Revenge of the Fallen Transformers: ROTF Box Office Discussion

[roach]

I agree.....well, I don't watch porn, but I agree with the sentiment.

you have internet and a computer....c'mon

 

[Anita18]

As per Showbiz Data, the actuals have Transformers 2 at $197 million over its 5-day weekend. Still a jaw-dropping opening.

No question, it'll win the July 4th weekend, but how much will it fall?

EDIT: They've updated their info with finalized numbers. The 5 day opening was $200 million.

The weekend was lower than originally predicted, but they managed to re-actual the Wednesday and Thursday actuals. They claim a few hundred theaters in Puerto Rico added $1.4 million to Wednesday and $400,000 to Thursday, to tip it juuuust over $200 million for the 5-day mark.

Creative accounting is so amusing to me, especially when it doesn't involve my money.

 

[knowsbleed]

i dont even think peopel are getting dumb. last year people showed that they like quality movies and that they will pay for it. it was th eTDK. this year they wanted to see robots fight and some idiotic but cute humor. why not.

relaxing and chilling.

Sad to say... but I agreed. I mean... when I started following the first Transformers movie back in '04... I had high hopes for a Speilberg/Zemeckis type story... but when I realized that Bay would be attached, I lowered my expectations.

I take this film for exactly what it is... a BIG, DUMB yet fun movie. I had fun watching it. That's something I couldn't really say about the first movie.

 

[The Lizard]

I take this film for exactly what it is... a BIG, DUMB yet fun movie. I had fun watching it. That's something I couldn't really say about the first movie.

That's weird, because I feel exactly the opposite. I had fun watching the first TF movie in 2007, despite recognizing all of its stupid parts, but I just couldn't get past the same stupidity magnified 10X in ROTF.
It actually seemed like Bay was testing to see how much crap he could get away with this time, and he just wore out all the tolerance I had left over from the first movie after the first 30 minutes of ROTF.

 

[Asgard]

I checked out boxofficemojo and the final domestic gross was at $319 million. Im gonna say this movie will end up at $335 million.

 

[Astrodust]

I don't understand why so many people want this film to fail. It's like it had come close to breaking TDK's record that people became so defensive. It's not a perfect movie but people are enjoying it so what's the big deal. I didn't enjoy Spiderman 3 but I never wished it to fail.

 

[miggizle85]

This is from BoxOfficeMojo.com:

* Note: Revenge of the Fallen's weekend gross fell $3 million short of Paramount's Sunday estimate, which would have put the five-day opening at $198.2 million. Though shy of $200 million, it would have still ranked second among the all time five-day starts. However, Paramount revised its grosses from Wednesday and Thursday upward, and that's what pushed the total past $200 million. Wednesday went from $60.6 million to $62.0 million, and Thursday went from $28.6 million to $29.1 million. Paramount reported that the differences came from unreported showings from the movie's midnight openings on Wednesday night, which went from the previously reported $16 million at around 3,000 theaters to $16.8 million at close to 3,300 theaters, as well as late reports from institutional IMAX locations and theaters in Puerto Rico and some Caribbean islands (which the studio counts in its domestic numbers), which accounted for $1.1 million of the difference.

Man this stuff is funny. I'm not gonna call foul play nor am I trying to discredit TF2's $200 million in 5 days. I just think its funny how these "unreported" numbers happened to just barely push it over the mark. Clearly the studio wants a sexier 200,000,000 number to wow audiences with in the coming days. It makes for better advertising.

But then again The Dark Knight passed the $1 billion worldwide mark in similar fashion. Towards its final weeks TDK was stuck right around the $998 million mark and it was down to only making like $70,000 a week worldwide. It was starting to look like it was gonna fall just short. Then (i think it was around Oscar time) WB reported that there was like $2 million from Ecuador all of a sudden.

Again, I've got nothing against this sort of thing it's just... amusing.

