Transformer: Dark of the Moon is an American 3D science fiction action film directed by Michael Bay and based on the line of Transformer toys made by Hasbro. This is the third installment in the Transformers live-action film series, and is a sequel to the 2009 movie Revenge of the Fallen . It's also the first film in the series that is not produced jointly by DreamWorks. Movie star Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand. The story is set three years after the Revenge of the Fallen, and follows the Autobots and Decepticons who fought as they fought to have the advanced technology of their homeworld falling on Earth's moon.
The manuscript was written by Ehren Kruger, who also collaborated on the Revenge of the Fallen narrative. Dark of the Moon uses an ordinary 35mm film camera and a specially developed 3-D camera, with filming locations in Chicago, Florida, Indiana, Milwaukee, Moscow and Washington, DC. This movie is made specifically. for 3-D, and visual effects involve more complicated robots that take longer to render. In May 2011, it was announced that Paramount will move the release date of Dark of the Moon from July 1 to June 29, to monitor the initial response to the recording.
The inaugural premiere in both 3D cinema and IMAX selections took place on June 28, 2011, one night before worldwide release in 2D and 3D formats (including IMAX 3D) - each featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound. The film received mixed reviews, with some critics calling it better than Revenge of the Fallen and praising the movie's visuals, the music score of Steve Jablonsky, and the 3-D action sequence, while others criticized the writing, acting, and long. Dark Month grossed $ 1.12 billion worldwide, and is currently the 18th best-selling film of all time (4th highest at the time of release), second best-selling film of 2011 (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ), the best-selling film in the Transformer series, and the 10th movie plundering more than $ 1 billion. Like the first movie, was nominated for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards. Followed by Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014 and Transformers: The Last Knight by 2017.
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Plot
In 1961, "Ark", a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying a discovery capable of ending the war between the good Autobots and the evil Decepticons, landed on the dark side of the Earth Moon. The accident was detected on Earth by NASA, and the President authorized the mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover to investigate the spacecraft. In 1969, the Apollo 11 crew landed on the Moon.
Currently, the Autobots are helping the US military in preventing major conflicts around the world. During a mission to Chernobyl to investigate suspected foreign technology, Optimus Prime discovered fuel cells from "Ark", finding that he had survived Cybertron. Autobots are then attacked by a giant Cybertronian worm called Driller and master Shockwave, a Decepticon scientist, who managed to escape. After studying the secret missions to the Moon, the Autobots traveled there to explore the "Ark". They found the Sentinel Prime coma - the predecessor of Optimus as the leader of the Autobots - and the five Pillars he created as a means of building the Space Bridge between two points for teleportation of material. Upon returning to Earth, Optimus uses its Matrix of Leadership energy to revive Sentinel Prime.
Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky is frustrated because he can not work with Autobots or find a job. She also became jealous of the close relationship between her new boyfriend, Carly Spencer, and her boss Dylan Gould. After finding a job, Sam was informed by his eccentric coworker, Jerry Wang about "Ark", before Jerry was killed by Decepticon Laserbeak. Sam contacts Sector 7 Agent now, the wealthy Seymour Simmons, and together they realize that the Decepticons and their leader, Megatron, are killing people connected to the American and Russian space missions to "Ark". They found two surviving Russian cosmonauts, revealing satellite photos of hundreds of Pillars piled on the Moon. Sam realizes that the Decepticons invaded the "Ark" long before the Apollo 11 missions to the moon and deliberately left the Sentinel and the Five Pillars for the Autobots to find, since Sentinel is the key to activating Pilar and the Decepticons have no means of reviving him. The Autobots fight the three chases of the Decepticons: the crowbar, crankcase, and ax, and rush to restore the Sentinel to their headquarters for protection, but the Sentinel betray them and kill the Autobot Ironhide, revealing he has made a deal with Megatron to ensure the survival of Cybertron.
