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A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and 'The DiVinyls' & etc...

 

Bay Block Buster Movies (Director)

 

1. Bad Boys (1995)

 

Budget: $10,000,000 (estimated)   

Opening Weekend: $15,523,358 (USA) (9 April 1995) 

Gross: $140,800,000 (Worldwide)

 

  

 2. The Rock (1996)

Budget: $70,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $25,069,525 (USA) (9 June 1996)

Gross: $325,000,000 (Worldwide) 

 

3.Armageddon (I) (1998)

Budget: $140,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $36,089,972 (USA) 

(5 July 1998) (3127 Screens) 

Gross: $251,200,000 (Worldwide) (20 December 1998)(except USA)

 

 

4. Pearl Harbor (2001)

Budget: $140,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $75,177,654 (USA) (27 May 2001) 

(3214 Screens) 

Gross: $198,539,855 (USA) (2 December 2001)

 

 

 5. Bad Boys II (2003)

Budget: $130,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $46,522,560 (USA) (20 July 2003) (3186 Screens) 

Gross: $138,396,624 (USA) (19 October 2003)  

 

 

 

 6. The Island (2005)

Budget: $122,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $12,409,070 (USA) (24 July 2005) (3122 Screens) 

Gross: $160,285,073 (Worldwide)

 

 

 

7. Transformers (2007)

Budget: $150,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: NZD 1,700,183 (New Zealand) (1 July 2007) (85 Screens) 

Gross: $709,709,780 (Worldwide) (8 November 2007)

 

 

 

8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Budget: $200,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: £8,349,739 (UK) (21 June 2009) (516 Screens) 

Gross: $836,303,693 (Worldwide) (15 October 2009)

 

 

 

9. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Budget: $195,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $97,400,000 (USA) (3 July 2011) (4013 Screens) 

Gross: $1,123,746,996 (Worldwide) (31 December 2011)