'Transformers' scores $60.6 mil on day 1

Paramount’s DreamWorks-produced action sequel “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” – screened for a receptive group of European exhibs at the Cinema Expo confab here earlier this week – rung up $60.6 million in its first day in domestic release.

Par released the early estimate of first-day boxoffice Thursday morning. The figure included more than $16 million from midnight Wednesday performances, as the 2 ½-hour, Michael Bay-helmed pic — in which Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox reprise topliner roles — seems well positioned to hit its projected $150 million-plus in opening-frame boxoffice through Sunday.’

Source: THR