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‘Transformers’ Debut of $100 Million Sets High Mark for 2014
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“Transformers: Age of Extinction,” Paramount Pictures’ summer blockbuster, opened with weekend sales of $100 million to mark the biggest domestic debut of the year.
The film, the first in a new trilogy of the alien-robot franchise from Viacom Inc.’s studio, generally met estimates. It was projected to open with $99 million and $104 million, respectively, by researchers BoxOffice.com and Box Office Guru. The only movie in wide release in U.S. and Canadian theaters, it easily outdistanced returning film “22 Jump Street,” according to an e-mailed statement from Rentrak Corp.