Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week!

Friday, July 4th, 2014 5:51am CDT

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As we reported here, thanks to the audiences in China, the box office for Age Of Extinction has been huge, and with the World Cup coming to an end, the film will finally see worldwide release and it's final tally could take it into the same level as Dark Of The Moon and the billionaires club. The next few weeks/month or so will tell us what the box office future holds, but we can remain cautiously optimistic.

According to ComicBookMovie.com, Age Of Extinction has accumulated $412,685,351, worldwide so far!

However, US numbers are still somewhat low and attendance would go a long way to getting the film to at least the same level as Transformers and Revenge Of The Fallen. If the current US pattern holds, Age Of Extinction will be the smallest domestic take of the entire film series. (Currently stands at $128,685,351)

If you haven't seen it yet, or you're on the fence, go check it out with friends, or with your kids, and above all: Have a good time!

We'll keep you updated with the numbers and hopefully we'll get to see a stellar box office take, together.

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Credit(s): ComicBookMovie, Box Office Mojo

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Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587823)
Posted by Bleak5170 on July 4th, 2014 @ 6:21am CDT

This is the first TF movie I haven't gone to see in the theater, (first flick I saw multiple times). I'll wait for the BR, (I expect those sales to be MASSIVE).

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587826)
Posted by Ravage XK on July 4th, 2014 @ 6:47am CDT

Not going to see this a the cinema. I may purchase the Blu ray but most likely I will wait until its on Netflix or on TV.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587828)
Posted by bluecatcinema on July 4th, 2014 @ 7:28am CDT

Impressive. In time, it might even knock X-Men: Days Of Future Past off the "biggest earner of 2014" pedestal (DOFP has currently raked in over $700,000,000).

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587830)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 4th, 2014 @ 8:04am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:So looks like the Nostalgia Critic doesn't like the movie..
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/43885-nostalgia-critic-talks-transformers-4

He even brings up Michael Bays teleprompter incident(which I still think people were being too hard on him about. He's only human like the rest of us)
Meanwhile, here's what Doug (as himself) really thought about the movie - http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/43894-doug-reviews-transformers-4

And the Nostalgia Chick (along with the Black Nerd), who is much more positive with the movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrriH5YbLF8

I haven't had chance yet to check out Dougs real opinion of the movie and I didn't know that the Nostalgia Chick had done a review. I'll have to check it out. Though the initial review caused a argument with a friend of mine who took th e review as the gospel truth. He is convinced that this movie will ruin all movies >:oP

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587834)
Posted by dragons on July 4th, 2014 @ 8:44am CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:So looks like the Nostalgia Critic doesn't like the movie..
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/43885-nostalgia-critic-talks-transformers-4

He even brings up Michael Bays teleprompter incident(which I still think people were being too hard on him about. He's only human like the rest of us)
Meanwhile, here's what Doug (as himself) really thought about the movie - http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/43894-doug-reviews-transformers-4

And the Nostalgia Chick (along with the Black Nerd), who is much more positive with the movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrriH5YbLF8

I haven't had chance yet to check out Dougs real opinion of the movie and I didn't know that the Nostalgia Chick had done a review. I'll have to check it out. Though the initial review caused a argument with a friend of mine who took th e review as the gospel truth. He is convinced that this movie will ruin all movies >:oP

Tell your freind go see meet the Spartans parodys are bad for movies

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587837)
Posted by Noideaforaname on July 4th, 2014 @ 8:55am CDT

How these movies even make this kind of money I'll never know.

... not that I'm really complaining. *happily plays with toys that probably wouldn't exist without Bay's films*

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587839)
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on July 4th, 2014 @ 9:09am CDT

All yall hould see the film. It's really cool. I mean, it's no Inception, but it doesn't have Hayden Christiansen in it, so that's a plus.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587843)
Posted by Rated X on July 4th, 2014 @ 9:21am CDT

Im still holding out. I dont go to movie theaters full of noisy kids...ugh.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587848)
Posted by Sabrblade on July 4th, 2014 @ 9:44am CDT

Rated X wrote:Im still holding out. I dont go to movie theaters full of noisy kids...ugh.

Now might be a good time to go see it. When I saw it for the second time yesterday, there were only seven people in the theater room, counting myself. All adults.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587870)
Posted by leokearon on July 4th, 2014 @ 12:18pm CDT

Not watching this movie, after getting burned with DOTM, I don't want to give Michael bay anymore of my money so he can continue to ruin TFs with his explosions, lack of characterisation and unoriginal plots.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587872)
Posted by mooseastig on July 4th, 2014 @ 12:20pm CDT

Saw the movie on Imax 3d and it was Pure Awesomeness..!

