its beautiful (the robots).

Anyone know an estimate on the budget of this? I mean, With that footage it looks REALLY pricey. Over 200m?

Anyway, does anyone else see this possibly being hurt by terminator? If terminator is a surprise success at least? I mean they both seem to have the desperate people running and frightening machines looking erie and awesome, there is a month there but still.

I don't think the budget matters because it'll pass $200 Million within 8 days. It's only real competition is Harry Potter and that's 3 weeks after TF2's release.

fuck it, I'm in.

I'm in!

No I'm aware of that, I was just curious. It will pass the budget 3 or 4 times over (WW) obviously, but I was just wondering cause it looks REALLY expensive, way more pricey than the last one (which was around 175m if I remember correctly)

Yeah I still don't understand how you think Terminator would hurt it...

They look very similar imo. The whole people running frightened while machines destroy everything, which is good for terminator, but I still think this "heavy-hearted" attitude for Transformers is very odd and off.

Theatrical trailer has been out for weeks, now accepting Silver Members.

hmm....still no. Unless I see crazy audience reactions or some sort of jump in buzz, I just don't see it hitting this hard this fast, or making this much total. It will beat TF by 100m, but not much more.

Is anyone else seeing a lack of massive buzz for this film?

what lack of buzz, disappointment with the most recent trailer, but no lack of buzz.

I'm actually more disappointed with HP6. I haven't seen the trailer yet in theaters, though that should change with Terminator coming out.

WB and HP6 deserve to crash and burn for their treachery, film should have come out 7 months ago.

Nice predictions BJ

I think its opening 5 days will be huge. I cant believe there are doubters for this movie. It will be insane. numbers

Hey BJ do you really think this will get 26m from 6-7pm showings if it does open with these times. Do you really believe this will get second largest biggest non-holiday Monday 2nd to TDK.

What is your Domestic and Worldwide?

Here are mine:
OD: 53m
OW:134m
5-221m
9-293m
Dom: 440m
WW: 865m

The buzz will come, worry not. Wednesday record is in the bag.

When I say "buzz", I mean event film of the summer, you can't escape it, buzz that is typical for one or two summer releases.

I personally haven't seen any film come close to this yet. Star Trek would be the closest one, but I wouldn't have called it's pre-release buzz massive.

Some examples from the past few years: TDK, IJ4, SM3, TF, P3, P2 (came late, might be the case with TF2, we'll see).

I don't remember hearing crazy, event film of the year, epic buzz for TDK till June. Before that IJ4 was getting tons of talk, TDK didn't become the real film to see around here until mid June or so, which may happen for TF2. If it doesn't start getting out of this world by mid June I'll be concerned, for now I think it is sounding just fine.

Cause LOTL is gonna trample it right BKB?!?

1st of all, Indy 4 had NO buzz; literally. It had no trailer until March. TDK was the event movie of the summer once I AM LEGEND made 250 million, becuase thats where the jaw droping teaser aired. It was always gonna be the film of the summer after that; Ledgers death just made it go from a 130/350 million films to 158/530 film.

2nd of all...I hope your kidding for real, because TDK was one of the most talked about films pre-release EVER...You honestly must have been living under a rock if you didnt anything for TDK until June.

I didn't say that I didn't hear a single word. The week ledger died there was a lot of talk about his final role in TDK. And when the final trailer hit (not sure when that was, march?) there was plenty of talk then. But early summer there was a lot of talk about IJ4, and Get Smart, and SITC ( I hang around a lot of girls....), TDK was mentioned plenty too, but it wasn't like it was the only movie that existed. That kind of buzz didn't kick in, at least in my town, till a month before release.

Trailer hit with Iron Man in May.

TF2 is much more like Pirates 2, which was one of the quietest mega blockbusters ever.

I think this is very likely now. Terminator disappointing is going to help a lot. In fact, I think had they kept it on Friday it would have probably beaten The Dark Knight's OW record.

$65M opening day, $35M Thursday, $45M Friday, $50M Saturday, $40M Sunday. $235M 5 day.

Transformers II could, at best, manage an opening weekend to opening day multiplier of 4. Considering the best Wednesday -- ever -- was HP5's $44m opening in 2007, I don't know what y'all are smoking. This isn't Spidey or TDK. Closest comparison may be POTC, but I don't think people are anticipating this sequel like POTC2.

I see a "safe" $50m/$175m/$360m.