hollywoodreporter.com - 6/22/2009
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Powerhouse Hollywood director Michael Bay, who returns to theaters worldwide on Wednesday with a "Transformers" sequel, has blasted the marketing efforts of the film's studio, Paramount Pictures.
tmz.com - 6/21/2009
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tmz.com —
Filed under: Shia LaBeouf , Megan Fox Michael
Bay sent a scathing email to Paramount Studios before
the release of "Transformers 2," complaining in effect that his famous director friends would be shocked at the way Paramount was promoting the ...
Michael Bay: Steven & Jerry Wouldn't Take This!
io9.com - 6/25/2009
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io9.com —
Cinema has strained towards an unholy surrealism since
Buñuel and Cocteau. But it took Michael Bay ,
a squillion dollars, and a hundred supercomputers' worth of CG to bring us the ultimate in loud, gorgeous unreality, Transformers: Revenge Of The ...
Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie [Transformers 2 ...
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Bay Worries About Small, Low-Profile Transformers Sequel
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
... The Hollywood Reporter has an amusing (leaked) memo written by Michael Bay to Paramount Pictures, the studio behind this week’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Apparently he felt that Paramount wasn’t promoting the movie, and it was…umm…forgotten in the summer shuffle? ...
Michael Bay Whines For Paramount’s Attention
Hollywood Hills —
... which is everywhere. I’ve just managed to tune it out and maybe a lot of the one-time fans are ready to do the same with reviews like this one out of the UK where the movie opened last weekend:
The Guardian newspaper said the 150-minute movie was “like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan.”
2.5 hours?! Oh, I’m definitely not watching this even at home. What about you?
Source: THR
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Movie Marketing Madness: Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen
Movie Marketing Madness —
... In the final days before release Bay was back in the news again for all the wrong reasons. This time it was because of a memo linked to some gossip sites that he allegedly wrote to Paramount chieftains complaining of the lack of intensity behind the campaign. The specifics of the memo aren’t all that important, just that he supposedly felt like this. In one passage he complains that the movie’s campaign feels like it’s “just a sequel” and “not an event.” In general he doesn’t feel this campaign lives ...
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hwhills.com 6/23/2009 —
I’m no fan of Michael Bay and his “movies.” When he’s not behind the camera he seems to spend a lot of his time at the keyboard. Mostly at his keyboard whining, like with this whiny complaint letter sent last month to Paramount for its perceived indifference to his ...
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spoilertv-movies.blogspot.com 6/19/2009 —
Thanks to James for the heads up. As we reported yesterday it seems that MovieTickets didn't check properly their sources. Here is Michael Bay's response to this. Hah, love press how they spin. Never said it - just wanted a vacation is more to the point. And no I don't read the good or ...
Michael Bay Points Finger at Paramount Over So-So 'Transformers' Marketing
getthebigpicture.net 6/22/2009 — Though he's clearly grousing, Michael Bay has a point. That's right; the feather-haired father of Transformers is completely right when he says Revenge of the Fallen doesn't feel as big as it should. In an e-mail obtained by TMZ , Bay bashes the skulls of Paramount's upper management for ...
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deadlinehollywooddaily.com 6/24/2009 — I thought Paramount brass would plotz when Michael Bay recently boasted to Forbes magazine that he made $80 million on the first Transformers' $708 million worldwide gross. (His piece is largely based on the film's profits -- usually 1/3 of the take ...
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guardian.co.uk 6/18/2009 — This week, Jason Solomons meets Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay to talk mega budgets, special effects and how making a movie is like being the CEO of a vast company. Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review some of this week's ...
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