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Michael Bay’s ‘The Last Ship’ Picked Up To Series At TNT: Video

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 11:45am PDTTags: Eric Dane, Michael Bay, The Last Ship, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

Ahead of its upfront presentation next week, TNT has given a 10-episode series order to post-apocalyptic action drama The Last Ship, starring Eric Dane and executive produced by filmmaker Michael Bay. (Watch the first trailer below) The Last Ship is one of two pilots at TNT that have been awaiting a series order. A pickup for the other, Legends, is still pending. Based on William Brinkley’s popular novel, The Last Ship, which will premiere in 2014, comes from Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Bay and his partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form serve as executive producers, along with showrunner Hank Steinberg (Without A Trace) and Steven Kane (The Closer). Steinberg and Kane wrote the series pilot, which was directed by Jonathan Mostow. The story opens with a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world’s population. Because of its positioning, the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James avoids falling victim to the devastating tragedy. But now the crew and its captain must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors. “The Last Ship has all the elements of a big Hollywood blockbuster, from its epic storytelling to its top-notch cast headed by the perfect leading man, Eric Dane,” said TNT’s head of programming Michael Wright. “Michael Bay and his fellow executive producers have shaped William Brinkley’s story and characters into an exceptional drama full of action, suspense, tragedy and triumph.

Dane stars as Captain Tom Chandler, a career Navy man who is authoritative and decisive, but also fair and courageous. The Last Ship also stars Rhona Mitra as Rachel Scott, a strong-willed, intelligent and fearless paleomicrobiologist; Adam Baldwin as Slattery, the ship’s second-in-command who occasionally clashes with Dane’s Captain Chandler; and Tracy Middendorf as Darien Chandler, the captain’s wife.

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Michael Bay’s Starz Series ‘Black Sails’ To Premiere In January

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Black Sails, Michael Bay, Starz
Nellie Andreeva

Black Sails, Starz‘s upcoming pirate adventure series executive produced by Michael Bay, will debut next January. (It had been targeted for 2014.) NBC is yet to set a premiere date for its pirate series Crossbones … Read More »

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Kelsey Grammer Lands Lead (Human) Villain In ‘Transformers’ Sequel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 1:16pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Transformers
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Forget the affable Frasier Crane; Kelsey Grammer is embracing his inner bad guy. After his Golden Globe turn as the ruthless politician in Boss, Grammer has just landed the key villain role in Michael Bay‘s next … Read More »

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Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain’ Tops $20M Slow Weekend; Robert DeNiro’s ‘Big Wedding’ Bombs $7.5M

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday April 28, 2013 @ 4:02am PDTTags: Box Office, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Paramount Pictures, The Big Wedding

Pain & Gain Box Office Michael BaySUNDAY 3 AM, 4TH UPDATE: Summer 2013 can’t start quickly enough for me when I’ll have some decent grosses to go gaga over. For now 2 newcomers debuted during a slow $84M weekend down -19% … Read More »

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Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond, Episode 23

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday April 25, 2013 @ 3:15pm PDTTags: Deadline Awards Watch, Michael Bay, Seth MacFarlane
Pete Hammond

Listen to (and share) episode 23 of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Our awards columnist and host David Bloom talk about the call the Motion Picture Academy made to Seth MacFarlane to host the 2014 Oscars; what makes a major film studio now that Lionsgate has joined the $1 billion box-office club; and the highlights of this weekend’s TCM Classic Movie Festival in Hollywood. They also preview the week’s movie debuts, including Michael Bay‘s “small” film Pain & Gain, the big mystery that is The Big Wedding and two indie winners in Mud, featuring Matthew McConaughey, and the Oscar-nominated dramatized version of Kon-Tiki.

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Michael Bay Hits Back At Reporter In ‘Armageddon’ Apology Flap

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 5:48pm PDTTags: Armageddon, Miami Times, Michael Bay

Michael Bay Armaggedon ApologyThe blogs took off running this week with an interview quoting Michael Bay “apologizing” for 1998′s Armageddon. Then the Pain & Gain director’s own words came back around to him. In a post to his website today the director accused reporter/critic Rene Rodriguez of misquoting him in his Miami Herald interview: “One press writer has gone too far in reporting false information. He has printed the bare minimum of my statement which in effect have twisted my words and meaning”. The only problem? Rodriguez didn’t misreport Bay. Tweeted Rodriguez: “@ReneMiamiHerald: Michael Bay says I quoted him out of context about apologizing for ‘Armageddon.’ NBC asked me for a response, and I played them the tape. I didn’t misquote anyone. All the sites that picked up the story did. Bay’s quote in his story clearly refers to the rushed edit job on the film. So who owes whom an apology? Read More »

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TV Trailer: Starz’s Pirate Series ‘Black Sails’ Produced By Michael Bay

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 17, 2013 @ 6:00am PDTTags: Black Sails, Michael Bay, Starz
Nellie Andreeva

Here is a first-look trailer for Black Sails, Starz‘s upcoming pirate adventure series executive produced by Michael Bay, which is slated to air next year. The eight-episode drama takes place 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and chronicles the tales of Captain … Read More »

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CinemaCon: Paramount Kicks Off ‘Star Trek’, Brad Pitt, Michael Bay At Convention

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday April 15, 2013 @ 9:29pm PDTTags: Brad Pitt, Chris Pine, CinemaCon, IMAX, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, Paramount, Star Trek, World War Z
Pete Hammond

CinemaCon kicked off tonight at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with a presentation from Paramount. In only its  3rd year, what used to be ShoWest is proving to have the magic touch as once again all the major studios plus … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Pain & Gain’ Red Band