Sentinel uses Pillars to transport hundreds of hidden Decepticons from the Moon to Earth. Carly was later captured by Gould, who was demoted to serve the Decepticons. Autobots were exiled from Earth at the request of the Decepticons to avoid war, but as their ship left Earth, it was destroyed by Megatron in command, Starscream, who apparently killed the Autobots. The Decepticons, led by Megatron and Sentinel, attacked Chicago as their agent placing Pilar around the world. Gould told Carly that the Decepticons plan to transport their Cybertron homeworld to the Solar System, then enslave the human race and use the Earth's resources to rebuild their world. Sam worked with former USAF Chief Robert Epps and former NEST soldiers to go to Chicago to save Carly, but they were almost killed by Decepticon forces before the Autobots intervened, revealing they hid during the launch of their ship to convince their decepticons to be destroyed.
As a preliminary step before the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Michael Lucchi and Paramount Pictures announced on March 16, 2009, that the third movie will be released in IMAX 3D on July 1, 2011, which received a startling response from director Michael Bay:
I said I took off a year from Transformer . Paramount made a mistake in dating Transformer 3 - they asked me on the phone - I say yes to July 1 - but for 2012 - oops! Not 2011! That means I have to start preparations in September. Impossible. My brain needs a break from fighting robots.
Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who had worked on two previous Transformers movies, refused to return for the third film, with Kurtzman stating that "the franchise is so beautiful it deserves to be fresh, all the time. feel we have given it a lot and have no insight into where to go next ". Revenge of the Fallen ' s co-author Ehren Kruger became the sole scriptwriter for Dark of the Moon . Kruger has often held meetings with Industrial Light & amp; Magic's (ILM) producers of visual effects, which suggest plot points like scenes in Chernobyl.
On October 1, 2009, Bay revealed that the Transformers: Dark of the Moon had gone into pre-production, and plans were planned back to July 1, 2011, rather than 2012 Due to renewed interest in 3-D technology caused by the success of Avatar , the talks between Paramount, ILM, and Bay have considered the possibility of subsequent Transformers movies being filmed in 3-D, and testing done to bring the technology into Bay jobs. Bay initially was not particularly interested in a format that he felt did not fit the "aggressive style" of filmmaking, but he was convinced after talking to Avatar director James Cameron, who even offered the technical crew of the film. Cameron reportedly told Bay about 3-D, "You have to see it as a toy, it's another fun tool to help get emotions and characters and create an experience." Bay is reluctant to film with a 3-D camera because in tests he finds them too complicated for his shooting style, but he does not want to apply technology in post-production either because he is unhappy with the results. In addition to using a 3-D Fusion camera rig developed by the Cameron team, Bay and the team spent nine months developing a more portable 3-D camera that can be taken to the scene.
In a hidden addition to the Revenge of the Fallen version of Blu-ray, Bay declared its intention to make Transformer 3 not necessarily be greater than Revenge of the Fallen , but deeper into mythology, to give more character development, and make it darker and more emotional. Unicron is briefly displayed in the Transformers 3 preview feature in the Revenge of the Fallen Blu-ray disc. In the end, the producers decided to cancel the plot involving planet-eating Transformer, and no further comment has ever been made on this subject. After being called Transformers 3 until then, the final title of the film was revealed to be Dark of the Moon in October 2010. After Revenge of the Fallen i> almost universally repeated by critics, Bay acknowledged the general flaw of the script, has blamed the 2007-2008 American Guild Writers strike before the film for many problems. Bay promised not to have a "tacky comedy" from the last movie. On March 19, 2010, the manuscript was said to be completed.