 

[The Caped Knight]

I personally hope lame Bay stays away from the next film....and Spielberg takes over the directors chair.

A Tranformers film directed by Steven Spielberg would equal a TRUE epic and not some lame unbalanced popcorn film that is aimed at making 10-20 years olds happy.

Any possibility of that happening now is pretty much gone , The Fans & General audience have spoken by the mere fact that ROTF is cleaning up Big @ The Box Office both domestically & Worldwide . Bay isn't going anywhere he'll be back for movie 3 .

 

[luca_frontino]

I feel like... a weak man seeing a group of maniacs raping my girlfriend.

 

[Anita18]

This is from BoxOfficeMojo.com:

* Note: Revenge of the Fallen's weekend gross fell $3 million short of Paramount's Sunday estimate, which would have put the five-day opening at $198.2 million. Though shy of $200 million, it would have still ranked second among the all time five-day starts. However, Paramount revised its grosses from Wednesday and Thursday upward, and that's what pushed the total past $200 million. Wednesday went from $60.6 million to $62.0 million, and Thursday went from $28.6 million to $29.1 million. Paramount reported that the differences came from unreported showings from the movie's midnight openings on Wednesday night, which went from the previously reported $16 million at around 3,000 theaters to $16.8 million at close to 3,300 theaters, as well as late reports from institutional IMAX locations and theaters in Puerto Rico and some Caribbean islands (which the studio counts in its domestic numbers), which accounted for $1.1 million of the difference.

Man this stuff is funny. I'm not gonna call foul play nor am I trying to discredit TF2's $200 million in 5 days. I just think its funny how these "unreported" numbers happened to just barely push it over the mark. Clearly the studio wants a sexier 200,000,000 number to wow audiences with in the coming days. It makes for better advertising.

But then again The Dark Knight passed the $1 billion worldwide mark in similar fashion. Towards its final weeks TDK was stuck right around the $998 million mark and it was down to only making like $70,000 a week worldwide. It was starting to look like it was gonna fall just short. Then (i think it was around Oscar time) WB reported that there was like $2 million from Ecuador all of a sudden.

Again, I've got nothing against this sort of thing it's just... amusing.

The most amusing part is that they had to fudge Wednesday and Thursday's ORIGINAL ACTUALS to do it. Even the people over at World of KJ and BOM have never seen that kind of stunt before.

Overseas numbers are always super-fudgeable, that's never a surprise.

 

[Sentinel X]

I don't understand why so many people want this film to fail. It's like it had come close to breaking TDK's record that people became so defensive. It's not a perfect movie but people are enjoying it so what's the big deal. I didn't enjoy Spiderman 3 but I never wished it to fail.

because it doesn't deserve it.
I am a HUGE spidey fan. He is my favoirte superhero but after watching SM3 I was super happy when TDK took away its OW record....because the film sucked. I was also happy it didn't hit 400 million.

Im not going to lose any sleep if a bad film takes and OW record or hits 400 million plus.....but I dont want it to happen. If it does happen then oh well

 

[dark_b]

because it doesn't deserve it.
I am a HUGE spidey fan. He is my favoirte superhero but after watching SM3 I was super happy when TDK took away its OW record....because the film sucked. I was also happy it didn't hit 400 million.

Im not going to lose any sleep if a bad film takes and OW record or hits 400 million plus.....but I dont want it to happen. If it does happen then oh well

people payed money for action and humor. they got it.

 

[roach]

obviously what the critics like and what the General Public like are two different things

 

[nintendo nerd]

Cool, I can understand why. But I doubt it will beat TDK for overall box office.

And Thank God for that.

 

[Sentinel X]

people payed money for action and humor. they got it.

True. The action is top notch (from the scenes I have seen) but the humor is down right corny. But the genral audience does love it....Im just responding to the guy saying he doesn't see why people want it to fail.

People want to see their favorite films succeed or if they are beaten at least to be beaten by a film that is just as good or at least decent.

