The Energon Pub

You can’t tell much from the box office performance of a film on a single night, in a single foreign territory. But Paramount executives were congratulating themselves on Saturday over the Friday night results of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” in the United Kingdom. Word had it that the movie had done roughly 50 percent better than its predecessor, which two years ago went on to take in $389 million in foreign markets, and $319 at the domestic box office.

With the hot start in England, company executives were privately speculating that the new “Transformers” film had a shot at becoming Paramount’s second-highest grossing film, behind “Titanic,” which took in a monstrous $1.8 billion worldwide under a split deal with Fox.

That would be a nice start for Adam Goodman, who was named president of the movie group on Friday, as two fellow executives, John Lesher and Brad Weston, were ushered out. Both were offered producer deals. The betting here is that Mr. Weston will accept, while Mr. Lesher strikes for greener pastures.

dragons wrote:awsome what about japan havnt heard anyhing from downthere as of yet yeah i would like it if it did beat batman dont get me wrong i liked the movie but it only won golden globe & oscr becse of heath ledger death poeple should have to hink about this if heath ledger was still alive would batman 2 still get those awards i think not.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

dragons wrote:awsome what about japan havnt heard anyhing from downthere as of yet yeah i would like it if it did beat batman dont get me wrong i liked the movie but it only won golden globe & oscr becse of heath ledger death poeple should have to hink about this if heath ledger was still alive would batman 2 still get those awards i think not.

Um...dots, commas, exclamation points...maybe some semicolons...a question mark or 2...

But I agree. Heath's death really added extra attention to the movie. Now, if Bay dropped dead over the weekend...

Megatron Wolf wrote:This quote was taken from a friend who seen a leaked copy who would like to remain unnamed. Plus the bootleg was crap and got a headache after watching the first 10 min.

Megatron Wolf wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

dragons wrote:awsome what about japan havnt heard anyhing from downthere as of yet yeah i would like it if it did beat batman dont get me wrong i liked the movie but it only won golden globe & oscr becse of heath ledger death poeple should have to hink about this if heath ledger was still alive would batman 2 still get those awards i think not.

Um...dots, commas, exclamation points...maybe some semicolons...a question mark or 2...

But I agree. Heath's death really added extra attention to the movie. Now, if Bay dropped dead over the weekend...

I agree with Ledgers death adding points but i think the movie would still have won at least one of those awards.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Terminator director McG will eat his words of his movie beating RotF at the box office.

Steamed_Ham wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Terminator director McG will eat his words of his movie beating RotF at the box office.

ROTF deserveds to beat Salvation, whatever its faults it's a much better movie than the almost totally uninspired Salvation, which is a shame as in some ways I was actually looking forward to Salvation more.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Steamed_Ham wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Terminator director McG will eat his words of his movie beating RotF at the box office.

ROTF deserveds to beat Salvation, whatever its faults it's a much better movie than the almost totally uninspired Salvation, which is a shame as in some ways I was actually looking forward to Salvation more.

Well, I would side with RotF even if Salvation was the perfect movie, just because I'm a Transfan. And that idiot McG set himself up by running his mouth about Bay and Transformers. Oh, and yeah, Salvation is a piece of ****.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah. "Than" not "then."

Anyway, good job Brits, for kicking this global party off properly.