The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:13 pm

Standing at nearly $1 Billion dollars worldwide, Dark Of The Moon overtakes Revenge Of The Fallen in lifetime revenue according to Boxofficemojo. DOTM has grossed $882,389,000 in just 26 days compared to the ROTF $836,297,228 lifetime take.

All this and DOTM hasn't even opened in Japan yet, which it will later this week. It is safe to say that DOTM will reach the $1 Billion mark. Perhaps fans can celebrate by going to see DOTM again.

by **dinojack86** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:20 pm

Outstanding- all this means is we'll be seeing more movies in the near-future.

by **jamiko** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:21 pm

HOLY S#%T!!!!!!!! :shock:

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:27 pm

suck it roger ebert, all your hate cant stop the people

by **Evil_the_Nub** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:28 pm

I didn't think it would outdo RotF, I'm glad I was wrong.

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:29 pm

Yes!!! I guess there is some justice in the world! Take that Harry mother...nevermind.

Hopefully DOTM will reach somewhere in the top 5s!!! WHOO!

Like Primus1101 on Facebook · by **Primus1101** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:41 pm

Well... Yeah. This was obviously gonna happen.
Didn't expect it to happen this soon, but I expected it to happen.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:55 pm

That didn't take long at all. I'm quite surprised actually.

by **amtm** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:05 pm

The biggest reason this is happening is actually quite simple, and you'll read about it in various articles about recent top-grossing movies. This Transformers movie, like many other recent movies, is in 3D, meaning they can charge a higher price. That means more revenue per person, so even if the same number of people see it, they'll pull in more money. In fact quite a bit fewer people could see it and they'd still make more, because 3D prices can be as much as 50% higher than normal prices. It's like inflation, except that you actually are getting some "value" added (not simply buying the same product, i.e. 2D, for a higher price), and you have to factor that in when making comparisons. Of course thanks to regular inflation, where the dollar simply becomes worth less and less over time, future movies will forever continue to break past records because it will cost more dollars to see them, regardless of their actual quality or how many people saw them.

News Credits: 1 · by **Galvatron X** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:31 pm

dinojack86 wrote:Outstanding- all this means is we'll be seeing more movies in the near-future.

That's the FIRST thing I thought when I saw this article.

There is NO WAY the TF Movie franchise is over, my friends.

by **Brilock** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:16 pm

see it again? i've seen 5 times already

by **starscreamreturns** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:57 pm

Brilock wrote:see it again? i've seen 5 times already

Holy S@#$!

by **starscreamreturns** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:01 pm

Awesome more movies ok
1 Michael Bay revive Starscream give him his own team
2 revive megatron and turn him into galvatron
3 Bring on unicron
4 Have unicron planning to devour the earth
and the Autobots and Decepticons team up to defeat him and galvatron
These are my ideas for Transformers 4:Rise of unicron
Dosent that title make your head explode! :BOOM:

by **starscreamreturns** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:02 pm

starscreamreturns wrote:Awesome more movies ok
1 Michael Bay revive Starscream give him his own team
2 revive megatron and turn him into galvatron
3 Bring on unicron
4 Have unicron planning to devour the earth
and the Autobots and Decepticons team up to defeat him and galvatron
These are my ideas for Transformers 4:Rise of unicron
Dosent that title make your head explode!

Change that starscream revived and he leads the Decepticons
While galvatron is with unicron

News Credits: 11 · by **joevill** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:16 pm

No surprise, just watched it for the 5th time today.

by **starscreamreturns** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:17 pm

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/2011sdcc/h ... image4.asp
Unicrons got to be in. I think hasbros sending us a message by making so many unicrons they want to but he hasn't been in a movie yet?
That's what i think

by **starscreamreturns** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:18 pm

joevill wrote:No surprise, just watched it for the 5th time today.

Holy S@#$!

News Credits: 3 · by **NatsumeRyu** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:50 pm

Congratultaions, DoTM! Now parents - go buy your kids all the shelfwarmers so we can get some of the other stuff that we want in!

by **Cyberion** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:06 pm

Neither Hasbro nor the movie studio is going to want to give us too much of a break with this kind of box office success. Numbers don't lie. This movie is a hit, and hasn't even opened in Japan yet.

by **st@rscream** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:21 pm

I watched a 2nd time today, and was amazed that 3+ weeks later the theater was still quite full for this film. I think the 3D is as good or better than Tron:Legacy, but still not up to Avatar quality.

As for the film, I like it quite a bit. I'll need to rewatch the 2nd film now to see if I like it more than when I saw it in the theater. I hated it in the theater. Same thing happened with Indiana Jones 4, and then I liked it more when I watched it again as I tend to forgive many of the flaws on later viewings. The truth of it is these movies are hell of a lot better than I ever expected live action transformers movies to be. I don't think Bay is a good director, but I think he is perfect for something as corny as making a live-action Transformers movie.

News Credits: 1 · by **YRQRM0** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:21 pm

DAAAAANNNNNGGGGG......

That's uber impressive. The Japan thing is really surprising. I thought ROTF made big money, this thing is crazy! Pretty much confirms a fourth movie.