As of Sunday the estimates for Michael Bay’s “Transformers” sequel put the film at over $201 million - just shy of the all-time five day box office record.
By Monday afternoon, however, it appeared that Paramount Pictures had been a bit over zealous in reporting their weekend estimates (they’re calledestimatesfor a reason).
The actual weekend numbers for “Transformers 2” came in at $198.2 million - three million under what had been reported.
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But here is where it gets really complicated - Paramount also apparently UNDER reported its grosses for Wednesday and Thursday.
In the end the domestic five day total for “Tf2” stood at about $200 million so it all evened out - pretty much.
Now on to better news for you robot lovers - Monday’s $14.8 million estimate, when added to the film’s international box office haul of $204 million brings “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” above $418 million total!!
Those fabled first five days have also given the film the biggest June debut of all time as well as the highest grossing non-holiday, non-Friday opening and the seventh biggest debut weekend overall.
I know this is getting kind of confusing so I have included an updated chart to help make sense of all the crazy:
Daily
Total
Wednesday
$62,016,476
Thursday
$29,094,472
$91,110,948
Friday
$36,740,666
$127,851,614
Saturday
$40,205,083
$168,056,697
Sunday
$32,020,558
$200,077,255
Monday (est.)
$14,800,000
$214,877,255
