After 12 days of release (and a bit of confusion over official numbers), Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age Of Extinction now has the distinction of passing Avatar as the highest-grossing film ever in China. With $225.1M (1,396M RMB), the movie has bested James Cameron’s record of $221.9M that was set in 2010. On Tuesday, Chinese research firm Ent Group reported that the Autobots had overtaken the Na’vi as of July 6 with $222.74M, but Paramount has just weighed in with its official numbers. Because of currency fluctuations, the yuan renminbi figure was key. Avatar was worth about 1.39B during its life in the Middle Kingdom. TAOEhas been dogged somewhat by local sponsors who have griped about their placement in the movie. But audiences have embraced it willingly, encouraged by all the Chinese elements — including actors, locations and storyline.

 

Paramount Chairman and CEO, Brad Grey, said this morning, “We’re honored by the deeply passionate response from Chinese audiences – and audiences throughout the world – to Transformers: Age Of Extinction and the unique storytelling of Michael Bay. The many new relationships we have built with members of the creative community in China is a source of great pride and we look forward to collaborating with them in the future.” Paramount Vice Chairman Rob Moore acknowledged the “great work of China Film Group in the distribution of Transformers” and thanked partners Jiaflix, China Movie Channel, M1905, China Movie Media and Hua Hua.

 

TAOE earned $92M in its opening weekend in China, more than doublingTransformers: Dark Of The Moon and recording the largest debut frame ever. Since the movie’s bow on June 27, it has taken $600M worldwide. Through Tuesday, international repped $421.2M of the total.

 

 

Thanks to Deadline.com.

It bested it in box office yes, but not in quality. After all, this IS Micheal "BOOM" Bay we're talking about.

One bad movie tops another bad movie. 

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by Zola
Edited rude part, "I fail to see how this is news to be honest."

It bested it in box office yes, but not in quality. After all, this IS Micheal "BOOM" Bay we're talking about.

 

Good thing Mr "BOOM" doesn't care what the haters think.

look transformers is (abount time) going to win a ocsar

Good thing Mr "BOOM" doesn't care what the haters think.

Well maybe if he did, just a little bit, he would stop making the same movie over and over again and actually make something decent.

Well maybe if he did, just a little bit, he would stop making the same movie over and over again and actually make something decent.

 

That's YOUR opinion. Clearly millions and millions of people in this world love his movies otherwise they wouldn't keep seeing them. Each Transformers movie makes MORE than the last.

That's YOUR opinion. Clearly millions and millions of people in this world love his movies otherwise they wouldn't keep seeing them. Each Transformers movie makes MORE than the last.

I love the actiony bits, but the writing and stories are so painfully weak. Every character is the most basic of stereotypes, and the only one who really stood out to me was Shia Labeouf, but even he felt boring after 3 movies. Even Optimius didn't feel like Optimus in this most recent movie. Yes, millions of people watch the movies and they make a lot of money, but just because a bunch of people like something doesn't mean that it's good, or at least good quality. He has great CG, he has great effects, but he has terrible story and character direction. The only reason I see his movies are to see epic battles and stuff blow up, and really, I think that's the only reason anybody really sees his movies, because that's really all we can expect from the guy who made Pearl Harbor and Battleship. I come for the action, and I never come back for the story or characters. I'm only hoping that the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles movie doesn't feel too much like a military vs. alien robots explosion fest. If it's just a turtles vs. military and then FINALLY vs. Shredder(bot?) fest (with obligatory Megan Fox scenes), then that's probably as good as a Bay-directed Turtles movie can get. But that's just my opinion.