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Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of history's most commercially successful directors. He is co-founder of the production house the Institute and co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house that has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Michael Bay

Director
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The Spectacular Spider-Man is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, Hasbro Entertainment, Platinum Dunes and Bayhem Films, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the second Spider-Man film reboot and the 41th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Michael Bay from a screenplay by the writing teams of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg, and Craig Kyle and Christopher L. Yost. It stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, alongside Michael Keaton, Bill Hader, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Chris Zylka, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Salma Hayek Pinault and Robert Downey Jr. In the film, Parker tries to balance high school life with being Spider-Man while facing the Vulture (Michael Keaton).