MONDAY UPDATE: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen tops Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs for the three-day weekend after final July 4 box office results are released. The following was written based on Sunday’s estimated figures.
Talk about a photo finish. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs reached the end of the July 4 weekend effectively tied for the three-day weekend box office crown, with both films taking in $42.5 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office. Those numbers will undoubtedly change once final figures are announced on Monday — except that, really, Manny the Woolly Mammoth has most likely already taken this fight.
We all know that when school’s out for the summer, there really
isn’t such a thing as a “weekend” when it comes to movies aimed at the
kids. To wit: Although its three-day opening weekend is the lowest ever for the Ice Age franchise, Ice Age 3’s estimated five-day opening gross stands at $67.5 million. In the same five-day period, Transformers 2 took in an estimated $64.9 million, a clear second place. Still, Optimus is no slouch; with $293.4 million in the bank, Transformers 2 is easily the highest grossing movie of 2009 — if no longer on track to match last year’s The Dark Knight, which had raked in $334 million at the same point in its run.
Johnny Depp, meanwhile, may not have had the box office-melting power of Capt. Jack Sparrow in his corner, but as famed bank robber John Dillinger, he still managed to help lift Public Enemies past decidedly mixed reviews to a highly respectable $26.1 million for the three-day weekend and a $41 million five-day total. As fans of adult dramas everywhere breathe a huge sigh of relief, the next test for the gangster picture will be overcoming muted word-of-mouth; it bagged just a “B” CinemaScore rating.
The Proposal landed at fourth with $12.8 million, an impressive 31% drop from the week before, bringing the romcom to $94.2 million. The Hangover continues to hang on, netting $10.4 million for fifth place and passing the $200 million threshold in its fifth week of release. Finally, Up may have lost its temporary title of 2009’s top grosser, but with a $6.6 million weekend lifting its total to $264 million, the winsome adventure rose past The Incredibles to become Pixar’s second-highest grossing movie ever, behind only Finding Nemo. Not bad for a geriatric widower, huh?
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A tie? Has this ever happened? lol Damn I was hoping T2 would have fallen…
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ice age sucks transformer 2 is a better movie than any other movie!!!!!
Transformer was terrible. I walked out of the theater after 20 mins.
Go Transformers. Love Megan:
http://www.actressscene.com/2009/06/megan-fox-in-transformers.html
GO to Youtube and watch
LITTLE MONKEY BOY CLIMBING
Such an adorable video!
Ice Age! I like this movie!
http://www.nowgoal.com/21.shtml
I think Transformers is about out of gas. Terrible word of mouth has kept it from pushing as high as it could have.
This summer can’t hold a to summers past. A look back at Independence Day in 1996-http://blog.entertainmenttodayandbeyond.com/2009/07/05/roland-emmerich%e2%80%99s-independence-day-a-look-back/
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UP is the best movie this year!
I can’t believe Public Enemies wasn’t number one????
nice movie
There’s only one legitimate place I’ve found to watch them both online actually, the rest seem like scams :-/ You can see them over here though: http://jjpeg.com/watch28015.html
They make you do a little survey but after that it’s good to go
We saw Up today. And it may be an animated children’s movie but it does a very poignant and powerful job of handling real life issues without scaring the kids or being depressing and harsh. It was a wonderful experience.
I hardly go to the movies anymore; most are not worth the price of admission, and audience members don’t know how to stop talking and turn off their cell phones. I rent.
I hardly go to the movies anymore; most are not worth the price of admission, and audience members don’t know how to refrain from talking, nor do they care about turning off their cell phones. I buy or rent – thank you very much!
I saw both Transformers and Ice Age this weekend and I have no idea why they got such bad reviews. – whatever i don’t listen to the critics any more- CRAZYCRITICS.com is my new fav site, screw Rottentomatoes
I’ll pass on both of these dreadful movies. I’m waiting for December 18.
I’ll pass on both of these dreadful movies. I’m still waiting for December 18.
this is better than transformers and only cost 30 dollars to make!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev4Lx4y6Fv0
Yeah critics don’t know what the hell they are talking about. You want REAL reviews check out http://www.furyofthefilmfan.net
I just think its pretty pathetic when a a movie is produced not for the acting but to show off girls in such a demeaning way. All Megan Fox is in the movie is a sex symbol and as far as Im concerned if that was taken out then what kind of movie would it be? A much better one with more meaning.
Can’t wait for Bruno next weekend!
How sweet! Brittany has Fox-envy. If you had paid attention, Magan’s character actually kinda saved the day in BOTH pictures. Big deal if she’s hot, sexy, sizzling on the screen, and pouty with a …. a…. what was my point exactly again?
Oh yeah! Hush, we likes us some Megan Fox! She is not a stereotypical blonde big-boobed, no talent Hollywood bimbo. You hating her for being eye candy is like me being jealous of Johnny Depp for being eye candy. Comnpletely pointless. (He’s my hero btw)
Why? Transformers was really good. Kept me in my seat the whole movie. Go AUTOBOTS!
Whoever says Transformers2 suck is kissing critics butt.Most people loved it,its why it continues to sell like the Dark Knight..
To the author(Adam B. Vary) of this new letter, I must say you are a joke. DO YOUR RESEARCH NEXT TIME because transformers made 64.9 million in midnight showing on tuesday and all of wednesday. It made over 201.4 million through the 5-day period. Stop exaggerating and stop relating ice age to transformers. Its funny how transformers is still beating Ice age even after two weeks after it opened.
He wasn’t comparing Ice Age’s 5-day opening gross to Transformer’s 5-day opening gross. He was comparing the same five day period that Ice Age opened up along with the same five days of Transformer business.
** Justin ** I thought I had a long weekend. Thanks for the laugh…you missed that one by a mile.