From there Bay became a feature film director who jump-started Will Smith’s film career as an action hero with Bad Boys. Next, he moved into the memorable high stakes action film, The Rock, starring Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris. His career, along with his Bay Films production company, continued with blockbuster after blockbuster: Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys 2, and four films of the Transformers franchise. With the huge box office success of these films, Bay is currently the second highest grossing film director in America, after one of his mentors, Steven Spielberg, and the fourth most successful director in the global market. Forbes and Vanity Fair magazines have listed him among the very top earners in Hollywood for the past six years. In the past couple of years, Bay has branched beyond the mainstream into smaller, more artistically driven films like the dark comedy Pain and Gain with Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson and more recently 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi -- the true, untold story chronicling the heroic rescue mission that saved 36 Americans during an attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11, 2012. This past September 2015 he was honored with a career tribute at the 41st Deauville American Film Festival where several of his films were screened and where the Mayor of Deauville, in an enduring tradition of the seaside town, christened a beach cabana with his name. The Hollywood Reporter named Bay and his two partners in Platinum Dunes as the 2014 “Producers of the Year.” The company, boasts an extremely successful track record with films of all genres, from smaller horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Amityville Horror (2005) and Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), which help break new actors and directors, to tent pole features like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Overall, Bay's films, as director and producer, total more than $7.3 in global box office receipts.
also teamed up last year for the premiere season of the Golden Globe-nominated Netflix series Narcos. Soon after, Lula shot two features for Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows (2016). Carvalho became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 2015. Bob Ducsay (Editor) most recently edited the action adventure hit San Andreas for director Brad Peyton. His other recent editing credits include Godzilla, which he also Bryan Singer’s fantasy adventure Jack the Giant Slayer; and Rian Johnson’s acclaimed thriller Looper. Ducsay is a longtime collaborator with filmmaker Stephen Sommers, having served as Sommers’ editor and producer on The Returns, Van Helsing and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, in addition to producing The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. His other editing credits include The Adventures of Huck Finn, Jungle Book and The Mummy. Ducsay also executive-produced the 2004 Academy Award-winning short film Two Soldiers. The Miami native received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is currently editing Star Wars: Episode VIII for Rian Johnson. Jim May (Editor) recently finished editing Rob Letterman’s feature Goosebumps, based on the R. L. Stine young-adult fright book series. Other recent credits include: Jaume