'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Breaks Another Record

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ Breaks Another Record

Whilst Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes the world by storm it’s easy to forget that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is still making box office waves.

Now Michael Bay’s Transformers sequel has smashed the Chinese box office to become the biggest earning movie in the country, surpassing an 11 year old record set by James Cameron’s Titanic.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has taken the equivalent of US $59M (400 million Chinese yuan) in China. The second highest earner in the country is now Titanic with $43M.

Unsurprisingly the film’s chinese showing was slightly censored. During the opening sequence the Autobots and Decepticons battle in Shanghai, but when the U.S. military refer to where the battle is taking place the word is muffled.

As of now Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has earned US $350M and $383M internationally to sit pretty on $733M. It has now out-earned its predecessor and is ranked 16th in the all time top grosser list.

Source: THR / Box Office Mojo

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One Response to “‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ Breaks Another Record”

Lynch said:
July 18th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I think it’s great that T:RoF is doing really well. Yeah it has it’s issues but the film buisness is hurting and that film put alot of people to work, including myself. These event films really do employ hundreds of people, look at the credit list. These have been crazy times and to see a film where I can hear Peter Cullen voice Optimus Prime again, I’m sold. I love every part of the film when optimus is in it. Peter brings a soul to that character that nobody else has duplicated. When the day when certain things get cheaper maybe we will get a transformers movie more about the transformers less about the stoned mom. It’s ok to have that it just felt like American Pie meets Transformers.

Lynch said:
July 18th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

I think it’s great that T:RoF is doing really well. Yeah it has it’s issues but the film buisness is hurting and that film put alot of people to work, including myself. These event films really do employ hundreds of people, look at the credit list. These have been crazy times and to see a film where I can hear Peter Cullen voice Optimus Prime again, I’m sold. I love every part of the film when optimus is in it. Peter brings a soul to that character that nobody else has duplicated. When the day when certain things get cheaper maybe we will get a transformers movie more about the transformers less about the stoned mom. It’s ok to have that it just felt like American Pie meets Transformers.