Currently 11pm, here are some of the sellouts today at VillageCinemas

AUSTRALIA - Saturday (Day 3)

Knox (13 sessions) - 4:30pm, 9:30pm
Sunshine (12 sessions) - no sellouts
Southland (12 sessions) - 4:30pm, 9:30pm
Crown Casino (11 sessions) - 9:30pm
Jam Factory (9 sessions) - 6:10pm
Fountain Gate (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Century City (9 sessions) - 4:30pm
Dandenong (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Airport West (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Karringal (8 sessions) - no sellouts
Geelong (8 sessons) - no sellouts
Morwell (8 sessions) - no sellouts

So yeah down on Friday sellouts, but the afternoon sessions would obviously be much stronger.

You choosed this over Pirates? How dare you?!

I expected it would do better after those Thursday numbers.

Uh? what do you mean

Official Opening Day figures for Australia puts Transformers at $2,033,471

Estimates from Moviemarshal.com.au............

Slightly disappointed in TRANSFORMERS Saturday $2.1+ on early estimates for a haul of $5.9+ so far. Sunday should show a pretty good hold with school holidays in the mix. Will be happy with anything post $8 million. Would be great to see a non-sequel blockbuster.

SHREK weathering well, $1.2 - 1.3 accum for the weekend through saturday on estimates, not entirely sure that's going to be enough to catch AWE which looks certain now for $32+. Always pleased when a movie defies the critics, as SHREK has managed to do.

F4 looks headed for sub $10 million given another weekend fall of post 50%.

Ouch for HOSTEL 2, if you thought last weekend's drop was heavy wait till Paul's actuals Mon/Tues. Have been death riding this movie, it's not a good advertisement for the horror genre end of day.

Another great hold for ROMULUS coming up

Overall good weekend shaping up with five movies earning $1 million plus.


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AUSTRALIA - Day 3

Remember, the article says those figures are still not official, so it could well go up a couple thousand....though this is a brilliant performance by Transformers so far.

Let's compare it to some other blockbusters around this range:

Thursday:

The Matrix: Revolutions - $2.4m
Transformers - $2m
Spiderman - $1,725,463
Spiderman 2 - $1.6m

Friday:

The Matrix: Revolutions - $1.91m
Spiderman - $1.9m
Transformers - $1.7m
Spiderman 2 - $1.65m

Saturday:

Spiderman - $3.23m
The Matrix: Revolutions - $2.22m
Transformers - $2.1m+
Spiderman 2 - $2.1m

Sunday:

Spiderman - $3.645m*
Spiderman 2 - $1.8m
The Matrix: Revolutions - $1.55m

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So yeah, it didn't increase as expected on Saturday, the sellouts didn't suggest that this would break out to the extent of Spiderman 3. So we can definately say goodbye to $9m opening weekend. It needs another $2m on Sunday to hit $8m, but i think that's unlike considering Saturday is just $2.1m. This is probably going to finish around $7.7m or something.

Still a great opening but somewhat dissapointing considering the large opening day.

Transformers' Opens in South Korea

By BO-MI LIM
Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Steven Spielberg's "Transformers" premiered Thursday in theaters in South Korea, after notching up the country's highest online ticket bookings of any movie this year.

The action film - featuring vehicles that transform into warring robots - will initially be shown on some 530 screens nationwide, rising to around 700 by the weekend, distributor CJ Entertainment said.

Directed by Michael Bay and produced by Spielberg, "Transformers" will be released in U.S. theaters Tuesday. Josh Duhamel, Jon Voight and Shia LaBeouf star in the film.

"The graphics were just awesome, truly the best science-fiction movie I've ever seen," said Oh Kyung-chul, a 21-year-old student, after watching a morning show in Seoul. "I hope they come out with sequels. I will definitely go to watch them."

Before its Thursday debut, advance online bookings for the DreamWorks and Paramount production outweighed all bookings for other movies in South Korea, with the reservation rate hovering at over 80 percent of all online movie ticket reservations, said CJ Entertainment Publicity Manager Jessica Kim.

She said no other film has had such strong pre-screening bookings in South Korea this year. Figures for the total number of reserved tickets weren't immediately available.

