The new number 1 in the North American box office is ‘Transformers: The awakening of the beasts’, since the new adventure of the franchise of Hasbro has managed to dethrone ‘Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse’. Of course, he has done it with somewhat disappointing data, since he has only achieved 60.5 million compared to the 55.4 of the Marvel superhero.
The future is up in the air
In addition, the seventh installment of the ‘Transformers’ saga has added another 110 million in the rest of the world, so its debut closes with 170.5 million dollars. A figure that without more context does not seem bad either, but it is that the film directed by Steven Caple Jr.. (‘Creed 2’) had a budget of 200 million, to which must be added everything that paramount spent on the promotional campaign.
That means that ‘Transformers: The awakening of the beasts’ has to easily go over at least 600 million dollars to start giving money and that it will achieve it is in doubt. It is true that it has made more money in the United States during its first weekend than ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ or ‘Bumblebee’ -it is still curious that the best film in the entire saga is also the least grossing-, but internationally it seems that the franchise has lost traction.
To this we must add the tough competition that awaits him ahead, because next week ‘The Flash’ and ‘Elemental’, the new Pixar movie, will arrive in North American theaters on Friday the 23rd. Jennifer Lawrence which to expect to sweep with ‘No bad vibes’ and the month will close with the launch of ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’. Little joke.
Thus, right now the future of the ‘Transformers’ saga is up in the airthe same situation in which everything that is proposed at the end of ‘The awakening of the beasts’ is in
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