Poll: 'Transformers 2' Opens Big - How Much Will It Make?
Filed under: Box Office, Polls
If you don't know your Megatron from your Optimus Prime, join the club! Most giant robots look all the same to me, and the first Transformers movie felt like a comedown for Michael Bay after the gleeful insanity of Bad Boys II. Still, I've gotten a kick out ot reading a few of the reviews, like the one penned by our own Todd Gilchrist, as well as the harsh critical takedowns by Roger Ebert and Manohla Dargis. And now I'm wondering how Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will perform at the box office. Can it possibly recoup its huge production and marketing budget? How big is big?
The movie is off to a running start, earning an estimated $16 million from midnight screenings last night, according to Variety. That's less than The Dark Knight's $18.5 million last year, but Variety notes the Batman flick "had the advantage of opening on a Friday" and that Transformers 2 had "the best midnight run ever for a movie opening on a Wednesday." Transformers made $8.8 million on its opening night (Tuesday at 12:01 a.m.) in 2007 and went on to earn $146.6 million in its first six full days of screenings, including the July 4 holiday, per Box Office Mojo.
The record to beat for the first five days of release is $203.7 million, set by The Dark Knight. Can Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen get anywhere near that record? Take our poll and let us know: How much will it make in its opening five-day weekend?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-24-2009 @ 6:25PM
Wayne said...
I hope it makes less than $100 million. That would restore a little bit of my faith in humanity. I'm resigned to the fact that it will probably earn much more than I hope it does.
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6-24-2009 @ 7:29PM
Optimus Squirrel said...
I think that really says something when not just one critic, but another--arguably the biggest U.S. critic out there-- rips your review to shreds.
Clearly Gilchrist was too too focused on Fox's rack and swayed by press junkets to write up that joke of a review.
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6-24-2009 @ 8:58PM
Tim said...
Heck. I grew up watching Transformers, and I still couldn't tell the difference between them all in the first movie, except for Optimus Prime and Bumblebee...
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6-24-2009 @ 10:05PM
nick said...
The Dark Knight showed the world that it is indeed possible to make a big summer blockbuster that you don’t have to check your brain at the door to attempt to enjoy.
Unfortunately Bay didn’t get that memo and made quite possibly the stupidest action movie of all-time. So stupid it makes you long for Jean Claude Van Damme and Adam Sandler making Freddy Got Fingered II.
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6-24-2009 @ 10:32PM
Mr.R said...
Great that Ebert mentions Cinematical's Todd Gilchrist's review but unfortunately he finds it as confusing, ambiguous and out of proportion as I did, not to mention high on something. I blame Bay, his movie must have made him catatonic and I worry we might be in for a tsunami of shell shocked moviegoers that may cause equal confusion and mayhem around the world thanks to over exposure to giant robot baysplosions.
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6-24-2009 @ 11:21PM
you said...
Unforunately, it will make it big. Personally I felt the movie was terrible. But that the thing, it doesn't matter how good or how bad it is, Bay drawed them in with his first film. And that's all he needed. Just hoping the third one will actually have a story line to it instead of mindless robots going around shooting each other, while one sits in boredom praying one of the Decepticons will shoot them next.
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6-25-2009 @ 12:34PM
Paul said...
Michael Bay directed Tranformers 2 grossed $55 million on Wednesday, breaking the Harry Potter box office record. I guess it did better than people expected.
http://www.michael-bay.com has more info
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