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

Excellent openings so far.....nice to see it above $8m in Australia (if MadGez is correct) and i'm not that dissapointed with Italy. It's Okay, not that bad.

Taiwan's opening is great, it's probably among the Top 10 in most of these Asian markets. In Korea, it's above Shrek and probably only behind Pirates 3, Spiderman 3 and The Host.....insane.

You betcha!

From mvoiemarshal.com.au........


TRANSFORMERS nailed sunday ... opening above $8 million.

Good holds all round, with F4 2 noticably droping -55%, and NANCY DREW surging.

Once again early estimates.

, looks like school holidays helped

Ya Italy number is very similar to F42.

But hey it is way bigger than it in Australia and asia.

AUSTRALIA - Opening Weekend

Transformers 369 8.067mil
S3 429 1.849 -33% 26.964mil
F4:ROTSS 1.344 -54% 5.374mil
O13 1./79 -40% 9.490mil
Blades 188 1.257 -38% 4.386mil

Just a smidgen above $8m, though it's much better than what we thought yesterday, it hardly dropped at all on Sunday and is looking to capitalise the week ahead.

Shrek has a pretty good hold, the best so far, though judging from those earlier projections I though the drop was going to be better than 20%...

'Transformers' int'l release brings in $34.7 mil

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

The ugly ogre's sitting pretty overseas as "Shrek the Third" dominated a robust weekend at the foreign box office with $69.6 million at 6,489 playdates in 52 markets.
But there was plenty of international green for tentpoles as "Transformers" debuted ahead of its U.S. launch with a stellar $34.7 million at 2,261 in 10 territories and "Live Free or Die Hard" shot down a solid $30.7 million at 3,583 in day and date openings in 35 markets.

And a trio of holdovers -- "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" -- impressed with each grossing at least $14 million.

With the top six pics combining for $179 million, the frame dwarfed the year-ago weekend when "Superman Returns" led with $20 million amid a chill in moviegoing due to soccer's World Cup. And it highlighted the strong performance so far this year of Hollywood films in foreign markets, well above 2006's record-setting pace.

The tentpoles are mostly meeting studio expectations that each sequel can match its previous iteration, underlining the strategy of focusing on easily recognized franchises that can perform throughout the world. The third "Pirates of the Caribbean" became only the seventh pic to cross the $600 million mark in international grosses and trails the final "Pirates 2" foreign cume by only $33 million after six weeks; "Shrek the Third" has already grossed $259 million overseas, more than halfway to matching "Shrek 2."

Paramount's "Shrek the Third" grabbed an eye-popping $31 million at 537 in its U.K. launch, including $12.7 million in previews in an indication that Brits were undeterred by the latest wave of terror threats. Minus previews, the opening came in 5% ahead of "Shrek 2," which went on to gross $88 million in Blighty.

French patrons stayed supportive in the third frame as Shrek declined only 29% to $5.3 million for a $29.2 million cume while Spanish biz remained beefy with a 37% fall to $4.8 million. And the ogre turned monstrous in Poland, smashing the launch record with $4.1 million at 88, and set the second-highest opening mark in South Africa with $921,000.

"Shrek the Third" opened more moderately in Japan -- where American animated pics have a mixed record -- with $2.8 million at 542, trailing the launch of "Live Free or Die Hard" and the sixth frame of "Pirates 3." Still, that was 42% ahead of "Shrek 2," which went on to gross $22 million in Japan.

Paramount also saw stalwart numbers from "Transformers," which logged the top per-location average with $15,351, 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.

"Live Free or Die Hard," known mostly by the "Die Hard 4" moniker internationally, turned in its top numbers in Germany with $7.6 million at 873 and in Japan with $7.2 million at 735 in the first appearance of the Bruce Willis franchise in a dozen years. Fox Intl. co-topper Paul Hanneman asserted the performance met internal forecasts -- geared to matching the $265 million international cume for 1995's "Die Hard With a Vengeance."

Fox's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" also showed enough traction to remain on track to equal the international performance by its predecessor, which took in $175 million two years ago. "Surfer" landed with $15.2 million at 6,200, pushing the cume to $81.2 million, as Mexico kicked in $3.3 million in its second frame and Brazil launched with a beefy $2.9 million; it opens in August in France, Korea and Spain.

Warner's "Ocean's Thirteen" chipped in with $14.5 million at 5,700 in 51 markets to raise its foreign cume to $124 million -- more than halfway to matching the final overseas figure for "Ocean's Twelve" -- as the studio sees respectable performance from counter-programming against fare aimed at the younger demo. "Thirteen" took in its best figures in its second French frame with $2.2 million, its fourth U.K. weekend with $1.9 million and its Mexican launch of $1.8 million.

BVI's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" followed with $14.1 million at 8,779, led by Japan with $3.9 million and France and the U.K. with $1.4 million each -- all with impressive holds, falling less than 28%. It's now sixth highest in foreign grosses at $608.9 million and ninth in worldwide at $904.7 million.