Casting
Megan Fox was originally attached to the film, and Patrick Dempsey's role as Dylan Gould was to become Fox's character employer, Mikaela Banes. According to various sources published, Fox's absence from the film was caused by Bay eventually choosing not to renew his role as he compared him and his work ethic with Adolf Hitler, although the actress's representative said it was his decision to leave the film franchise. Bay later claimed that Fox was fired by executive producer Steven Spielberg, claims that Spielberg rejected. "I'm not hurt," Bay states, "because I know it's just Megan, Megan likes to get answers And he's doing it the wrong way I'm sorry, Megan I'm sorry for me You work twelve hours I apologize for me keep you coming in time.The movies are not always warm and vague. "
With Fox not repeating his role, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was chosen to play Sam's new love interest. RamÃÆ'³n RodrÃÆ'guez was originally planned to be in the film, in a larger role than he had in the Revenge of the Fallen, but he was dropped during the initial production. Shia LaBeouf stated that this would be his last film in the series, also concluded that director Michael Bay would not be back for the fourth sequel, although later confirmed that Bay would return as director in the fourth film. Some famous actors such as John Malkovich and Frances McDormand are also getting selected roles for the film. Malkovich explains: "I played a man named Bruce Brazos, who was just a whispered man, the type of business man who is the boss of Shia's character Who is just a jerk, and a hard type, but a nice character. Very, very fun, just with Shia, little Rosie, and with John Turturro, so for me it was an explosion. "Another famous actor, Ken Jeong, acts as an eccentric co-worker and stalker. Jeong describes the film, "Yes, it's a small role in Transformers but yes I have an out-of-body experience working on that one because I can not believe I'm there, but that's not where oh I'm going to be a part of a blockbuster franchise like Transformers 3 or even now Hangover 2 for that matter.So I can not believe I'm part of this franchise any way.It's amazing Michael Bay is brilliant and that will make you think. "
Themes and inspiration
In contrast to two previous installments, based only on the script writer's endemic story, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is based on a novel titled Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday , written by Alan Dean Foster. This novel is a prequel to the 2007 film Transformer. It follows the same story structure as the Dark of the Moon, set in 1969, the year of Apollo 11. The structure of the story is slightly different, since the novel was written only as a prequel for the first film..
Because it is so critical of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Bay decided to remove a character called Twins entirely from Dark of the Moon: This really builds to the end of crescendo. not the three endings.One thing that we get rid of is what I call a tacky comedy. [The twins] are basically gone. "Due to the rumors of fans that the Twins really existed in the film, the director made a public" stake "$ 25,000 that the Twins will not be seen on Dark of the Moon. However they were seen at N.E.S.T headquarters in their vehicle mode in the movie.
Bay admits that "Revenge of the Fallen" disappointed fans, and stated that he "does not want the third to suck". Bay declared that he wanted the last battle to be more geographical and showcase a "small hero" like Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down war drama.
Similar to the previous two installments, the film was told in a human point of view to engage the audience. Bay wants Sam to have a boyfriend as in the first two movies. Actor Shia LaBeouf says that Sam and Mikaela have become "one character" and, although she will "miss" Megan Fox, with this change "You have another invention from a new perspective." LaBeouf also stated that the addition of Huntington-Whiteley and the new character allows Dark of the Moon to keep the "magic" of the first film.
The Dark of the Moon also has many references to Star Trek, partly because the script writer Ehren Kruger is a "great Star Trek geek" but also as a nod to the fact that Sentinel Prime's new character voiced by Leonard Nimoy, who started Spock's iconic role in Star Trek and voiced Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie. The first Star Trek reference is when the refugee robots Brains and Wheelie, who live in Sam and Carly's apartment complex, watch the episode TOS "Amok Time" ; Wheelie's comment "I've seen this one, it's one of those places where Spock's gone mad." The second reference is when Sam meets his girlfriend, Carly Spencer at work, and is being introduced to Carly's employer, Dylan Gould, and Sam admires their workplace: "It's a beautiful building you have like the Enterprise Starship here." The third reference is when Bumblebee says goodbye to Sam at Cape Canaveral: the words "my friend" are taken from Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ("You are my friend. will be yours. "). The fourth and final reference is when Sentinel Prime activates the Pillar Control, quoting the Spock proverb in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: Search for Spock, "The need for more than a handful of needs person ".
Filming
Transformer: Dark of the Moon ' s production costs reported $ 195 million, with the cost of 3-D filing accounting at $ 30 million of budget. Preparations for filming began on April 7, 2010 in Northwest Indiana, particularly around Gary, which depicts the Ukrainians in the film. The subject of photography began on May 18, 2010, with locations taking pictures including Chicago, Florida, and Moscow. The first six weeks were spent in Los Angeles: locations include Sherman Oaks, Fourth Avenue, and 5. Main. The next four weeks were spent in Chicago. The locations filmed in Chicago include LaSalle Street, Michigan Avenue, Bacino's from Lincoln Park at 2204 North Lincoln Avenue, and the area around Willis Tower. The scene set on Michigan Ave displays a large number of fireworks and hard work. Filming in Detroit is planned to take place in August but the Chicago shooting is extended to September 1st. At the end of September, production was moved to Florida, just before the launch of the Space Shuttle STS-133 mission.
