Transformers Movie Makes $591,368,975 Worldwide
Monday, August 6th, 2007 7:20PM CDT
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Posted by Dclone Soundwave on August 6th, 2007 @ 7:39pm CDT
Posted by EnergonPrimeRules on August 6th, 2007 @ 7:40pm CDT
Spidey 3 553mill worldwide, for 889mill total
Shrek 3 406mill worldwide for 727mill total
Pirates 3 644mill worldwide for 951mill total
not too far from transformers' 600mill worldwide (so far) and all 3 cost alot more than transformers to make too. And the sequel will make more as all sequels do.
I find it funny how many (?) people were saying that transformers was going to flop. And let's not forget the upcoming dvd of course (as everyone that knows about the business these days, dvd sales are as (or more) important than the actual box office)
Posted by Vavavivian on August 6th, 2007 @ 7:40pm CDT
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Posted by i_amtrunks on August 6th, 2007 @ 7:41pm CDT
So Paramount is looking at over $600 million. Quadrupling its budget. Not many movies can make that claim.
Posted by MercilessOne on August 6th, 2007 @ 7:43pm CDT
i_amtrunks wrote:With Japan the last major market to open this week.
So Paramount is looking at over $600 million. Quadrupling its budget. Not many movies can make that claim.
The Japs will love this so I'm not surprised
And wow... that's awesome. TF rules!
Posted by GetterDragun on August 6th, 2007 @ 8:06pm CDT
MercilessOne wrote:i_amtrunks wrote:With Japan the last major market to open this week.
So Paramount is looking at over $600 million. Quadrupling its budget. Not many movies can make that claim.
The Japs will love this so I'm not surprised
And wow... that's awesome. TF rules!
Japan opened this weekend and it only did $5.3 million, but supposedly there was bad weather, so we will see how it does next weekend.
Posted by Liege Evilmus on August 6th, 2007 @ 8:29pm CDT
Posted by Air Commander Starscream on August 6th, 2007 @ 9:14pm CDT
Posted by General Magnus on August 6th, 2007 @ 9:20pm CDT
Air Commander Starscream wrote:Most impressive, Bravo tothe makers. Can't wait for TFM2!
Hey, i was wondering what happened to you
Posted by D-340 on August 6th, 2007 @ 9:41pm CDT
Posted by Justicity on August 6th, 2007 @ 9:43pm CDT
If it does I'll go see it another 10 times for that reason alone.
Posted by SoooTrypticon on August 6th, 2007 @ 9:52pm CDT
I have a feeling the Japanese looked at this, looked back at Godzilla 98, and just threw their hands up in the air.
I wonder if this will affect the Voltron movie? Can American filmmakers actually make Voltron dumber than it originally was? If they did it for Transformers...
I can't wait for the "re-imagined" robots for that one.
"You see, we thought the idea of robot cats that combine into a bigger robots was silly. So we made them into tanks and GM cars. But as a sweet homage, one of the cars coughs up a hairball."
Posted by King Starscream89 on August 6th, 2007 @ 9:58pm CDT
Posted by lodelco on August 6th, 2007 @ 10:14pm CDT
I'm not surprised by the low numbers. They opened it on Aug. 4 after all and, regardless of the weather, the number 4 is bad luck in Japan. Heck, Chinese have freakin' heart attacks thinking of stuff like that.
Other than that, I see no good reason why the Japanese would not like the movie. Although I've heard weirder...
Posted by Bumbled on August 7th, 2007 @ 1:54am CDT
Posted by Zeds on August 7th, 2007 @ 8:11am CDT
Posted by Anonymous on August 7th, 2007 @ 8:34am CDT
A lot of "Haters" commented that this would flop, and get torn into. They were just overly emotional, and I don't blame them. I knew this would succeed, but not for the right reasons.
Come on, it's a big ass action film, the first one with proper giant robots, with the name of one of the biggest properties in the world attached to it, not to mention Spielberg's. How could it not break a ton of records?
Posted by riogrande100 on August 7th, 2007 @ 9:17am CDT
TOKYO -- Opening on Saturday (Aug 4) on 600 screens, the Michael Bay-helmed "Transformers" jumped straight to the top of the Japanese weekend B.O. with a two-day total of Y631.3 million ($5.35 million.) That spelled more than "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ," which took in $4.04 million over the weekend.
The "Transformers" figure is 16% better than the $4.6 million opening weekend for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" ( Japan cume: $57.5 million) and 6% better than the $5.07 million of "Mission Impossible III" (Japan cume $43.4 million), both of which bowed in the same summer period.
"Transformers" also compares favorably with Bay's previous smash "Armageddon," which opened in Japan with $5.87 million and went on to make $114 million in 1998. With the Japanese exhibition circuit considerably smaller than today, "Armageddon" had a lesser number of prints.
Looking at the strong early numbers, and the higher than expected female auds, distributor United International Pictures is predicting a $59 million final tally for "Transformers."
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If it meets the predicted amount in Japan we could be looking at $700 million. Dreamworks must be loving life for making this movie, while others ditched it.
The combination of humour and action and giant robots is propelling this movie into the straosphere. Can't wait for the sequel, and a worldwide release.
Posted by Anonymous on August 7th, 2007 @ 11:01am CDT
Posted by lodelco on August 7th, 2007 @ 11:40am CDT
Spark Light wrote:Humour? You're kidding, right?
There wasn't much in the way of humor, that much I'd agree to. But the Japanese love this sort of stuff, never mind the big near-realistic robots.
Posted by jgilkinson on August 7th, 2007 @ 3:07pm CDT
EnergonPrimeRules wrote:in comparison to the domestic (as in US) box office, spidey 3 made 336mill, shrek 3 made 320mill and pirates 3 made 307mill, all established franchises. Transformers is still having 1mill+ a day, so it will easily make at least 300mill in US, and easily 300+ in rest of the world. So let's take a look at the other 3 worldwide...
Spidey 3 553mill worldwide, for 889mill total
Shrek 3 406mill worldwide for 727mill total
Pirates 3 644mill worldwide for 951mill total
not too far from transformers' 600mill worldwide (so far) and all 3 cost alot more than transformers to make too. And the sequel will make more as all sequels do.
I find it funny how many (?) people were saying that transformers was going to flop. And let's not forget the upcoming dvd of course (as everyone that knows about the business these days, dvd sales are as (or more) important than the actual box office)
agreed... if the first of what could possibly be a long running series is making this much so far I will be interested in seeing if it can do better in the next few installments. Lets all hope the general downward slide of sequels doesnt affect our bots.