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Box Score: Transformers records biggest July 4th weekend ever.

Shooting up the box office with the best Fourth of July Weekend opening ever, Transformers: Dark of the Moon [TFRM3] earned an estimated $116.4 million Friday thru Monday, wiping out the $115.8 million mark set by Spider-Man 2 in 2004.   The third film in Paramount's giant robot franchise has piled up $181.1 million since its 3D debut Tuesday evening, which proved to be a masterstroke in getting the word of mouth rolling. 60% of its receipts came fom 3D screens.

Cars 2 [CARS] finished second with $32.1 million over the 4-day weekend.   However, the Pxar sequel dropped 60$ when comparing the 3-day portion of the weekend against its opening weekend. 

Bad Teacher [BDTCH] took third place at $17.6 million.  The R-rated comedy declined 54% when comparing Fri-Sun from its debut weekend. 

The combined star wattage of Tom Hanks [THANK] and Julia Roberts [JROBE] only propelled Larry Crowne [LCROW] to $15.7 million over the long weekend.  The film skewed heavily older with 93% over the age of 25.

Monte Carlo [MONTC] debuted with $8.75 million over the holiday weekend.  The Selena Gomez [SGOME] led comedy appealed to her demographic as 82% female of the audience was and 61% under the age of 25.

 

 

Rank TITLE F-S-S F-S-S-M TOTAL
1 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON $97,500,000 $116,400,000 $181,125,000
2 CARS 2 $26,170,000 $32,072,000 $123,002,000
3 BAD TEACHER $14,500,000 $17,600,000 $62,600,000
4 LARRY CROWNE $13,006,875 $15,742,035 $15,742,035
5 MONTE CARLO $7,425,000 $8,750,000 $8,750,000
6 SUPER 8 $7,820,000 $9,525,000 $110,061,000
7 GREEN LANTERN $6,535,000 $8,000,000 $103,692,000
8 MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS $5,450,000 $6,850,000 $51,874,722
9 BRIDESMAIDS $3,521,115 $3,521,115 $152,895,480
10 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS $3,437,761 $3,437,761 $33,637,833
11 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS $2,970,000 $3,700,000 $139,411,727
12 THE HANGOVER: PART II $2,385,000 $2,910,000 $248,758,000

Source: Exhibitor Relations Co.



Tag(s): TFRM3, CARS, BDTCH, THANK, JROBE, LCROW, MONTC, SGOME

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