A Falkirk woman has set a new Guinness World Record after undergoing pioneering heart surgery almost 50 years ago - says she feels "very lucky".
18.02.2022 - 03:29 / thewrap.com
“James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world’,” Bay said in an interview with Empire Magazine. “Bulls—. Ours is.”By “ours,” Michael Bay is referring to his WWII film “Pearl Harbor,” released 14 years before “Spectre” and which features a 40-minute re-enactment of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu.
One segment in particular holds an explosion that Bay believes should hold the record instead of “Spectre,” which according to Guinness used the equivalent of 136 kilograms of TNT to blow up Blofeld’s secret base in the film’s climax. “[Producer] Jerry Bruckheimer showed Ridley Scott the movie,” Bay said. “And the quote [from Scott] was, ‘F— me.’ No one knows how hard that is.
We had so much big stuff out there. Real boats, 20 real planes. We had 350 events going off.
Three months of rigging on seven boats, stopping a freeway that’s three miles away.” Bay says that there’s more to making a big movie boom than just rigging some explosives and getting the camera shots just right. He compares the process to “making a Caesar salad.” “There’s a special sauce for explosions,” he explains. “It’s like a recipe.
I see some directors do it, and they look cheesy, or it won’t have a shockwave. There are certain ways with explosions where you’re mixing different things, and different types of explosions to make it look more realistic.” Bay is returning to theaters this spring with “Ambulance,” a film starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal as a war veteran and his adoptive brother who rob a bank, only for the operation to go south when a police officer is shot, leaving them to be chased down by the LAPD with the dying cop and an EMT hostage in a moving ambulance. The film hits theaters April 8.
.A Falkirk woman has set a new Guinness World Record after undergoing pioneering heart surgery almost 50 years ago - says she feels "very lucky".
Dame Shirley Bassey will open the BAFTA Film Awards 2022 ceremony with a performance of an iconic James Bond song, it’s been reported.According to Deadline, the 85-year-old singer is due to make a special appearance at the 75th BAFTAs, which take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London next Sunday (March 13) and will be hosted by Rebel Wilson.The outlet claims that Bassey will mark the 60th anniversary of the Bond franchise with a live airing of a well-known theme from a past film, though the chosen track will remain under wraps until the night.Bassey is the only artist to have recorded multiple songs for the Bond series, having soundtracked the classic films Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker.The singer’s ‘Goldfinger’ (1964) landed at Number Four in NME‘s ranking of every James Bond theme; ‘Moonraker’ (1979) and ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ (1971) appear at Number 20 and Number Nine respectively.Back in 2020, Bassey praised Billie Eilish’s No Time To Die theme, saying that the pop star “did a good job”. “It’s a big honour for a young artist to live up to the Bond expectation,” the singer explained.No Time To Die star Lashana Lynch is up for the EE Rising Star Award at the BAFTAs 2022.
James Bond actor will likely arrive in the next few months. Until then, the bookies have been tracking the most likely actors to take over from Daniel Craig after his final movie, No Time To Die. Rumours recently hit that Tom Hardy had already been cast as the enigmatic spy, but the bookies' odds seem to point in a different direction.
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Lily Moayeri Johnny Marr materializes on the Zoom screen a little bit like an apparition until he’s settled, his camera following his movements as he swings around the captain’s chair in his studio, Crazy Face Factory, in his hometown of Manchester, UK.Marr can be regarded as practically a mythical figure to those who have long regarded him as one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and the co-songwriter in one of the greatest bands of all time, the Smiths — status that’s a little bit at odds with the thoughtful and grounded gentleman who is dressed kind of like a cleric.There is a lot going on with Marr at the moment. “No Time to Die,” the Billie Eilish song on which he played guitar, won a Golden Globe last month to go along with its 2021 Grammy and current Oscar nomination.
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Ambulance.His co-star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II contributed to a recent cover profile of Gyllenhaal, and discussed seeing Gyllenhaal take control of the camera himself.“There were times when he would take the camera from Mike [Bay] and then you look around and Jake is shooting the scene,” Abdul-Mateen II told Esquire.“I had never seen anything like that before. I’m curious about those things, but I would never ask the director if I could shoot a scene.”Gyllenhaal had said, discussing Bay, that while “Michael can be brash, and he can be awkward” he enjoyed the shoot, with Abdul-Mateen saying the actor “made the entire set his playground” and added that “Jake loves the camera”.Meanwhile, Jake Gyllenhaal recently addressed the extended 10-minute version of Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’, a song long rumoured to be about their past relationship.Fans of Swift have long believed the song draws on her romantic relationship with Gyllenhaal between October 2010 to March 2011.“It has nothing to do with me.
Michael Bay prides himself on the stunts and explosions in his neverending string of action films throughout his directing career. He’s likely best known for intense highway chases and an avalanche of destruction in his movies, and there are a lot of wheels in motion to keep a safe set with all that going on.
Zack Sharf Jake Gyllenhaal surprised his “Ambulance” co-star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on the set of the upcoming Michael Bay action movie by taking the camera out of the filmmaker’s hand and directing scenes of the movie himself. “Ambulance” is based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen.
The Guinness World Records gave the James Bond film “Spectre” the honor of having the biggest explosion on film, but the “Transformers” director begs to differ.“James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world’,” Bay, 57, recently told Empire Magazine. “Bulls—t. Ours is.”He’s referring to his 2001 WWII film “Pearl Harbor” that was released almost 15 years before “Spectre.”The war film contains a 40-minute scene in which the Japanese bomb of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu and a massive explosion combusts.“[Producer] Jerry Bruckheimer showed Ridley Scott the movie,” Bay told the publication. “And the quote [from Scott] was, ‘F—k me.’ No one knows how hard that is.
Michael Bay is setting the record straight.
Zack Sharf Michael Bay is calling “bullshit” on the James Bond franchise for holding the Guinness World Record for largest film stunt explosion. It was the 007 tentpole “Spectre” that set the record with one set explosion that had “a total yield of 68.47 tonnes of TNT equivalent.” Not so fast, Bay recently told Empire magazine. According to the mayhem-loving action director, his historical war epic “Pearl Harbor” has an even bigger explosion during the central attack sequence.“[Producer] Jerry Bruckheimer showed Ridley Scott the movie,” Bay said.
Kylie Jenner gave birth to a healthy baby boy on 2/2/22, and although her family members and friends have been referring to the newborn as “baby angel,” the name Jenner and Travis Scott chose is not even remotely close. The mom of two took to social media to share that Stormi’s brother’s name is Wolf Webster.