‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ scores $1-billion box office haul

In a record that puts close to a tie with the ‘Harry Potter’ series, Paramount Pictures have announced ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ has grossed a stunning $1-billion in box office sales.

Becoming only the third film this year to achieve such a feat, ‘Transformers’ earned $338-million in the US up to last Monday, and $663-million in the rest of the world.

It’s also the first movie in the studio’s 99-year history to score the mystical $1-billion gross.

“We are grateful for the extraordinary work of Michael Bay and his film-making team, executive producer Steven Spielberg and everyone at Paramount who played a part in helping make ‘Transformers’ one of the ten highest grossing films of all time,” Brad Grey, Paramount’s chairman and CEO gushed in a statement.

The other two films to reach this magical figure were Johnny Depp’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ and of course, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.’

But Paramount are not the king of the world…yet – That record is still held by James Cameron for his 2009 CGI extravaganza, ‘Avatar.’ To date that one film has hauled in $2-billion in box office sales – and the DVD’s are still making Jim and the Fox guys smile.

So Michael Bay still has work to do…

Variety