While filming in Washington, D.C., the crew shot at the National Mall, and Bay stated that there would be a race car on site. The two further locations announced are the Milwaukee Art Museum and the former Automotive Tower complex on the northern side of Milwaukee, then under redevelopment for mixed use as well as the city's equipment yard. Filming is scheduled to take place there after work is done in Chicago. On September 23, the scene was filmed in a former city hall in Detroit. On October 16th, a scene in the late 1960s was taken at Johnson Space Center in Houston, taking advantage of the additional period of fashion and hairstyles. One day filming was also spent at the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. Other planned shooting locations include Africa and China. Although about 70% of live action movie footage shot in 3-D using Arri Alexa and Sony F35 cameras, more than half of the film still has to be turned into 3-D in post-production to correct the technical deficiencies the 3-D film produces. Another recording that needs to be converted into 3-D in post-production is completely computer generated or shot in anamorphic format on 35mm film. 35mm film is used for scenes that are filmed in slow motion and scenes like closeup faces or sky shots requiring higher image quality than 3-D HD digital cameras. The 35mm camera is also used for scenes where the 3-D camera proves too heavy, or has strobing or electrical damage from dust. The subject of photography officially ends on November 9, 2010.
Dark of the Moon has been found to contain recycled recordings of previous films directed by Michael Bay - The Island (2005). The same recycled Bay recording of his film Pearl Harbor (2001) in the 2007 film Transformer.
Accident
Filming was temporarily delayed on September 2, 2010, when an extra was seriously injured during an action in Hammond, Indiana. Because of the failed welds, the steel wire snapped up from the car being pulled and hit an extra car, damaging its skull. The extras, identified as Gabriela Cedillo, had to undergo brain surgery. The injury caused his permanent brain damage, paralysis on his left side and his left eye pinched. Paramount claimed responsibility for the accident and covered all of Cedillo's medical expenses. However, the Cedillo family filed a lawsuit on October 5, citing seven allegations of negligence against Paramount, and several other defendants (excluding the Gulf), for a total loss of over $ 350,000. Cedillo's lawyer, Todd Smith, said, "This is an exciting 24-year-old girl who has dreams and aspirations involving acting, and this kind of injury may have a serious impact on her dream." The proposed complaint reads that "Cedillo has survived and will in the future bear the pain and suffering, has become disabled and disabled, has suffered the loss of enjoyment of normal life, has been damaged in his capacity to earn a living has happened and in the future will be charged for medical services, all of which are permanent. "Responding to the lawsuit, Paramount released the following statement:" We are all very sorry that this accident happened, our thoughts, prayers and best wishes are with Gabriela, her family and loved ones. continue to provide all the help we can to Gabriela and her family during this difficult time. "In May 2012, it was revealed that a $ 18 million settlement had been reached between Paramount and the Cedillo family.
The second accident occurred on October 11, 2010, in Washington, D.C. While filming a pursuit scene on 3rd Street and Maryland Avenue, SW, a K9 Metropolitan Police Unit SUV accidentally hit the Camaro depicting Bumblebee in the film. The area has been shut down by Washington, D.C., police, and it is unclear why the SUV was there. Both drivers were unharmed, but the Camaro was badly damaged.
Effects
As well as Transformers installments, Industrial Light & amp; Magic (ILM) is the premier visual effects company for Dark of the Moon . ILM has been working on pre-visualization for six months before main photography begins, resulting in a 20 minute recording. Digital domains also provide 350 shots, including the characters Laserbeak, Brain, Wheelie, and protoform Decepticon hidden in the moon, bridge space, and series of skydiving.
