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Revenge of the Fallen Tops 200M in Five Days

Posted by DevastaTTor Jun 28, 2009 at 2:01pm CDT 16,745 views
Based on the initial weekend receipts, Yahoo Movies and BoxOfficeMojo.com are reporting that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took in over 201 million dollars in it's first five days, easily topping this week's Box Office. To put things in perspective, last week's champ, The Proposal, took in 18 million.

According to the numbers, the Transformer's sequel brought in roughly $201,246,000 in this US since it's release at midnight on Tuesday night. Added with the current foreign totals, the film has brought in a total of nearly 281 million worldwide, meaning it's already eclipsed its 200 million dollar production budget.

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Comment by Galvatron628 Jun 28, 2009
The So-called "Experts" are looking at its past 4 day total and coming up with some mathematical estimated number. Its basically a "projected" amount.
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Comment by DevastaTTor Jun 28, 2009
Cormaster628 wrote:The So-called "Experts" are looking at its past 4 day total and coming up with some mathematical estimated number. Its basically a "projected" amount.

They're usually extremely accurate, to something less than a million dollars. When the actuals come in tomorrow, it will definitely be north of 200M.
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Comment by karellan Jun 28, 2009
Holy crap. I knew the movie would do well, but with all the whining reviewers and people complaining about racism and too much foul language and violence, I didn't think it would do this well this fast. I wonder how it will compare to the 2007 movie in the long run.
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Comment by Robinson Jun 28, 2009
Seeing as its barely past 1 on the west coast I'd say this movies got a lil bit more money to be made this weekend.
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Comment by NuclearConvoy Jun 28, 2009
Looks like a third film is guaranteed at this point, eh?
Whaddya bet that the TF film franchise keeps going passed a third film?
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Comment by First-Aid Jun 28, 2009
NuclearConvoy wrote:Looks like a third film is guaranteed at this point, eh?
Whaddya bet that the TF film franchise keeps going passed a third film?


I agree...this may be a trilogy in Bay's mind and he may be done after the third one, but this is a HUGE cash cow now. It's not going away any time soon...much the same as the Spider-man franchise.

I actually have a theory as to how the writers can bring in Unicron for TF3...and perhaps even introduce Primus as well. My thought: SOMETHING had to turn the Fallen against his brothers. I think if you want a story, you base it on Unicron contacting the Fallen (as maybe a potentially corruptible target, different from the other Primes) with an offer of immense power; all he needs is the energon to repair him after his battle with Primus at the beginning of time. Primus would be the ones to create the Primes- the first of the race. Now that the Fallen is dead, Unicron contacts Megatron- as the Fallen's disciple- with the same offer. He needs energon. They salvage the machine from Earth- or reverse engineer it from the wreckage- and build it elsewhere, re-energizing Unicron. The Autobots race to do the same after Optimus (or Sam could work) is contacted by Primus with the warning of Unicron's rebirth. Unicron is revived and rewards Megatron with an upgrade (three guesses and the first two don't count). Prime and Galvy fight in space at the same time as Primus and Unicron do in an epic space battle.

Just my thoughts... :grin:
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Comment by Archanubis Jun 28, 2009
Amazing how far an $11 ticket goes. And that's just a matinee IMAX showing.
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Comment by Doubledealer93 Jun 28, 2009
i just went to see it for the 4th time today! critics you suck!
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Comment by flamewavex Jun 28, 2009
*spoilers*

while it would be interesting to see unicron in a live-action movie, i really wish the TF movie story would go back in the direction of more character about each individual TF, rather than just adding more, bigger, and badder TFs. In this one, we get like 10 or so new bots, but in reality, how much screen time did sideswipe, jolt, arcee, long haul, rampage, etc really get out of 2 and a half hours? i mean i enjoyed the movie and all, especially some of the amazing fights, but the story was pretty painfully weak.

i'm just afraid that bay will keep trying to outdo himself with something bigger than before, but he's losing the backbone of what makes a good story, which is character development, as so far, it basically just revolves around sam, mickaela, optimus, and bumblebee. also, i think part of the reason why we are all such huge fans of transformers, is that there are two sides to transformers, not only the autobots, yet other than the decepticon leaders, we dont really get much out of any of the other ones.

i just dont want to see the movies follow like...an x-men path, where it starts off being about the x-men, and then towards the end its just watching the phoenix destroy everything and anything. i would rather watch sideswipe cut sideways in half 50 times over and over than watch a massive devastator get 1 hit KO'd by a railgun. Though, at this point, with TF2 making so much money and all, i doubt there is any way we can go back to focusing on TF characters, and we can probably expect around 60 TFs in the next film, most of whom dont have names, and all share about 20 seconds of screen time together while unicron sucks a planet apart.
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Comment by TFfan33 Jun 28, 2009
yes , i knew it would break records and crush all other movies
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Comment by bumble_bee_68 Jun 28, 2009
Holy sh*t indeed; I knew it would do well, but $200 million plus in the first 5 days?!
Amazing if you ask me, and I bet the so-called "critics" who bashed the film and us, the fans for being "stupid", are now eating their words!! :lol:

As for the story being a little weak in places, don't blame Michael Bay, he's just the director, blame the writers, who look loke ythey lost their touch after 2007's TF film and this year's surprise hit that they wrote "Star Trek" - so yeah, don't bash Bay so much as Orci and Kutzman, the writers of TF ROTF

Maybe they can come up w/ a great story and bring in Unicron for TF 3 :D
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Comment by NuclearConvoy Jun 28, 2009
Why does everyone seem to think that Unicron would make the 3rd film better?
I'm fairly certain that it would make it worse...far worse.
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Comment by MYoung23 Jun 28, 2009
The people have spoken and they have said "FU!!" to the critics.
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Comment by meshnut Jun 28, 2009
Added with the current foreign totals, the film has brought in a total of nearly 281 million worldwide


Actually the foreign totals bring it to $387,346,000 worldwide. :grin:
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Comment by Metaldud Jun 28, 2009
That's pretty cool.
At the movie theatre that I work at, it has been jam packed the last several days, especially today.
I was there for the midnight show last week, and it was packed to the brim (of course, I had already seen it earlier thanks to an employee only screening.)
Combine this with Monsters vs Aliens (another movie I really liked-Ginormica is hot!) and Dreamworks/Paramount have had a pretty decent year so far.
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Comment by First-Aid Jun 28, 2009
meshnut wrote:
Added with the current foreign totals, the film has brought in a total of nearly 281 million worldwide


Actually the foreign totals bring it to $387,346,000 worldwide. :grin:


That seems like a good operating budget for the third movie. Whatcha all think?

NuclearConvoy wrote:Why does everyone seem to think that Unicron would make the 3rd film better?
I'm fairly certain that it would make it worse...far worse.


Depends on how it's done. EVERY movie depends on how it's done. I'm partial to my idea personally. :-P

bumble_bee_68 wrote:Holy sh*t indeed; I knew it would do well, but $200 million plus in the first 5 days?!
Amazing if you ask me, and I bet the so-called "critics" who bashed the film and us, the fans for being "stupid", are now eating their words!! :lol:


The general populace pretty much understands that critics are idiots and ignores them for the most part. The only movies they like are either 1) Subtitled, 2) French, 3) Depressing, or 4) starring someone died before the movie came out.
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Comment by Rodimus Prime Jun 29, 2009
I can just see the headline now:

"Michael Bay's $200m finger at the critics:
Transformers 2 devastates box office records."
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Comment by Just Negare Jun 29, 2009
Decepticon_25 wrote:i just went to see it for the 4th time today! critics you suck!


The movie was about 2 and a half hours. If you saw it four times in one day, that'd be what, ten hours?

You spent ten hours on your arse watching that abortion?

Kudos to your determination, though. :?
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Comment by Just Negare Jun 29, 2009
bumble_bee_68 wrote:Holy sh*t indeed; I knew it would do well, but $200 million plus in the first 5 days?!
Amazing if you ask me, and I bet the so-called "critics" who bashed the film and us, the fans for being "stupid", are now eating their words!! :lol:


Its like the iphone.

It will go down in history as an example of a bloody good marketing campaign. There was so much hype over this, it made Obama's election campaign look like a ten dollar function for a church charity.
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Comment by D-340 Jun 29, 2009
flamewavex wrote:i just dont want to see the movies follow like...an x-men path, where it starts off being about the x-men, and then towards the end its just watching the phoenix destroy everything and anything. i would rather watch sideswipe cut sideways in half 50 times over and over than watch a massive devastator get 1 hit KO'd by a railgun. Though, at this point, with TF2 making so much money and all, i doubt there is any way we can go back to focusing on TF characters, and we can probably expect around 60 TFs in the next film, most of whom dont have names, and all share about 20 seconds of screen time together while unicron sucks a planet apart.



Unfortunately, Transformers didn't start off like X-Men. So far the Transformers' films have been about crude toilet humor, a lame boy wants girl love story, and the US military with the Transformers destroying things and each other in the back ground.

This is bittersweet for me. I'm glad it's a success, and a third film is guarantied, but unfortunately, this almost guaranties the third will be more of the same. I did enjoy most of ROTF, but I do agree with alot of the negative criticism. But the almighty dollar speaks louder than anything, and it has told the writers and director that we are just fine with getting a, what I feel, is a very sub par portrayal of the franchise. So ready yourself for more mindless action and more jokes about pot brownies, doggy "domination", and middle aged men in thongs. :roll:
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