Press release from Paramount Australia
TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN had a mega weekend at the Australian box office taking AUD$13,647,361. Opening last Wednesday to AUD$2,647,853, the five day total stands at an impressive AUD$16,294,847.
The four day opening for the TRANSFORMERS sequel is 68% up on the first TRANSFORMERS film and makes it the second biggest ever four-day weekend behind the opening four days of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ (which did AUD$14.1 million after opening on a Boxing Day Thursday.)
TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN also opened in the United States on Wednesday, and with some figures still to collect, the five day total has been estimated at a staggering US$201,246,000.
The original TRANSFORMERS film was a box office smash hit in 2007, taking over US$700 million worldwide, and having opened across the world the sequel achieved the fourth highest all-time international weekend gross with a phenomenal US$162 million from 9,119 locations worldwide.
The film was number one in all 60 territories in which it opened. Releasing a week earlier in the United Kingdom and Japan, the international total has reached US$186.2 million which takes the worldwide total to US$387.4 million.
Paramount Pictures Australia Managing Director Mike Selwyn said “It is very exciting to be involved with a film that has brought such spectacular entertainment to the broadest possible Australian audience. We are already hearing about people going back for a second time and having just as much fun”.