Transformers on top with $390.4 million
Pic takes $200.1 million from domestic box office
By Pamela McClintock of Variety -- Video Business, 6/29/2009
JUNE 29 | VARIETY BOX-OFFICE REPORT: Aside from its whopping five-day domestic tally -- the second highest of all time -- Paramount's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen broke records in several countries overseas, leading to a massive $390.4 million worldwide through Sunday, one of the best global launches ever.Official weekend numbers released Monday morning showed Transformers 2 grossing $200.1 million domestically--slightly less than the $201.2 million estimated on Sunday--over the course of its five-day opening. That easily eclipsed the $152.4 million earned by Spider-Man 2, which previously held the five-day record for a Wednesday launch.
And Transformers 2 came within shouting distance of the best five-day gross of all time: $203.8 million for WB's The Dark Knight.
Overseas, the action tentpole grossed $166.1 million as it opened day and date in virtually every territory (pic opened the weekend before in the U.K. and Japan). Official tally was ahead of the Sunday estimate of $162 million.
Either way, Transformers 2 scored the second best international opening of all time, after Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ($216.3 million), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ($193 million) and Spider-Man 3 ($164.9 million).
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