{"id":16408,"date":"2013-03-04T19:59:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?p=16408"},"modified":"2013-03-04T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:59:27","slug":"biography-michael-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/biography-michael-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography &#8211; Michael Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/200px-Michael-bay-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16409\" alt=\"200px-Michael-bay-1\" src=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/200px-Michael-bay-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Michael Benjamin Bay<\/b>\u00a0(born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer who will produce the upcoming film\u00a0<i>Ninja Turtles.<\/i>\u00a0He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects. His films, which include The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and the Bad Boys and Transformers series, have grossed over three billion dollars world-wide. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness. He is co-chair and part-owner of the digital effects house Digital Domain. He co-owns\u00a0Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror movies including Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.<\/p>\n<h3>Platinum Dunes<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIABAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAQAICTAEAOw%3D%3D\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>Bay founded this production house with fellow producers\u00a0Brad Fuller\u00a0andAndrew Form\u00a0in 2001. Platinum Dunes is named after one of Bay&#8217;s first student films at Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Pictures\u00a0signed a first look deal with Platinum Dunes in 2009. As part of this new relationship, Paramount Pictures and\u00a0Nickelodeon\u00a0have brought the Platinum Dunes producers on to produce a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, rebooting the film series launched by New Line in 1990. Bay, Fuller and Form will co-produce with\u00a0Galen Walker,\u00a0Scott Mednick\u00a0and\u00a0Marina Norman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Benjamin Bay\u00a0(born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer who will produce the upcoming film\u00a0Ninja Turtles.\u00a0He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects. 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