Despite the divide between those who liked Michael Bay’s sequel to hit movie Transformers and those who hated it, the Revenge of the Fallen is doing remarkably well in the box office.
News broke that Transformers grossed a record $55 million on Wednesday, its opening day in the States, beating the previous title-holder, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, by $10.8 million.
Industry people have worked out that the movie is on course for a five-day haul in the region of $150-170 million which means that it won’t overtake The Dark Knight’s record of $203 million in the same timeframe.
But if the pace holds up – and that includes $16 million from midnight shows – it should beat the $152.4 million amassed by Spider-Man 2, the previous holder for the equivalent weekend, in 2004.
However, with the film attracting largely negative reviews, it’s going to be interesting to see how the movie will hold up over the coming weekends. It’s pretty much a shoo-in to become the biggest film of the summer (although Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince will have a major say in that), but only time will tell if it can push on past the $300 million mark that seems to be inevitable, and hit headier heights.
Other Transformers news in our round up
- TotalFilm – No Transformers 3 for Michael Bay
- /Film – Movie Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- /Film – How The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen IMAX Experience Compares with The Dark Knight
- SCI FI Wire – Review: How Transformers morphed into the lousy Revenge of the Fallen
- GeekTyrant – TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN : Movie Review
- GeekTyrant – How TRANSFORMERS Blew Up Industrial Light and Magic’s Hardware
- The Register – Transformers helmsman demolishes English language
- Wired – Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Takes Bot Action to Limit
- BBC News – Transformers blast into UK chart
- SCI FI Wire – How the giant-robot F/X in Transformers 2 nearly broke ILM. Seriously
- Gizmodo – Transformers 2 Is Actually Gremlins 3
- SCI FI Wire – Review: Get ready for Revenge of the Fallen with the Transformers prequel comic
- Empire – Transformers Dominates UK Box Office
- SCI FI Wire – Just how bad was Shia LaBeouf’s hand injury, and how did it threaten Transformers 2?
- /Film – Reader Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- /Film – Transformers Viral: Giant Robots Sighted Around The World
- /Film – LOL: Transformers 2 Features Decepticon Testicles?
- /Film – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Fun Facts
- GeekTyrant – TRANSFORMERS 2 AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE
