Transformers Dark of the Moon: Fourth Highest-Grossing Movie of All Time

Friday, October 7th, 2011 10:22AM CDT

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The box office juggernaut that is Transformers Dark of the Moon has now surpassed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time! According to Box Office Mojo the film has earned $1,119,112,943.00 worldwide.

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $352,262,443 31.5%
+ Foreign: $766,850,500 68.5%
= Worldwide: $1,119,112,943

Credit(s): Box Office Mojo, Rob Fenoglio

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Re: Transformers Dark of the Moon: Fourth Highest-Grossing Movie of All Time (1297472)
Posted by Slashercon on October 7th, 2011 @ 10:29am CDT

Can't say that I'm surprised. Anyway,There are a couple of films on the list that I think are superior films. lol TOY STORY 3 SUCKAS!!! :KREMZEEK:

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Posted by Rodimus Prime on October 7th, 2011 @ 10:40am CDT

Very nice. There are no movies from before 2000 except Titanic on there... How high will Dark Knight Rises and Avatar 2 go?

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Posted by kirbenvost on October 7th, 2011 @ 11:11am CDT

Wow, impressive! Pretty great achievement for our beloved universe, I'd say.

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Posted by FanimusMaximus on October 7th, 2011 @ 11:36am CDT

The Dark Knight under Alice and Wonderland. For shame.

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Posted by Ultra Magnus on October 7th, 2011 @ 1:54pm CDT

4TW: Four the Win!

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Posted by First-Aid on October 7th, 2011 @ 3:40pm CDT

how the f--- did that absolutely HORRIBLE Alice in Blunderland movie gross that much money? I swear, someone accidentally added a zero in there.

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Posted by Rex Prime on October 7th, 2011 @ 4:04pm CDT

impressive but I Expected that, a few weeks/months later it my go to the third one, more months then it will be seconds, and the war between Harry Potter and Transformers starts for the first place. I wonder how much the Transformers 4 will gross if they make a one.

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Posted by Deathsanras on October 7th, 2011 @ 4:34pm CDT

Impressive.

I've only seen two of the movies on that list, and one of them was DOTM.

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Posted by Starscream GaGa on October 7th, 2011 @ 6:32pm CDT

First-Aid wrote:how the f--- did that absolutely HORRIBLE Alice in Blunderland movie gross that much money? I swear, someone accidentally added a zero in there.

It was a 3D movie.

...Which in reality probably drastically helped DOTM's revenue.

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Posted by Burn on October 7th, 2011 @ 7:05pm CDT

I'd still love to see a list with ticket prices averaged. Let's face it, DOTM only got up there because of the increase in ticket prices.

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Posted by First-Aid on October 7th, 2011 @ 7:31pm CDT

Burn wrote:I'd still love to see a list with ticket prices averaged. Let's face it, DOTM only got up there because of the increase in ticket prices.

The key number in all of these would be "total tickets sold". Most of these wouldn't hold a candle to some of the older movies like Star Wars or Citizen Kane. And yes, 3D does inflate the numbers. However, DOTM had a lot more going for it, not the least of which is an significant- and surprising- appeal among the young female population age 16-25. I took care of 5 patients in that age group in the hospital and all five of them said- without my mentioning it previously- that the new TF movie was the one they were looking forward to the most this past summer. Very surprising to me. But if you get that crowd, you get money...just look at Harry Potter and Twilight.

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Posted by Burn on October 7th, 2011 @ 7:54pm CDT

I seriously doubt Twilight will be a threat this year. Yes, people will flock to see it, but it's going to rely on a LOT of repeat goings as HP and even TF appeals to a MUCH BROADER audience.

I mean I can't see an age bracket of 10-80 in the movie theatre for Twilight like I did for Deathly Hallows Pt 2.

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Posted by SlyTF1 on October 7th, 2011 @ 7:58pm CDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frADyjHd ... re=related

The song that played when this revelation came true.

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Posted by dabattousai on October 7th, 2011 @ 10:03pm CDT

So to get the #1 or #2 spot, we must have James Cameron direct the 4th or Reboot to the TransFormers Franchise. :-?

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Posted by CommanderHazar on October 7th, 2011 @ 11:18pm CDT

El Duque wrote:The box office juggernaut that is Transformers Dark of the Moon has now surpassed The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time!

Meaningless. It doesn't account for lower prices on movies from years and decades past. Adjust for inflation, or simply count number of tickets sold, and I'll be able to take the list seriously.

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Posted by prowl123 on October 8th, 2011 @ 6:46am CDT

Deathsanras wrote:Impressive.

I've only seen two of the movies on that list, and one of them was DOTM.

Really? I've seen 7 1/2 of them (I stopped watching Alice in Wonderland halfway through).

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Posted by Rodimus Prime on October 8th, 2011 @ 7:16am CDT

Burn wrote:I'd still love to see a list with ticket prices averaged. Let's face it, DOTM only got up there because of the increase in ticket prices.

As are all the others, except maybe for Titanic. But it was re-released in theaters. Did that get added to its total?

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Posted by all_the_primes on October 8th, 2011 @ 9:46pm CDT

The Hobbit i probably going to upstage one of these movies AND the Dark Knight Rises :-?

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Posted by UltraSteel on October 10th, 2011 @ 1:30pm CDT

I probably looked forward to this movie the most, probably because I hoping to see a rebound after a sucky ROTF.

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Posted by First-Aid on October 10th, 2011 @ 4:49pm CDT

all_the_primes wrote:The Hobbit i probably going to upstage one of these movies AND the Dark Knight Rises

I don't know about that. It seems the LOTR movies are very mouch a "geek" thing. The Dark Knight Rises movie is going to blow everything away. I just hope they don't do it in 3D...I'm getting sick of it.

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Posted by prowl123 on October 10th, 2011 @ 7:31pm CDT

First-Aid wrote:
all_the_primes wrote:The Hobbit i probably going to upstage one of these movies AND the Dark Knight Rises

I don't know about that. It seems the LOTR movies are very mouch a "geek" thing. The Dark Knight Rises movie is going to blow everything away. I just hope they don't do it in 3D...I'm getting sick of it.

They probably won't. I don't think Nolan is the type to make his movies gimmicky.