After making nearly $85 million in its first three-and-a-half days, DreamWorks’ Transformers held well over the three-day weekend, grossing an estimated $67.6 million and becoming the second-highest opening movie for the 4th of July holiday frame behind Spider-Man 2. In just one week, the Michael Bay action flick has grossed approximately $152.5 million - just over its reported $150 million budget - and it’s trailing just behind the original Spider-Man in terms of total gross for its first week.

In addition to its $152.5 million earnings from the first 6 1/2 days domestically, Michael Bay’s Transformers has also brought in $93.6 million in 23 other countries where the movie has opened since June 28. That brings the worldwide total to $246.1 million in just a little over a week. Not bad for a movie which reportedly cost $150 million to make (not counting advertising dollars)!

The robots’ box office steamrolling should continue for a couple more days until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits conventional theaters and IMAX theaters starting at 12:01am on Wednesday.

U.S. weekend results for July 6 - 8:

1) Transformers - Weekend: $67,600,000 | Total: $152,500,000
2) Ratatouille - Weekend: $29,029,000 | Total: $109,546,000
3) Live Free or Die Hard - Weekend: $17,400,000 | Total: $84,160,000
4) License to Wed - Weekend: $10,400,000 | Total: $17,816,000
5) Evan Almighty - Weekend: $8,114,000 | Total: $78,101,000

Source: ComingSoon