As of Wednesday, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen surpassed Angels & Demons as the top grossing movie of 2009 worldwide with a total worldwide total of $474.8 million to Angels $461.6 million. It still remains behind Up ($256.5M) and Star Trek ($256.5M) for the top rank domestically with a total of $239.4 million. Wednesday also marked the first time since its release that Transformers 2 was not ranked number 1. It took in a US box office of $11 million to Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' first day gross of $13.8 million. This is an 82% drop in sales from last Wednesday but then anything close to that first day total of $62 million is unrealistic expectation.
International sales added an additional $14.2 million to the coffers. In general, it seems for a movie to reach monster status, it has to be equally popular internationally as it is in the states and in this case the breakdown stands at 50.4% of the total worldwide gross comes from the states and 49.6% everywhere else. That basically means for every dollar spent in the states, a dollar is being spent elsewhere. The net result is a doubling of expected profits since overseas sales is never a given but necessary if a film is to reach the $500M or more club that studios love to achieve. July the 4th is expected to cause the box office to take a hit but clearly overseas sales will mitigate the loss of momentum.
Box Office Totals (in millions)
Date US Intl Worldwide
6/19- 6/23 $0.0 $24.1
6/24 $62.2 $60.0 $120.7
6/25 $29.1 $20.0 $48.6
6/26 $36.7
6/27 $40.2
6/28 $32.0 $86.2**
6/29 $14.8 $14.1 $28.9
6/30 $13.5 $16.8 $30.3
7/01 $11.0 $14.2 $25.2
Totals $239.4 $235.4 $474.8
*estimate of sales, **no day to day breakdown available
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