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Annual Transformers Forum Meet Tour

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Week 2: Domestic Box Office Report

It appears to been another good week for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, with confirmed figures for Monday to Friday and estimates for the Weekend, even though Sunday has barely begun.

This week has seen competition form Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Public Enemies, which cater to very different audiences. The numbers are also expected to be a lot lower due to the 4th July celebrations yesterday, with things picking up next week.

On Friday, Revenge of the Fallen passed Pixar’s Up as the top grossing movie of the year in the US by taking in an estimated domestic total of $268.7 million beating Up’s gross of $261.0 million. Up is yet to be released outside North America.

Ice Age 3 was released on Wednesday, and in the 4 days so far, has made an estimated $43million, compared to Transformers 2, which made just over $40million. Weekend predictions have both films grossing about the same amount.

Check back tomorrow for confirmation on these numbers.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen passes the $200 Million Mark!

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has become only the second film to pass the $200 million point in it’s first 5 days at the North American box office. The other film is The Dark Knight.

Revenge of the Fallen has now made $201,246,000, which is just behind The Dark Knight’s $203,773,518. TDK eventually went on to make over $530m in North America last year.

The film has also taken the rubbish title of “highest-grossing non-holiday, non-Friday opening weekend” ever, as well as largest June opening ever and the biggest Imax weekend ever. Overall, the film stands at $387 million worldwide.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Box Office Review – Week 1

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened at midnight on Wednesday in North America, and despite the mostly negative reviews, it seemed to make a lot of money in the last 4 days.

$60.6 million was made in its first full day of release on Wednesday, which was wiped the floor with the previous record holder, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, by $15 million. This total included the $16 million made from the midnight openings.

$28.6 was made on Thursday, bringing the total to just under $90 million.

Friday proved to be another profitable day,with $36.7 million, bringing the new total to over$125 million. This is also the 10th highest Friday total ever, which is again very impressive.

Saturday edged up even higher with $39.5 million To beat the $203.8 million 5 day record set by The Dark Knight last year, the film will have to make $39 million on Sunday, which is an extremely tall order.

The one thing from all of this is that Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks SKG and Hasbro must be very happy.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Makes $16 million Midnight Opening

Written by Big Bot on June 24, 2009 | News,Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Tags:

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has started well in North America with $16 million made from the midnight openings. This total is the third best ever, behind The Dark Knight and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The Dark Knight earned $18.5 million whilst Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith just beat ROTF with $16.5 million.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened on 3000 screens, but jumped to 4226 during the day.

Transformers 2 Nearly Broke ILM

Industrial Light & Magic, probably the best special effects team in the world, but when it comes to animating the robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, it almost got too much.

A lot has been made of the time needed to render the bots on screen, especially in the IMAX, but when an 80,000 part Devastator is created, you begin to understand why some of the machinery ‘exploded’ when given the difficult task. Lets hope no Michael Bay size explosions occur for Transformers 3.

Final Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Game Trailers

Activision release the official Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Game tomorrow in North America, and the rest of the world throughout the week, and to promote this occasion, they have released 2 trailers, one is the Game Launch Trailer, the other is the Multiplayer Trailer, which looks particularly exciting.

This is the footage for the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 editions of the game.

Bay not Happy with Marketing Efforts for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Gossip site TMZ have managed to get hold of some emails sent by Michael Bay to the big-wigs at Paramount Pictures, complaining about the marketing campaign they have prepared. In the first, sent in May he criticizes the presence of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in the public eye as not being there, especially compare to the first film, “You talk so glowingly about Transformers being the movie of the summer, but unfortunately this has not got to the public”.

Bay also points out that there was a 30-minute feature at the MTV Movie Awards, but only a minimal presence this year.

In his second e-mail on 6 June, Bay compared Paramount to a family and thanked executives for “busting your butts and bringing your ‘A Game’ for the release of Transformers.” It seems the explosive one isn’t happy.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Explodes at UK and Japan Box Office

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen;s opening in the UK and Japan last week had brought in big money at the box office over the weekend. In total, the film has made $20m from both territories.

In the UK, Revenge of the Fallen opened on 517 screens, making $14.1million over 3 days, which was 71% more than the first movie and very close to The Dark Knight. This time, it did help that the film opened around the same time as the rest of the world and not on the same day as another blockbuster (The Simpsons Movie opened against Transformers in 2007). Expect the film to easily beaat the $50million made from the first movie. The film has dislodging The Hangover from the top of the UK box office.

In Japan, it made $5.8million showing on 329 screens, which was down on the first film, mainly due to it opening during the school term, but expect it to pick up later in July and August.

Given these already big numbers, expect some more in the coming week, when the film opens in the rest of the world.

LA Revenge of the Fallen Press Conference with Bay & Co

ComingSoon.net has a transcript of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen press conference held in Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.

In attendance at the event were Michael Bay, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Megan Fox and Ramon Ridriguez. As usual, they talked about the military involvement, the Twins , staying in shape, the theme of the movie, the inclusion of President Obama in the film, Shia’s hand injury and how they worked around it, and various other discussion points.

Also mentioned was that the DVD will be a far more expanded affair with “Ridley Scott’s DVD guy” doing it. I’m guessing this is Charles de Lauzirika, who is responsible for the brilliant Alien Quadrilogy, Gladiator Extended Edition, Kingdom of Heaven and Blade Runner DVD sets! They will also be following The Dark Knight and having the IMAX stuff included in the film.

Elizabeth Snead have taken some videos of the panel, so if you can’t be bothered to read, you can watch instead.

First details on Length of IMAX Version of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Written by Big Bot on June 19, 2009 | News,Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Tags: , , ,

Just in time, Paramount Pictures UK have had the IMAX version of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen rated by the BBFC in time for today’s release. It has been given the same 12A rating as the regular cinema cut.

As we previously revealed, the regular cinema version of the film is 149m 45s long, but the IMAX version, which was revealed to be longer, is only slightly extended at 151m 16s, or 1m 31s of extra robot action. Now, the question we have to ask is, how much action can you put in 1m 31s that makes it worthwhile? The answer, to the most eager of fans, is absolutely loads.

Look out for details on which extra scenes have been put in very soon.

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