Posts Tagged ‘Transformers’

The actuals are in and once again Optimus Prime and the gang dominated the top of the box office.

According to Hollywood.com ‘Transformers’ raked in $42.4 million over the 3-day period while ‘Ice Age 3′ brought in $41.6.

Like no one saw this one coming!!! ‘Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen’ took in $ 112 million in it’s 3 day opening weekend, bring its 5 day total to $201.2 million.  Making it the second biggest 5 day opening release ever (‘The Dark Knight’ still holds first place with $206 million).  With is 5 day total grossing over $200 million that will also cover the $200 million dollar budget!!!

This weekends other new release was ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ based of the novel by the same name.  The movie which was brave to go up againist the robots grossed $12 million and comes in at #5.

Last weeks number one ‘The Proposal’ fell to second place with $18.4 million, with ‘The Hangover’ and ‘Up’ coming in at #3 and #4.

Weekends Top Ten:

1 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – $112,000,000 ($201,246,000)
2 The Proposal – $18,466,000
3 The Hangover – $17,215,000
4 Up – $13,046,000
5 My Sister’s Keeper – $12,030,000
6 Year One – $5,800,000
7 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 – $5,400,000
8 Star Trek – $3,606,000
9 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – $3,500,000
10 Away We Go – $1,678,000

Opening this week we have the Christian Bale/Johnny Dep ‘Pubic Enemies’ and ‘Ice Age: Age of the Dinosaurs’ on Jul 1st  and ‘I Hate Valentine’s Day’ on Jul 3rd.

UPDATE: The actual totals are in and Transformers grossed a total of $60.6 million on opening day.

Michael Bay has just set a new record with Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen.  The movie brought in total $55 million on its opening day!!!  This makes it the top grossing Wednesday opening movie, beating out Harry Potter which held the record.  Out of the $55 million, $16 million of that came from its midnight showings.  Transformers was not able to beat out ‘The Dark Knight’ with it midnight showing total, ‘The Dark Knight’ had brought in around $18.5 million.

Harry Potter will have a chance to reclaim the Wednesday opening title when ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ opens on July 15th.

In order for Transformers to beat ‘The Dark Knight’ it will have to bring in around $160 million in its 3 day opening.

There are some reports going around that Michael Bay is quitting the Transformers series.  Well its kinda true, but its more like a break.

“After the three and a half years I’ve spent making these movies, I feel like I’ve had enough of the Transformers world,” says the Revenge of the Fallen director. “I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions.”

Now I personally think that Bay needs to stick to movies like Transformers.  Lately he has been producing movies like 2009 reboot/remake of  the ‘Friday the 13th’ series, which didn’t need to be remade.  I’ve said before, just because we can remake a movie from the 80’s with kick-ass special effects, doesn’t mean we should.

Well there are talks about a Transformers 3, there is no script and none of the actors have offically signed on, however leads Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox have both said they would be open to a third movie.

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Linkin Park’s video for their new song from Transfomers:Revenge of the Fallen ‘New Divide’ debuted on Myspace.com!!

The video was directed by the bands DJ Joe Hahn.  I have to say its pretty damn creative with lots of blending from the band to scenes from movie!!

Check it out:

Linkin Park – “New Divide”

Seriously, I can’t wait for this movie to come out!!!  Be sure to check it out on June 24th!!!