We knew that **Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen **would be big – that tends to go with the territory when you’re dealing with giant robots – but we weren’t sure just how big.
Until today, that is, when news broke that Michael Bay’s mega-sequel grossed a record $55 million on Wednesday, its opening day in the States, beating the previous title-holder, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, by a cool $10.8 million.
Although that’s a figure as mightily impressive as Devastator’s giant metal swingers, industry folk have used calculators and flux capacitors to work out that the movie is on course for a five-day haul in the region of $150-170 million which means that it won’t overtake The Dark Knight’s record of $203 million in the same timeframe.
But if the pace holds up – and that includes $16 million from midnight shows – it should beat the $152.4 million amassed by Spider-Man 2, the previous holder for the equivalent weekend, in 2004.
However, with the film attracting largely negative reviews, it’s going to be interesting to see how the movie will hold up over the coming weekends. It’s pretty much a shoo-in to become the biggest film of the summer (although Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince will have a major say in that), but only time will tell if it can push on past the $300 million mark that seems to be inevitable, and hit headier heights.
All figures, of course, are currently estimated, but final figures will be released later today.