Entertaining, full of special effects, explosions and action, blockbuster from director Michael Bay Transformers 3: The Dark Side of the Moon come in 1366 screens and started confidently from the first place. Despite some dissatisfaction with the sequel, ordinary viewers could not resist the temptation to see another destruction of the planet in an even larger scale, which can evaluate in the numerous TV spots on various federal channels in the past two months.
The third part earned $16.90M for the standard four-day weekend and $21.90M with Wednesday and preview shows. It covers the final result Revenge of the Fallen, which was $18.17M. Box office over the weekend were higher than the disaster film 2012 ($16.34M), and Ice Age 3 two years ago on the same date ($16.43M, for five days - $20.93M), Of course, primarily, because of the higher ticket prices. This year, only Pirates of the Caribbean 4 enjoyed great success at the start.
Monte Carlo, girlish romantic comedy with Selena Gomez, appeared on 231 screens and earned $0.61M. The tape performed standardly for such comedies without the stars and become a good alternative for the female audience who are not interested in robots. The similar release in June last year, Letters to Juliet took $0.47M on 203 screens.
All holdovers quickly went down under the weight of such a large project. Cars 2 as Kung Fu Panda 2 in its time, crashed heavily at 67%. At the moment, an animated film earned $15.60M. Blitz for the second weekend fell by 72%, Super 8 for the third dipped by 83% (total $8.18M), while Green Lantern collapsed by 94% (total $ 4.84M), having lost all of their sessions after inexpressive start.
1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (1385 screens) - $16.90M (NEW)
2. Cars 2 (1200) - $3.10 (-67%)
3. Monte Carlo (227) - $0.61M (NEW)
4. Bridesmaids (331) - $0.57M (-58%)
5. Blitz (418) - $0.39M (-72%)
6. Super 8 (671) - $0.29M (-83%)
7. Burke and Hare (147) - $0.16M (-40%)
8. All inclusive (Russia) (101) - $0.09M (-79%)
9. The Ward (86) - $0.07M (-62%)
10. The Hangover Part II (80) - $0.07M (-81%)
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