BVI also saw decent numbers from its limited day and date opening of "Ratatouille" with $4.7 million at 520 in half a dozen markets, mostly from Russia with $3.3 million. The Pixar pic moves into Brazil and Mexico next frame and will launch gradually over the rest of the summer and early fall as the distrib tries to take advantage of strong reviews.

Sony's "Spider-Man 3," which fulfilled forecasts as it jump-started summer biz overseas, ensnared $1 million to become the 10th largest international film with $548.9 million and the ninth biggest globally with $883 million.

Other notable pics during the frame included Sony's "Hostel Part II" with $2.2 million, Warner's "Zodiac" with $1.2 million and U's "Evan Almighty" with $900,000.

Ooh you went to Southland, i've never been there too. Is it as big as Knox?

And where's your review....

Love the picture of Prime crushing Spiderman, but you do realise that in none of these markets has Transformers beaten Spiderman 3

Well ya

I think the reason why they moved Transformers up is because it opens on the same weekend as Simpsons, better to get some headstart.......why don't one of them move, it's going to be carnage

Thailand actually has one of the better starts comparatively, it's inside the Top 10 in terms of USD$.

THAILAND - Opening Weekend

It has been a very strong year for Thailand BO, with 5 movies so far opening within the Top 10 All-Time Lists. Transformers is the lattest, coming in at #9 (approx), behind Spiderman 3, Pirates 3 and the first two intallments of the Naresuan Trilogy (the final one due latter in the year and sure to be a mega opener).

Transformers easily outopens all its closest competitors from King Kong to TDAT and War of the Worlds. This is a huge opening considering Fantastic Four 2 ($1.4m) opened not too long ago to pretty big numbers as well.

Spiderman 3 - $3,467,747 (6-Day or $1,993,206 4-Day - 326)
Pirates Of The Caribbean 3: At World’s End - $2,654,137 (5-Day or $1,790,051 4-Day - 204)
Harry Potter 3: POA - $2,448,500 (5-Day)
Declaration Of Independence - $2,440,828
Tom Yum Goong - $2,302,800
Harry Potter 4: GOF - $2,096,000 (4-Day - 218)
Spiderman 2 - $1,982,627 (or $1,541,989 without p/v - 197)
Naresuan (King Naresuan) - $1,950,806
Transformers - $1.9m (277)
Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World - $1.8m (or $2.5m week - 137 prints)
Lord Of The Rings: ROTK - $1,717,000 (5-Day or $1,407,400 3-Day - 150)
Mission Impossible 3 - $1,704,426 (4-Day or $1,377,766 3-Day - 76)
The Matrix: Reloaded - $1.7m (310)
King Kong - $1,613,000 (5-Day or $1,317,900 3-Day - 345)
Armageddon - $1.6m (185)
The Mummy Returns - $1.5m (50)
War Of The Worlds - $1,496,100 (5-Day or $1,228,300 3-Day)
Teng Nong Khon Ma Ha Hear - $1,494,322 (or $1,452,169 4-Day - 159)
Superman Returns - $1,486,804 (481,089 adms. or $1,217,664 without p/v - 204)
The Day After Tomorrow - $1,477,400 (or $1,393,600 without p/v - 240)
Bor-dee Gaat Naa Liam (The Bodyguard 2) - $1,452,345
X-Men 3: The Last Stand - $1,451,571
The Holy Man (Luang Pee Teng) - $1,415,500 (4-Day)
Fantastic Four 2: Rise Of The Silver Surfer - $1,401,953 (or $1,045,146 4-Day - 177)

Southland has more than one V-Max but they are smaller theatres than the one in Knox. Shopping complex is probably bigger than Knox.

And my semi-review is in the review forum and crowd report in the crowd reports thread

I thought you were going to post in all in one post...argh

Never been to Southland shopping complex, though I've been to Chadstone....Chadstone is probably better anyway isn't it, bigger name brands, more shops. I actually saw TMNT at Hoyts in Chadstone, love the decor....very classy....though i still prefer the one in the city, more modern

You do realise that I normally post AUD$ for Australian figures, with the exception of weekly figures where i specifically state "US$".

I'm not dissapointed in the Italian opening, reamining hopeful that the rest of Europe will deliver solid grosses..

Well, no....are you forgetting Japan, and UK may well beat Korea to. At most it's looking at around $40m in Korea...by no means guaranteed as the legs in this market are very unpredictiable.

"BVI also saw decent numbers from its limited day and date opening of "Ratatouille" with $4.7 million at 520 in half a dozen markets, mostly from Russia with $3.3 million." - this is simply impressive and totally unexpected! Especially after huge recent success of Shrek 3 and Surf's up. Finally, a Pixar movie has generated some real interest from our crowds! Great news! Nearly 90% over Cars' opening. The ceiling for Pixar was unimpressive $4 m and only Cars could make $4.6 m, while all the Dreamworks' movies easily grossed much more.
That is also great for BVI after major dissapointment from Meet the Robinsons (I'm not sure if this could gross even $1 m. in CIS).

Are there any news about Die Hard???

DH4.0 did $3.9m in 562...

Is it the 5-day gross with Ukraine?

That's what the Die Hard 4.0 thread is for?

Well the aricle said Russia, so i would assume this is purely russia and no Ukraine