Director
Michael Bay
15 films•1995–2022•Action · Adventure · Sci-Fi
40%average critics68%average audience$156.4Mdomestic average
Films
15
1995–2022
Domestic
$2.35B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.49B
lifetime
Avg opening
$44.1M
3-day
Avg legs
3.56x
opening → total
Return
3.8x
on $1.72B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 15 films directed by Michael Bay, from Bad Boys (1995) to Ambulance (2022), together grossing $2.35B domestic and $6.49B worldwide. The biggest hit is Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) at $1.12B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) at $109.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ambulance | 2022 | $8.7M | $22.8M | 2.60x | $52.2M | B+ | 68% | #46 |
 6 Underground | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | 36% | — |
 Transformers: The Last Knight | 2017 | $44.7M | $130.2M | 2.91x | $602.9M | A- | 15% | #25 |
 13 Hours | 2016 | $16.2M | $52.9M | 3.30x | $69.4M | — | 52% | — |
 Transformers: Age of Extinction | 2014 | $100.0M | $245.4M | 2.45x | $1.10B | A | 18% | #7 |
 Pain & Gain | 2013 | $20.2M | $49.9M | 2.50x | $81.3M | — | 49% | — |
 Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2011 | $97.9M | $352.0M | 3.60x | $1.12B | A | 35% | #2 |
 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | 2009 | $109.0M | $402.0M | 3.69x | $836.0M | B+ | 19% | #2 |
 Transformers | 2007 | $70.5M | $319.0M | 4.53x | $710.0M | A | 57% | #3 |
 The Island | 2005 | $12.4M | $35.8M | 2.89x | $163.0M | B | 39% | — |
 Bad Boys II | 2003 | $46.5M | $139.0M | 2.98x | $273.0M | A | 23% | #12 |
 Pearl Harbor | 2001 | $59.1M | $199.0M | 3.36x | $449.0M | A- | 24% | #7 |
 Armageddon | 1998 | $36.1M | $199.0M | 5.51x | $554.0M | A- | 42% | — |
 The Rock | 1996 | $25.1M | $134.1M | 5.30x | $336.1M | — | 76% | — |
 Bad Boys | 1995 | $15.5M | $65.6M | 4.20x | $141.2M | — | 46% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.8x
$6.49B worldwide on $1.72B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.35BInternational $4.14B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven6.1x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#39Biggest worldwide runsTransformers: Dark of the Moon$1.12B#42Biggest worldwide runsTransformers: Age of Extinction$1.10B
2 placings across 1 all-time chart. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
