First reported figures are indicating that Michael Bay’s Transformers has taken in over $8.1 million on its opening day and a further $29.5 million dollars on Tuesday. Which, for the calculator-less among us, amounts to a total of $38 million in it’s first 28 hours on screen and furthermore, has bagged Bay and his robots the biggest Tuesday opening of all time, topping the wretched Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest by nearly $14 million.

Now the bad news: we in the Republic of Ireland and the UK can’t open our wallets to Michael Bay along with the rest of America until the 27 July. That’s a depressing 3 and a half weeks of robot-free time to pass. However, there are ways for the super-nerdy among us to pass the time (presuming you’re a big enough Transformers fan not to have a job or social life):

1. Rewatch the original Transformers movie once a day and pour a bit of your beer onto the carpet every time Optimus Prime dies, whilst saying ‘for my homes.’ (If you’re too young to drink beer, then…. How have you even heard of the Transformers? You should be watching… Pokemon or something)

2. Make a mixed tape in honour of Soundwave.

3. Bring out all your old Transformers toys and arrange them in hilarious sexual positions. Then laugh to yourself, sigh and utter ‘I’m so alone.’

4. Change your name to Rodimus Prime by deed pole.

Let the wait begin.

Source of figures: Fantasy Moguls

There’s been a lot of internet buzz about a JJ Abrams monster movie going under the working title of Cloverfield. This film has been kept a major secret and nobody had heard of it before a teaser trailer was screened before showings of Transformers in the States.

No official trailer could be found online… until now. Some camera-armed super-pirate has caught it and uploaded it onto YouTube for all to enjoy. The quality is obviously pretty poor, but the effect still comes across. Check out the trailer below (and hurry before it’s taken down)

This top-secret hype building is marketing at its best and already me and the rest of the internet excited about what the hell this film could turn out to be. Rumour has it that the entire film will be shot in the Blair-Witch handy-cam method that is employed in the trailer, but I personally think that these rumours are as substantial as a silent fart. The technique is much more suited to this teaser trailer.

AICN are reporting that the as yet untitled film will be directed and written by Abrams collaborators Matt Reeves and Drew Godard respectively. According to the trailer, we can expect it to hit cinemas on the 18^th January 2008. Get excited.

**UPDATE** Paramount got to it and the trailer has been taken down.

**MORE UPDATES** It’s back! Can’t keep those pirates down. Click below.

Trailer

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