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Bay's Giant Robot Sequel Blows Up the Box Office!

 

Published 6/28/2009 at ComingSoon.net - Movies

Going into the weekend, there was no doubt Michael Bay's anticipated sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, would be huge, though few thought it could open as big as last summer's biggest blockbuster, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight , at least not based on the awful reviews on RottenTomatoes.com . After grossing just over $60 million on Wednesday (a record for the weekday opening) and another $29 million on Thursday, the sequel brought in an estimated $112 million over the weekend for a total of $201.2 million in its first five days. Besides setting a record for a June opening, surpassing 2005's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Bay's latest grossed the second largest amount over a five-day period after The Dark Knight . (link)

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