Transformers Revenge of the Fallen raked in an impressive $201.2 Million over 5 days to just narrowly fall short of the record of $203.8 Million currently held by The Dark Knight.
Box office estimates late Sunday gave Transformers $201.2 million for the five day opening weekend, which isn’t enough to beat The Dark Knight’s $203.8 million, but enough to make it the second highest 5-day opening in US box office history, and the second film ever to break the $200 million mark in such a short amount of time. Already the third most successful film of the year, it’s likely to take the top spot in a matter of days.
Both are setting trends of a more successful sequel, which we honestly don’t see enough of.
There seems to be a lot of love it or leave it mentality with Transformers that we didn’t see with Dark Knight. I saw it on Friday and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.
I have similar issues like with the Twins, and I felt as cool as Devastator was, he was mostly wasted. But the action and effects were SO good that I had a great time at the theater.
Were you surprised by the draw? Did you think it was going to be higher, or is this more than you guessed?