(and I am saying this as a person who had a blast with the first when I saw it in theaters but everything I've seen from the 2nd has induced me to vomit)

 

[dark_b]

True. The action is top notch (from the scenes I have seen) but the humor is down right corny. But the genral audience does love it....Im just responding to the guy saying he doesn't see why people want it to fail.

People want to see their favorite films succeed or if they are beaten at least to be beaten by a film that is just as good or at least decent.

(and I am saying this as a person who had a blast with the first when I saw it in theaters but everything I've seen from the 2nd has induced me to vomit)

look in a way i understand you.
sometime it happens that you hate a movie but it still makes a lot of money. as a joke i sometime say that who is paying money.

but i think some people here are crossing the line. we can not insult so many people(millions).

 

[knowsbleed]

I feel like... a weak man seeing a group of maniacs raping my girlfriend.

This post brings me glee.

 

[luca_frontino]

Does anybody know what's the actual percentage for studios on domestic box office and foreign gross?
I learned Paramount spent, above the $200 million for the production, also $150 million for promotion, giving a total cost of $350 million (but I still don't know if prints and taxes are included).
Wich is the "magic" number that declares the movie a success?

 

[dark_b]

Does anybody know what's the actual percentage for studios on domestic box office and foreign gross?
I learned Paramount spent, above the $200 million for the production, also $150 million for promotion, giving a total cost of $350 million (but I still don't know if prints and taxes are included).
Wich is the "magic" number that declares the movie a success?

we never know exactly how much money a studio spends on movies. or how much for promotion?
where did you get the number 150 millions for promotion?

but this movie is making money.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

I hated the movie.

 

[Dark Knight]

Spielberg said Bay is perfect for Transformers. The general audience isn't expecting anything more than what Bay delivered. Whine all you want but people liked it. If this movie makes less than 300 million than there would be issues. If it makes closer to 400 million then everything went as planned and they pleased who they wanted to please. Bay and Spielberg took a story about giant fighting robots and turned it into a commercial success. Let's put it this way, if people don't like it, it won't make the money it's going to make.

Oh I understand that people want to see giant robots beating the crap out eachother....me included.

But making the story, (or lack thereof) so stupid, corny with dumb a$$ humor and having racist twin robots, to attract the lowest common denominator of movie fans is and insulting the intelligence of the rational movie going public is downright pathetic.

Michael Bay is an A-Hole.

Too bad the man can't make a movie with any substance to save his life.

 

[Hound89]

Oh I understand that people want to see giant robots beating the crap out eachother....me included.

But making the story, (or lack thereof) so stupid, corny with dumb a$$ humor and having racist twin robots, to attract the lowest common denominator of movie fans is and insulting the intelligence of the rational movie going public is downright pathetic.

Michael Bay is an A-Hole.

Too bad the man can't make a movie with any substance to save his life.

You know if u Pay Attention the Story was Actually Easy to follow [and the twins weren't Racist]

 

[miggizle85]

$14,853,940 on Monday (a 53.6% drop) for a $214,931,195 total.

Not too strong a hold there. Still a pretty big number though. I think Transformers could make $50 million during the week and have a $48 million weekend (holding strong but mostly because its a 4th of July weekend).

Expect it to be just around $300 million after Sunday (and if its really close we could get the old "unreported" numbers bit to push it over the top).

 

[chaseter]

$300 million by the end of this week is what I expect. That gross in just 2 weeks is amazing.

 

[miggizle85]

You know if u Pay Attention the Story was Actually Easy to follow [and the twins weren't Racist]

I'm pretty sure he wasn't suggesting that the story was too complicated. Complicated storyline and Michael Bay just don't go hand in hand . I think he meant it was just stupid.

As for the twins. Yeah they weren't racist (we're too quick to call racism these days), but they were stupid and childish. Maybe some people liked them but I found them slightly offensive and more importantly not very funny.