"Movies that do well in South Korea tend to do well in other parts of Asia," Kim said, attributing the trend in part to the growing popularity of South Korean movies, TV dramas and music across the region.

"A movie's popularity in Asia seems to be affected by its popularity in South Korea," she said. "In that sense, South Korea has emerged as an important movie market in Asia in recent years."

"Transformers" will be released elsewhere in Asia later this week, Kim said.

Just saw Transformers today. Review tomorrow! Damn good! Grade A. Crowd ate it up!

hAHA, Glad u enjoyed, can't wait to read your review.

BTW - how busy was your session?

http://www.moviemarshal.com.au/

Transformers should be at 6mil for thu-sat, weekend should be around 7.6-.7.7 (T3 did 7.3) be the 3rd biggest opening weekend this year behind AWE, S3. NZ similar pattern

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Someone else is also predicting around $7.7m.

Wow! A 14% Sunday drop. Thanks Omega!

AUSTRALIA - Sunday (Day 4)

Knox (13 sessions) - 6:30pm
Sunshine (12 sessions) - 7:30pm
Southland (12 sessions) - 4:30pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm
Crown Casino (11 sessions) - no sellouts
Jam Factory (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Fountain Gate (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Century City (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Dandenong (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Airport West (9 sessions) - no sellouts
Karringal (8 sessions) - no sellouts
Geelong (8 sessons) - no sellouts
Morwell (8 sessions) - no sellouts

So of course, not as many sellouts as yesterday, though one cinema, Southland saw more selloouts than it has had all weekend. Hmm.....

Funnily it was sold out! Its that 4.30pm Southland session you listed

The lines were crazy there! I think the 3.30pm sold out too.

Will post a review tomorrow!

34.7 million from 10 territories!

LOL 34 million is nothing. Transformers will do horrible in Europe and at best will only make 400 million OS. Also I read that they moved TR up in England to the 21st. Are they crazy? The farther away from Potter on its home turf will be the smart move, especially with the last book coming out that weekend. TR killed themselves in England.

That is very very stupid. I hope they come to their senses.

"Transformers" opened in Thailand with ~54m over 4 days..

#5 best opening of 2007 behind Spider-Man 3's 4 day, Naresuan 1, Pirates 3, Naresuan 2

IMPRESSIVE

Detail;

Thursday - 11m
Friday - 10.5m
Saturday - 17.5m
Sunday - 15m (estimated)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111796 ... id=13&cs=1

Paramount also saw stalwart numbers from "Transformers," which logged the top per-location average with $15,35, as the disrib opted for playing into local holidays plus distancing itself from Warner's mid-July launch of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." South Korea sparked to "Transformers" in the fourth biggest launch ever with $12.4 million at 549 while the Michael Bay pic posted the best 4-day launch ever in Singapore with $1.7 million.

"Transformers" led in all 10 of its markets, including Australia with $6.7 million, Italy with $3.6 million, Taiwan with $3 million and the Philippines with $2.1 million; in eight of those, it topped "War of the Worlds," which rang up a stellar $357 million overseas in 2005. "Transformers" moves into a dozen more markets next weekend, including Russia, Spain and Scandinavia.

$3m in Taiwan! That's way better than what the big three 3s opened to. Come on mainland, you at least got to double that.

Wow, what a bummer, only 6.7m in Australia, nowhere near the 9m, or even 10m, that were deemed possible after opening day figures came in. And a very disappointing Italy start. While it's known Europe might not be that kind to Transformers i still expected a little more than that...

South Korea is on its way to be one of biggest market internationally..

Italy is always a very unpredictable market and gives us no clue where TF is headed in Europe. Much more interesting will be Spain next weekend...

I hope rest of Europe will take more kindly to it, starting with Spain...

No Nazgul - we were talking in AUD. That $6.7m is in USD. It actually made over $8m AUD over the weekend which is damn good. Its sunday hold was good. The next two weeks are school holidays so it will have great midweek numbers. Plus there is ALOT of competition at the moment.

Ahh gotcha.

No problem!

And judging by your avatar - you will love it