This weekend didn’t just see the North American launch of Aquaman. Paramount Pictures also dropped the latest and best received entry in to the Transformers franchise, Bumblebee.
The movie has been well received by critics, scoring a coveted 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes it’s easily the best reviewed movie in the franchise.
The movie landed in third place on the North American box office with a $21M opening. That puts it around half of the opening weekend of previous movie The Last Knight ($44M).
Bumblebee has also begun its global rollout. Over the weekend it took an estimated $31.1M led by $4.9 million openings in both Russia and Indonesia. Additionally the film took $3.9M in Mexico, $2.8M in Australia, $2.6M in Malaysia, $1.8M in Germany, $2.1M in Thailand and $1.2M in Singapore.
Globally the latest Transformers movie has grossed $52.1M. It opens in the United Kingdom and France on December 26, Korea & Brazil on December 27, China on January 4, and Japan on March 22.
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
Directed by Travis Knight from a script by Christina Hodson, Bumblebee stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Pamela Adlon, Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Ricardo Hoyos and Gracie Dzienny. The film lands in cinemas December 21, 2018.
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