The final domestic numbers are in for Transformers: The Last Knight’s third weekend in theaters. The film collected $6,376,578 July 7-9 as nearly a thousand theaters dropped the film, including all IMAX showings, to make way for Spider-Man: Homecoming. By comparison, Age of Extinction collected $16,302,415 during its third weekend.
The Last Knight has now pushed forward to $118,993,338 domestically through the first 19 days, which is quite a step down from Age of Extinction’s $213,444,938 in the same amount of time. That film went on to take in a total of $245,439,076 by the end of its run in 2014.
Internationally, The Last Knight has earned $376.8 million, bringing the worldwide total to $495.8 million. After Age of Extinction’s third weekend, the film had totaled $752.3 million across the world.
The movie is still enjoying success in China however, earning $218.3 million so far. After the success of Age of Extinction, The Last Knight was marketed heavily to Chinese audiences.
The Last Knight has yet to be released in most of Latin America, Israel, Japan and Spain. The film opens in Egypt tomorrow (July 12).
Ash from Carolina
Part of it is Paramount is just one part of the larger company Viacom so the parent company can move some things around on the books to keep the studio afloat. Although with the TV side of Viacom not looking good either you have to wonder how long Viacom will have reserves for Paramount to keep making so many bad choices.
Theatrical run of the movies is also just one part of the revenue stream for movie studios. For years after the box office run they can farm out their popular movies to cable, streaming, broadcast, or anyone wanting to show one of their movies. You also have the home release which brings in money as people replace DVDs with Blu-Rays or Blu-Rays with 4K or a box set makes people buy the movies they already own just for the set.
But yea Paramount can't keep having abysmal years like this one year after year and still keep the lights on. Bad part is I don't know if anyone at Paramount really understands how to make a big movie with domestic appeal.
Ephland
They weren't formed this year?
AshleyCuadra
You guys forgot that paramount pictures has been around for years
96megatron
Unicron: I will make my Blockbuster Debut Dang Nabbitt.
Autobot Burnout
Bank loans probably.
Dmhead
Why is Paramount still alive? With all these flops in this year, they should have gone bankrupt by now. What is keeping them up?
Dragonclaw
Well…Box Office Mojo is no longer tracking TLK.
Dragonclaw
I wouldn't say the combined universe will be impossible, but I do think it will take some re-imagining to get it started up in earnest. Becoming more kid friendly would likely be a good start to get parents back.
Ash from Carolina
Add to that The Last Knight was supposed to the start of some sort of cinematic universe so they could be just like Marvel/Disney. It's going to be really hard to spin any sort of expanded universe off if so many people skipped over the launch of the expanded universe. Spinning a big budget universe off when you are at the top of the box office isn't easy. When your movies isn't going to be in the top 20 domestically and will not be in the top 10 world wide it seems like their dreams for the Transformers universe are now impossible.
Dragonclaw
Yeah, but the studio gets a far smaller cut of the foreign box office than domestic so the fact that only 21% of that 600 mil is domestic take has to be killing Paramount execs, especially since they really needed it to be a home run since they already flopped with ALL their next biggest grossing movies – Baywatch, XXX, and Ghost in the Shell.
Man, it was almost beaten yesterday by a movie that was only in 20 theaters…TF5 is in more than 10 times that many screens still (224)…scratch that, it was almost beaten MONDAY…it WAS beaten yesterday…
APB
Eyy it crossed 600M!
uruseiranma
Yeah, I think if it ends up making less than the first one worldwide, Paramount will 'not be so kind.'
And yeah, given the last two outings brought in at least a billion worldwide, to end with the numbers this low, probably is making some people squirm.
I do feel there may have been some in Paramount who felt the franchise was bulletproof, much in the same way some at Warner Brothers felt about the Batman series in the 90's. Of course, just because something has a 'big name' on it, doesn't mean it's going to just rake in the cash…some people have their limits.
Gordon_4
Still needs a cool $100million+ to equal TF07. This is a disappointing performance.
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G1DeadEnd
It's on the West Coast, Washington State.
They are playing it in a "cheaper" theatre, which always gets movies, after their main run in the multiplexes, so a film, that is no longer in most cinemas, stay another month or two in this cheaper venue. It's not super duper nice, but it's not terrible either.
Ephland
Given the low box office take of this film across the world, "because it sucks ass" can be considered a logical answer.
Angry Camaro
I was looking for more of a logical answer and not an opinionated answer
Ephland
Because it sucked complete ass.
Angry Camaro
Where is this? I've got nothing on the east coast of the US.
G1DeadEnd
I was wrong. After checking again today, the movie has one showing today at 3:45 (probably, because it's Friday).
I'm tempted to go, but don't know if I want to endure the eye-roll of my wife. It will have been my 7th time seeing it.