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JUNE 22, 2017

7:29am PT by Pamela McClintock

Box Ofce: 'Transformers 5'

Stumbles Thursday With
$8M, May Not Clear $60M in
U.S. Debut

IN THIS STORY
Box Oce Transformers: The Big Sick
Updates The Last Knight The Big Sick
Box Oce Transformers: The
Updates Last Knight

The summer tentpole is counting

on a strong run overseas, where it
opened to a rousing $48 million on
Friday, the third-best start of all
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Friday, the third-best start of all

time for a foreign title.
Paramount and Hasbro's Transformers: The Last Knight is o to
a troubled start in North America, where it earned $8.1 million
on Thursday for a muted two-day total of $23.8 million, the
lowest start of any title in the franchise.

Prerelease tracking had suggested Transformers 5 would post a

ve-day domestic debut in the $70 million-$75 million range,
notably behind the $100 million North American launch of the
last title, Transformers: Age of Extinction, over the three-day June
27-29 weekend in 2014 and the lowest in the Hasbro toy-based
series.

Based on Wednesday and Thursday's performance, however,

the new lm could have trouble clearing $60 million in its
opening.

Instead, The Last Knight similar to recent high-prole

summer tentpole Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No
Tales is counting on sizable returns internationally, where it
opened to an impressive $47.9 million in China on Friday, the
third-best showing of all time for a foreign movie after Fate of
the Furious and Furious 7, which took in north of $60 million.

That's 69 percent ahead of Age of Extinction, which grossed a

massive $858.6 million to become the rst Transformers movie
to top the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box oce, on its
way to resting at $1.1 billion, not accounting for ination. The
domestic portion was $245.4 million, which, again, was the
lowest in the lm series.

READ MORE
Box-Ofce Preview: 'Transformers 5' Looks for Biggest Bang
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The Last Knight opens in its rst 42 foreign territories this

weekend, including a slew of other major markets, such as the
U.K., Russia, Australia, Germany, Italy, North Korea and Hong
Kong. In China, it has amassed more than $15 million in
advance ticket sales.

Paramount puts the movie's production budget at $217 million

before a major marketing spend. The Transformers series has
never been a favorite of critics, with The Last Knight currently
sporting a 16 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Audiences gave the lm a B+ CinemaScore.

Mark Wahlberg returns to star in the latest pic he made his

franchise debut in Age of Extinction while Laura Haddock and
Anthony Hopkins join the series as an Oxford professor and
English lord, respectively. Together, the three characters must
race to uncover the secret history of the Transformers before
the world is destroyed. Josh Duhamel, who appeared in the
rst three Transformers movies but sat out Age of Extinction,
also stars.

The Last Knight is the only new lm opening nationwide this

weekend. The specialty box oce sees the debut of two high-
prole titles in select theaters Friday: Focus Features' The
Beguiled, from director Soa Coppola, and Lionsgate's The Big
Sick, helmed by MichaelShowalter.

READ MORE
'The Beguiled': Film Review | Cannes 2017
June 23, 7:30 a.m. Updated with Thursday numbers.
June 23, 9:30 a.m. Updated with China numbers.

BOX OFFICE UPDATES TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT

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