ILM's visual effects watchdog Scott Farrar says that "not only is the ambitious movie effect, they must also be designed for 3-D", and explains the company's solution to a new perspective: "We make sure things are as bright as possible, Michael calls the theater owner to make sure they keep the bright lights in the cinema... make everything a little sharper, because we know that through the steps, no matter what, when you get to the final screening things tend to be less sharp. " On the last weekend of the ILM work at Dark of the Moon, all of the company's rendering farms were used for the film, providing PSAs over 200,000 hours of power in a day - or equivalent to 22.8 years of rendering time 24 hours. Farrar embraced the details in making a giant robot for 3-D, ensuring that near the Transformers face, "You see all the details in the cracks and slits of these pieces.This is really not like a plain surface subject like a human head or head animation. "The superintendent said that Bay's cinematographic style helped integrate the robot into scenes, such as" Michael desperately wants to have a foreground/center/background in his shot, even in normal live action shoots he'll say, 'Put some stuff hanging in here! 'It could be a female stocking or fork and a knife hanging out of focus - that does not matter, but it gives you depth, and depth of focus, and makes it more interesting. "
The most intricate effect involves "Driller", a giant snake-like creature with a body like an eel and rotating rotator blades, a knife and a tooth. In Revenge of the Fallen , it takes 72 hours per frame to completely create a Devastator for the IMAX format, which is roughly the number of 4,000 frames. For Driller, which requires the entire render farm, up to 122 hours per frame. The most complex scene involves Driller destroying computer-generated skyscrapers, which require 288 hours per frame. For the sequence, ILM relies on internal physics simulation machines to describe the destruction of buildings, including breaking concrete floors and walls, windows, columns and office furniture. ILM's digital production watchdog Nigel Sumner explains: "We did a lot of tests early on to figure out how to break the building apart from exploring many procedural options.The 70-foot-tall building - to enter and hand over geometry so when it cracks or falls apart-will be a process which takes tiring time.The floor of a building can be made of concrete How the concrete cracks when torn apart Pillar will be made of the same material but made of rebar or other engineering components We will see how a building will explode apart and then choose the tool best to help achieve those traits during the simulation. "
The scene in Chicago was mostly shot at the scene, as Bay believes the plates should really be shot in the real city. Farrar is always fascinated by the idea of ​​shooting on the spot, and then blending the movie with computer-generated imagery. The visual effects team used the air plates from the city's actual buildings and added crushing elements such as smoke, fire, debris, fighter, war, battle, and torn roads. Four ILM employees also travel to Chicago and photograph buildings from top to bottom at six different times of the day to create a digital model of the city that will be used in certain scenes. The ILM crew devised many major action scenes, with many of Chicago's fighting concepts derived from helicopter shooting from airplanes.
Animator Scott Benza says Sentinel Prime has a face "more human-like than any other robot", has a more elaborate frame and "more number of plates" that can be more expressive. ILM has based most of Sentinel Prime's features on Sean Connery, and after Leonard Nimoy was elected to voice the role, the effect was changed to incorporate Nimoy's acting as well. Each robot takes about 30 weeks to build visually. Initially, the battle between Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime and Megatron was thought to be in the water on the Chicago River, but the budget was cut and ILM realized that they did not want to present the last version of the battle to Bay, so they decided to fight on the bridge over the river. For the order in which Bumblebee captures Sam and Lennox while transforming them in the air, two digital Shia LaBeouf are combined with actor recording at high speed so the effects team can set it for slow motion.
Since Bay shoots all its movies in anamorphic format, Dark of the Moon will be "blackmailed" to distort the image, and ILM will add robots and "un-distort" images. The wide variety of shooting formats used - single camera, 3-D stereo rig with two cameras, anamorphic and spherical lenses - proved to be a challenge, especially as ILM has a deadline to provide 2-D plates to companies responsible for 3- D conversions. ILM makes 600 3-D shots, and Digital Domains below 200, while Legend3-D, a 3-D movie conversion company, completes 78 minutes of film work and completes the work of about 40 minutes without a Visual-effects challenge and 38 minutes of visual effects shots.
Maps Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Music
Composer Steve Jablonsky, who previously collaborated with Bay on The Island and the first two Transformers films, returned to compose the Dark of the Moon score. Jablonsky's music score was praised by critics and fans. The score was released on June 24, 2011, five days before the actual release of the film.
The album was originally set for release on June 28, 2011, but Amazon.com listed the album as unavailable when the album is still listed for release during the film's global release week. It is available for download on Amazon on June 30, 2011, and the current score featured 17 pre-recorded tracks featured in the final movie. The length is about 59:47. The album for the film was released on June 14, 2011. It consists of singles produced by different artists and bands, and rock and alternative tracks. American rock band Linkin Park composed the main single for the film, "Iridescent", as they did with the first two films: "What I've Done" used in the 2007 movie and "New Divide" for the 2009 movie. Sound effects for Transformers and foley synthesized and developed by electronic music producer Christian Valentin Brunn (born July 20, 1994), better known by his stage name Virtual Riot ,, the music video for "Iridescent" directed by Joe Hahn. Two other singles were released specifically for the soundtrack, "Monster" by Paramore and "All That You Are" by Goo Goo Dolls. Some of the other unreleased songs made their debut on the album, including "The Pessimist" by Stone Sour and "The Bottom" by Staind. My Chemical Romance's "The Only Hope for Me Is You" song also appears and can also be found on their fourth studio album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and on the soundtrack. The song is not exclusive to the movie, and is shown in the credits. The Black Veil Brides song "Set The World on Fire" is also included.
Marketing
Most of the characters returned for Hasbro's new toy, which was released on May 16, 2011. In October 2010, Entertainment Tonight previewed behind the scenes of filming in Chicago. The two-minute teaser footage was announced on November 27, and posted to the Internet on December 9, 2010. A 30-second television commercial for the film aired during Super Bowl XLV on Fox on February 6, 2011. The first full Trailer Theater was released on April 28, 2011. The first clip was released on May 18th. The second clip was released the next day on May 19th. North America's promotional costs amount to about $ 75 million.
Novelization
In May 2011, novelization, novel junior, and graphic novel Transformers: Dark of the Moon were released. Both novels and graphic novels feature Skids and Mudflap as supporting characters, but the characters are missing from junior novels. This graphic novel is used as a reference for some Autobots from the IDW Publishing tie-in comic who died in the story between Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon . Another novel, written by Peter David, was published on May 24, 2011, and was just released paperback. Though slightly different from the film, the novel is still related to the topic and synopsis of the film based on the outcome of the last bout. The novel has about 400 pages and is published by Del Rey Books. The synopsis is:
All humans were watching that day in 1969. Yet only a handful knows the real mission behind America's victory in the space race: to explore foreign ships that fall on the far side of the moon. Decades later, scientists are still struggling to understand the technology found in ships - though with the dangerous Decepticons thereafter, strong forces must be at stake. The only hope to avoid a crisis is to revive Sentinel Prime, the long-lost leader of the Autobots - but who knows what else remains in the shadows, hidden from humans and machines?
Video game
On June 14, 2011, Activision publishes a video game based on Dark of the Moon for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. The version for the Nintendo console was developed by Behavior Interactive, while the other console version was developed by High Moon Studios, which had previously developed Transformers: War for Cybertron. Electronic Arts released the Transformers: Dark of the Moon game on June 28, 2011 for Nokia Symbian smartphones, Apple iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad products and BlackBerry Research In Motion devices.
Release
Transformers: Dark of the Moon was first aired at the Moscow International Film Festival on June 23, 2011. Linkin Park performed a special outdoor concert at Red Square in Moscow the same night in the celebration of the event. Originally scheduled to be released on July 1, 2011, the release was promoted to June 29, 2011. It was announced in November 2010 that unlike Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, no scene in the film was shot with a camera IMAX.
box office
Worldwide
Transformer: Dark of the Moon earned $ 352,390,543 in North America, and $ 771,403,536 in other regions, totaling worldwide $ 1,123,794,079. Around the world, this is the 18th best-selling movie, the second best-selling movie of 2011, the bestselling film series Transformers, second best-selling movie by Paramount (behind Titanic ), third best-selling thirdquel (behind Iron Man 3 and Captain America: Civil War) and Hasbro's best-selling film in 2013. It is also the tenth film in cinematic history to generate over $ 1,000 million, and the fifth fastest film to achieve this. Its opening weekend worldwide ($ 382.4 million) is the fourth largest ever and largest for Paramount. It set a worldwide opening IMAX weekend record of $ 23.1 million (first exceeded by Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ). It reached $ 400M (6 days), $ 500M (9 days), $ 600M (12 days) and $ 700M (16 days) in no time, but lost all records for Deathly Hallows - Part 2 .
