Whilst we all know that the Transformers movie is doing extremely well in the US, less has been reported on how the film has faired during its International releases thus far. Although mainly positive, Transformers had a poor debut in Europe. Here's more on this story.

• Transformers opened in Europe in Italy with a disappointing $3.6 million in 540 screens.
• Transformers was the fourth highest debut ever in South Korea with $13.3 million 697 screens
• In Singapore, it scored the largest four-day start of all time with $1.8 million from 29 screens
• In Thailand, Transformers logged the biggest opening day for a non-sequel during a $1.9 million weekend from 78 screens.
• In the Philippines, it received the eighth highest launch ever with $2.2 million from 270 screens.
• In Indonesia is reach $778,250 from 87 screens.
• Malaysia saw the film take $1.5 million from 60 screens.
• Taiwan took in $3.1 million from 68 screens.
• Finally, Transformers was the top-ranked film in Australia with $6.8 million from 239 screens, beating War of the Worlds by 16 percent.

Although the UK release is not until the 27th July, if the UK performance of Shrek is anything to go by then things look good. Shrek 3, the number one film in the UK right now, had the highest-grossing opening ever, in U.S. Currency, with $33.5 million from 536 cinemas. The Transformers movie is due to open with over 830 reels (we're not sure on the exact number of cinemas that this converts to though) in the UK on its debut.

On a side note, the cinema in Providence Rhode Island, cost under £5 to see a film, where as our local Vue cinema is over £7 (over £10 in central London) which is have a knock-on effect in terms of revenue.

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