"Transformers" has been one of the most anticipated films of the summer. The movie pushed forward it’s release date twice because people were so amped to see the film.
The film took in $8.8 million from Monday and Tuesday night screenings only.. Transformers was the third-best recorded by a movie in similar preview screenings. First, obviously went to "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" with $13.2 million and second was 1996's "Independence Day" with $11.1 million.
"It certainly looks like a great way to start," said Marvin Levy, spokesman for DreamWorks said. "It's a case when you have robots like this, they act like magnets to draw audiences into theaters."
So what is this film about?
Directed by Michael Bay and based on the Hasbro toys that debuted in the 1980s, "Transformers" chronicles a war between two factions of giant shape-shifting robots that bring their battle to Earth. The human cast costarring alongside the computer-generated robots includes Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight, Josh Duhamel and John Turturro.