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday March 26, 2013 @ 4:03pm PDTTags: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain

Michael Bay‘s $25M true crime comedy stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as 1990s Florida bodybuilders whose plot to get rich via kidnapping and extortion goes horribly wrong. Rebel Wilson, Ken Jeong, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, and Rob Corddry round out the supporting cast. … Read More »

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Josh Lucas & Lynn Collins To Topline A&E Pilot ‘Occult’, Lifting Cast-Contingency

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 11, 2013 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: A&E Network, Josh Lucas, Lynn Collins, Michael Bay, Occult
Nellie Andreeva

After a lengthy casting process, Josh Lucas and Lynn Collins have been set as the leads of A&E‘s drama pilot Occult, produced by Transformers helmer Michael Bay and written by veteran genre writer, The X-Files alum James Wong. With Lucas and Collins on board, the project, originally picked up in September as cast-contingent, is going into production. Occult, which draws parallels to X-Files and Fringe, centers on Dolan (Lucas), an FBI agent who returns from administrative leave after going off the deep end while investigating his wife’s disappearance. Eager to be back on the job, he is paired with Noa Blair (Collins), an agent with her own complicated backstory who specializes in the occult. Together, they will solve cases for the newly formed occult crimes task force. Wong executive produces with Bay and his partners at Platinum Dunes Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. The pilot was laid off at ABC Studios, marking the studio’s first collaboration with A&E. Read More »

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Megan Fox Back With Michael Bay For ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Reboot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 5:27pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Paramount, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Mike Fleming

Looks like Michael Bay doesn’t hold a grudge. He’s just announced via his blog that Megan Fox will star in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the live-action/CGI feature from producer Bay, his Platinum Dunes and Paramount. Jonathan … Read More »

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Michael Bay Sets Jack Reynor For ‘Transformers 4′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 12:51pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Jack Reynor, Michael Bay, Transformers 4
Mike Fleming

Michael Bay just announced new casting for Transformers 4 on his website. “I just hired a great new actor for Transformers 4 to star against Mark Wahlberg,” Bay wrote. “Jack Reynor, he is an Irish kid that came to America with 30 bucks in his pocket. Pretty ballsy. Seriously who does that? Anyway I spotted him in a great little Irish movie What Richard Did. This kid is the real deal.

Transformers 4, is not a reboot,” Bay added, explaining that the rumor has been floating around on the net. Read More »

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SHOCK! Mark Wahlberg Joins ‘Transformers 4′

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday November 8, 2012 @ 5:39pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, DreamWorks, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bay, Paramount, Transformers 4

Michael Bay announced today that Mark Wahlberg will star in Transformers 4. “Mark is awesome. We had a blast working on Pain And Gain and I’m so fired up to be back working with him. An actor of his caliber … Read More »

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Quintet Cast In Michael Bay’s TNT Pilot ‘The Last Ship’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 12:25pm PDTTags: Michael Bay, The Last Ship, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Michaela McManus, Charles Parnell, Travis Van Winkle, Christina Elmore and Sam Spruell are set to co-star in TNT‘s action drama pilot The Last Ship, executive produced by Michael … Read More »

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Paramount Dates ‘Pain And Gain’ For April 2013

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 2:12pm PDTTags: Michael Bay, Pain And Gain, Paramount Pictures

The Michael Bay-directed film starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is set to open wide on April 26, 2013. Pain And Gain, one-half of Bay’s two picture deal with Paramount (the other is … Read More »

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Toby Stephens Set As The Lead In Starz’s Michael Bay-Produced Series ‘Black Sails’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 13, 2012 @ 12:15pm PDTTags: Black Sails, Michael Bay, Starz
Nellie Andreeva

Toby Stephens Black SailsBritish actor Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) has been cast in the lead role of Captain Flint in Starz’s upcoming pirate drama series Black Sails, executive produced by Michael Bay. The eight-episode series, created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, is set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint and his men. The series is in pre-production in Cape Town, South Africa, with Starz eying it for a launch in early 2014, possibly inheriting the Spartacus slot. Read More »

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Michael Bay & James Wong Get Pilot Order At A&E For Supernatural Crime Drama

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 11, 2012 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: A&E, Big Deals TV, Michael Bay
Nellie Andreeva

James WongMichael BayA&E has given a cast-contingent pilot order to Occult, a drama produced by Transformers helmer Michael Bay and written by veteran genre writer, The X-Files alum James Wong. The project, which draws parallels to X-Files and Fringe, centers on a FBI agent who returns from administrative leave after going off the deep end while investigating his wife’s disappearance. Eager to be back on the job, he is paired with an agent with her own complicated backstory who specializes in the occult. Together, they will solve cases for the newly formed occult crimes task force. Wong executive produces with Bay and his partners at Platinum Dunes Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. There is no studio attached yet. Read More »

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Michael Bay-Produced Action Drama ‘The Last Ship’ Greenlighted To Pilot By TNT

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 16, 2012 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Michael Bay, The Last Ship
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TNT has given a pilot order to The Last Ship, an action drama series executive produced by Michael Bay. The project, originally announced as part of TNT’s development slate in May, is based on the … Read More »

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Paramount Delays ‘Ninja Turtles’ Start Date

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 12:26pm PDTTags: Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures

Ninja Turtles Movie Release DateAnother week, and another Paramount movie in trouble. First there was G.I. Joe 2‘s plot problems leading to reshoots and a release date delay. Then there was World War Z‘s problematic production and required … Read More »

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