North America
The film opens in 4,088 theaters including the current record total of 2,789 3D locations. That earns $ 5.5 million on Tuesday 9 pm. show, $ 8 million during a midnight show. and $ 37.7 million on its opening day (Wednesday) - including Tuesday's show. This is the sixth best opening Wednesday. However, all of these numbers are lower than Revenge of the Fallen . On Thursday, it earned $ 21.5 million, a 43% fall, an increase from its predecessor's Wednesday-to-Thursday decline. It grossed $ 33.0 million on Friday for $ 97.8 million. Its 3D part accounts for 60% of gross, which is unusual because of the decrease in 3D presence in North America. For its three-week opening (Friday-to-Sunday), it grossed $ 97.9 million. It reached the opening of the third-largest weekend of 2011, the fourth-biggest opening weekend in July, the fifth-biggest opening week for the movie that was not released on Friday and the second-largest gross of the second day for the opening of the film on Wednesday. It set a record for 3 days ($ 97.9 million) and 4 days ($ 115.9 million) Independence Day weekend, surpassing the Spider-Man 2 's record in both cases ($ 88.2 million and $ 115.8 million respectively). It retained first place on the second weekend, down 52% to $ 47.1 million. Closed on October 13, 2011 with $ 352.4 million, this is the second best-selling movie of 2011 and second best-selling movie in the franchise.
Outside of North America
The film grossed $ 32.5 million on its opening day, pacing 38% ahead of its predecessor. Including some previews on Tuesday morning, it earned $ 36.6 million in one and a half days, and on Thursday its total overseas totaled $ 66 million. On the first weekend, it has received $ 219.8 million, which is the fifth largest opening weekend of all time overseas and largest for Paramount. The foreign launch is 57% ahead of Revenge of the Fallen ($ 139.6 million). 70% of the grosses are from 3-D (3-D share is higher than Pirates 4 ' s 66%). Don Harris, distribution general manager for Paramount, commented on the results of Dark of the Moon: "If we do not choose to debut films later in Japan and China, we will probably have a record all the time." office outside North America for two consecutive weekends.
In China, the highest grossing market after North America, the film set a record for the opening day with $ 15.9 million, one day with $ 17.4 million (taken over by Travel to the West: Conquering the Devil ) and opening weekend with $ 46.8 million ($ 62.7 million with preview). The latter is taken from Avatar ($ 42.0 million). The opening weekend record, when included in the preview, has been exceeded by Titanic 3D ($ 74.2 million). Dark of the Moon ended its operations with $ 167.95 million, marking the second best-selling film of 2011 (after Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part-2). Besides China, it broke the opening record in Russia and South Korea; one-day recordings in Hong Kong; and opening weekend notes in South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Philippines and Peru (the last three notes were exceeded by Marvel's The Avengers). After China in total revenue is South Korea ($ 69.1 million) and Japan ($ 54.2 million).
Home media
During Hasbro Investor Day, it was announced that DVD and Blu-ray discs will be released in the fourth quarter of 2011. NTSC's home release for the film was released on September 30, 2011, with a 3D Blu-ray version of the film scheduled for release in the "upcoming months ". However, the first home release was criticized for lack of bonus features.
Walmart's exclusive edition Transformers: Dark of the Moon was also released on September 30, 2011. DVD PAL and Blu-ray Disc from Transformer: Dark of the Moon was released on November 28, 2011.
In North America, it sold 716,218 DVD units (equivalent to $ 13,565,169) within the first week, surpassing the weekly DVD charts. On February 26, 2012, it has sold 2,829,285 units of DVD (equivalent to $ 48,058,979). It also topped the Blu-ray charts in the same week and has sold 2,381,657 Blu-ray units (earnings of $ 50,934,911) on October 23, 2011. The Blu-ray 3D release of the film was released on January 31, 2012.
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on December 5, 2017.
Reception
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes, review reviewer, reports that 35% of the 246 critics surveyed gave the film a positive review; the average value of 4.9/10. The critical consensus of the site reads, "The particular effect - and the 3D snapshot - is undeniably impressive, but not enough to fill the hard and bloated running time, or cover up the thin and unconcerned scripts. " At Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100 based on 37 criticisms, showing "mixed or average review". Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average rating of "A" on a scale of A to F.
