'Transformers 3' Scores $400M+ Opening at Global Box Office

Marking the second hugely successful day-and-date global release this summer, Paramount's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" grossed $379 million at the worldwide box office through Sunday, according to studio estimates. The total will easily exceed $400 million by the of Monday.

Paramount estimates that the sequel will meet its pre-release domestic projections with $181.1 million by the end of day Monday.

"Dark of the Moon" also set a four-day Fourth of July holiday-weekend record with $116.4 million over the frame -- narrowly beating Sony's "Spider-Man 2" ($115.8 million), pending final tally.

But it was the foreign market, 70 percent of which chose to see the movie in 3D, that drove "Transformers 3."

Opening up in 58 territories across the globe at the same time it premiered in 4,013 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, the film enjoyed the third biggest foreign Wednesday-through-Sunday opening ever.

Earlier, IMAX announced that "Transformers 3" had set a global-opening record, grossing an estimated $22.5 million on worldwide IMAX screens through Sunday.

The huge overseas start comes just over a month after Disney's day-and-date global release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" yielded a $256.3 million opening abroad. That film went on to cross the $1 billion mark this weekend, largely on the back of the foreign market.

"If we hadn't chosen to debut the movie later in Japan and China, we probably would have had the all-time record," noted Don Harris, general manager of distribution for Paramount.

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Releasing a film around the world the same weekend it premieres in the U.S. and Canada -- what the industry calls a day and date premiere -- started as a means of combating piracy. The logic: why wait for illicit copies of a film to spoil emerging markets like Russia? Just get the film out there.

But with "Pirates 4" and "Transformers 3" showing the strategy has a potentially explosive upside, might we see more of these types of worldwide releases?

Could be.

"Just from a publicity standpoint, it's easier to get [the cast] together at one time and take them on the road," said Harris, noting that the "Transformers" crew got all its press junkets out of the way in a worldwide barnstorming tour that started in Russia, wound through Germany and ended in New York.

In the U.S. and Canada, "Dark of the Moon" got an A grade from movie word-of-mouth researcher Cinemascore, which helped the film overcome the bad narrative aftertaste of 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

About 62 percent of the audience was male, and 55 percent was under the age of 25, making "Transformers 3" one of the few movies this year to truly resonate with young-male moviegoers.

Why Rosie Huntington-Whiteley…?

So Transformers 3 is in 3D, but Megan Fox, the eye-candy girl, has left the series. She gave her adolescent fanboys almost as many cheap thrills as the Decepticons did, but who is her replacement?

She is Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (pictured) who was working as a model in England. Bay said: "I've shot plenty of the Victoria's Secret stuff, they've been good clients of mine for years.

"Rosie was modelling for them and she looked spunky. She also has a smart head on her shoulders.

"We had been auditioning all around the world and we saw 500 women but I could not find what I was looking for. Then I asked her if she had ever been interested in acting. She said 'yeah', and I said: 'This might sound a little crazy, it doesn't really happen much, but would you be interested in being in this movie?'

"At first she was going to turn it down, but she went to the audition. From that casting session," said Bay, "the casting director came back with 20 good actresses, but there was something brand-new and fresh about Hayley, and if she impressed us, she would impress the audience too.

"We showed Steven Spielberg her audition tape and everyone was intrigued. Then we brought her on set with LaBeouf and we shot with her for six hours. LaBeouf liked her and we thought she did a good job."

So that's how an English girl got to play the new female lead in Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon opposite LaBeouf, John Malkovich, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson.

Got the ticket finally: Its time for Transformers 3

Well remember the previous post about Super 8, ya sure you would if u read it. when i was purchasing the ticket for Super 8 movie last week, i was wondering would i be able to get the tickets for transformers?, so at the same time i asked the ticket counter guy for booking the tickets this week. Surprisingly the tickets are being booked a week earlier, and without thinking anymore i asked him to book the ticket for me on 30th night. its getting more excited when i hold the tickets with my hand. therefore same to you guys, go grab your tickets now. don't go buy them at last minute to avoid disappointment. this is my ticket, im going with my cousin brother and sister.

The most awaited movie this year: Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon.

Directed by
Michael Bay

Produced by
Don Murphy
Tom DeSanto
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Ian Bryce

Written by
Ehren Kruger

Based on
Transformers action figures by
Hasbro

Starring
Shia LaBeouf
Josh Duhamel
John Turturro
Tyrese Gibson
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Patrick Dempsey
Kevin Dunn
Julie White
John Malkovich
Frances McDormand

Music by
Steve Jablonsky

Cinematography
Amir Mokri

Editing by
Roger Barton
William Goldenberg

Joel Negron

Studio
di Bonaventura Pictures

Distributed by
Paramount Pictures

Release date(s)
June 23, 2011 (MIFF)
June 29, 2011(United States)

Running time
153 minutes

Country
United States

Language
English

Budget
$195 million

 

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (also known as Transformers 3) is the 2011 film in the Transformers film series, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is scheduled for release on June 29, 2011. The film will be presented in regular 2D, Real D 3D and IMAX, featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound.

Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro are set to reprise their starring roles, with Peter Cullen returning as the voice of Optimus Prime and Hugo Weaving returning as the voice of Megatron. Ehren Kruger, who collaborated in the writing of the last film, was again involved in the writing. Despite having initially been confirmed for the film, and with the film already into principal photography, it was announced that Megan Fox would not be reprising her role from the previous two films. With Fox's character Mikaela being dropped, Sam was assigned a new love interest, who will be played by English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Also, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, having written the last two films, did not return for this installment in the series, which Orci had earlier somewhat anticipated, fearing the duo would "risk getting stale". Bay has stated this would be his last installment in the series. In May 2011 it was announced that Paramount Pictures had bumped Transformers: Dark of the Moon 's release date of July 1, 2011 two days earlier, June 29, in order to receive an early response to footage. It has been announced that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be released one day earlier, June 28, in 3D and IMAX theatres, nationwide.

Plot

When the war on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons appears lost to the Autobots, their leader, Sentinel Prime, attempts to launch the Ark from their planet, containing technology that could have saved his kind. Attacked by Starscream, it crashes on Earth's moon in 1961. President John F. Kennedy makes his famous promise to the nation to put a man on the moon. The 1969 NASA moon landing is actually an investigation of the wrecked spacecraft.
As Sam Witwicky goes into adulthood and tries to move on from Mikaela, the Autobots are busy as they learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft on the Moon and must race against the Decepticons to find it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle.

Release

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is set to be released on June 29, 2011 in 3D. Originally set to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters, it was announced in November 2010 that no IMAX 3D shots were made for the film. The filmed premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival on June 23, 2011. Linkin Park performed a special outdoor concert at the Red Square in Moscow on the same night in celebration of the event.

Marketing
Most of the characters returned for Hasbro's new toyline, which came out on May 16, 2011. In October 2010, Entertainment Tonight previewed the behind-the-scenes filming in Chicago. Following that, the official film website was changed with the logo and the release date under it. A two-minute teaser trailer was announced on November 27, and was posted to the web on December 9, 2010. A thirty-second television advertisement for the film aired during Super Bowl XLV on FOX on February 6, 2011. The first full theatrical trailer was released on April 28, 2011. A 3D trailer is expected to be released on May 20, 2011 with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 3D, which would complete the promotional campaign for Dark of the Moon. The very first clip was released on May 18th. A second clip was released the next day on May 19th.

Soundtrack
The album was released on June 14, 2011. Linkin Park's song "Iridescent" is the lead single for the film, continuing the streak of the band's songs as the theme songs of the film series. The single follows "What I've Done" being used in the 2007 film, and "New Divide" for the 2009 film. The music video for "Iridescent" was directed by Joe Hahn.Two other singles were released specifically for the soundtrack, "Monster" by Paramore and "All That You Are" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Several other unreleased songs make their debut on the album, including "The Pessimist" by Stone Sour and "The Bottom" by Staind.
The release date for the film's musical score is currently unknown.

Home media
During Hasbro Investor Day, it was announced that the DVD and Blu-ray Disc will be released in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Novelizations
In May of 2011 the novelization, junior novel and graphic novel of Transformers: Dark of the Moon were released. Both the novel and the graphic novel featured Skids and Mudflap as supporting characters, but they were missing from the junior novel. None of them featured a character named Silverbolt. The graphic novel made reference to several Autobots from the IDW tie-in comics who died in the stories between Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon.

Video game
Activision is set to develop a video game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. The trailer for the Dark of the Moon video game was released in February 2011. The game will be developed by High Moon Studios, who previously developed Transformers: War for Cybertron. It has also been announced that the game will also feature "Stealth Force". Autobots Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Warpath, Stratosphere, Breakaway and Mirage have been confirmed to be in the game, and so have Decepticons Megatron, Soundwave, Laserbeak, Starscream, Mixmaster and Shockwave.

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Transformers 3 releasing one day earlier…..

 

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” will open one day prior in 3-D and IMAX-equipped theatres across the United States.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ will be debuted in 3-D and IMAX-equipped theatres on June 28, while the movie will open wide across the United States on June 29, 2011. While the approaching flick is scheduled to open wide Stateside on June 29, movie fans can watch the film prior in those selected cinemas on June 28, starting 9 P.M. local time.

The Paramount’s Vice Chairman, Rob Moore apparently stated that this sci-fi film will ‘undoubtedly be among the most entertaining film going experiences’ during this season. He further detailed, providing movie fans an opportunity to see it early in 3-D is a great way to kick off the movie’s opening, a sources said.

On June 17, a new video from the ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ sequel has landed online. With Linkin Park’s “Iridescent” helping as the background music, the sneak-peek offers new footage, including when Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Shia LaBeouf have to save their lives by hiding behind a wall, barely seen by a robot.

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” turns around a risky space race between the United States and Russia, which involves the Decepticons and Autobots.

As the disarray blow up human Sam Witwicky has to come to the help of his robot friends once again. Shia reprises his role as Sam, with Rosie playing Carly, Sam’s new love interest.

Other supporting movie actors include Ken Jeong, Patrick Dempsey, Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel.