Michael Bay's 'Pain and Gain' Has Poster, Release Date, Huge Arm Bearing Bay's Name
For the first time since his Bad Boys debut, Michael Bay won't see his newest film literally and figuratively explode on screens in the summer heat. Paramount has announced that the director's modestly-budgeted bodybuilding crime comedy Pain and Gain is getting a smaller spring opening to reflect its relative restraint, with the film arriving April 26 of next year. The studio also just released the film's poster, depicting a giant vat of protein supplement that is not even blowing up nor writhing with metal shards. In terms of ways you could plaster Michael Bay's name across a giant bicep, pretty subdued.
Michael Bay has taken a break from his toys to direct a true story about real humans that don't turn into cars, but the change in subject sure hasn't changed his shooting style much. High contrast, oblique angles, low shots of giant creatures (The Rock, in this case), prominent... / Continue →
In between Transformers: Dark of the Moon and his upcoming Transformers reboot, loudness-focused director Michael Bay will be calming things down a bit with Pain and Gain, a $20 million bodybuilding crime film Bay calls a "dark comedy." Still, though, despite the relatively mea... / Continue →
In case today's earlier trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon still had a little too much pretense for you, enjoy the film's latest poster, which shrugs off all that talk of something about the moon and instead just reminds you: Giant robot! City go kablooey! A few humans,... / Continue →
