“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” did some huge numbers at the box office despite the harsh reviews. In fact it nearly beat “The Dark Knight” for the largest 5-day opening of all-time: “The Dark Knight” – $203.8M “Transformers-2” – $201.2M. Now that was close!
The worldwide total for “Transfomers”: $387M, and the film had the biggest 3-day weekend of any movie this year, beating “Wolverine” by over $25M. And it nearly doubled the biggest IMAX opening of all-time (“Harry Potter-5” in ’07).
“Up” is still the ’09 box office leader with $250.2M, not not for long. Even with the terrible reviews (including mine below), “Tranformers-2” will blow by the Pixar fan-favorite this weekend.