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587873)
Posted by Sabrblade on July 4th, 2014 @ 12:20pm CDT

leokearon wrote:Not watching this movie, after getting burned with DOTM, I don't want to give Michael bay anymore of my money so he can continue to ruin TFs with his explosions, lack of characterisation and unoriginal plots.

I can assure you that this movie at least remedied the one in bold.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587884)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on July 4th, 2014 @ 12:59pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
leokearon wrote:Not watching this movie, after getting burned with DOTM, I don't want to give Michael bay anymore of my money so he can continue to ruin TFs with his explosions, lack of characterisation and unoriginal plots.
I can assure you that this movie at least remedied the one in bold.

Agreed. That's why I honestly think this one's better than any of the first trilogy. We actually understand who the three new Autobots are within 5 minutes of their first appearance.

Now granted, Bay's unwillingness to give Decepticons any characterization in favor of making them generic, shrieking monsters was always my biggest problem with these films, but AofE interestingly dodges that issue by technically not having any actual Decepticons in this one, and sidestepping a problem still counts as a temporary fix.

Add in non-military humans playing a credible role in the plot, and this ends up being the first Bay movie I'll actually see in the theater multiple times...granted, I racked up a LOT of those TRU passes last week because I'd held off on buying any toys until there was a sale, so I won't really be adding to the U.S. box office, but it is genuinely worth seeing on a big screen in 3-D.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587890)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on July 4th, 2014 @ 1:29pm CDT

it has no competition so its going to make money fast, now if a marvel movie was out at the same time i guarantee the profits would be a lot lower. I personally will not be buying a ticket, watched a bootleg & its not worth seeing on the big screen. Its unnecessarily long & there are to may plot lines going on & not a single one ever gets fleshed out. The bluray i might get though its not a bad action movie & its the best out of the 4, plus being able to pause & fast forward is a godsend.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587922)
Posted by VirusCarnage on July 4th, 2014 @ 3:54pm CDT

Rated X wrote:Im still holding out. I dont go to movie theaters full of noisy kids...ugh.

The first time I went I was with my family (no noisy kids) and we went on the opening Sunday, the theater was almost empty, because it was the first showing I guess.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587932)
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on July 4th, 2014 @ 4:21pm CDT

viruscarnage wrote:
Rated X wrote:Im still holding out. I dont go to movie theaters full of noisy kids...ugh.

The first time I went I was with my family (no noisy kids) and we went on the opening Sunday, the theater was almost empty, because it was the first showing I guess.

That's why I make it a point to wait for a week after the movie's release, then go to a matinee instead of waiting until later in the day. Very few people in the seats, no noise during the movie, and I can sit anywhere I want.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587933)
Posted by Burn on July 4th, 2014 @ 4:23pm CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:it has no competition so its going to make money fast,

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens next week, that will bit into it.
(I expect it to be a much better movie than AoE)

Oh and I thought of something ... what is up with the name anyway? "Age of Extinction" ... it's only mentioned once, were we suppose to believe that the seed would wipe out the whole planet because I never really got that impression.

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587938)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on July 4th, 2014 @ 5:01pm CDT

Burn wrote:Oh and I thought of something ... what is up with the name anyway? "Age of Extinction" ... it's only mentioned once, were we suppose to believe that the seed would wipe out the whole planet because I never really got that impression.

The Seed by itself wouldn't, but what Galvatron wanted to do with it would have. Brains and Optimus said so in the exposition scene at the train yard. Megatron was gonna set off the Seed in a very large city, killing a few hundred thousand people and thus giving him an obscene amount of raw Transformium to create an army of minions which he then would command to wipe out the rest of humanity. To quote Brains, "You greedy bastards brought your own extinction on yourselves."

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587939)
Posted by Ultramagnus727 on July 4th, 2014 @ 5:06pm CDT

I loved it although it didn't have much of the other dino bots, still loved it!☺️9/10

Re: Age of Extinction Surpasses $400 Million In Less Than A Week! (1587940)
Posted by Sub-Prime on July 4th, 2014 @ 5:37pm CDT

Burn wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:it has no competition so its going to make money fast,

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens next week, that will bit into it.
(I expect it to be a much better movie than AoE)

Oh and I thought of something ... what is up with the name anyway? "Age of Extinction" ... it's only mentioned once, were we suppose to believe that the seed would wipe out the whole planet because I never really got that impression.

It's funny how I see a lot of folks have questions about the plot yet I walked out knowing everything. I guess some folks can't take in the plot of this movie? The seed would cause extinction as Galvatron was planning on using it so he can create a massive army that would pretty much wipe out civilization. And China is a pretty big place to start.

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