It’s a good day to be a Tuesday. As you guys know, Transformers officially opened yesterday. It made a lot of money. To put this into perspective, the previous record for opening on a Tuesday was Pirates of the Caribbean 2. It took in an impressive $15.7 million on its opening day. $15.7 is great.
Transformers reportedly made $29.5 million… almost double.
Now let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. That doesn’t mean Transformers is going to break any other box office records… just that it had a more than solid opening day. We’ll get a better idea of how things will go once the first weekend is finished up. Our good friends over at Slashfilm give us this:
You add the $8 million that the (MONDAY) night screenings brought in, and you get a 28-hour number of $38 million. Not bad at all. The film seems to be maintaining a good buzz and is likely to make $140-$150 million in its first 7 days.
I guess there were a lot of people waiting to see Robots in disguise. Best movie of the year so far. :)
