On the opening night in the US, Transformers managed to take in an estimated $8.5 million in ticket sales. It opened to 3,050 screens and had an 8 PM starting time. Not bad, roughly $2.7k per cinema, I’d be happy with that. I guess Bay took advantage of the Independence day people looking for something to do.
Disney-Pixar’s Ratatouille was also still running on Monday and it managed to hold it’s own on the weekend debuting as No. 1, slipped to second spot with a cool $7.5 million in ticket sales on Monday. The film that was gonna cause ripples came in at third, with Life Free or Die Hard pulling in an estimated $4.3 million.
Transformers wasn’t the only thing that night making ripples. According to many film goers, a mysterious trailer occurred during the opening of Transformers which is set to be a monster movie. The only thing is, nobody knows anything about the movie only that JJ Abrams will be directing it.
The trailer is not online and when I went searching came across a bunch of Transformers trailers and a Star Trek trailer, but the film is set to debut on January the 8th, 2008. Well I cannot wait until Transformers comes down under so I can see this trailer, it is causing quite a stir around the net.
