his upcoming blockbusters
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Bay had a budget of $19 million Bad Boys 1995, but box office success quickly allowed him to think bigger and better.
At the time he signed up in 1996 The stone, Bay had nearly quadrupled its budget to $75 million. Returns were more robust, too — $335 million worldwide. Bay’s trend towards bigger budgets and bigger box office hits has continued throughout his directing career.
Armageddon made $553 million on a budget of $140 million. Pearl Harbour brought in nearly $450 million on its $140 million budget. pain & gain made $86 million on a budget of $20 million, but nothing compares to the box office earnings of the transformers Franchise:
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) – $1.12 billion
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) – $1.10 billion
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) – $836.3 million
- transformers (2007) – $709.7 million
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) – $605.4 million
Adding all of those numbers together gives box office receipts of $5.97 billion. None of these transformers Movies had a budget of over $217 million so they all made their money back and then some.
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https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/michael-bay-reveals-shut-power-bad-boys.html/ Michael Bay Literally Reveals Sony ‘Shut The Power Off’ On ‘Bad Boys’
