Just a quick check up on the latest estimates for the US Box Office over the weekend. If you take a peek over to our sidebar on the left, you’ll see the figures.
Knocking Ratatouille down a significant notch is Michael Bay’s Transformers taking in a spectacular $67.6 million over the weekend. That makes a total of $152.5 million in its 6 days of opening. Not bad for a regurgitation of an old 80s cartoon based on a toy. With such inordinate amounts of money going Paramount way, this could easily kick off a studio flurry of snatching up retro favourites, a-lá Bryan Singer’s renewal of the comic book movie with X-Men. He-Man and Thundercats have already been snapped up by Warner Bros, further proof of this possible trend. Of course, like the comic book movies, its more than likely Hollywood will go over the fucking top and start making live-action versions of The Shoe People or The Care Bears.
On the subject of animation, still raking in a respectable amount is Ratatouille, bringing in a further $29 million for Pixar over the weekend. Overall, that brings it to a grand total of $109 million; an enormous figure, but not Pixar’s best.
Die Hard 4.0 remains in third place with a grand total of $84 million collected so far and we haven’t seen Licence to Wed or Evan Almighty, but they look like utter crud, so it would only depress one to comment on how much money they’re making.
