Friday, July 06, 2007

Transformers Adds Another $29.1 Million!

From SSH, The Transformers train keeps rolling along as it had its best day yet on the 4th of July holiday, grossing $29.1 million. In two-and-a-half days, it has grossed $65.7 million, set a new Tuesday box office record and become the third-highest grossing movie on a Wednesday, surpassing movies like Star Wars: Episode I and Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ which both opened on a Wednesday. It's looking like it will be in heated battle with executive producer Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds to become the second-highest grossing 4th of July opener over the weekend and may come close to $150 million in its first week of business.

3 comments:

DKC said...

Have any of you seen this yet?

50PageMcGee said...

saw it with octo and another friend of ours on the 3rd.

not bad, not great. the dialogue was pretty weak: just about as sophisticated as the dialogue from the original cartoons.

also, the action scenes are a little tough to wade through. the bots lack sufficient anthropomorphism -- they're simply too jangly and twisted to get a good reading on their movements. so there are a lot of, "wh--is that a knee? what the hell am i looking at?" kind of moments.

on a side note, "I AM MEGATRON!" has replaced "SPARTA!" as the thing i shout out my window when i wake up in the morning.

Octopunk said...

I've been meaning to write a review but I was either preparing for or cleaning up after our rather massive 4th of July barbecue. Honestly, I'm still not done (blew off the dishes).

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