It was never a question of what movie would end up in the #1 position at the box office over the holiday weekend but only how high the numbers would go. In this case, Transformers: Dark of the Moon made $ 97.4 million for a five-day total of $ 162.1 million over the lengthy holiday weekend; in doing so, T3 has effectively broken the Independence Day weekend record that was previously held by the likes of Spider-Man 2, which (consequently) is now only semi-memorable for the moment when Kirsten Dunst nipped out while screaming for Tobey Maguire to rescue her damsel-in-distress self from certain demise.
Of course, Transformers 3 was exactly the type of mindless movie that everyone hoped it would be, and it even threw in a few anti-Megan Fox jokes for the benefit of all fans of The Oral History of Michael Bay; that is, if there are any Bay fans at all who don’t just go for the explosions. Certainly, Bay had a hand in the fact that Sam Witwicky’s (Shia LeBeouf) pet robots made explicit mention that his ex-girlfriend, Michaela (Fox), was super mean to them, which resulted in the robots’ declaration that they’re incredibly happy that she was no longer present in their lives (and, by extension, the franchise’s third installment). Yeah, keep stoking that fire, Bay, and stroking your own dong in the process.
Paramount’s latest Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is the giant #1 movie after opening with some 3D-only nighttime sneaks on Tuesday ($ 5.5M), followed by a full release into 4,013 theaters on Wednesday ($ 37.7M) and Thursday ($ 21.4M). Now Friday brings in a big $ 32.8M, and Saturday $ 34M. As of Friday, that’s still -24% behind 2009’s Transformers 2 ($ 98M vs $ 128M) despite TF3’s higher 3D ticket prices. Michael Bay’s robot actioner should near $ 100M domestic this three-day weekend, and $ 180M through the Fourth of July. “We expected to start behind the last one,” a Paramount exec tells me. “This one has an ‘A’ CinemaScore and better reviews, so it should play to a better multiple.”
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon could break these July 4th holiday box office records: 3-DAY RECORD (bettering Spider-Man 2’s $ 88.2M); 4-DAY RECORD (bettering Spider-Man 2’s $ 115.8M), 5-DAY RECORD (bettering Twilight Saga: Eclipse’s $ 157.6M).
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In second place was Cars 2, which added an additional $ 25.1 million for a total of $ 116.0 million after two weekend. In third place (and also in its second weekend) was Bad Teacher, which paired Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in a raunchy R-rated comedy with $ 14.1 million for a total of $ 59.5 million. Besides the latest Tranformers flick, there were two other openers this weekend. One of them, Larry Crowne, landed in fourth place with a measly $ 13.0 million, which is positively abysmal considering that the movie starred two A-listers, Tom Hanks and Julia “Bitchface” Roberts (perhaps she’ll have slightly better luck with that ill-fated Snow White reboot). In fifth place, Monte Carlo took in merely $ 7.6 million, which solidifies the fact that getting one’s toes rubbed by Justin Bieber has done absolutely nothing for Selena Gomez’s big-time Hollywood feature film career.
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