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News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:23 pm

The Transformers Movie has finally broken into the American Top 20 Highest Grossing Films of all time, according to Box Office Mojo.

It has done so by earning $315,175,018 In the American Domestic Box Office, and $697,841,710 Worldwide.

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:32 pm

bitchtastic. this news i so good i had to make a new word

by **Cyber-Kun** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:34 pm

I officially endorse bitchtastic.

News Credits: 1 · by **jacksonspade** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:40 pm

That's awesome...$78 of that total is because of me!!!

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:00 pm

This is realy good to hear, take that every one I know who sayes TFs suck!

by **BlurPrime** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:05 pm

great news.

by **Drop Bear** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:12 pm

that's fantastic.

what do you bay haters think now?

News Credits: 9 · by **Zeds** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:21 pm

Transformers is timeless ;-)

! Long live TFs!

by **Nemesis_Apoc** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:05 pm

HOLY. SH*T.

News Credits: 1 · by **Brakethrough** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:04 pm

What? we're two million and change short of 700 million?! QUICK, TO THE IMAX!

News Credits: 9 · by **Zeds** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:10 pm

Brakethrough wrote:What? we're two million and change short of 700 million?! QUICK, TO THE IMAX!

LOL! Seriously eh? I went and saw it at the IMAX and loved it all over again. Preferred it actually. Heard some dialogue I missed before with the better sound quality. The bigger screen was awesome too. No brainer really. Must see on IMAX!

News Credits: 1093 · by **Alex Kingdom** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:55 am

There really is no accounting for taste.

Yours AK

by **80sgeek** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:12 am

It may be listed 20th of all time domestic box office gross, but when you take into account only the non-prequel/sequel movies it's 9th. The other factors to account for are, re-release, special editions, and IMAX (the TF total didn't include IMAX). So then the standings would be:

Titanic $600,788,188
Spider-Man $403,706,375
The Passion of the Christ $370,274,604
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $359,197,037
Jurassic Park $357,067,947
Finding Nemo $339,714,978
Forrest Gump $329,694,499
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $317,575,550
Transformers $315,175,018
The Lion King $312,855,561
Star Wars $307,263,857

Also; it's 1st for a Tuesday opening, 2nd for PG-13, 2nd for a 7-4 release, AND 1st for all time cyborg/android/robot movie, beating out the Govanator!

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:00 am

80sgeek wrote:It may be listed 20th of all time domestic box office gross, but when you take into account only the non-prequel/sequel movies it's 9th. The other factors to account for are, re-release, special editions, and IMAX (the TF total didn't include IMAX). So then the standings would be:

Titanic $600,788,188
Spider-Man $403,706,375
The Passion of the Christ $370,274,604
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $359,197,037
Jurassic Park $357,067,947
Finding Nemo $339,714,978
Forrest Gump $329,694,499
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone $317,575,550
Transformers $315,175,018
The Lion King $312,855,561
Star Wars $307,263,857

Also; it's 1st for a Tuesday opening, 2nd for PG-13, 2nd for a 7-4 release, AND 1st for all time cyborg/android/robot movie, beating out the Govanator!

OOOOO..just 2 mill more to break Harry Plopper!

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:03 am

Alex Kingdom wrote:There really is no accounting for taste.

Yours AK

I knew you were gonna say that..LOL

It was "tasteless" to what you and I expected perhaps; however, the average person on the street apparently enjoyed it enough to drop $315 mill on it (granted $75 is mine...heh heh). To quote former Cardinals head coach Dennis Green, it was what we thought it was: entertaining and enjoyable. Now we wait to see just how much the sequel makes.

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumbled** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:28 am

Lol it should be the Worlds Top 20 Grossest Films

by **Malikon** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:46 am

that's one hell of a lot of money! :shock:

News Credits: 1 · by **drathro** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:12 am

Mojo would say good things about it, he was IN the movie!

by **Omega-1** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:04 pm

That's good, I guess, comparatively. It's no Titanic.

News Credits: 2 · by **Moonbase2** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:13 pm

Is anyone else getting tired of being called the "Lowest Common Denominator"? There are plenty of artsy fartsy movies that may be good, but most people want an escape when they watch a movie. Sure, some of those highest grossing movies are bad (I disagree about SM3), but we aren't complete dunderheads for liking big movies.

And we all know Phantom Menace was big because we were all excited about a new Star Wars movie. We didn't know it sucked.

by **Norcinu** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:13 pm

What the-? How did that happen XD

by **jikae10** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:48 am

i think paramount messed up when they released transformers.. they only had about a week and a half before the harry potter fans chose their movie over harry potter and yet paramount didn't do a full release, especially oversees. they relased in most major markets in europe about a month after the official release.. plus, they were competing with the sequels when transformers came out.. die hard, harry potter, and i believe spiderman were the sequels they were going against.

so, in short, transformers could've made soo much more money, but they dropped the ball in the release of the movie and maybe even choosing the date.