Records were broken this weekend for movie earnings as the audiences turned out in masses for Transformers. Sadly, I was one of them. My review of Transformers goes up tomorrow, but I’ll tell you now, I was not impressed. Transformers turned out to be a movie about a boy and a girl he likes, which may or may not have involved an intergalactic robot war. Regardless of its hack quality, Transformers broke some serious records this past week with earnings of a full $152.5 million since it opened this past Monday. This broke the record for highest first week earning by a non-sequel since Spider-man. However, if you adjust for inflation Spider-man still wins with ~26 million viewers its first week versus Transformers’ ~22 million. The other new movie this weekend, License to Wed, wasn’t making any Hollywood magic of its own as it coasted into 4th place with a respectable $10.4 million. Not bad considering the wretched reviews it received (a terrifying 9% approval rating over at Rotten Tomatoes). Hopefully things will look up for audiences next week. So here they are, your box office movie earnings for this weekend: July 6 - 8, 2007.

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Box office earnings for movies this weekend, July 6 - 8, 2007:

1. “Transformers” $67.6 million
2. “Ratatouille” $29 million
3. “Live Free or Die Hard” $17.4 million
4. “License to Wed” $10.4 million
5. “Evan Almighty” $8.1 million
6. “1408” $7.1 million
7. “Knocked Up” $5.2 million
8. “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” $4.15 million
9. “Sicko” $3.65 million
10. “Ocean’s Thirteen” $3.5 million

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