SATURDAY AM: Paramount says PG-13 Transformers made $22.5 million Friday from 4,011 North American theaters and has a new cume of $107.4 million. Box office gurus tell me that, after a record breaking Fourth Of July week opening, the DreamWorks battle of the bots should haul in $60 million this weekend for a 6 1/2-day cume of $150 million. That’s 50% more gross receipts than Paramount anticipated, and 20% more than box office gurus predicted. That’s also equivalent to the budget of the rock 'em, sock 'em movie without marketing costs. “Word has gotten out to the parents that it’s OK to take the kids,” a Paramount exec told me Friday. The studio just told me it believes Transformers’s first 6 1/2 days of release positions it as one of the biggest non-sequel 7-day openings of all time, alongside Spider-Man 1, The Passion Of The Christ and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone. Meanwhile, Transformers has smashed one-day records for Tuesday ($27.8M), Wednesday ($29M), and Thursday ($19.1M) as well as for Independence Day. On Monday night, the pic directed by Michael Bay and supervised by Steven Spielberg took in $8.8M.
After making nearly $85 million in its first three-and-a-half days, DreamWorks’ Transformers held well over the three-day weekend, grossing an estimated $67.6 million and becoming the second-highest opening movie for the 4th of July holiday frame behind Spider-Man 2
In just one week, the Michael Bay action flick has grossed approximately $152.5 million–just over its reported $150 million budget–and it’s trailing just behind the original Spider-Man in terms of total gross for its first week
where do the dollar amounts come from? do they come from current ticket prices? because with the price of a money being about 5x what it was 10-15 years ago, and going up a couple of dollars every year, wouldn’t numbers really be meaningless? you wouldnt be able to compare one movie to another unless they were released in the same year.
where do the dollar amounts come from? do they come from current ticket prices? because with the price of a money being about 5x what it was 10-15 years ago, and going up a couple of dollars every year, wouldn’t numbers really be meaningless? you wouldnt be able to compare one movie to another unless they were released in the same year.
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:wstupid: , the scale should be on # of tickets sold rather than price…
Movies 10-15 years ago never saw a $150 million cost to make either. I think its all in fair terms.
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That is true but when you compare the movie Spiderman, movie tickets were at least $1 less than they are today. It may not seem like much but it adds up.
quick question to those that saw transformers… do you know what that opening trailer was for? (the one taken from a camcorder where the statue of liberty’s head landed on the street)
quick question to those that saw transformers… do you know what that opening trailer was for? (the one taken from a camcorder where the statue of liberty’s head landed on the street)
quick question to those that saw transformers… do you know what that opening trailer was for? (the one taken from a camcorder where the statue of liberty’s head landed on the street)
