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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

'Transformers 3' Sparks Fourth-of-July Fireworks!

Setting a replacement 4th-of-July box workplace record, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon has set a blistering pace earning $181.125 million in N. America since its debut last Tuesday night at 9pm. a replacement July fourth weekend record of $97.5 million for Friday through Sunday and $116.4 million for Friday through Monday (beating Spider-Man a pair of and its $88.2M and $115.8M July fourth records), shows that this latest Transformers benefited from nice word-of-mouth and audience excitement.  Fueled by a solid hour three-D revenue split and big IMAX showings of nearly $14 million domestically, the film was a complete winner for Paramount photos. Transformers three worldly earned $379 million with $217 million from the international territories whereas IMAX broke their own global record on T3 with their first-ever $20 million and gap because the film earned $22.5 million massive screen greenbacks worldwide with a $13.7M/$8.75M split.

Disney/Pixar’s Cars a pair of roared into second place weekend with $26.2 million for 3-days and $32 million for the four day amount.  The G-rated family-friendly film can cross the checkered flag on Monday night with over $120 million in North yank revenue $207.5 million worldwide greenbacks.

Sony’s R-rated comedy unhealthy Teacher from Sony took detention in third place when a stronger-than-expected debut last weekend.  A 3-day take of $14.5 million and 4-day figure of $17.6 million is on the report card for this modestly budgeted comedy that may create a tidy profit for the studio.  Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel star within the film that may cross the $60 million mark in North America by the tip of fourth of July festivities on Monday.

Debuting in fourth place with $13 million for 3-days and $15.7 million for 4-days, Larry Crowne from Universal may be a dramatic comedy starring Oscar winners Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.  The film offered an alternate to the child and robot-friendly fare that dominated the marketplace this vacation weekend drawing a decidedly a lot of subtle older audience searching for fewer explosions and no talking vehicles.

Paramount’s Super eight enters its fourth weekend with a 3-day gross of $7.8 million and a 4-day figure of $9.5 million.  The film crossed the $100 million mark this past week and is currently up to $110 million through Monday night.

The three-day portion of the weekend was “up” five-hitter vs. the comparable July fourth weekend last year, however the four day portion as led by the huge Twilight Saga: Eclipse in 2010 wound up “down” five-hitter as fueled by an incredibly robust Monday, July five of post-Fourth vacation movie-going.

In connected news Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides becomes solely the eighth film in history to high the $1 billion mark in world box workplace with an astounding $1,008.9 billion though Monday night creating it the seventh highest grossing film globally of all-time.

Weekend Box-Office
Top Movies - For Fourth-of-July Weekend (4-Day Estimates)
    Movie                                                     F-S-S-M Gross     Total so far
1   Transformers: Dark of the Moon (PG13)     $116.4M            $181.1M
2   Cars a pair of (G)                                        $32.1M              $123.0M
3   unhealthy Teacher (R)                                  $17.6M              $63.0M
4   Larry Crowne (PG13)                                 $15.7M              $15.7M
5   Super eight (PG13)                                      $9.5M                $110.1M

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