Shia LaBeouf rules, but they bombed?

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Shia labeouf is the new King of the fourth of July.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon raised 116.4 million dollars during the four-day holiday weekend and set a record for independence day with a shot from Friday to Sunday of $ 97.5 million.

As to who is the Queen of the fourth?

Well, ain't a Selena Gomez.

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Monte Carlo Gomez failed with reportedly 20 million $ teen/Tween comedy did not elaborate nor half so much.

'S second disappointment directly Gomez box-office after Ramona and The.

Dark of the Moon, meanwhile, is seventh straight No. 1 film LaBeouf.

After only six days, the megan fox- free sequel is already successful fourth national staff of the year, with 181.1 million dollars. Worldwide, it is $ 379 million.

By relations of Exhibitor, dark of the Moon made around 60 per cent of their national business and 70 percent of its international box office in 3D theaters. These are some of the best 3D statistics from Avatar. (From Department of no coincidence comes this item: dark of the Moon shot against the same team that Avatar.)

The black mark in the darkness of the performance of the Moon is that his predecessor was tens of millions more.

Dark of the Moon ran 40 percent below Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on opening day and while it closes the gap during the weekend, could not catch the film.

But LaBeouf Companion (and replacement of Fox) Rosie Huntington-whiteley will have anyway Queen Crown.

Elsewhere, tom hanks"and Julia Roberts"Larry Crowne opened a tad smaller than the dark of the moon. But unobtrusive middle-aged comedy did everything right for a comedy of middle-aged unobtrusive, making back to half its budget from reputable 30 million dollars. His performance also marked a step in Hanks and Roberts last team-up, Charlie Wilson's war much more expensive.

The broken Lantern broke $ 100 million in the country, a feat that took also dark sides of the Moon in four days to comply. More impressive, the bridesmaids of $ 32.5 million reached $ 150 million.

A trio of hits of years outside the Top 10 summer: II hangover, which was released as a film of no. 1 of the year (for now); Johnny deppof the Caribbean Pirates: strange tides, which reached one billion dollars in all over the world; and X-Men: first class, which, even without ceasing to be the highest grossing X-Men sequel, managed to stay in the neighborhood of its big brothers.

Here is a revised top grossing films by numbers from Friday to Sunday, compiled by Exhibitor relations. Grosses estimated the four-day holiday weekend also include:

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, of $ 97.5 million (116.4 $ viernes-lunes million) 2 cars, $ 26.2 million (32.1 million dollars Monday Friday) bad teacher, $ 14.5 million (17.6 million dollars Monday Friday) Larry Crowne, $ 13 million (15.7 million dollars viernes-lunes) Super 8, $ 7.8 million (9.5 million $ viernes-lunes) Monte Carlo$ 7.4 million (8.8 million dollars viernes-lunes) Green Lantern, 6.5 million dollars (8 million dollars viernes-lunes) Mr Popper, $ 5.5 million penguins (viernes-lunes $ 6.9 million) bridesmaids, $ 3.6 million (4.4 million $ dayparts) midnight in Paris, $ 3.4 million (viernes-lunes number not known)

(Originally published on July 3, 2011 at 11: 38 a.m. PT)

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