Roger Ebert gave this movie from four stars, criticizing the visuals, plots, characters, and dialogue. Richard Roeper also highlighted the film, gave it a D and replied that "rarely has a movie that has a character that is less soul and less attractive." A.O. Scott in The New York Times wrote, "I can not decide if this movie is so spectacular, so mediocre that it gives rise to ignorance to anyone who watches it, or so brilliantly that it strips out all the excuses. "
Some critics feel that the appearance of Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is ineffective. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the movie 0 stars, the same rating he gave to Revenge of the Fallen, and stated the two actors "could not be more bleak." Tirdad Derakhshani from The Philadelphia Inquirer states that LaBeouf "plays Witwicky as if he has a case of a fierce attention deficit disorder." After two movies, his anxiety is no longer cute. ReelViews's James Berardinelli writes that LaBeouf "has sunk to a greater level of disability here." It's hard to call his attitude and shout 'act'. " Jason Solomons of The Observer writes "[W] e're first introduced to [Huntington-Whiteley] through his close-ups, segueing directly from the movie's opening sequence and heading to the ass and panties of our hero "and the accent of the British luxury girl" makes it almost incomprehensible when surrounded by American accents and falling stones. "Much of the criticism of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley compares it to the unfavorable light for Megan Fox. Lou Lumenick of New York Post wrote that his "acting" made... Megan Fox looks like Meryl Streep in comparison. "Baz Bamigboye of Hours entitled his review of the film, 'Come back Megan Fox, all forgiven...' Huntington-Whitely was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her performance but lost to David Spade for Jack and Jill .
In a more positive review, Steve Prokopy of Is not It Cool News found the film better than the first two films. Jim Vejvoda from IGN gave this movie a score of seven out of ten, also stating that it is the best of the franchise. E! Online is rated B movie while noting if the film is really the end of the trilogy, its main antagonist should play more of the part. The Daily Bhaskar website also praised the film, ranked three and a half out of five stars, citing it as an improvement on previous films, and wrote that it "gives fans something to cheer about".
Many reviews praised the film's specific effects and 3-D aggressive use. After browsing through a partial and unfinished piece of film, Kofi Outlaw of Screen Rant states that Bay has created the best 3-D experience since James Cameron Avatar . Neil Schneider of Meant to be Seen, a game-focused website and 3-D stereoscopic entertainment, says that "while Transformers: Dark of the Moon has an excellent storyline, this 3-D movie This is taken with a 2-D script. "On the 3-D topic, Schneider says" Transformer 3 is a mixture of native stereoscopic 3-D camera capture and 2-D/3-D conversion (as a 3- D), and mostly done very well. "He added," Minimal, Transformer 3 shows that a fast-cut sequence is indeed possible and practical in 3-D stereoscopic. comfortable and helps provide examples of great 3-D stereoscopic usage with direct action and digital character. "That said, I think they can still take it further."
Charlie Jane Anders of io9 believes that some of the elements of the film are self-deliberate references to Michael Bay's undeserved sense of self after a reaction to the second film: "After a few hours seeing the Shiites getting dissed, ignored and mistreated, the Message became clear: Shia, as always, is a stand-in for Michael Bay.And Bay shows us how it feels to face the ocean of Haterade - the snarking, the Razzie Award, the average review - Revenge of the Fallen . said that the film's frequent, often blaring tone shift was the deliberate support of Michael Bay's own making style. "The tone is for a one-purpose machine.Consistency is for Decepticons.The ideal film of Michael Bay shifts from action film to teen comedy to political drama with ease that is well lubricated so the car becomes a man.At the moment you finish watching, you will speak cinematic Michael Bay. " Accolades
Sequel
The fourth film in the Transformers movie series, Age of Extinction, was released June 27, 2014. The fifth movie, The Last Knight, was released on June 21, 2017.
See also
- List of grossing movies
References
External links
- Transformer: Dark of the Moon in IMDb
- Transformer: Dark of the Moon in the TCM Film Database
- Transformer: Dark of the Moon at AllMovie
- Transformer: Dark of the Moon in Box Office Mojo
- Transformer: Dark of the Moon in Metacritic
- Transformer: Dark of the Moon at Rotten Tomatoes
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