Scott Mendelson: Friday Box Office - Transformers grosses $35.5 million

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen got a solid 25% Friday bump, starting out the Fri-Sun portion of its opening weekend with $35.5 million. In just three days (Wed-Fri), the truly terrible robot sequel has amassed a whopping $124.7 million. This will sadly place the movie at number four for the biggest three-days in history. Ahead of it are only The Dark Knight ($158.4 million), Spider-Man 3 ($151.1 million), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($135.6 million), and just ahead of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ($124.2 million). It's increasingly likely that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will come frighteningly close to the $200 million five-day total that it's been chasing. If it can pull in $37 million today, it will beat out Spider-Man 3 's $161 million four-day gross for the second-highest four-day total of all time. Word of mouth is seemingly having little effect, even as everyone I've talked to seems to hate it as much as I did. Heck, the ... (link)